"This is, in my opinion, fall in love, take no prisoners pop at its very best. They're out for your heart, get ready to have it stolen."
- Clare Charles, www.howdoesitfeel.co.uk
Current Release: (Split 7" vinyl single with Sleeping States) Harold T. Wilkins Out now on Felt Tip Records, and available to buy from the Felt Tip online store or digitally from itunes!
"The London-based sextet otherwise known as Fanfarlo produce sounds on Harold T Wilkins that’s so folky, rustic and rich that it’s nearly possible to imagine them in the form of a Digestive biscuit." - Bandidge.com
...And our previous release: Fire Escape / We Live By The Lake on White Heat Records is still available to buy on CD or as a white vinyl 7" from the White Heat online store!
Our second single: Outsiders / In The Trunk on Club Fandango is still available to buy on 7" only from the Club Fandango label shop!
Fanfarlo are one of those bands you wish you discovered... Each of their songs is a melodic gem. [...] so luminescent we could almost be fooled into thinking that it's summertime. ****
- The Independent
"...there's about 20 of them (six), and they're all perfect. Friendly, fierce, wayward, timid, subtle, versatile, other things... From the moment their first song prickles the room, their charm is offensively powerful. What is most clear about Fanfarlo, though, is the world that Aurell has built around himself and the uniting, intangible purpose that each song has - they crush every ounce of effort and emotion through the narrowest of pop margins so that its power spurts out in a colourful explosion at every climax."
- Drowned In Sound
I've heard four or five of Fanfarlo's songs now, and, like a few of my other favourites, they have that particular knack of being able to create uplifting music that's blessed with a delicious melancholia at the same time. [...] I'm sure you'll be hearing a lot more of Fanfarlo.
- David Bowie
Playlouder - Single Of The Week (strike 2!)
If you think of pop music as a busy kitchen in a leading restaurant - they seem to have tossed all the key ingredients of a perfect indie-pop stew into the melancholiwok and styled a dish that Camera Obscura or Shout Out Louds for instance would be happy to gorge upon.
- Playlouder
Possibly the single of the year so far.
- Indie MP3
Swedish indie with wit and invention... brilliant.
- Mixmag
It's rare that a song with such delicacy could have such an overwhelming impact on you. [...] Something quite significant is going to happen to this band. 4.5/5
- Gigwise
Playlouder - Single Of The Week (strike 1)
It's increasingly evident that Fanfarlo's brilliance lies in their ability to craft heartfelt pop songs with the most delicate of tools without ever appearing twee, lacking in ambition, or smug.
- Playlouder
Big Bad Love at 93 Feet East July 10th –THIS THURSDAY Doors: 7pm £6.50
This is our first 93 Feat East gig and we’re happy to be gracing this illustrious stage so look out for special door price offers a few days before the gig… Or you can buy in advance here: http://www. wegottickets. com/event/32336
An invite to another night of exhilarating music presented by samu. co. uk 9th July 2008, The Good Ship, Kilburn, London
4 OR 5 MAGICIANS- "Really, really exciting" + "SOOOO SOOOO GOOD!" + "brilliant" + various other superlatives - Huw Stephens, Radio 1 -(www. myspace. com/4or5magicians)
ARTEFACTS FOR SPACE TRAVEL- "a futuristic dystopia of panic stricken pop, contains all the sinister and occult vibrations that a Naked Lunch reader could ever wish to consume." Artrocker -(www. myspace. com/artefactsforspacetravel)
THEO- A stunning guitarist, looping each intricate motif over each other forming complex sounds. Then slinging his guitar on to his back, he plays tight drums over the top. - (www. myspace. com/theo1000) + live visuals all night
Hope your Glastonbury went well! It was our first time there, both as festivalites and as a band, and shall not be forgotten.. Im writing as we're playing a gig this saturday, 5th of July at the Jamm in Brixton, if any of you could come, that'd be great. Thanks!
Thank you so much for that set on the BBC stage at Glasto; we'd hoped for a special festival moment but incredibly you left us with something much, much better. Class. Chief x
Hi guys....hows your day going?? love your music..especially harold t wilkins! just to let you know we're playing at the good ship in kilburn on 4th july..its set to be a jaunty/indie/quirky packed out bash with much dancing,drinking and a bloody good time! this one is not to be missed..much love xx
Are you going Mallorca?? It's like a paradiadise... You choose pretty well the places where to play, don't you? jajaja! If you have time enough, try to visit Menorca, it's the best island of that archipelago ;)
Oh no, I've only just realised you're not playing Lounge On The Farm again. I could've sworn I'd seen you advertised as plaing, possibly on their original poster but now there's no sign of it anywhere else. Was really looking forward to seeing you play again. Oh well, maybe I'll manage to see you elsewhere some time.
S T O L E N exhibition Private view: 6pm Thursday 3rd July, 2008 (for 1 week) The Aquarium L-13 Gallery, Farringdon Stolen Recordings present a group show of objects, fragments and documents that have functioned as either promotional material, merchandise or autonomously as the visual accomplice to an aural cohort.
BANDS/ARTISTS CONTRIBUTING INCLUDE: Billy Childish, Riceboy Sleeps (Jonsi Birgisson from Sigur Ros and Alex Somers from Parachutes, Mathew Sawyer, Pete and the Pirates, Tinhead (The Foals), James Cauty, Shanne Bradley (The Nipple Erectors) , Lets Wrestle, Jock Mooney (Dan le Sac VS Scroobious Pip artwork),Harry Pie, Paul Burgess, John Herve Peron (Faust), Fault Magazine, Geraldine Swayne, Fanfarlo, Shimmy Rivers and and Canal, STOT21stCPlanB, Rowland Smith, J.P Buckle, Caff/Lick, Freak Paeans, John & Jehn, Screaming Tea Party, Dave Mitchell (Ghost Club/ The 3D's),Wet Dog, Adrian R. Shaw & Daisy Shaw, The Grand library of young blood, Throwing Up In Comic Sans Fanzine, Buttonhead, Tome Records Feeding Time
Hey your show in Paris @ fleche d'or was as brilliant as our football team was rubbish, ah ah im gonna try and make the best publicity i can for u wearing ur shirt all over the place in Paris, 24/7. Maybe. Cheers
