Member Since: 11/12/2006
Band Website: http://www.marseillefigs.org
Band Members:
Dorian McFarland plays accordions, whistles, blues harps, jews harps, horns and miscellany. He's also an artist working in photography, video, electronic media and live performance. He was born in Cambridge, and he lives in London and Berlin now. He was studying at the Slade School of Art under Punk and Performance godfather Stuart Brisley when he acquired his first accordion, and he learned to play it onstage with the Figs.
J. Maizlish writes songs, sings and plays guitars and ukeleles. He also makes short films, drawings and installations. He was born on the edge of a small town in California, and he turned 18 in New York. He came to London in 1994 to study at St. Martins. He's in Berlin now. In the Summer of '98, he and McFarland exhibited together in the same show in Marseille, alongside Marcia Farquhar (through whom, incidentally, they met Tom Chant). Around that time he started writing songs for the Figs.
Tom Chant mostly plays saxophones, clarinets and keyboards. He was born in Dublin and raised in Lavender Hill. He's a member of the Eddie Prévost Trio, Cinematic Orchestra, the London Improvisers Orchestra and Marseille Figs, and has played with most people associated with the free improvised music scene in London. Over the last 10 years he's recorded and played in situations big and small from Los Angeles to Tokyo via Moscow. He's also run clubs and radio shows, and appeared with people like Fontella Bass, Sunny Murray, Coldcut and Steve Beresford. He's living in Barcelona now.
Influences: Marseille Figs are a law unto themselves.
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Record Label: Figs of London
Type of Label: Indie