Francisco Fernandez (Guitar, Vox)
Photograph by Leah Delmer Copyright 2008.
Daniel Aguilar (Drums, Drum Machines)
Influences
girls with boyfriends, hot sunshine, marvin gaye, tartine cappuccinos, blues, coconut creme..baby dust......rivers...whipped cream dreamz...lakes....kittens for the cause. ferociousness.
Sounds Like
PASSIONATE BABY WAILING IN THE SUN WITH THE REVERB ON 12.....also, like love and sweat and some tears....peace/focus/destruction/confuzion
Francisco Fernandez of The Ferocious Few
theferociousfew@gmail.com
Management: Leigh Anne Lewis
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The Ferocious Few
Biography by Andrew Barsch
andrew@barsch.com
www.andrewbarsch.com
Two-man duo The Ferocious Few formed in 2006 when Francisco Fernandez (composer/guitar/vocals) and Daniel Aguilar (percussion) took their informal jam sessions in Oakland, CA to the streets of San Francisco with a portable P.A.. The Ferocious Few's stripped down, lo-fi sound has been classified as rock, punk, or rockabilly, and along with the bluesy elements of Fernandez's howling vocals, The Ferocious Few's raw sound may be best categorized in the increasingly ambiguous genre of garage rock.
After recording the 5-song EP From The Streets to Your Heart in the summer of 2007 on Pro Tools in the back of a New Jersey strip club, they began selling it by the hundreds, then thousands, at local shows and street performances in and around San Francisco. This garnered them enough of a local buzz in to gain some spots around the country, and when they arrived back home they found themselves being sought out to play at San Francisco's premiere venues. Remaining true to the title of their first EP, they could also still be found playing on the corner of O'Farrell and Powell streets with their portable equipment. "I like to be on the same level with everybody," says Fernandez about street performing, "What does the stage mean?"
Whether playing on the streets of San Francisco with a portable P.A. or at Shoreline Amphitheater's Download Festival 2008, The Ferocious Few deliver a tight, intimate performance regardless of the venue, signatured by Aguilar's heavy train beats with Fernandez's strained guitar and voice chiming in over the top to round out their sound.
In traditional rock angst fashion, vocalist and composer Francisco Fernandez sings of heartbreak, pain, and lost love while referencing it all to the post-modern world around him and how it relates to everyone else. "Our music is based on struggle, and that's what I think people can relate to," he says, "I want to create something that's relevant to our culture, not alienated by it."
hey it was super fun playing with y'all last night! (sorry we had to cut out on yr last couple of songs) we should definitely play together again, only this time without the drama, haha!
Greetings from Portland, OR! i hope you don't mind, but I took some video of you two while I was visiting for Frameline and spotted you two by the Civic Center Muni station. Great energy, speed, oxygen, and music. Thanks for doing what you do. And here are the links to the videos and I even included a photo for your archival purposes. Peace, Frank+++
Thanks so much for being part of the show last night. Everyone loved you! We have some great footage of you guys when Alodiah and I were dancing with you. I'll send you the you tube link once we put it up. You guys ROCK!
thanks for the add! i randomly saw you guys playing about a couple months ago or so. duder was rockin so hard he broke his tamberine! i had to get a CD.
