When Alex Foster (vocals), Jeff Beaulieu (guitar), Sef (guitar), Ben Lemelin (bass), Miss Isabel (keys and vocals) and Charles Moose Allicy (drums) got together to form Your Favorite Enemies in 2006, they decided to manage every single aspect of the band's career based on their community values and their "do it yourself" attitude. Already known for their commitment towards human rights, Foster being a fervent spokesperson for Amnesty International and a passionate youth speaker, Your Favorite Enemies' distinctive blend of dirty and polished types of melodic textures and their introspective and empowering lyrics instantaneously attracted musical fanatics from all over the world, who organically and spontaneously turned their passion for the band into an incredible multitude of street teams, communities, fan sites and forums emerging in every major city on the planet.
Therefore, inspired by such astounding support and inundated by an impressive number of requests to buy Your Favorite Enemies’ nowhere-to-be-found music, the 6 musicians decided to create the label Hopeful Tragedy Records in April 2007 in order to offer the self-produced 5-song EP and fan-exclusive "And If I Was To Die In the Morning… Would I Still Be Sleeping With You"; released on June 1st, for only $10 worldwide, shipping included. However, facing a strong reluctance and a major lack of support from the band's former advisers, who doubted that any potential success would come out of such a daring operation, the musicians kept their vision of honoring their fans' loyalty with a ridiculously low and worldly-standardized cost for anyone wishing to purchase their EP, from Montreal to Tokyo.
Since many people were expecting a monumental flop and a damaging move for the band's career, the decision to create a record label in order to sell their EP via their own online store turned out to be the determinant turning point for Your Favorite Enemies. The Montreal musicians ended 2007 with more than 30 thousand copies sold of their EP, a first European promotional headlining tour, unbelievable coverage by major international media, the creation of Hopeful Tragedy Records' multimedia branch dedicated to the development of new web initiatives and the production of a weekly podcast show on "YFE-TV"; different elements turning Your Favorite Enemies into one of the most exciting new "Do It Yourself" bands to emerge from the non-traditional music model.
Needless to say that, if 2007 was a good indication of what the future had in store for Your Favorite Enemies, the following year turned out to be an undoubtedly interesting one for the 6 musicians from Montreal, who have been named as one of the top 5 bands to watch out for in 2008 by the Billboard Magazine; a quote which is hard to deny after the incredible success they had in 2008. Success which included being the first band ever to internationally broadcast a real-time live concert on their MySpace page, obtaining extraordinary success for their first Japanese tour, selling more than 60 thousand copies of their second album “Love Is A Promise Whispering Goodbye”, released in June 2008 on the band’s label, Hopeful Tragedy Records, and becoming the first band ever to write songs for the legendary video game franchise Final Fantasy.
Greatly empowered by the amazing support of their faithful fans, Your Favorite Enemies is already in the studio working on new songs for what they described as “a fantastic imaginary voyage” for their third album to be released worldwide in 2009.
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YFE encouraging HOPE in Brighton Ontario...
This is not an organisation that YFE officially support but the message they give is the same... so visit the page... see what SOPHIE stands for and give them some support...
That sounds fun! We don't have any prom, so we have school festival!
Well, we have 3 grades in school and 7 classes in 1 grade. (So we have 21 classes) We have to decide a theme which is not the same. And we should make clothes by our own hands. So it's predictable but simple! lol
No plans! lol Coz our break is really short. I think we have 25 days. And we have a lot of homeworks. I can't plan anything at this situation :(
Hi sue !! i'm feeling very sorry for the lake of time ! would you forgive me lol ? i'm really impatient about london reunion; we'll see you into a wonderful town isn't it ? ;p
so how are you ? i saw, you were at brighton with our brothers & sisters for the show ! do you often travel to canada ? sorry i'm curious lol oh you wanna know about myself it's cuuute ♥ so i'm a student, i'm studying Acoustics engeenering at Le mans ! It's a weird town you know ! :( i'm a real purple addict lol my hair, my shoes, my clothes, my mind & my boyfriend are purple, it's a way of life for me lol ! And i begun driving lessons yesterday & it was VERY cool !
and you what about you ? ^^ what is your job ? it will be cool to find out more about you too ^^
Hey Sue. Aww 24th July I'm sure it'll come by before you know it. Lol actually I'm quite the opposite. Normally when I go shopping it takes me ages to choose stuff and I end up getting hardly anything. This time I actually bought more than a few clothes! Job hunting, well mainly I've been looking around in the high street in here and in Windsor only a couple of shops were recruiting though. I've also looked at some office type jobs but most places want people with experience. Anyway the weekend is almost here, hope you have a good one. =) Take care and much love. X
I used to live in Montreal but with everything that happened to me there, i moved to Sherbrooke for good and now having the best life i can get. I'm working in a hotel has a receptionnist and i love it :) seeing a lot of people each day, i think it's great. On your side, what are you doing when not working for the st?
What is going on Mum? Talk to me.. Why can't you cope with both? Must be something bothering you Mum.. I am here.. I will listen.. Talk to me.. Please.. I have noticed that I have been getting all your attention.. I am not going to complain.. But I am not the only important person in your life Mum.. There are others who deserve you too.. Well then stop watching the same damn program and do something that will make you Happy.. Hell do what I did last night.. Get some girls together and just have fun.. Can I ask you a question through Mum? Fuck I know I can.. Did I looked Hammered or Big Time Drunk to you? Or did I look like I was just having fun? Would love to know... LOve you loads and Loads.. Moons and Moons.. Stars and Stars.. Laura xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <3 <3 <3 <3
hi
sue. so many problems. my head is too full ... YFE are already really
good, they are all so nice ... outer sef, which makes me anxious .. lol
no a joke. what I really always brings up is papa roach. I hear it now
for nine years ... and I can express myself with the songs "last
resort" and "broken home" identified. YFE but I give her no more.
jeff has shown me something new and I am very grateful to him. and I
know if we will even take something very special.
I need you do not care ... I always write back:) take care, anna
How are you today? I'm goooood!!! Today is really sunny here!!! It's been a while since we had a good weather like this last time so I'm happy:)
I just received another your message!!! Hehehe :)
How was the break fast?? lol
I'm doing good!!! I'm starting the new things and I'm so excited for that!!! It's an another challenge for me but I'm sure I can do it and I will enjoy it<3
Hey Mum, I am on both MS and Facebook.. You should ruin your brain cells watching tv.. lol.. You don't seem like you are able to multi task very well there Mum.. I had an amazing time last night.. Did you like the pictures? Love you so Much Mum Laura <3
hi sue. So I guess since I know jeff at mai. yes I have noticed ... but that is good. I like very much to write with jeff. I do not know what I should tell ... What do you want to know because? you tell me what about you?
Oh, I'm sure he's very charming... But charm's not working on me... Well, not much LOL Only after at least 3 pints of Guinness or something like that ;)
LOL, I've just shown my mom a few episodes of YFE TV and guess what? SHE LIKES SEF! Why am I not surprised at all?
Hey Mum, Sorry u didn't hear from me today.. I have been in horrendous pain.. I missed you today too.. I was hoping to have fun but i didn't.. I am going out for a girls nite 2morrow evening.. No drinking I promise.. You have told me.. But I always love hearing it... I am happy to hear that u are proud of me too.. Love you Mum Laura
hey sweet sue, how are you doing? Well for the Canada day, we had such a really good time! We went to montreal to spend time with everyone, i guess you already see some pictures. We will post it soon on our page... Ohhh so you really miss the Canada day in London...well i'm sure you will be able to be there next year :) maybe you heard a lot about that day, in the news in the UK? Sooo what's new with the « contest » in the UK...maragaret sent us a link to go vote for YFE :) do you know where we are, and i think it's almost finish? Wowww 30 people for the get together, it's so amazing!!! don't be scared, everything will be so simple, thats what is important :) I'm sure at this time, there is more people :) Take care sweet much love Kim
hey you howa r eoyu doing hope youa r edonig okaty and hope all is wel land alsocihopoe thst you know that you are the best and you always will be and hope you have a goodd ay and today it is cold outside and we had bad rainfall but you know what it is okay cause rai is good and it helps the vegies grow lol have agood day!! love you and miss you big hugs!
Hi! how are you today? hope good. that is no problem. there is not much to tell. I live in Germany. my hobby is music .... everything has to do with it. yes the music is really good. I first taught Jeff know ... on myspace. at the beginning, we have a lot of talk about Jacoby. then I get with it also in a band is ... I have listened to me .. and it is really good. oh yes I want in any case so if YFE come to Germany. what about you?
I was happy to get to talk to you today!!!!! Yay!!!
Wow.... It's totally amazing what you did on the other day... You have a heart to do that and that's what you really want to do in your life..:) I'm glad to know that you keep moving forward!!!!!
Heya! :) lol well, I guess one day it'll work to meet up with Guy! worse comes to worse at the next YFE gig! lol and I know what you mean! us being on the internet is not always enough! I can understand that! if I had only you guys and no one around, wouldn't be enough either! though it's a lot already! :)
and you know what??? I believe in you! :) you have proven to yourself that you are capable of more than you ever thought and the London reunion is just one more step in that direction! :)
Do you remember me? lol It’s been ages that we spoke the last time….I’m sorry for not having been much here lately but I just didn’t have a lot of time for myspace that is why you haven’t heard from me for so long. I’m travelling a lot at the moment as well but now that I’m having a few days at home I thought I’d finally catch up with my messages here, though one of my hands is already packing my suitcase again lol anyways, how have you been?? What is new with you?? You must be quite busy with the London reunion at the moment, right? I hope everything is going well and I’m looking forward to hearing all about the meeting!!
I has a revenge plan! I'm taking my own video camera with me and follow him everywhere he's going MUA HA HA HA Naaa, just joking. I'm way too shy to do that. It usually takes ages till I open up to ppl. But thank God for internet. Makes it pretty easy for shy ppl like me to communicate with other...
Oh and don't worry, not even Jeff is able to talk me into anything I don't want to do. ;) Nobody has ever been able to do that LOL Took me ages to learn how to say now, but since then, I loooove to say no ;) Don't get me wrong, I'm easily excited about stuff, but when I don't wanna do something, I just don't to it ;)
Hey Sue! The weekend was goood. I caught up on all the football I'd missed :D. good fun. From my really really long list so far I've done very little apart from watch Angels & Deamons. It was rubbish. The book itself was great but the film, a complete waste of money. They'd changed the plot quite a bit, and it was no where near as suspenseful as the book "/. Maybe I'm being a bit too harsh, but personally I thought it was a let-down.
ooooh TVU. ha ha okay, your dirty little secret is safe with me ;). [Don't ask me why it's dirty but anyway...]
LOL. I'm used to the heat. I remember on the last day of exams before all the partying and what not, my friends and I deicded to have a kick about in the park. They were all sweating soooo much. me? nah. I was pretty dry..just a tad bit warm. I like the hotness. ;).
:D. Actually, I did think of you getting up at 5.30am the other day. I don't sleep much so was awake staring at the sunrise and thought of you falling out of bed with hair all over the place :P.
hey how a reoyu doing hope yopua redoing okay and hope al i wel land hoppe you hasd a good weekedn and hope it was good for you and also you rock and yes my nephew is getting big and why do poeple say bad stuff about me and also i am not a mean person the guy i used to date is saying stuf and also his friedns ar esaying the dsam e thingf hope you havre as good day and you a r ethe brest and i am goingh to get an indin tattoo on my arm na dthat wil lbe cool samd also it is so warm out today and iot rocks lov touy stephiexo
I don't think he'll remember the parade thing LOL And for actually doing it I think it wouldn't be bad to know where I actually live, but I won't tell him MUA HA HA HA HA But I have to say, Jeff's my motivation for a healthier lifestyle. Just came home from swimming... Do I have to mention I wasn't actually swimming since almost 8 years? LOL
Okay Jeff + Camera = run as fast as you can? Did I get that right? Gosh, I hate it when ppl take pictures of me, and video's are even worse! LOL
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