Hello all.
You find us heading o’er foreign hill and dale. We’re in Koln lapping up the usual ham and cheese platter in the dressing room. I’m tucking into the Nutella, which has been in plentiful supply since we began our European. Due to circumstances way beyond anyone’s control, the wonderful Heartbreak had to pull out of being our support for the German dates. They’ve been replaced by Wax Stag aka Rob Lee, our live bass player / percussionist doing his hypermelodic instrumental pop thing. What an added treat for you lucky German fans!
Our single Skeleton Boy is out now on 12”, download (available everywhere), and very limited one-sided etched 7” (available almost exclusively from our merch stand at gigs).
You can buy the download here for only 50p :
http://www.7digital.com/artists/friendly-fires/skeleton-boy/
The 12” features remixes by Air France and ZIO, which take the song off in balearic dream-pop, and muscle-bound EBM directions respectively. Lovely.
You can also get the album for £6.99 at HMV this week:
http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=280;-1;-1;-1;-1&sku=761590
Oh and by the way, winner of the drink-naming competition was a certain Mr Edd Gibson of Brockley, South London, who suggested ‘Dentist’s Delight’. There is no more perfect name for this tooth-rotting tincture. Thanks to everyone who entered. Keep in touch yeah?
FFx
i love you you sexy beast
— caroline · Mar 7, 06:49 PM · #
love the single cant wait to see you shake that tight little bum in may in london i will be waiting xxxxxx
— caroline · Mar 7, 06:51 PM · #
Ed you have the sexiest voice and please show more of yourself on tour video podcast.xxxxxx
— caroline · Mar 7, 06:54 PM · #
the remixes are fuckin’ fab
— caroline · Mar 7, 06:56 PM · #
i know they are 3 sexy little monkeys xxxx
— noel · Mar 7, 07:00 PM · #
got the mixes and i’m dancin’ my ass off right now,keep it up xx
— noel · Mar 7, 07:05 PM · #
hey, was at your gig in munich, it was amazing. u guys gave it so much and were so in to it, which is really great to see. nice touch selling the tees at the end. u guys were so good, i doubt we’ll ever see you in such a little venue again :P… but maybe you guys will come again (as a reminiscence or something)… u never know… oh and, u no the way photo booth is ur first song, well when did u guys write it? xxx
— Anna · Mar 7, 08:50 PM · #
you can buy the 12 inch single at the ‘‘xl recordings’‘ label website,as i have found it hard to find it anywhere else..
— noel · Mar 11, 10:02 PM · #
hi,congratulations on getting to #48 in the uk chart with skeleton boy but i think if it had been available on cds it would have got much higher and when i tried to pre-order the single remix on i-tunes it was nowhere to be found and the same goes for the hmv website,also the weeks leading up to the release i-tunes was showing that a lot of people had downloaded the lp original version and i think that if it would have been shown as a pre-order remix single then people would have waited for that instead.I am only pointing this out to you as i am still in much love with you and can’t wait to see you in london in may,NOEL XXX
— noel · Mar 21, 06:21 PM · #
I couldn’t guess the amount of times I heard your music..It’s so so unbelievabley good!
Sunday of Oxegen…!so exicted,flying home from my hols to be there!
any other dates in Dublin coming up soon?xx
— Marianne · Mar 25, 07:22 PM · #