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Fashoda Crisis were born kicking and screaming into the creative vacuum that is Southend, Essex, in April 2005. A frothing three headed abomination against nature that infuse anarchic alt rock paint-stripping noisemongery with melodic pop sensibilities whose manifesto is to pour scorn on the ridiculous. Inflammatory and confrontational, they have built a solid reputation on the backs of their visceral live performances.

At all times Fashoda Crisis play from the bottom of their twisted, blackened tumourous little hearts. They spew forth vitriol and acerbic wit in equal measures, melding political rhetoric and social commentary with opaquely personal lyrics. Intelligent, violent, passionate, honest, spleen-rupturingly humourous (and modest, let’s not forget modest) genre mangling mentalists.

Fashoda Crisis pride ART over ARTIFACE and they have observed with disgust and righteous ire as once respected peers have soiled their creativity and compromised their integrity in the fervent hope of wrapping their lips around the swollen phallus of the music industry.

Fashoda Crisis are uncompromising and fiercely independent, they will never dilute themselves to become more palatable and as such will never conform to mainstream popularity. Fashoda Crisis are not for the consumption of the bleating masses, they are for the chosen few, the readers, thinkers and true listeners who view the creation of music as a sacred form of art and whose record collection is not amassed on the basis of hairstyles and stage outfits.

Fashoda Crisis love you. But would never cheapen the sentiment by saying so to your face.

THE WORDS OF OTHERS...

"Awkward trios hotwiring Fugazi, Shellac and/or McLusky get a fast track into our Myspace roundups, and so it is with Southend's Fashoda Crisis. These are very much the children of Falkous, what with their love of a cutting aphorism, opaque lyrics with politicised undertow, bass that'd power a village for a fortnight and wall of distortion guitar. Their currently available mini-album Mischief Of One Kind And Another spits its righteous fury from inside a seal-packed environment of their own."-SWEEPING THE NATION

"The bass rumbles and drives, the thrashing guitar is full of melody and they have a great line in well-hollered intelligent sloganeering." - SOUNDS XP.COM

"extravagant performance art." - HERTS & ESSEX OBSERVER

"Fashoda Crisis certainly do a great job of standing out from their British contemporaries on their self-released debut album Mischief Of One Kind And Another. Containing the kind of jerky stop-start rhythms that make Shellac so appealing 'What God Meant To Say' kicks matters off in typically furious style, while the adrenaline fuelled 'If Charlie Simpson Ruled The World' catches the band at their most pissed off and self-righteous." - ROCKMIDGETS.COM

"from the vocal inflections to the melodic twangs in the slabs of guitar and the crowbar drums, this could be Steve Albini at his best (with a pinch of Rage Against the Machine spoken agitation in the middle 8). Insistent, uncompromising, demanding to be heard – isn't it time you got up to some mischief?" - R*E*P*E*A*T

"Fashoda Crisis deliver seven cuts of sarcastic, twisted indie rock as only they know how on this début (mini) album proper. Fusing jarring guitars, thudding bass lines, lashings of noise and a wealth of ear-splitting screams/deranged mutterings in equal measure thanks to confrontational singer/guitarist Sim; this is music to get angry – nay – psychotic, to: sit and listen in a dark room at your own risk. 'Land of the S.O.P' is a Daily Mail reader-baiting ditty that mixes dark humour with a touch of disco funk – and yes, it works marvellously. You won't find a more caring – or angrier - band" - NOISY

"De engelska gycklarna i Fashoda Crisis har på sitt senaste släpp "Mischief Of One Kind And Another" ramat in sig själva i en hårddragen men välljudande perfektion. Det är kantiga melodier med markerande trummor och en sång som känns rakt in i benmärgen. Med smarta samt kreativa texter som genererar eftertanke skapar killarna en stadig grund för både sig själva och lyssnaren. Ibland vandrar de över till rena metalriff, men oftast håller de sig till rena rockgitarrer som rent ut sagt kräver ditt beaktande. Lika viktigt som musiken är texterna som lyckas med konstarten att vara politiska utan att för den skull vara påtryckande. Det finns en stor dos ironi som döljer sig i varje stavelse och därför krävs det en hel del av lyssnaren för att budskapet ska träffa där det var tänkt. De klara referenserna är band som McLusky och man kan utan tvekan säga att aktiva McLusky-spinoffen Future of the Left har fått sig en trovärdig konkurrent i Fashoda Crisis. Med träffsäkra låtar som "Land of the S.O.P.", där bandet kritiserar Amerikas krig mot terrorn och hur det påverkar gemene man, och "What God meant to say" som ger skivbolagen en känga för sitt tidslösa agerande mot kopiering av musik. Fashoda Crisis har härmed landat, och de har ett världsherravälde i sikte. 8/10" LUKINZINE, SWEDEN

(For those of you who can't read Swedish, I suggest while away some hours copying and pasting this article into the various available online translators for hilarious and differing results - basically they are saying we are immense)

"...abstractly clever lyrics and rhythms to have seizures to..."-Read full review at thisiseds.blogspot.com.

"...no mere pop band...smart bright tunes and intelligent, politicised lyrics...tap into society's current paranoia...thouroughly engaging and entertaining" ECHOES AND DUST.COM

"Genius Psychotic Chaos" - ACUVI

"Daily Mail reader-baiting sarky buggers...musically immense ...the best fist punching, screaming at the top of your voice outro seen since RATM’s ‘Wake Up’......Leaves you feeling uplifted rather than lectured... We should be getting angry about things that go on around us. If we can do that while throwing out some great tunes at the same time then even better." -TASTY

"This is fierce. Angry. Focussed...Full of fury, passion and idignation...Art uncompromised by commercial concern" - PANIC MAGAZINE

"Mischief of One Kind and Another is a rowdy and entertaining record, steeped in sweat and rage and humour, like a particularly demented - if occasionally life-threatening - night on the town." - GOD IS IN THE TV

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