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| Hello, it's everybody's favourite band. And when i say everybody's, i mean ruddy-well probably somebody's. Somewhere. Well, we promised a proper news letter. Or nonsense letter - I'm not sure which one makes up the bigger part of these blogs. So what's been happening? Well, important stuff first - we will be supporting The Dangerous Summer at Studio 24 in Edinburgh on the 19th of February, and we recommend you all come along. If any of you haven't heard of The Dangerous Summer, you need to check them out here, as they are pretty forking fantastic. Cue all the usual assertions that coming to the gig will provide you with spiritual enlightenment and pockets full of sweets, while failure to attend will befall some terrible tragedy on you, like us coming round to your house in the middle of the night and turning all your garden gnomes upside down. You have been warned. To check out the full list of our upcoming gigs, just look at the gig listings page on our website. | ||||
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| Now, some of you may know already - but for those of you who don't, we thought we'd tell you about an exciting project we've goted involved in. As part of the Scottish Arts Council's Youth Music Initiative, five up-and-coming bands from the Edinburgh area were chosen from a broad spectrum of auditionees to receive financial and professional help to record a single and b-side, along with help and advice on marketing, promotion, etc - with an aim to increasing the opportunities for emerging young acts. This will be taking place over the coming months, and at the end of it we should have 2 new songs for you to listen to, recorded at castle sound studios. Also, there will be a launch party/gig for the five bands, which promises to be a night of amazingness. We will be keeping you updated on this, although we may have a few videos for you at the end of it as well....... | ||
| After having also secured more traditional funding (we love christmas, we do) we intend to go back to the recording studio to create a new EP. I know a lot of you have been desperate for some more recorded tracks, so if your patience will allow, we have lots of stuff in the pipeline! In the mean time, the only way to catch some of our fantastic new tracks is to come see us live. Speaking of pipelines, we have been giving serious concideration to the magic "M" word, but we'd really like your input - if we were going to make t-shirts, what colour would you like? We think white is a bit boring, but if we made them lime green instead, you might not buy them. So what colour? We're going to let you guys help us decide. Funny, that didn't actually have anything to do with pipelines. oh well. | ||
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| Lastly, a request - if you think your friends would like this blog, LINK IT to them! These blogs are made up of the best bits of the e-mail newsletters we send out, so if you like this blog, get yourself on the mailing list and get it sent straight to your inbox! Getting on the mailing list is easy - just send an e-mail to fireproofmatch@hotmail.CO.UK with the subject "ice cream is yummy". Alternatively post the phrase "ice cream is yummy" on our facebook wall, or facebook message us, and we'll add you to the list. Alter-alternatively, find us on the street and shove ice-cream in our faces and scream "ice cream is yummy" like a looney - then give us your e-mail address on a bit of paper. Why the phrase "ice-cream is yummy"? Cause we've been thinking about ice-cream a lot recently, that's why. And why have we been thinking about ice cream so much? Cause ever since Lauren McCreadie pointed out to us that she knows a place that does popping-candy ice cream, we can't stop thinking about it. We are formulating a plan to create some of our own, and we may very well need to post photos of the results in the next newsletter. Until then, kudos to Lauren for making our imagination a happy place! | ||
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| █Until next time, FOR GREAT JUSTICE! |
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| Things are beginning to heat up for Fireproof Match like badly placed pyrotechnics setting your back on fire. Don't worry, that's an analogy - the closest we've come to that is setting ants on fire with aerosol deoderant and a lighter. We have been hard at work booking gigs for the coming months, and you can see the list of upcoming gigs on our website - www.fireproofmatch.com/gigs | ||
| For February - it's all about Maggie's Chamber, and the final of their battle of the bands. This will be taking place this Saturday (that's Feb 5th for those of you that can't work it out) at 7pm in Maggie's Chamber, above the Three Sisters Pub in Edinburgh and it's ruddy FREE entry. The prize for the honerable winners is to record a single, film a music video, and have a launch party, along with a mystery prize! quite honestly, the only reason we are so excited is cause they used the phrase "mystery prize" has a very mysterious ring to it, don't you think? Anyway, if we are going to be in with a shot of winning this, we need your help! so let me tell you now - | ||
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| unless you are under 18, cause it's 18+ :( I have it on good authority that there will dancing midgets in clown costumes handing out free drinks all night - which no-one could afford to miss, even if we weren't handing out FREE FRUIT PASTLES! I have a feeling it's going to be a night to remember - it's so big that capitalised words are spilling out EVERYWHERE. | ||
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| Anyone who would like to crash the night at our flat, or indeed come back for a little bit of this kinda thing (whether we win or not) (and whether we know you or not) is more than welcome. we might even get a trip to 24h asda - though we cannot confirm/deny the appearance of a cat in a basket. Once the battle is done and dusted I will send out a proper news letter explaining some of the exciting things that Fireproof Match are getting involved in (like our order for 2 crates of Tiwan's cheapest, most volatile, pyrotechnic explosive charges) but until then, buenas noches mis cebras feas, and we'll see you on saturday! | ||
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| how was everyone's christmas? a good new year? did santa bring everything that you.. and that's about as much chit chat as i can be bothered with. I'd like to tell you about a number of things happening in the exciting and slightly peculiar world of fireproof match (with exciting and slightly peculiar spelling)... but i think they might have to wait till the next installment, as I don't want to detract from the main event. So I promise, no llamas, no nonsense - only sweet, sweet music for this e-mail. |
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| So first of all - and this is especially for those who don't know us that well - we now have a video interview up on wohomusic.net, after winning their track of the month competition. I think it is fair to say that we are very pleased with this very serious and professional piece. Please go and watch it! (those of you without 2D computer screens, put your 3D glasses on NOW) - |
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| Secondly, we have another important gig. It's important because it is the final of a battle of the bands - and not just a cheer-o-meter for a 24-pack. The prize is more precious than a cupcake with sauron's ring on top. Each band on the night has made it to the final by winning their respective heats, and the final is judged by a panel who will be awarding marks for (amungst other things) - musicality, originality, crowd interaction, technical proficiency and how many drinks you can buy the judges (that last one wasn't actually on the list). But 25% of the score is also based on how many fans come along to see you, so we want ruddy EVERYONE to come and see us. |
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| The important thing to stress is that you can support us with minimal effort! The final will take place at Maggie's Chamber above the Three Sisters pub in Edinburgh on the 5th of February starting at 7pm. Entry is free, and if you've been to maggie's chamber before, you'll know they have a nice bar and a whole bunch of sofas/tables away from the stage - so all we ask of you is that you come to maggie's chamber for some drinks on saturday night, relax and enjoy yourself! you don't need to be right infront of the stage (although we would like to stress that this is where all the cool people will be). If you have friends going out on that saturday, redirect them to maggie's chamber! if you have work colleagues going out that don't fall into the catagory of "friends", redirect them to maggie's chamber! If your folks are out on the town that night as part of a dirty weekend, redirect them to maggie's chamber! | ||
| If we win, we may be able to sort each of you out with a cup cake, albeit sans invisibilty-inducing rings (unless you bring a serious number of people with you. then we'll talk.) |
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| So i'm going to leave it at that - short and simple (like dearest kirsty) - come to Maggie's Chamber on saturday the 5th of February. IT'S FREE AND WE LOVE YOU! |
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| Welcome to another edition of the Fireproof Match news letter - an especially warm welcome to all the new boys and girls who handed over their hard-earned e-mail addresses at our Ivory Blacks gig on friday night. That's right - I'm talking to you - you sitting there with the small pile of grated cheese listening to "This Broken Sky" on repeat. By now I'm sure you will all have found the free £5 note we put inside each EP we handed out. Hoho! I thought I'd add a link to our youtube video to remind everyone the serious message we are trying to convey here - that...uh,... | ||||
| Anyway, the gig was quite a blast, and made extra-special by the appearance of "Preacher" who put on a cracking performance. I think it's fair to say that the quality of music from all the bands was great, and it was a very dynamic night in terms of musical style. Unfortunately, it's now going to be a while before our next gig, so we are going to do our best to keep you entertained until then. To that end, Kirsty would like to provide the following joke - | ||||
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| Well done Kirsty, that was a complete belter! I'd also like to take this oppertunity to thank Lornstar for our latest batch of EPs - cookies and wine cannot adequately express our gratitude for all the effort you continue to put yourself to on our behalf. Lorna, these extra special cookies are just for you. They look every bit as good as a real cookie, but with no way of eating them, they are also incredably healthy. Marvellous! | ||
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| Right, enough of that - down to business! As you sit there munching on those diet-cookies we just doled out, we ask of you but a small favour in return - | ||
| We are currently fighting tooth-and-nail in a competition to win an appearance on channel 4, which is a very exciting prospect for us, as we actually have no idea how televisions work. The competition is called "fast-track" and is being run on the website www.bobcom.com . The concept is simple - all the bands have profiles on the website, and whoever gets the most activity on their profile, for their country, wins. This is where you come in - we would greatly appreciate you all (especially our new-found Ivory Blacks friends - YES YOU!) to go to the website and rate our songs, favourite our pictures, and leave friendly and/or insulting comments our profile - it all helps boost our score. We've never been happier to encourage you to go and tell us we are fat and ugly and unloved and lacking in essential social skills such as eating with one's mouth shut. 'Cause it shows you love us! | ||
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| 1 - Go to www.bobcom.com 2 - Click "sign up" (they simply ask for an e-mail address and a user name) 3 - After signing up, click on "fasttrack" and you will see that Fireproof Match are in second place for Scotland! |
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| From there you simply click on Fireproof Match, listen to songs, slide the sliders to rate them, leave comments, look at our photos...anything and everything you can be bothered doing! It's our intention to win this, but we will never manage it without your help! Go forth! |
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| Phew, serious stuff over now. No-one will even be reading this bit 'cause they've all gone straight to bobcom to take part in our plans for world domination. Nice. All that remains to be said is - if you have any friends, brothers, sisters, pets or parents that you suspect might be interested in this nonsense, send their e-mail to fireproofmatch@hotmail.CO.UK or get them to leave a note on our facebook, myspace or youtube page. And if you feel like leaving any comments there yourself, please do. We harvest the comments to make social-acceptance bread which we consume in order to nurish our internal love-me monsters. |
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| Till next week, mes petits ornithorynques heureux |
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