frYars lyrics

you just gotta love these lyrics:

We wage wars like Pascal waged wagers,
and its on Pascal's wager we send sergeant majors to fight,
it would be nice if we took his triangle,
and we could find new angles more violent and wonderful,
I was thinking of saving the animals,
but first we save people (not animals),
just 'cause they're almost as rare as love through marriage,
do you sometimes wish that your siblings were miscarried?

And people made evil,
we decide what it is and decide what it's not,
if you do things illegal,
you can be pretty sure that it would be allowed somewhere else,
but we're happy people,
so there's nothing wrong with the state of things,
if it's making you happy,
then there's nothing wrong with the state you're in.

We get people that shout down the state,
and they demand justice,
but justice as fairness or truth;
as confused as the next politician
who tries not to lie in their impossible mission for truth to be told
I think most couldn't cope,
with broken relations to absolute nations above;
when you think that it's love that you bought,
its no longer a mystery, she was so nice to me.

And people made evil,
we decide what it is and decide what it's not,
if you do things illegal,
you can be pretty sure that it would be allowed somewhere else,
but we're happy people,
so there's nothing wrong with the state of things,
if it's making you happy,
then there's nothing wrong with the state you're in.

My horse has won; my own son.
Well sir, well done. I hope you had fun

Bandstocks + frYars + Patrick Wolf : Welcome to the future of the music industry!

clever boys, my favourite artists.

frYars next album Dark Young Hearts and Patrick Wolfs Battles will be released with the financing of their fans. Bandstocks give you the opportunity to invest in your favourite artists new albums and become sort of a stockholder in them. Its a win-win situation because the fans are ensured that their (favourite) artist will be able to continue making music and the artist get the funding that they need for their artistic vision without any unnecessary interfering. I tried to click the invest button yesterday for both frYars and Patrick Wolf, but they have restricted it to only include UK citizens, which is a huge disadvantage. These guys have lots of fans in other countries that would have loved to chip in aswell. One of the benefits harder to give to the stockowners/fans in other countries are the secret shows that would only be possible to arrange in UK, perhaps. But I am willing to live with that. I just simply want to invest in my favourite artists and this brilliant new business model that gives the power to the right people.

Patrick Wolfs own words on the issue:

My roots in the music industry have always been firmly placed in independent music. As a teenager I was inspired by visionary labels such as Digital Hardcore, Fierce Panda, Planet Mu, and Tigerbeat 6. As an 18 year old, I was given full creative space by the small label Faith and Industry to grow and to make the records and sounds I had to. After two independent releases I decided to experiment to see what would happen when a major label and my third album collided. It was very beneficial and a great learning curve for me, but I am very happy to be back in the creative, free world of independent music; on my own label, Bloody Chamber Music (A bloody chamber being a heart, a tribute to the book "The Bloody Chamber" by Angela Carter), started earlier this year.

So, here I am. Album four with my own record label. With the old world recording industry a rapidly sinking ship; recording studios closing weekly, free downloads daily, more musicians hitting the long road than ever before to feed themselves, I am happy to have come across a new intimate system of audience and artist participation called Bandstocks. This will be funding Bloody Chamber Music, and the international physical and digital release of my fourth album, Battle, and its collective singles. It’s an exciting game we can play together; you get to be an investor and stakeholder in the album. You will get special editions, first copies of the album, private privileges and mixes... and we get to conquer the world together and show that independence and self sufficiency are the two ways forward and out of the mess the industry is in.

When I pressed my first EP we made one thousand vinyl copies. We sold these at friends’ shops across the UK, and with the money made we funded the mix of Lycanthropy. The music industry needn’t be so complicated or Wizard of Oz. It’s time to drop the curtain and stop relying on a stale patriarchy. I'm excited, I hope you are too. Welcome to the future!

Thank you mister Wolf. I am very excited aswell!

fabulous mess mixtape # 1

1. frYars - The Ides
2. Robyn - Heartbeat (Le Heartbeat de la Videoband Remix)
3. Johnny Sexual - I'll love you till you leave
4. MGMT - Time to pretend
5. Cortex - The freaks
6. Black Kids - I'm not gonna teach your boyfriend how to dance with you (The Twelves Remix)
7. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Love song nr. 7
8. The Videoband! - C0MPUT3R

"With every heartbeat", "Time to pretend" and "I'm not gonna teach your boyfriend how to dance with you" have all been favourites of mine at different points in time. Because one gets tired of songs one hears again and again, and because remixes freshes favourite songs up a bit, I have in this mixtape put three of my favourite songs in new versions. However, until there exists a nicer remix than the one I had first put up of MGMTs "Time to pretend", I will keep the original.

In this mixtape you also find icelandic Johnny Sexual's wonderful song: "I'll love you till you leave". You can subsribe to his podcast somewhere online that feeds you with his music automatically (to your itunes) every time he makes something new. It is very, very wise/nice. More bands should do this. Here it is: The SAD Sexcast

My love for the 18 year old london boy frYars has been declared earlier on in this blog, so I dont think that one needs any further introduction.

The Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and Videoband songs are also a couple of nice treats!

Another favourite of mine that I was recently introduced to, but dates back all the way to 1981, is the song "We are the freaks" by Cortex. It has the silliest lyrics in bullshit swedish english, and the song itself was made, written and recorded in less than 45 minutes. Despite all this it has a touch of simplistic geniality. And you feel like jumping up and down while singing along to Freddie Wadlings beautifully disturbing voice while picturing yourself standing in the middle of the night on the frozen floor in your kitchen wearing your pyjamas looking really scary and/or being really scared. Apparently you also have a dinosaur riding in your elevator. (I love that part)

fabulous mess mixtape # 1

It will also be made longer when I have more time.

The mixtapes will all have different themes. Right now I think the theme was favourite songs at the moment. And most of the songs were quite fresh/new. Later I will do lots of different variants.

I have a womb! I shall deliver you a boy!

he'll have your eyes.
your olive eyes.

any day frYars, any day..



"you should have died that very night.
good job for you I wasn't born a killer"