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The Faraways

About Me

Following a successful first year including supports with Scouting for Girls, Bobby Cook and Captain, along with being nominated for best newcomer in Australia's Pop republic.TV Magazine, The Faraways have just signed a their first management deal. The band are now busy recording their debut single/video which is scheduled for a summer/autumn Release. In the meantime keep your eyes peeled for new demos on myspace and check out the gig listing for a show near you.

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The Faraways are represented by Living Atheist

www.livingatheist.com

Management and show bookings - contact: Michael Thompson

[email protected]

or Mark Ashworth


[email protected]

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/23/2007
Band Website: www.thefaraways.com
Band Members: Chris: Guitars & lead vocals
Karl: Guitars & vocals
Rick: Bass & vocals
Bryan: Drums
Fraser: Keys

Influences: The Veils, The Stills, Ben Christophers, The Frames, Mew, Sigur Rós, Leaves, Lorien, pj harvey, many many more.......
Record Label: Enchanted Garden Recordings.
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New demos uploaded!!

Hello thereWe have posted some new music up for you people to have a listen to, These have been recorded (along with a few others) and produced at our own studio by our goodselves! the plan is to take...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:54:00 GMT

Well Hello There!

hi Farawayers, (or should that be Farawayettes?) anyway just a bit of an update, we are doing an unofficial tour of leeds in June :-), we are playing the cockpit on the 30th May (in the new upstairs v...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:15:00 GMT

a faraways update

Hi FolksJust thought we'd update you on what's going on in the world of  The Faraways. We've had a nice little feature in an Australian music magazine which is available to download from www.popr...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:06:00 GMT

WE WON A COMPETITION!!!

Hi Everyone, We recently entered the song "Hello" from our debut EP into a competition on www.mysongcast.com and came 1st!! Voted for by the public we won a prize of US$750 and a feature article on ww...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:13:00 GMT

the introduction released

The Introduction E.P has now officially been released (yey!!!) you can buy it online at itunes and we will be selling ye olde fashioned CD's aswell!cheerschrisx
Posted by on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:11:00 GMT

the introduction E.P

hi thereweve posted up some new tracks from our debut E.P, The Introduction for your listening pleasure. CD's and downloads from places like itunes will follow very shortly (well as soon as ive finish...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 02:37:00 GMT

Picture this....

Hey, just thought we'd let you know that we've put some photo's up so you can actually see what we look like! These were taken on friday 1st june at the Cockpit in Leeds by 2 of our good friends, Carl...
Posted by on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 03:12:00 GMT

THE FIRST FULL FARAWAYS TRACK IS HERE

hot of the press, as they say is the first recorded track by the full faraways line up. Tear the world apart was recorded over the last few weeks in our rehearsal room and was produced by our goodselv...
Posted by on Thu, 31 May 2007 07:15:00 GMT

its showtime

well its earlier than expected but we have our first gig with the new line up on the 1st of june at the lovely cockpit in leeds, courtesy of our friends scars on 45, so get yourselves down there and g...
Posted by on Tue, 15 May 2007 08:49:00 GMT

New track.....

Hello,We've been a bit quiet on the blog front recently so just thought i'd kep you in the loop. We've been busy writing and rehearsing for a while now, and it's all coming together nicely. So well in...
Posted by on Mon, 14 May 2007 11:29:00 GMT