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The Fnords

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About Me

Sharing a love of trash rock’n’roll, Kill Rock Stars and the perfect buzzsaw pop song, The Fnords are a 3-piece who play no-fi, grrrl, surf-punk with fluctuating levels of loathing and paranoia.

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Member Since: 1/27/2006
Band Members: Sarah - guitar, vocals * Megan - bass, vocals * Derek - drums *
Influences: Bikini Kill, Billy Childish, Bratmobile, The Buzzcocks, The Cramps, Dead Kennedys, The Drags, Lungleg, Man Or Astroman, The Mummies, Pink Kross, The Raincoats, The Shop Assistants, The Slits, The Sonics, The Trashwomen, The Who.
Sounds Like: " A mutant mix of Cramps meets Slits""60's surf-punk screamabilly action!"

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My Blog

Be afraid, be very afraid.....

My mother has given me a couple of ukelele books (which she'd inherited from her granny.....); a starter book and a book of "Songs Of The Trail And Range" - cowboy stuff. Yeeeha. Shoot me if I start w...
Posted by The Fnords on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:45:00 PST

New year, new blog.

I thought I'd better write something as we haven't done so recently.   Ummm........   That's it. It can be contd. on page 94 if you like. D.   There's a smiley thing and a music selecti...
Posted by The Fnords on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 04:26:00 PST

More nice words

Well, I've got to collate the reviews somewhere.  Would you prefer it if I plastered them all over the profile page?  I'm sure it would make us look very important...This is a very fine revi...
Posted by The Fnords on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:34:00 PST

Arrogant Narcissism

's fantastic what you find if you're obsessed enough to self-Google.  Many thanks to Chris for his kind words, which I had no idea about up till now.  And I quote.."Headlining for the night ...
Posted by The Fnords on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:12:00 PST

If infinite monkeys could type, and one had an aneurysm...

...the results MIGHT seem something like this.I suppose it must be time for another blog!  Perhaps one that has some relevance to the band as opposed to my focussed interest at any one time. Pah....
Posted by The Fnords on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 12:18:00 PST

Oriental masterclass

To celebrate the end of my hideous world of Chinese politics, I have spent today playing Mahjong, eating Char Siu Dim Sum (or 'pork buns' as they refer to them in the Chinese bakery), and listening to...
Posted by The Fnords on Sun, 13 May 2007 12:59:00 PST

Happy

It's about time I wrote another of these. What a good weekend - Bongo Club on Friday, Henry's on Saturday, a lazy day yesterday........and a nice review of the Friday gig in the Evening News today! He...
Posted by The Fnords on Mon, 07 May 2007 06:28:00 PST

Robert Anton Wilson RIP

As a month has now passed, I feel this time is right to post something in memory of Robert Anton Wilson, without whom this band would have been called something else....It's an excerpt from the Illumi...
Posted by The Fnords on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 05:01:00 PST

Bikes (again) and breakages

Not happy. Supposed to be playing at the end of next week and some idiot taxi driver knocked me off my bike and broke my collarbone. It would have been nice if he'd bothered to stop......and they wond...
Posted by The Fnords on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 05:18:00 PST

Sarah's happy happy world of Ebay vinyl

This has been mostly quite exciting...mostly... Through the post today I received:  1) The Drags - Dragsploitation...Now!, 2) Big Flame - Cubist Pop Manifesto, 3) The Birthday Party - Peel Sessio...
Posted by The Fnords on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 11:24:00 PST