fegBANDS
(...and what is a fegBand? Why, bands with fegs (fans of Robyn Hitchcock), of course!) Fegbands' sound can be quite diverse. If you are seeking bands who actually SOUND like Robyn, try The Virgineers or Whisper Machine.
We'd like to welcome ubermensch Glen Uber to this august list. Brian "Nuppy" Nupp has a new Lazerlove 5 album out which features Matthew Seligman and the frontman of The Monochrome Set (which also featured Morris Windsor.) You may purchase it at Red Velvet Records. I have heard it and it is very good - I like it more with each listen.
Doug Mayo-Wells has a new web site up for his band The Hyphens. The new Orchestraville album is done.
Scott Hunter Macleary has a Blind Matthew Brady album out - Belling the Minotaur. Excellent ambient music - listen to it while you're on the edge of sleep and you are guaranteed some memorable dreams.
fegBands listed alphabetically by Feg. Check them out, there is some good music to be found. If you are a Robyn Hitchcock fan who makes music, get in touch with me and I will add you to this list!
- Adam Leonard is a new addition
to this list and is on board for the forthcoming GLASS FLESH 3. He has a co-conspirator
Gareth, who heads up The
Suburban Vegetable.
- Angel is
lovely and talented songwriter based in Virginia - see also The
Learning Lovers, which featured Angel, Ross Overbury, and Soft Boy Matthew
Seligman, among others.
- Bicycle Thieves a music st production.
They are featured on the "Fish Gloss" compilation.
- BP Helium, formerly of Elf
Power (and the feg list)
- Chris Huff
- Critical Fish. "Power
Dork-Rock" whose greatest influences are Atari and Star Wars (Whose aren't?)
- Doug Mayo-Wells is in The
Hyphens, more or less in Feckless Beast,
and previously was in King Kilowatt,
Shoddy Workmanship, and Friction,
among many others.
- Dolph Chaney is back
in the music making biz, and has a LiveJournal where you can read what he's
up to. There is also an older Dolphmusic site here.
- Geoff Pango is so good he makes other
fegmusicians cry. This phenomenon is called "pangonoia" (by Ross)
- Glen Uber is the newest addition
to the fegband list. His link was not working as of 6/10/05 but keep trying.
- The Insect Surfers are
one of my favorite DC bands, though they've been in California for most of
their decades long career. They did one of the first Robyn covers, a "Question
Mark and the Mysterions" take on "Underwater Moonlight." Robyn
alludes to this in the
Nigel Cross interview.
- John Taylor, of Triskellion, performed on the lead track on GF2 and has
a project called WhisperMachine.
- Ki Society combines
Bhuddism and electronica.
- Lazerlove 5 "take one on somewhat
of a trip or journey. Many of the songs are meant to relax the listener".
- LMP are the perpetrators
of "A Century of Song," an ambitious 100-song covers project covering
the entire 20th century. Definitely worth a look, esp. as the box sets are
almost out of stock. Here is a review
on allmusic.com.
- Orchestraville did a great job on
"The Executioner" for GF2.
- Police School have a couple
of songs for your listening pleasure.
- Rex Broome is in a band called Rainland
and has done a Fegmusic Compilation.
- Mike Runion is a singer-songwriter
based in Florida.
- Scott Hunter Macleary and The New Nairobi
3 and have cleaned RH's "Glass".
- Sebastian Hagedorn is frontman of the controversial German band Food
for Friends.
- TLR3 is a nice chap from
the Robyn list. He has a new page with songs here.
- The Virgineers, who did the super
psychedelic "Surgery" on GF2, have a forthcoming followup to their
awesome debut album. "Surgery" is available as a complete MP3 on
the Glass Flesh 2 page.
INTERVIEWS
In other news:
The Feg Compilation has been completed! It is apparently called "Tinfoil Thoths" and was completed in 2004. For more info see here.
Number Nine Line is now defunct, but Luther & his brother are now recording Bhuddist electronica under the name "Ki Society". Nope, not making this up. Lazerlove 5 (Brian Nupp) is prepping an album. Dolph, The New Moon (Matt Sewell), Blind Matthew Brady (Scott McCleary), Mike Runion, and James (kind of) from the list above all have actual "product" for sale (EP's and albums) and as such are definitely ongoing concerns. Popsicle Thieves is a "side project" of Brian Huddell, of the similarly named Bicycle Thieves. The SF Bay area feg axis still constitutes quite a few "groups" with a lot of crossover, and my scorecard isn't too up-to-date, but Hamish, Gloster and Glen Uber (at least) record and play together in various formations from time to time. Offhand I know that Natalie Jacobs was putting together a band last year, but that seems to have gone dormant. I also can't vouch for the currency of the Blatzman solo album. It's been in the works for ages...
