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Farthing Wood

About Me

.. Classicist twee rock music.
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A smattering of journalistic opinions...
1) "Fantastic" declared Richard and Gary on BBC's Bristol Uncovered about our EP.
2) "A collection of well-crafted, heart warming songs" is just one sentence (and not even the best) from a thoughtful Poirot, Le Fisc review by Live Music Scene .
3) "Distressed and bruised bitter sweet power pop of the highest calibre". Mark from Losing Today makes us blush by comparing us to Teenage Fanclub.
4) We get another comparison to the Coral, albeit at the risk of infuriating their fans, courtesy of the Bristol Evening Post .
5) "An immaculately formed song [...] that seems to have been been inexplicably omitted from 'Is This It?'" is how a review from Venue Magazine finishes.
6) Live Music Scene listen to Inland Observations and decide that we have "an extremely expressive and eloquent way of saying something universal".
7) "Le groupe a réussi son pari, il y a de quoi être conquis" ends a cross-Channel EP review from The Wall , adding to our Francophilia.
Elsewhere...
1) You can become a fan of Farthing Wood on Facebook . Or not. It's up to you, son.
2) You may also wish to check out Farthing Wood on Last.fm and see who else shares your suspect music taste. (We do, by the way)
3) You can look at Farthing Wood's 4music page thing . Just for fun I think. You can do nothing else.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 02/11/2005
Band Website: www.youtube.com/farthingwoodland
Band Members: Ben M. Tipton
Catherine V. Marshall
David J. Baptiste
Lewis G. Doyle
Martin L. Hardy

Influences: Robyn Hitchcock and the Woodland Trust.
Sounds Like: According to the popular and unpopular press:

Idlewild, Pixies, The Coral, The Go-Betweens, Hefner, The Boo Radleys, Speedboat, BMX Bandits, The Raspberries, The dB's, The Bluetones, The Wedding Present, Moviola, Teenage Fanclub, The Strokes, Evan Dando, The Replacements, The Proclaimers, The Smiths, Tom Waits, Arcade Fire, Bloc Party, Talking Heads, Radiohead, Belle & Sebastian, Ash, Broken Social Scene, British Sea Power.


You reckon?

1. North View.
2. An Inspector Calls.
3. Eyes Like Oceans.
4. If She Flies.
5. Church Road.


A) Orleans Reinette.
B) Glazed Eyes.
C) GOD Said To Farthing Wood "Let's Have A Party".
D) Pick Me Up After 10.
E) 37.
F) Keep Running.


We've run out of physical copies now (you might call it "sold out") but you can still download it free from Last.fm .

Inland Observations on the stairs - August 2009

Type of Label: Major

My Blog

The Announcement

After a period in the dark, we are very pleased to announce that we have two new members. They are Martin and Catherine, drums and violin, mighty and cousin. They have made the last few weeks as enjoy...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Aug 2009 05:20:00 GMT

Announcement

We will have something very interesting to say very soon...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:32:00 GMT

Departure Dan

Saturday marked Dan Jacobs' last performance with Farthing Wood. He literally saved our existence by joining in September 2007 and went on to play 39 gigs with us, including the fulfillment of his ch...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:57:00 GMT

Silence

Hello everybody,We write in spite of months of silence. Last gig we played seems like an age ago now, good night with The Naturals boys though. Top notch.March was quiet. April will be busy - we're pl...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:29:00 GMT

Dr Death to all his friends

It's been nearly two months since the last update. Some of you may think that this means we haven't been very busy... You would be right to think this. After ending 2008 at The Cooler with the heroi...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:46:00 GMT

Hitchcock Watch, Vol. 2

Excuse our temerity, but we feel it is, once more, time to visit the tarantula titan himself, Sir Robyn Hitchcock.Regular viewers will know that RRH was probably most prolific during his tenure with t...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:29:00 GMT

The Next Episode

Well, Well, Well.Two weeks ago we were offered a slot at the Academy in Bristol, a place where a few years ago the thought of us playing there would have been laughable. It happened. Last night, we pe...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:33:00 GMT

This is all you want

Pinch punch first of the month and no returns.It's been a while, so here's a little update:We've now released our new EP (perhaps we should've made a slightly bigger deal about doing so). It's called ...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:12:00 GMT

Newswatch: Gadwall

Friday 3rd October.Stout companies claim "good things come to those who wait". They're probably right but I'm sure they didn't anticipate broken hands and broken hearts. Neither did we. But yesterday ...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:50:00 GMT

Ze Newies

So we took our time recording, but we're quietly pleased with what we've come up with for our own personal satisfaction, and we hope you enjoy them too.There will be some sort of release soon with a f...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:29:00 GMT