Paul Broekhuizen - Vocals
Edwin Hofman - Guitars
Stefan de Jong - Synths
Pieter Winkelaar - Bass
Edwin Westerink - Drums
Influences
Joy division, The Cure, Interpol, Editors, Cruxshadows, My bloody valentine, De artsen, The Serenes, The Mission, We are scientists, Slowdive, Wire, The Sisters of Mercy, SWANS, And also the trees, The Rakes, Jesus and the mary chain.
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Our first CD "No moon at all" is finally out! message us if you want a copy. It will cost you 10 euro’s and that is including postage and packing!
The album holds 13 tracks, and it is 52 minutes long. Playlist:
1- Queer costumer
2- Fransiscus
3- More than meets the eye
4- Lighthouse
5- Cowboy Nevada counterstrike
6- In the meadow
7- Siegfried
8- Evening land
9- Bring out your dead
10- Dark horse
11- 1990
12- Justin Time
13- Morgendammerung
Operating on the borders of New Wave, Indie, Gothic, Shoegaze, and pop, Fertile Reality brings you moody songs filled with melancholy, and catchy chorusses. And that all since 1994, though at first the music was heavy, claustrofobic, and psychedelic.
"Paddopunk" we called it. But gradually our songs became more in a traditional rock/pop vein, and people began to say that our music sounded like Joy Division. If they knew more about undergroundmusic, they even said we sounded like the older Wire. We liked that. We are big fans of Wire, and we like Joy Division as well.
Nowadays we call our music "Moody pop". The songs are dark, but most of them have a distinct pop feeling to them. They are nice songs to sing to, and if we play live, young girls dance to them. Just like we always wanted. As for live shows: we like to do them, and we played with some nice bands, like Spiritual Front, Misery, And also the trees, The Mission, Christian death 1334, The Cold, Cinema Strange, Mesh, Volksweerbaarheid, O’lenk, WED and Superikone, and maybe some day, we will play with YOU!
Fertile reality preparing for a live gig. Paul is contemplating on the task ahead, Edwin W is drinking beer.
As for more bio and stuff: In 1994 we started, but Stefan wasn’t with the band yet. We had a female keyboardist and singer named Eline Veenis. She left the band, and after that Ralph Nieberdingh plays synths with us. He also left, and three years ago Stefan joined us. The rest of the band has always been the same. During the years we recorded one mini album, and two albums. We are currently working on a new album. Our discography:
- Micro (1998)
- The longfield battle (2000)
- The dune of the mill (2003)
Fertile reality jumps the stage at Tivoli, Utrecht.
Our website is at http://www.fertilereality.nl and our minialbum, and two albums can be freely downloaded from there. Go ahead, and grab them. It’s free!
The bill arrives and it’s time to check Myself out of this swamp There must be some better way, I know It’s one of those types of ways For a ground beef addict When you know they were right When they say to keep away From that ground beef
The mango trees in the bayou Sprout had-beens to give me applause But knockoff standing ovations Don’t fund a honed brick path The slopping moth milk flows through The cracks in the floor
We really appreciate you being a friend of us! And we were wondering if maybe you'd like to join the official Monsieur Cannibale Streetteam? Can you help us get a live show in your neighbourhood? Let people know you like the Monsieur Cannibale music and make them enthousiastic about it! Support Monsieur Cannibale and join the streetteam!!!
Merry Christmas from Son of Rust! To celebrate we're offering free download of our pre-release version of "Vicious Cycles" for the next few days. Get it while it's hot. Hope you have a hard-wired holiday and receive many candy-cane and teddy bear shaped robot parts!
