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Six Simple Words That Changed Everything...

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Imagine the scene... leaving Manchester at two in the morning. Work in six hours. Another five hours of travelling left. The vitriolic group of friends that you share the back of an LDV 400 with are living up the night's gig experience. fullspeedalone (or FSA for short) have just played In the City Unsigned 2006, which seems like a pretty reasonable achievement for a band that's less than a year old. Mimicking sexual activities with the back of the driver's seat whilst steaming along the M6 is probably taking a bit too far though.

"I think a combination of being on a huge high after the response we received from the people at the gig, coupled with the realisation of a very lengthy journey home manifested itself in that slightly off the wall way!" comments FSA vocalist and guitarist Chris. "I'm sure alcohol played its part too; microwaving a plastic container in an Esso garage shortly after leaving Wales is testament to that".

"We'd played at In the City, which is an awesome opportunity", muse's Dave, FSAs vocalist, guitarist and van driver, "Just look at the other bands who have played the event in the past, it's so encouraging. So I will forgive the sexually explicit behaviour, for tonight".

FSA consists of two main songwriters; Chris Watts and Dave Ankers, who also both share lead vocal duties. Having two singers lets the band layer their dynamic sound with harmonies. "Harmonies make the sweetest of melodies all the sweeter!" suggests Dave. The foundation of the band is provided by fellow janner Rich Upton (bass), and devout Welshman Rob Stillwell (drums).

FSA are essentially a song driven rock band . Formed in late 2005 on a backdrop of yuletide celebration and too much alcohol, the band set out to deliver melody tinged rock songs with a snappy, dynamic edge. Fusing the dynamics of bands like Cable, the pop of bands like Feeder and the rock-melody clash of Queens of the Stone Age or the Foo Fighters, FSA deliver up tempo songs with a thought provoking (and often twisted) lyrical content.

With sets all over the country at Amicus band of Britain awards (The Point, Cardiff), Hope & Anchor, Dublin Castle (both London), Hub (Plymouth) and a number of festival appearances including the BIBIC Biker fest Bills Big Bash and the Plymouth & Yeovil Love Music Hate Racism fest among the hundred plus gigs they've played so far, they are also forging a tight, engaging and dynamic set. The boys are currently holed up working on even better material, which forges their sound into a tight, rocking 'ne plus ultra'.
"Our aim is to play to as many people as possible, and hopefully they'll all love us", enthuses Welsh tub-thumper Rob. So one question remains;
Can we sleep on your floor?
FSA x

fullspeedalone - "Six simple words that changed everything"
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EP1.. Including "Don't Slip Don't Let It Go", "Fantasies Gone", "You're not fooling anyone" and "The Way Things Turned Out".
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EP2.. Including "Deluded", "Forgotten", "Sell Your Soul" and "We can't go back".
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Member Since: 5/30/2005
Band Website: fullspeedalone.com
Band Members:
Rob Stillwell
Drums, Welshness, Percussion
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Richard Upton
Bass, Bass, Bass
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Chris Watts
Guitar, Hair, Vocals
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bald
Guitar, No Hair, Vocals
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Influences: Feeder, Foo Fighters, Cable, The Get Up Kids, The Stereo, Let Go, Brand New, Jimmy Eat World, Alkaline Trio, Idlewild, Green Day, 'A', Bowling For Soup, Kerbdog, Josh Doyle, The New Amsterdams, Motion City Soundtrack, neck79, Blink182, PUSA, MXPX, 3 Colours Red, Smashing Pumpkins, Weezer, Wilt, Fungus, Dum Dums, Eleven Lives Left, Fenix TX, Everclear, Skunk Anansie, Reel Big Fish, Metallica, Iron Fucking Maiden, Dog Eat Dog, No Use For A Name, Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, De La Soul, The Ataris, Ash, Ben Harper, Soundgarden, American Hi Fi, Filter, Allister, All American Rejects, Matt Skiba, Pantera, Bracket, Rock Against Racism, Love Music Hate Racism, Music for Equality, Brand New Heavies, Bloodhound Gang, Supergrass, Manic Street Preachers, Placebo, Silver Sun, Terrorvision, Symposium, Boy Sets Fire, Stereophonics, Less Than Jake, Jack Johnson, Reef, Goldfinger, Midget, Damien Rice, Athlete, Bush, Kate Bush, At the Drive In, Alien Ant Farm, Rootjoose, New found Glory, Sum41, Rival Schools, Joe Jackson, Jamiroquai, Sting and the Police, EMF, Graham Coxon, Denver Harbor, Blur, NOFX, Sparta, Gigolo Aunts, Galliano, The Jam, Zero 7, Lowgold, Therapy?, Homegrown, Super Furry Animals, The Hives, Pro Pain, Incubus, to name but a few...
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Record Label: Unsigned
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After nearly two years of gigging, writing, recording and generally having a good laugh, Full Speed Alone have decided to call it a day. We'll be doing a 'good riddance' gig in the comi...
Posted by fullspeedalone - RIP on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 03:53:00 PST

'Next Big Thing' = Bullshit, but we'd like to play V

Hello everyone Like most bands that will enter this competition (if you're in a band and haven't the link is www.roadtov.com) we'd quite like to play the V festival. We entered the Glasto competition...
Posted by fullspeedalone - RIP on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 01:43:00 PST

FSA Update Feb 07!

Hi Everyone,  Thought I'd keep everyone up to date as to what we are up to. Haven't been doing too many gigs recently as we are currently writing songs. We have probably around 10+ at the moment ...
Posted by fullspeedalone - RIP on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:29:00 PST

The 2006 FSA Almanac - and whats next...

2006 has been a great year for us. Its been a combination of loads of time and effort with its up's (getting our van) and downs (continually fixing our van ) but overall its been great! We've met many...
Posted by fullspeedalone - RIP on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 03:50:00 PST

FSA Tour .45

Hey People So we had a little tour of sorts this week. Went pretty damn well. Had our two best crowds two nights in a row, which is nice. But as the advert states, there's no pleasure without the pai...
Posted by fullspeedalone - RIP on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:20:00 PST

FSA and RAC live together in perfect harmony

The gig that oh so nearly wasn't!So... just an hour or so into our journey to the valleys the van starts making a very loud vibrating noise around the 70MPH area. We agree that it proba...
Posted by fullspeedalone - RIP on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:32:00 PST

Update .765

Hey people Just a quick update. We've played a couple of showcases recently, and also played at the prestigious In the City event in Manchester. Was all a really good exeprience, you learn a lot abou...
Posted by fullspeedalone - RIP on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 01:14:00 PST

Full Speed... is the Magic Number

hello full speed aloners!We thought we'd update you with a lovely blog detailing one of the funniest nights of our lives. You may or may not know that Radio One's Live Lounge is running a competition ...
Posted by fullspeedalone - RIP on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 05:58:00 PST

In the City 2006

Had some great news in FSA camp today. We've been accepted to be one of 54 bands to play at In The City 2006. Hopefully someone there will like us.... For people like me who haven't heard ab...
Posted by fullspeedalone - RIP on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:14:00 PST

Neumann TLM103

Hello! Dave here. As you might know, for the last couple of months we've been recording the first couple of batches of the first fullspeedalone material. I thought I'd create a blog explaining how we...
Posted by fullspeedalone - RIP on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:29:00 PST