The Horrors and Friendly Fires perform at The Mercury Prize 2009

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Follow the link to check out the performance of Who Can Say by The Horrors at this year's Mercury Prize.
They were shortlisted for the prize on the back of their second album Primary Colours which completely blew away both critics and fans alike.

Here they talk about their nomination and what they wanted to achieve with the second album.

[picture from bbc.co.uk]

On the other end of the spectrum, co-shortlisters and label mates Friendly Fires performed Jump In The Pool from their knockout self titled debut.

Follow the link to see Ed in all his hip shaking glory and click here to hear about their reaction to being nominated (and Lily Allen NOT being nominated - pretty funny stuff)

Go on hang with Friendly Fires!

Channel V and Friendly Fires are getting together on the Sunday Sep 20 @ 11.30am.

They will be aired on a 30-minute special of Channel V ‘Hanging With’ scheduled to go to air September 20th.

The ‘Hanging With’ saw the V crew following the band everywhere, starting one day of filming learning how to cook with celebrity chef/Jaime Oliver’s head chef Ben in the hinterland of Byron.

JJJ Live At The Wireless will also replay Friendly Fires THIS Sunday at 6pm, recorded at Melbourne’s very own Prince Of Whales.

And better yet, if you haven’t seen it already check out Friendly Fires ‘Kiss Of Life’ video rating #10 most flogged on V.

Friendly Fires self-titled album is out now through XL/ Remote Control.

New Friendly Fires video for brand new song Kiss Of Life

Friendly Fires blew everyone away at Splendour, well those who were lucky enough to cram themselves into the tent to see catch them!

And just in time for their debut, sold out tour of Australia, the band have released a brand spanking new single Kiss Of Life.

Here's the video, featuring Ed Mac's signature hip shimmying moves.



Friendly Fires play:
TONIGHT! Tue 28 Jul - Sydney, Manning Bar w/ Miami Horror & Yacht Club DJs - SOLD OUT!
TOMORROW NIGHT! Wed 29 Jul - Melbourne, Prince Bandroom w/ Miami Horror & Yacht Club DJs - SOLD OUT!

New DJ mix from Friendly Fires

Can't wait for Friendly Fires to get down here to play their sold out debut tour of Australia?

Neither can we!

In the meantime though, we can all warm up to the DJ set they recently dropped for BBC Radio 1's 'Essential Mix'

"Two hours of techno, deep house and post punk from the band who know their way round a DJ Booth as much as they do a festival stage."



Tracklisting:
Friendly Fires (DJ Set)

Alexandro Jodorowsky ‘F Machine’ (Soundtrack)
Tony Lionni ‘Found a Place’ (Ostgut Tontrager)
Luke Solomon ‘People, Places, Thoughts and Faces (Ajello ReMix)’ (Rekids)
David Labeij ‘Shakedown’ (Intacto Records)
Just Two Ordinary People ‘Lucky Times (Paul Frick ReMix)’ (spontanMusik)
2000 and One ‘Wan Poku Moro’ (100% Pure)
Pezzner ‘Shasta’ (Physical Graffiti Records)
Mark Broom and Brothers Vibe ‘Mind/Feeling (youANDme Hirsch Edit)’ (Platzhirsch Schallplatten)
Makam ‘New York Hustler’ (Sushitech Purple)
Arto Mwambe ‘Ombala Mbembo’ (Brontosaurus Records)
Michel Cleis ‘La Mezcla’ (Cadenza)
Visti & Meyland ‘Yes Ma'am (Kasper Bjorke Mix)’ (Eskimo)
DOP ‘The Genius of the Crowd’ (Supplement Facts)
STL ‘Something Is Raw’ (Something)
Alec Wizz ‘Drummin (H2O Mix)’ (4th Floor Records)
Liquid Liquid ‘Optimo (Optimo ReMix)’ (Domino)
Silver City ‘Pendulo (Pete Herbert Edit)’ (Deep Freeze Recordings)
Anton Pieete ‘Players’ (Intacto Records)
Harry Axt ‘Crazy’ (Rompecabeza)
Daniele Papini ‘Church of Nonsense’ (Alchemy)
Cajmere ‘Say U Will’ (Cajual Records)
Friendly Fires ‘Jump In The Pool (Wild Geese Mix)’ (XL Recordings)
Photonz ‘No Fear’ (Dissident)
Paul Woolford ‘Pandemonium’ (Intimacy Music)
Kerri Chandler ‘Six Pianos’ (Deeply Rooted House)
Whirlpool Productions ‘From Disco: To Disco’ (ZAC Records)

Friendly Fires self-titled record is out now through XL/ Remote Control.

Looking for mp3s?
Check out our free mp3 download page here!

Friendly Fires Australian tour - all shows sold out!

We are very excited to announce that all of the Friendly Fires shows have now SOLD OUT. It's going to be one helluva debut tour for the UK trio, uh huh.

Supports for the tour have also been announced:

FRIENDLY FIRES
Sat 25 Jul/ Sun 26 Jul - Byron Bay, Splendour In The Grass - SOLD OUT!
Fri 24 Jul - Perth, Amplifier w/ French Rockets - SOLD OUT!
Tue 28 Jul - Sydney, Manning Bar w/ Miami Horror & Yacht Club DJs - SOLD OUT!
Wed 29 Jul - Melbourne, Prince Bandroom w/ Miami Horror & Yacht Club DJs - SOLD OUT!

FRIENDLY FIRES SELL OUT MELBOURNE

That's right kids, the Friendly Fires sideshow at the Prince Bandroom Melbourne has completely sold out!
Tickets are still available for the Perth show at Amplifier and the Sydney show at Manning Bar, but you better move fast!

Dates below:

Perth
Friday 24 July
Amplifier
Tickets from Mills, Planet, Amplifier , Star Perth, Heatseeker and Moshtix
Presented by triple j & Drum Media.

Sydney
Tuesday 28 July
Manning Bar
Tickets from Moshtix , 1300 Get Tix (438 849), Manning Bar , on your mobile via Moshtix Mobi and all Moshtix outlets.
Presented by triple j & Drum Media.

Melbourne
*SOLD OUT*
Wednesday 29 July
Prince Bandroom
Presented by triple j & Inpress.

Splendour In The Grass
*SOLD OUT*
Belongil Fields, Byron Bay
25 & 26 July
For more info click here

Friendly Fires self titled debut album is out now through XL/Remote Control.

Friendly Fires announce debut Australian tour

“Friendly Fires are on an unstoppably stratospheric trajectory” NME

“Sophisticated and fun, Friendly Fires is a fine example of dance music with a brain in it’s head” Drum Sydney

“One of the most exciting bands out of the UK at the moment” Music Network

“Friendly Fires show an amplified, ambitious, and inventive attention to detail that helps steer them away from sounding like just another polished party band.” Pitchfork Media

“This is the definitive nu-rave album” Inpress

This UK trio have been labelled everything from dance-punk, to the new nu-wave, electro-pop, melodic song, and disco dance. Call them what you will, we can safely say that U.K’s Friendly Fires are undeniably one of the most exciting bands of 2009. We are pleased to announce their debut Australian tour surrounding an appearance at Splendour In The Grass this July.

Ed Macfarlane, Jack Savidge, and Edd Gibson have been playing together since they met at age 14, although they have come a long way since the days of their first band, post-hardcore outfit First Day Back. Nowadays they consider the artists on the German techno label Kompakt the greatest influence on their sound, and have been called leaders of the “intelligent disco revolution”.

The band released their debut self-titled record this year through XL Recordings in the UK – also home to Peaches, The White Stripes, M.I.A., Sigur Ros, and Vampire Weekend, just to name a few. Their track ‘Paris’ received massive radio airplay and has been named Single Of the Week by The Guardian and NME, not to mention being amongst Pitchfork’s Best 100 Tracks Of 2008. Locally, the record was triple j’s Feature Album of the Week, and several tracks from the record have been added to high rotation nationally on both commercial and community radio.

“The surprise is their sophistication; like Klaxons, they're just fluorescent enough to keep club kids interested, but their real commitment is to sparkling, modern pop” The Guardian (UK), 4 stars.

So after playing sell-out shows throughout Europe and the UK and opening for acts such as Interpol and Blur, we are very excited to finally have Friendly Fires heading our way in 2009. They will be appearing at the Splendour In The Grass in Byron Bay, along with as club shows in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne.
All show details below.


TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY 29 MAY

FRIENDLY FIRES DEBUT AUSTRALIAN TOUR
JULY 2009

Perth
Friday 24 July
Amplifier
Tickets from Mills, Planet, Star Perth, Heatseeker and Moshtix
Presented by triple j & Drum Media.

Sydney
Tuesday 28 July
Manning Bar
Tickets from Moshtix, 1300 Get Tix (438 849), on your mobile via Moshtix Mobi and all Moshtix outlets.
Presented by triple j & Drum Media.

Melbourne
Wednesday 29 July
Prince Bandroom
Tickets from Missing Link, Polyester Records (City & Fitzroy), Greville Records, POW Public Bar, Prince Bandroom website or phone bookings (03 9536 1168)
Presented by triple j & Inpress.

Splendour In The Grass
Belongil Fields, Byron Bay
25 & 26 July
For more info click here

Friendly Fires self-titled album out now on XL through Remote Control Records.

FRIENDLY FIRES MYSPACE
FRIENDLY FIRES WEBSITE

Friendly Fires announced to play Splendour In The Grass

Friendly Fires have been announced to be playing Splendour In The Grass festival in Byron Bay this July.

It will be the UK trio's first tour to Australia and promises to be one helluva dance party is this recent review by NME of their sold out show at LA's The Troubadour is anything to go by.

Radio favourites Jump In The Pool and Paris will no doubt be part of their set as well their latest single:


Friendly Fires' self-titled album is out now through XL/ Remote Control.

www.wearefriendlyfires.com

www.myspace.com/friendlyfires

Friendly Fires get Frenchy

Skeleton Boy is the new single from UK nu-rave sensations Friendly Fires. With its funk-driven synths, Skeleton Boy is a massively addictive slice of dancefloor-friendly pop, drenched with swathes of lush harmonies and atmospherics.

And now the track has been remixed by Air France to make it even more dancefloor-friendly:

Skeleton Boy (Air France Remix)

You can download the mp3 over at Pitchfork.

Skeleton Boy

Friendly Fires 'Skeleton Boy' video

Skeleton Boy is the upcoming new single for Friendly Fires, out early March. In the video the boys risk their health for the sake of art. Getting polystyrene balls stuck up your snozz can't be good for you.

The single features a re-recorded version done with Paul Epworth (who also produced first single Jump In The Pool). More synths? Check. Even catchier? Double check.

Friendly Fires cover Lykke Li

Currently supporting Sweden's Lykke Li on her US tour, UK's new saviours of the indie dance scene Friendly Fires (who brought us the infectious tune Jump In The Pool) have released a cover of Lykke's I'm Good I'm Gone [mp3]


And if you missed it last week, here's a remix of Friendly Fires anthemic, blissed-out and brilliantly pop track Paris, featuring Au Revoir Simone on vocals. The track features on the new Paris 12" single, due out November 8th, which includes remixes by Kompakt Records’ Justus Köhncke and semi-mysterious producers Arto Mwambé.

Paris (Aeroplane Remix ft. Au Revoir Simone) [mp3]


You can download the original version here.



myspace.com/friendlyfires

Friendly Fires remixed

Friendly Fires' dancefloor favourite Paris has been remixed by Belgium's Aeroplane, who were recently in Australia and have remixed MGMT and Cut Copy. The original track is taken from Friendly Fires' self-titled album, which also features Jump In The Pool and On Board.

Paris (Aeroplane Remix)


You can download the mp3 at The Tripwire.

German techno producer Justus Köhncke has also remixed the single. Download it at The Fader.
Paris (Justus Köhncke Remix)


The UK trio recently performed Paris on Later With Jools Holland. They are currently touring the US with Lykke Li and will appear at CMJ as one of this year's 'must see' bands.

Paris (Live on Later With Jools Holland)


Paris (Official video)


myspace.com/friendlyfires

Friendly Fires go to Paris

“This is white dance music that does something a lot of recent white dance music fails to do: It makes you want to dance!” 4* Rolling Stone

UK trio Friendly Fires go kaleidoscopic in their video Paris off their newly released self-titled debut album. Last year the single was released on a super limited seven-inch and was single of the week in both the NME and The Guardian UK. [mp3]


Also appearing on the new album is the oh, so catchy first single
Jump In The Pool [mp3] [YouTube]


myspace.com/friendlyfires

Emiliana Torrini and Friendly Fires albums out now!

Friendly Fires are one of the most exciting bands in the UK right now. Their self-titled debut album is out now and features new single Jump In The Pool, an inspired collision of loose Liquid Liquid drums and My Bloody Valentine atmospherics. Jump In The Pool is the only track on the album which is not self-produced, with big fan Paul Epworth (Bloc Party, Primal Scream) taking over desk duties. Watch the clip:

Jump In The Pool [mp3]

On Board [mp3]


wearefriendlyfires.com | myspace.com/friendlyfires


Also out now is Me and Armini, Emiliana Torrini's follow up to her much adored 2005 release Fisherman's Woman featuring the track Sunny Road. Coming from the woman who wrote Kylie's 'Slow' and also featured on The Lord Of The Rings soundtrack, little wonder that Me and Armini features of gamut of musical styles all combining to form a truly fantastic album.

Me and Armini [mp3]



Big Jumps [mp3]


myspace.com/emilianatorrini