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Failure By Design (have split up, you know)

About Me

FBD are a 6 piece skacore band from Ormskirk, nr Liverpool, England, who've shared stages with Adequate Seven, Sonic Boom Six, Graveltrap, Phinius Gage, Zen Baseballbat, Catch It Kebabs, The Splitters, Failsafe, Random Hand, The Wayriders and The Fight along with a veritable orgy of amazing ska and punk bands, including a tour with our good buddies Rhythmic Coughing and their incredible yellow bus, and our own 7 date tour this July just gone.Please give the mp3's a listen and feel free to comment. If you've seen us at a gig add us and say hi!

Buy Failure By Designs EP 'Our Lives in Black and White' NOW! Click the button below!
OUR LIVES IN BLACK AND WHITE EP - 2005
1. Our Lives In Black and White
2. Never Too Late
3. Trisha
4. Pumpkinhead
5. Gobshite
£4 (Includes P&P)
EVERY NIGHT IS POKER NIGHT EP - 2006
1. Same Shirt, Different Day
2. ...I Still Want Paying
3. A Waste Is A Terrible Thing To Mind
4. 5 Steps
£4 (Includes P&P)
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Music:

Member Since: 07/10/2004
Band Website: www.failurebydesign.com
Band Members:
Summers
- Chatz/Trumpet,

Cap'n Jo
- Alto Sax/Tenor Sax,

Jim
- Trombone/Shouts

Hen
- Bass/Shouts,

Kingy
- Guitar/Backing chatz,

The Streets
- Drums, Beard

Influences: Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Howards Alias, Lightyear, Capdown, Streetlight Manifesto, Catch 22, Link 80, Big D and The Kids Table, etc...
Sounds Like: ..
Record Label: No Way Out Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

So... that's it :)

Hey - this is pretty sudden, to be honest, and i guess it's come as much of a shock to us as i'm sure it'll be to everyone else. After a really amazing 3 and a half years, FBD have decided to call it ...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 04:26:00 GMT

Touring in April with the Greedy Bees

Just because I haven't updated in a while, thought i'd give it a crack. In exciting news, we shall be touring with our German buds the Greedy Bees in April of next year. Which is bloody ages off, but ...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:54:00 GMT

About freakin time...

It's been ages since the world in general has heard from us, mainly because aside from gigging we haven't been up to a whole lot. The tour went amazingly (aside from Jo's car getting written off, but ...
Posted by on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:35:00 GMT

New Shirts, New Cd, New Dates!

It's alll finally coming together at camp FBD - we've just gotten back our t-shirt order from the fabulous folk at Shirty Something ( www.shirtysomething.com) [pics of the designs and how you cna buy ...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Jul 2006 11:40:00 GMT

This is Spinal Tap.

Yes, in the span of 3 years we have ploughed through 4 drummers. Meaning only one thing, and that is that we're onto number 5. Please welcome to the fold the magical mister Ben Streets (also of Stand ...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Jun 2006 02:19:00 GMT

Cos i don't know what the future holds...

Quite a bit of news really from team FBD! First and foremost, our long time guitarist and general all purpose vegan, Ben, has decided to call it a day with FBD. Neither side was particularly happy wit...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 08:27:00 GMT

New CD/Give us gigs

We've just come out of the studio a couple of hours ago with the fantastic mr timG, after having laid down the vast majority (just jims trombone still to get down) of our new 4 track cd, 'Every Night ...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 14:11:00 GMT

Our Lives in Black and White available to buy on tinternet!

If you look on the right hand side of the myspace page, you'll see a little album cover with the words Click Here To Buy! underneath.   So if you click there - you can buy the cd! Simple!
Posted by on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 15:13:00 GMT

WE ARE BOOKING A TOUR

We're looking for dates for a summer tour (ideally in the south of england) from July 15th-22nd. We would be really appreciative if anyone is either interested in putting us on, or knows anyone who wo...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Mar 2006 06:01:00 GMT

FBD Newsssss

Ey up! It's an exciting time in camp fbd. We're due to enter the studio yet again, this time with the wonderful mr timgeeee ( www.myspace.com/timgmusic ) in the 2nd weekend of april to lay down some n...
Posted by on Sat, 25 Feb 2006 06:50:00 GMT