Paul Vernon: Guitar and Vocals
Paul Beauchamp: Drums
Todspawn (aka Skip, aka Cris): Bass
Influences
The Beta Band
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Coheed and Cambria
The Cure
Echo and The Bunnymen
Foo Fighters
Hijak Oscar
Jimi Hendrix
Led Zeppelin
Less Than Jake
Muse
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
The Pixies
Placebo
Queens of the Stone Age
The Raconteurs
Rage Against the Machine
The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Silverchair
Smashing Pumpkins
Sonic Youth
Tool
The Verve
The Who
But not all at once...that would be silly
Sounds Like
Reviews from slicethepie
"Overall, it has quite a dark feel and for some reason reminds me of cowboys."
"This song is a bit annoying it makes me feel like the room is spinning and I might be sick."
"The music was a complete turn off"
"The melody of the song is particually fascincating to listen to as it represents a different type of culture, one of lively music which is easy to dance to, a dance such as a jig or similar dance."
"It is an interesting technique."
"The music is fairly standard psychedelic Indie."
"Almost too stiff to be funny, this might have been a surreal payday in the boardrooms of Berlin, but one presumes the buck stops here."
"You can almost feel the after show party and subsequent whiskey flow from here."
"By the end of the track you are left feeling a little confused by it all."
"Sounds like something out of a tarantino movie"
"Yeah man, I've been slating everything for being unoriginal but this is great, this is the dog's and I can't praise it enough. Ten out of ten!"
"Drummer sounds as if he's got some ability, but that's about the only positive. I can't believe you uploaded this."
"There is something about your voice that makes me shiver. I don't know what it is but I think that you have potential."
"The vocalist sounds like they're moving between snorting cocaine and just randomly shouting"
"Wow. First let me say the vocals in this track are off the chain. The guitarwork is great, the drumming especially at the near end is sick too. And the track also has a great strong element of awesome progression to the track. I really enjoyed listening to this monster piece! Nine out of ten"
"ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffuck. Ten out of ten!"
"I know the artist have take a drug before he make this kind of music."
"What a funky little number. This track just got better and better as it went on. Loved the whole composition of the track and the energy was contagious!
"Very energetic and would be goood in an action movie track, you should give tarantino a call"
"Great song! I loved it! Looking forward hearing your other songs, you've got great talent! Keep it up =) Eight out of Ten"
"A beautiful voice and the music too. Just enjoying it too much. Love to hear it again and again. Keep up the good work"
"Interesting abstract blues style base that was very good and relaxed, following that the drumming and guitar play contrasted but fit perfectly with the bluesy style. The singer was good and his content suited the tracks dark feel"
"There's something dirty, underground and seedy about this. All things that I personally find very appealing!
"Vista Cruiser? What the hell kind of lyrics are these?"
Random review found on the web!"
"Saturday, 21 June 2008
Fevered Egos
A Midland based band in the UK who have a write-up of their history on myspace longer than any of their songs despite them being a relatively new band, Fevered Egos play some good grunge but the singer is quite clear and understandable which is something rare for the genre. Definitely one for the future, some great stuff produced so far."
The Bands History "Probably the best band in the known universe" - Oscar Wilde
Fevered Egos: are a band from Birmingham, England, consisting of Paul Vernon: song-writing/singing genius, Paul Beauchamp: drummer extraordinaire and Cris aka Skip aka Todspawn: professor of all things bassy
In the early days they started of as a punk rock band...('Captain Fantastic and his Performing Monkeys' Paul Vernon, Paul Beauchamp and Josh Swift) but this was decided to be A BAD THING so after some mild disagreements (and much clashing of egos) Josh Swift left the band leaving Paul and Paul to fend for themselves. Fortunately this harsh reality awakened some kind of semi-demi-hemi god from within Paul Vernon (which in time has grown into a fully fledge GOD) and he created several masterpieces including 'Wrecked/Denouement' and the ingeniously named 'The Road to El-Dorado Contains No Llamas: Part 1'. It was around this time that the band renamed themselves Fevered Egos: (inspired by Bill Hicks) and began to quest for a bassist.
The First bassist they chanced upon was one Lucy Hayes, who could actually play the bass...which was good. At this time the band also found themselves a producer, Chris Porter. Sadly these partnerships where brief. After discovering Lucy was more interested in actually paying attention in college and going somewhere in life as apposed to playing in a rock/grunge band, the band (Paul & Paul), had to let her go. The end of the bands relationship with their producer on the other end was a little more messy...
After successfully recording 'Freedom and the Boy' (the bands first song) with the aforementioned Chris, the band began to fall upon hard times financially...which did not stop them recording (or paying for recording) but did make some issues between Chris and The Band. This was resolved by Chris avoiding the band completely and when forced into contact hiding behind a barrage of excuses. The end was result was the death of one of the bands punk songs 'Anthem of Lost Responsibility'. (Which Paul Vernon insists is a Good Thing)
The next most notable point in the bands life was the discovery of the bassist Dave Yardley. After auditioning him in the common room the band decided he was the man for the job...as he could hit the strings really fast...hmm. When actually bought to a practice Paul & Paul felt The Doubt start to grow. Nevertheless they gave Dave a chance and decided he was ready for the nationally acclaimed 'GenFest'.
He wasn’t
Dave got incredibly drunk and performed a cardinal sin. He removed the mic from Paul Vernon... This just wasn’t on and he was promptly dropped from the band. Sadly this was a bad omen for the months to come as The Band failed to find a bassist.
Just when they had almost given up hope, they where introduced to Emily by the only fan of 'Anthem of Lost Responsibility', the beautifully dreadlocked Sophie. Things where looking up. With new bassist in tow Paul & Paul begin to look for some decent gigs. Twas on the way back from town that the following (mildly legendary) conversation occurred
Paul: Hmm...
Paul: Hmm
Paul: Yeh...gigsgigs....
Paul: Ooh look epic
Paul: We could play epic...
*PAUSE*
Paul: WE COULD PLAY EPIC!
*Dives off the bus towards the grotty skatepark*
Although RawkFest (The 'epic' gig) itself went ok Beauchamp came across some financial disagreements with Keith about drinks bought and security....which resolved by The Band making no profit whatsoever and Beauchamp being personally making a loss of approx £62.78 This was mildly offset by the increase of fans and the discovery of Sinsemilla, who at the the time were a grungey three peice who's bassist would pop up again in the Fevered Egos: story...
After another mild depression period the band was joined by the wonderfully talented Mr Ingle, who seemed to be the missing ingredient the band had been subconsciously yearning after. Sadly Ingle was not able to play the small gathering that was 'Nickenbury', but it did bring about some rare acoustic recordings of Coffee and Cigarettes, Wrecked/Denouement and A Safe Place. At this time, thanks to Ingle, Coffee and Cigarettes evolved into the electric beauty it is today.
Sadly at the start of 2008, due to attendance problems, the band had to find themselves a session bassist. Fortunately they found the legendary Todspawn (aka Skip, aka Cris) had finally overcome his battle with the great evil that is glandular fever, and had become dissatisfied with his role in Sinsemilla, thusly he was persuaded to come jam. It was love at first strum, and the band decided to make the (extremely painful, heart-wrenching) decision to replace Emily with THE SON OF TOD (Only one letter away from being the true messiah) Cris then made the equally heart-wrenching decision to leave Sinsemilla, and so became a permanent and dedicated member of Fevered Egos:.
With Todspawn in tow The Band started to slam their way into the live music scene starting with The Hibernian. This was followed by a small (but profitable) slot at The Newt, which in turn was followed by the IMMENSE Bar Academy gig at which the audience experienced a delicate blend of music and arse.
Thus sadly exams beckoned and all the band members had to get their heads down for some hardcore studying...ok well Tall Paul did anyway. (FOURTEEN FUCKING EXAMS?! HOW CAN THEY DO THAT TO US?!!!) But once the hellish ordeal was out of the way the band started to get revved up for their next Bar Academy slot...
Which was quite frankly, amaxing (amazing to the max). With an ingenious line up of 'bangin' new tunes, a smattering of old favourites and even a really really old classic revamped, Fevered Egos: rocked the joint. But if you are so dozy that you managed to miss this gig then not to worry, for all you oldies (18+) we will be playing the Sunflower Lounge 23rd July, and for everyone else...well hold your horses and I'm sure we will have a show for you soon.
So all that remains for me to say in regards to the gig is....in the words of Terry Pratchett "Be their or be a rectangular thyng". Or, as Trent Reznor once said to me "Who the fuck are you and what are you doing in my house?!".
Beauchamp (with a little help from the band)
The Band has recently discovered it has the technology to crudely record its own material, and create its own animations. The first of these animations is the currently unfinished 'Fall of The Psychonaut'. Even more recently, The Band entered the studio and successfully recorded the EP "Interval Music" featuring 4 tracks of musical ecstasy, all of which are available to listen to on this very site and available in disc form from any member of The Band.
For more information please contact Beauchamp at paul_beauchamp@hotmail.co.uk (Preferably regarding the band, he may be all knowing but is tired of being treated like a wisdom jukebox)
hey dude wen r practices? dnt we have a gig on wed? i cnt do da weekend so dnt ask bt i cud do 2moro. bt have 2 fin at 4:30 or monday same time. i dnt wonna do da tuesday cuz its normas last day b4 she goes amsterdam.i ment 2 message u during da week bt had alot 2 do.
"but to be fair feverd egos are well record contract thingy worthy! have they looked into it? they can do so much better then the bar acadamy. they should heckle bands who they know are playing on main stage/acadamy 2 and bug them to play with them e.t.c. " Is what KT said...she be one of the lovelies who I dragged along on sat :)
Gig last night? Good times. I dig the two new songs. And love that one of them is called Fish in the Perculator :) And...I dig the new Safe Place. Although I oppose change and liked the old one, too =P I'll send you the photos shortly! xx
to Taul Paul- emailed u the photos from last night that are at least visible, sadly having such a crap camera thers about 1 visible photo of u and its rele fuzzy and my close up of skip makes him look like he has no head... hopefully th pics of gabbys camera work better
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hey this is the Academy of Music and Sound, the ONLY instrument specific music college in Birmingham. Just to let you know we have an open day this sunday, the 6th of july. feel free to pop along, ideally we'd like you to book in if you are thinking of attending. please give us a ring on 0121 236 6066.
Gabby you are wrong, this new band history is not only accurate and hard hitting but it makes u love the fellas who penned it.... and they are real opinions believe it or not
Oh DEAR The new "band history" actually made me lol. ...someones gonna be mad?! I liked the old one though! Are the "sounds like" quotes made up, or actual real human people's opinions?
The appalling quality of the picture you are about to witness is due to the poor quality of your eyeballs, and NOT because Paint is the height of image-editing sophistication that I have on my laptop. I miss Photoshop. The original Skip pic was shonky quality though, too! Norma when you see this, this is your invitation to make a better one (please?) as it was in fact, your idea! I just stole it. Many pixles were harmed in the making of this picture.
paaaaaaauuuuuullllllllll.... cna i hav a couple copies of th EP to keep and giv 2 sum interested people as ingles cd is ever so slightly fucked as aparently his computer will only copy it rele rele quietly... on that note, would u like me 2 pick up some printable disc label sheet things? i can try takin a few band photos with my camera too wen u want i jus dnt think theyll b great quality so ill b askin damien bout his camera tho wudnt get my hopes up... need a job thn i cud hav my own :(
Hey Fevered Egos: Thank you for the request Hope we get to see you at one of our gigs soon! Our Debut single "Call Out My Name" comes out via itunes on 30th June. Hope you like it! much love xxxx
i've finally managed to get on myspace to say yayayayayayayayayyyyyyy i love the Ep it sounds so damn good, so polished and slick but so FE: also if you guys are free on the 20th june, stage 2 are having a cabaret night, and you guys are eligable to play because Beauchamp is an ex member, if you're interested let me know (or tell Cris to tell me) BEFORE THIS SATURDAY, thanks xxxxx
