Well it’s been a little while since DFATHOF made a noise, mainly because our drummer done quit the band. We’ve had a few auditions but still on the look-out. In the meantime we’ve been writing some new hella awesome songs and discussing what dresses we’re all going to wear for our big relaunch Photoshoot. We also have word that the final edit of The Butcher (video) will be with us in early January, so we’ll be planning a big gig and screening around that, hopefully with a new drumgay.
Whilst we wait for all that, our longtime friend and phenomenal artist The 5683 has designed us a totally amazeballs new t-shirt (design below). Click this link to see the large version and please ‘LIKE IT’ so we can get this bad boy printed on thousands of tees around the world! Check it:
We do have one show booked and we’re bringing in Matt (our old drummer) for it. New Years Eve. The Proud Galleries, Camden. Midnight slot.
More news coming soon, as well as new songs, new gigs, new releases, new videos and HOPEFULLY a new drummer.
Ov Roir.
DF.
I’ve been writing songs since I was 15 – that’s nearly half my life. I’ve recently tried to collate them all, but there are hundreds. Some of them are terrible, but some of them, although good, may never be heard by another human (or animal or plant or anything) and so I thought I’d start posting a few online. They’re only demos but I still tried pretty hard.
Today I’ve posted ‘Undead Army’. This is a song about an entire military army of zombies, chanting their war cry in unison. There are no instruments in the track, only vocals. You can download it or stream it, play it to your friends (or animals or plants or anything), and I’d love to know what you thought, so do leave a comment.
Here’s the link for today:
http://lnk.ms/QMByK
Fontaine out. X
Being in the music industry is a bit like wading through chest-high sludge whilst harnessed to a rabid donkey chasing a drowning rabbit in the opposite direction.
Things take time. For the past year we’ve been working on 2 songs and 2 music videos. Soon mon droogies, they’ll be finished. And we’ll have a good cry. I have however written a song of my own for Jeff Vandermeer’s new anothology “ODD”. Â You can read all about it and hear the track here.
In the meantime we have some gigs coming up in Southampton (@ The Hamptons) this Thursday 9th, and then The New Cross in London on the 17th June. We’ll be playing *BRAND NEW* material at these shows (like new upbeat ska number ‘That Guy’), so hopefully we’ll see yous there.
In other news, Tom Bone has taken up the strange new hobby of collecting badger tails and stuffing his old pair of corduroys with them to create his own fluffy badger tail mannequins. His goal is to get them in every shop in Chissick, however so far he has only approached Poundland with his idea who dutifully declined. Poundland were unavailable for comment. Our thoughts and prayers are with TB.
DFATHOF have just returned from an action-packed weekend in the DFATHO-COPTA. We began by playing our furious pants off at the illustrious 100 Club in Oxford St., on Friday night. We were joined once again by our good friends The Lagan, and also new friends ‘The Really Bad Habits’. Three 7-piece bands in a row. Shityeahthatscool.
Horse & TMAG
We arrived back home in Kingston at approximately 2am and enjoyed a glorious 2-hour nap before getting up again at 4am to shoot a music video for our summer-release ‘The Butcher’. Horse managed to find not only some authentic WWI uniforms, but an entire field full of trenches! The Butcher tells the tale of an army captain and his struggle with guilt as he sends his own men over the frontline, with the knowledge that they’ll die. Cool, huh? So we got back in the bus and travelled to Ipswich. We arrived at 6am and met the fabulous crew led by director Chris Lincé. The rest of the day was spent in the sweltering sun shooting guns, traipsing through trenches, and yours truly doing a WWI striptease. here’s Tom Bone doing his sexy tractor dance.
Sexy Tractor Dance
We finally got done about 11pm and it’s SOOOOO gonna be worth it. We’ll be releasing it and have a big ol’ launch party in the summer so watch this space. The single will be a double A side and also feature ‘The Cowboy’.
In the meantime we’ve got a load of gigs coming up so check out our shows page and we’ll see you at the bar! DF.
