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Fran Bove

Fran Bove

About Me


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Fran Bove, Irish/Italian sports coach, sportsman (ish), musician and collector of jumpers with holes in grew up in a small market town renowned for its antique shops.

He first picked up a guitar having experimented with the recorder, violin and piano and quickly realised that this was truly the instrument for him and embarked on a year of lessons with guitar maestro Max Milligan.

After this year Max moved on and so did Fran, teaching himself guitar with play along Oasis and Blur books. At the age of 16 Fran joined his first band "Arthur Baker's Sunday Jam" a 9 piece funky covers band who were just getting succesful when University split them up. On arriving at university Fran realised the easiest way to continue performing was to go it alone and quickly began to play gigs in open mike nights and even performed in the VIP lounge of one of the most popular student nights in Birmingham.

"Fiction Fire" (his first album) is the result of three years of university and a lifetime (well 22 years) of experiences.... experiences in the outdoor industry, in love, out of love, in friendship and in life. Recorded in a university practice room because the acoustics gave a raw sound (and there were no studios free) Fiction Fire was availabe as a limited run and if you search hard enough you may just find people with copies of the album! If you like Fran's music... tell people, leave a message and spread the word. Fran wants to spread his music as far as he can take it, but he can't do it alone, he needs you, your help to make it work. SPREAD THE WORD

If you visit this page regularly please leave a comment, Fran's friends and fans are important to him and he would love to hear from you!!
To book Fran please email [email protected]

Fran is also a member fo the band The Measure
www.myspace.com/themeasureuk
Check them out!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/13/2006
Band Website: This one!
Band Members: Fran is a solo artist, but is also a founder member of The Measure www.myspace.com/themeasureuk Alot of Fran's solo writing is done with his good friend Chris Beng
Influences: Jack Johnson, Bob Dylan, Ben Harper, Lenny Kravitz, John Mayer, Otis Reading, The Beatles, Oasis, Blur, Damien Rice, Coldplay, Eva Cassidy, Paul Simon, Van Morrison, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder and many, many moreOne Day, perhaps I could play like this....John Mayer - Solo

Add to My Profile | More VideosAnd this is my favourite song from John Mayer's new album....
Sounds Like: Post a comment saying who you think fran sounds like below
Record Label: unsigned and looking!
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Tonetastic!

So I recently sold my Line 6 Spider 2 and replaced it with something that looks like this: Only the head is actually a JCM 900. "WHY?" I hear you cry. Well put simply whilst the spider 2 had some grea...
Posted by Fran Bove on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:42:00 PST

Music... makes me what I am

Of course the title of this blog is not literal... I consist of atoms and molecules and on a larger scale cells, cells that for the most part do their jobs and keep us alive. Just take a moment and th...
Posted by Fran Bove on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 03:37:00 PST

Long time no blog (life at a snails pace)

Tonight I finally played a gig outside my normal performing circle (more about that later) On my way home I was walking down an Ampthill backstreet and doing my best to avoid the large number of snail...
Posted by Fran Bove on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 05:06:00 PST

musicology!

Alot can happen in a week! Gordon Brown became our future Prime minister, Chelsea won the FA cup and I had somewhat of a musical reunion and epiphany rolled into one. On Friday my old upper school hel...
Posted by Fran Bove on Mon, 21 May 2007 03:54:00 PST

Jams, Planes and complaints

So I'm in Italy and the guys that we've met out there in the summer invite me to jam with them. Of course I'm only to happy to oblige and duly arrive at their rehearsal room which is at the back of Ma...
Posted by Fran Bove on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 04:32:00 PST

Mmmm Kiwi fruit?!

It seems that alot has happened whilst I was in Italy. Sadam was found guilty, England was hit with some pretty heavy fog, Tony Blair's holiday plane got into a spot of bother in Miami and my pro...
Posted by Fran Bove on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 05:27:00 PST

Every cloud??

This Wednesday night I was asked to perform at a "grime" night. Now I don't think I've ever turned down a gig and I quite liked the idea of collaborating with one of my students who is rather good at ...
Posted by Fran Bove on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 03:15:00 PST

Spozisms

For most people the two words "Friday" and "Night" conjure up particular images. Some will see drunken "youths" marching down the highstreet displaying considerably more flesh than modesty, some will ...
Posted by Fran Bove on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 11:33:00 PST

The Measure

There are a select few people in this world who are truly lucky. They are lucky enough to have their dreams and aspirations realised, whether that be getting married to the person that they ...
Posted by Fran Bove on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 11:05:00 PST

ARGHHH!

The last two times I've tried to post a blog it's mucked up. Last time was my fault. This time it was myspace's. I had finished... was previewing when "an unexpected error has occured" flashed up on t...
Posted by Fran Bove on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 01:34:00 PST