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Tiscali Showcase - Four Day Hombre
Tiscali Showcase - Four Day Hombre
Days Of Worth played the first anniverary Tiscali Showcase at the Carling Bar Academy Islington on Friday September 23rd 2005, and can watch video from the night right here in the Tiscali Music Showcase section below.
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When Radio 1's Jo Whiley and Chris Moyles played Four Day Hombre's "The First Word Is The Hardest" and unwittingly put them in the public arena, the national response left the band slightly staggered.
This usually shy and guarded Leeds 5-piece, suddenly found a national audience for their music. The likes of Chris Martin, members of Supergrass and even Kate Moss were seen gracing the toilet circuit to hear the band. The track was picked up by Hall or Nothing and released on their Crystal Songs label to national acclaim.
Jo Whiley described the track as:
"Scorching and Beautiful in all the right places"
Other reviewers enthused:
"Like Elbow on speed...they have a real knack for plugging into your emotional cortex and up-ending body and mind in a hurricane of noise. Beautiful and furious." 4/5 stars - X Ray Magazine.
"Brilliant. Proper emotional and thoughtful guitar angst. Just buy it." - Fly.
"Song. Of. The. Year." (5/5 stars) - Drowned in Sound.
"Four minutes sixteen seconds of absolute perfection" - Chris Moyles.
With little care or respect for the latest music-fad, the core of the FDH ethos is timeless, intelligent and passionate song-writing. The importance of this is reflected in what has influenced them; glimpsed in early Genesis or Bowie; in Scott Walker or Nick Drake; in Prefab Sprout, Tears for Fears or REM. Their modern equivalents might be The Frames or Elbow; or Death Cab for Cutie; or what Keane would be like if they had bigger balls. Eclectic to be sure, but gripping and passionate.
In late 2004, the US magazine Entertainment Weekly (circulation 3.2 million), featured the track "Three Years" as recommended download of the week. The other recommended downloads in that issue were Linkin Park, Jayzee and The Neptunes.
FDH have survived as an independent unit through label fall-outs, management breakups and even hospitalisation! Now, via their own fan-financed label, Alamo Music Ltd., they have just finished recording their cathartic debut album with producer David Odlum (The Frames, Gemma Hayes, Josh Ritter, dEUS) at Black Box studios in France. Currently in its final stages of production in New York with mastering guru Greg Calbi (Springsteen, Jeff Buckley, Bowie), the album is due for release later this year...
Theirs is not music for dance routines or end-of-the-pier talent shows. Combined with their stunning live presence, it is music that moves the listener and stays with them for all-time.
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