Operation: Sandal

So today is the day! Operation: Hit Ground Running And Give It Plenty of Sandal is underway. Fast.Like.Fun have launched an EP made up of 4 tracks, not to mention our two lovely shiny videos, on the world and it's all spreading like a really nice and danceable virus. Or some kind of lovely bacteria. Like L. Casei Immunitas, which seems to be very popular in bacterial circles these days. I wonder what embarrassing first name the 'L' stands for. I'd better not dwell on it too much. Down that particular little thoroughfare, madness lies. Every now and again some complete spanner with too much time on his hands tries to find out what the 'J' stands for in the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, coming up with something perfectly normal and anti-climactic like 'John' after months of mucking about with diaries and old newspaper clippings and a greater insight into old T.S's assorted great great granduncles than Eliot himself...

...ahem...

So anyway, today is the day that we share all the stuff we've been working on for the last few months with the rest of the world. The response has been very positive so far, and we've made a heap of new friends. Exactly one heap. If you're interested, check em out! The videos, not the friends. Both videos AND friends are best viewed in HD...

You can also download all the tracks at soundcloud.com/fastlikefun. This is completely free because I like you (and have done for some time). All we ask is that you get your friends to watch and download too. Because I like them too. So please spread the good word if you get the chance! It all helps, be it on facespace, mybook, titter or whatever.

We of Fast.Like.Fun had two gigs last week, supporting our good friends Senakah on their current tour. Both went very well, and one had us performing for a home crowd, which was particularly rockin'! Easy Keith is coming down to the Ranch in the next few days and we'll polish up some of the new songs we've been working on. Que loud noises and GRRRRGH face!

Everything else is busy busy! The Black Mountain Boys album 'Last Fair Deal' had its first outing last week and proved a big success. It was a lot of fun to make and it sounds great. I'm also starting to hear the mixes of the upcoming One Horse Pony EP 'Far & Wide' and they're sounding pretty dynamite too! In my experience, it can be a total beeee-atch to have two acoustic guitars on a track and for everything to sound hunky-dory rather than hunky-muddy, but Harmonica Niall has done a great job getting Badger and I sounding our best. Kudos and a free donut to him!

In other news, the Dog and I set a new personal best time for our daily 5k run. Being dragged up hills, through hedges, over cows and down rabbit holes never felt so good. I fully intend to make her a part of our next video. If you see a black and white blur zipping by the camera, innocently carrying one of my shoes in its mouth, you'll have a fair idea of what's going on. If that blur is being chased by a pack (pack?) of angry house-proud rabbits, you'll know for sure...

Thanks for reading, guys :-) more to come

R

Oh, there should be one of those dreaded facebook fan boxes for Fast.Like.Fun making an appearance on the right hand side of your screen. Fight the urge to ignore that. ALL the cool kids are 'Liking' things.