We are in issue 2 of Notes magazine! Go and support this excellent new zine :
FLIES ARE SPIES FROM HELL
Formed in 2004, we have released 2 EP's and a limited edition single. We've shared stages with the likes of Russian Circles, Vessels, Fell City Girl, And So I Watch You From Afar, This Town Needs Guns, *Shels, UpCDownC.... Last year we did tours with Red Paper Dragon and Monsters Build Mean Robots. In May we are touring with Wild Dogs in Winter, which includes a couple of dates with MaybeSheWill and And So I Watch You From Afar. Our policy these days is to only play with bands we like and respect.
We are releasing our first album in the Summer, and will be playing plenty of dates including the I Am Joy Festival.
-- Cheers to Organ for supporting us since our first demo. Cheers to Sean for playing us on resonancefm, Huw at Radio 1, Milly at SpiritFM, and Plug in Brighton. Thank you to all the promoters who do it right - Such as: Tim at the Brixton Windmill, Nick I Made This Records, Pete Nice Weather For Airstrikes, Steve at the Royal Park Cellars in Leeds, Swiss Concrete in Oxford. Basically we like working with bands and promoters who put care, love and effort into what they do. --
REVIEWS
"Instrumental post-rock: yeah, yeah, you've heard it all before. Of course you have! Southampton's Flies Are Spies From Hell have, however, put their own spin on proceedings and come up with a delicious, genteel, and moving sound that pricks up your ears and divides these boys from the crowd with ease. It's uplifting as it is dark, and the keyboard-led jovial track "Mountain Language" is a magestic beauty! Keep your eyes peeled." Darren Saddler - ROCK SOUND MAGAZINE
"Great piano led instrumentals from the moment they invade the stage to the moment I catch my breath afterwards." Ejector Seat.
"Creating slow-building brooding and uplifting soundscapes to an enthusiastic crowd. Flies put 100% into it tonight, working up a small maelstrom on their final number." Organ magazine (myspace.com/organ – Go there now!)
"Opening proceedings tonight are the stellar Flies are Spies From Hell. Within two songs they pretty much win the Creation of Atmosphere competition and have the already-jammed venue salivating with their impending doom-style narrative. . All things considered, you could not hope for a better opener, and one that with any luck will be headlining in the near future." www.oxfordbands.com
“There's a simplicity and innocence in their big landscapes, a simplicity that lets the music speak for itself; with a lot of bands moving toward or emerging playing instrumental art rock, you get a whiff or chinstroking and/or elitism and/or missing the point. Flies Are Spies From Hell have none of that - they just admit to liking A Silver Mount Zion a bit too much and wanting to lose themself in those mini-epics they write. Open, compelling instrumental rock.” - Organ again.
We also have a lastfm page which someone very kindly set-up for us. It is here :
LAST FM
I (Chris) help run the I Am Joy Arts and Music Festival (5 days of bands, DJ's, poetry, comedy, art, workshops, dance, film, installations - every August in Chichester). We are also running monthly post-rock(ish) nights at The Hope in Chichester. All events are free entry. Click on the I AM JOY myspace below.
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.........LIMITED EDITION TOUR SINGLE (2008)..........
...........................ONLY 50 MADE - SOLD OUT............................
"Wallow in Threat" "Wolves in Hiding"
////////////3-TRACK "MOUNTAIN LANGUAGE EP" (2007) - 3 quid////////////
"a remarkable accomplishment, saturated in beauty, enriched with emotion, and compelling from the moment it begins." (thesilentballet.com)
"like some bizarre fusion of Mike Oldfield and Explosions in the Sky." (Nightshift Oxford)
"For a week solid, Flies Are Spies From Hell didn’t leave my record player... [they] are phenomenal in the music they make." (initforthemoney.net/zine)
"Mountain Language"
"King Sly"
"Next Hour"
5-TRACK DEMO EP (2005) - OUT OF PRINT
"Rows of moving cages" "Yes, I think they're closing in" "Siding with the menaces" "People not here" "You're making me nervous; you've got to stop this."
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Thanks for all your support! The show went really well at the Laugh Factory, and the turnout was great!
If you couldn't make it, I have uploaded to my profile seven ten-minute segments from this outstanding variety show featuring Old Time Music, magic, dance, comedy and fun!
Thanks for all your support! The show went really well at the Laugh Factory, and the turnout was great!
If you couldn't make it, I have uploaded to my profile seven ten-minute segments from this outstanding variety show featuring Old Time Music, magic, dance, comedy and fun!
Cheers for the ADD guys. Any good audience opportunities are always welcome - please let us know if we can get involved. We're looking for new venues and festivals all the time - just to get away from home ha-ha!
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