electricity comes from other planets RIP

About Me

IT'S ALL OVER. ECFOP played their LAST EVER gig at 333 in Old Street, London on Friday 3rd August. We'd like to say a huge "THANKS !" to everyone who came and partied with us and helped see us off in style. It was emotional. And possibly the tightest set we'd played in eons. But Jim didn't bother turning up for it, and my mate got mugged and left for dead outside after we'd all left. All for a Â£30 mobile phone.
F**kin crackheads.SPOON & SQUIBS intend to continue under a new, shorter, name.If you wanna hear what we were working on just before it all went wrong, there are some very lo-fi recordings here .But here's the brief history anyway.First gig August 2003. Founder member Degs left in May 2004. Band spent 2 months training his replacement Dom only to have him jump ship after a trip to Rotherham. After abortive attempts to find a replacement and 3 months sulking ECFOP decided to accept life as a trio, with occasional help (when he's available) from Ed from the Roolettes. Should have released 2 albums, 4 singles and done a tour of Europe by now, but retraining guitarists and having recording studios close down while recording an album has slowed progress somewhat. In spite of this ECFOP have managed to rack up supports with the Libertines, Babyshambles, Selfish C*nt, Art Brut, The Rocks, Dogs d'Amour and many others, been played on XFM and had 2 tracks released on an internationally released compilation. And they've played in Koln. 2007 will be their year. Honest.Their year to split up, as it turns out ;-pDownload all the tracks from our other EP at our other page !

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/28/2005
Band Website: ecfop.com
Band Members: FINAL LINE UP :

Vis the Spoon : vocals / guitar
Squibs: bass / vocals
Ed Roolette: guitar Sharky : drums / vocals

2003 - 2004 : Degs - guitar
2004 : Meeester Dom Dom - guitar
Nov 2005 - April 2007 : Shed - Drums
Xmas 2006 : Jimmy Roolette - drums
2006 - July 07 : Swearing Jim - more guitar
Influences: The Ramones, The Clash, Carter USM, Terrorgruppe, brain damaged friends, the Pistols, the Damned, transit vans, MÃ¶tley CrÃ¼e, Killing Joke, Rod Jane & Freddy, Flesh For Lulu, early Ultravox, 999, The Dickies, Essex girls, "Searching for the Young Soul Rebels" by Dexy's Midnight Runners, The Skids, Robyn Hitchcock, Wire, The Wildhearts, Roxy Music, "Surrender" by Cheap Trick, Black Flag, Big Black, Catherine Wheel, Adam & the Ants, "Bathroom Ideas Exhibition" by Menticide, Charge, Television, Noel Coward, The Divine Comedy, Faith No More, The Saints, Captain Beefheart (though you really wouldn't know it, but it's been absorbed osmotically for future use), fast tractors, Velvet Underground, Conflict, Magazine, Buzzcocks, 9% lagers, Gary Numan, Green Day, illegal stimulants, Devo, Subhumans/Culture Shock/Citizen Fish, Sparks, Duran Duran, Department S (possibly the best band EVER to not manage to release their album until their singer had been dead 2 years, f***in tragic), Rolf Harris, people who actually have something worthwhile to say / people who talk complete and utter bollocks, "Accident & Emergency" by These Animal Men, Vic Goddard, TV Smith, Senseless Things, Twizz Twangle, Rotherham, Rotherham, oh Rotherham.
Sounds Like: the best punk'n'roll band you ever heard
Record Label: Spatchcock
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

only rock'n'roll is really rock'n'roll

last night we played the Standard in E17, home of drug-taking boy bands and greyhound racing. we were on first, everone after us was young enough to be our baby brothers, which was kind of ok, cos the...
Posted by electricity comes from other planets RIP on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 05:55:00 PST

Brand New 6-piece ECFOP !

the eagle-eyed amongst you will have noticed the recent additions to our "band members" section... back in early July (with Ed unavailable) we were on the verge of playing a gig as a 3-piece, when ex-...
Posted by electricity comes from other planets RIP on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 06:07:00 PST

MANAGEMENT /Agent / Regional Representation required !

It's rapidly becoming obvious that we're not very good at booking a tour. We only manage to play gigs when someone offers, and ideally we'd like to play a shed load of gigs around the UK this year... ...
Posted by electricity comes from other planets RIP on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 04:46:00 PST

don't forget to check out our OTHER PAGE !

Yes we are greedy bastards, but our other selves are getting a bit jealous of us having more friends than we do, and it's getting confusing. it is our intention to upload ALL the tracks from 2004's&nb...
Posted by electricity comes from other planets RIP on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 06:25:00 PST

WE'RE ON THE RADIO THIS SATURDAY!!! 14th january

It's true, due to a cancelation from Comanechi at the 11th hour we've stepped up to the Rock'n'Roll Radio plate for shits n giggles and, hopefully, for your listening pleasure. Tune into 104.4fm in t...
Posted by electricity comes from other planets RIP on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 03:12:00 PST

New drummer, returned masters, full speed ahead the future

We were just about to change drummers anyway, now Sharky's knackered his arm he doesn't get to go out in the blaze of November glory as planned... so step forward Simon Edwards, who will make his live...
Posted by electricity comes from other planets RIP on Sat, 19 Nov 2005 04:06:00 PST

BAD SHIT ! Sharky's knackered his arm !

Yep, Sharky's knackered his arm and has today been instructed by doctors to lay off the drumming for another week or 2. This definately rules out our gig (tomorrow at time of writing) at the Urban Bar...
Posted by electricity comes from other planets RIP on Thu, 03 Nov 2005 12:09:00 PST

My Intimate Problem : EP Available !

She's A Clone, How Come You Ain't Got None and Holy Baloney are all available on the My Intimate Problem EP, along with another track "(I'm Your) New God". If you want a copy send us a msg or email us...
Posted by electricity comes from other planets RIP on Sat, 01 Oct 2005 03:32:00 PST

you stole my brain - and half our album...

we recorded this, did a rough mix, did some overdubs, tried to do another rough mix, but the CD writer broke down , then the studio closed before we could get in to mix it , then one of th...
Posted by electricity comes from other planets RIP on Tue, 16 Aug 2005 04:57:00 PST

stuff the courgettes

eh up, the missus brought home some really HUGE courgettes from her brothers vegetable patch. I always thought huge courgettes were marrows, but these are definately huge courgettes. anyway, I've just...
Posted by electricity comes from other planets RIP on Sun, 14 Aug 2005 12:26:00 PST