"MISSING" GUITAR - if anyone who attended the gig on Saturday 31-Jan-2010 at Jabez Clegg in Manchester has seen this Fender Jaguar electric guitar since then or knows anything about where it could be, please don't hesitate to get in touch. I can offer a reward for information that leads to it being found, many thanks. Dan
Tracklisting: 1. Love Doesn't Just Stop
2. Nuit Avec Une Ami
3. Philadelphia
4. Wrong Kind Of Trouble
5. Fifteen
6. Lets Get Back Together
7. Secret Little Sweetheart
8. I Know It's Hard
9. Married
10. Edges & Corners
11. Dancing
12. Be Into Us
13. Wow
New Single "Fifteen" - OUT NOW!
Our new single "Fifteen" is available on 7" vinyl and as a digital download. The b-side is "Understand".
"Fifteen" is taken from our debut album "The Noyelle Beat", which is due out in March 2010.
The 7" single is available to order NOW from Thee SPC website. It's on heavyweight blue vinyl with a postcard set and a code to get the MP3s.
As well as radio plays on BBC Radio1, BBC 6Music and XFM, the single's had some lovely reviews:
"There's a little buzz about this band Standard Fare. That is totally justified entirely as their debut single 'Fifteen' recalls classic, sprinting C86 shamble 'n' jangle indie, spilling with spirit & gusto. Musically it reminds me of a less twee & more muscular Heavenly or Liechtenstein's less angular, more straight guitar pop stuff. Singer Emma has a really strong, hearty voice & the song makes me shed a nostalgic tear for beloved times listening to Peel in my teens & twenties. Really heartening to hear a band that transcends pastiche & effortlessly arrives with the equivalent of a lost gem"
Norman Records
The catchiest little fucker since fish swam down the river Trent with big Eat Me signs on their arses, all mouths agape; helping the hooks in with slippery fins. It is perky, it jangles, it doesn’t break any genre rules (but – crucially – you don’t mind), it has a clarity of tone that would shame the Society for the Protection of Nice Grammar & Speaking Proper. And it is just over three minutes - which makes it conventional in the very best sense, and which also means it does not outstay its welcome, however hard you might try to convince it to stay until the snow has cleared.
Drowned In Sound
This new single ‘Fifteen’, again on Thee SPC, is set to lay a marker down early doors for single of 2010. ‘Fifteen’ the song, is pop perfection. Emma Kupa’s voice is one of those beguiling things – powerful, fragile and totally mesmerising and yet it still manages to be one of the catchiest songs you are likely to stumble upon, this or any year.
Oddbox Blog
"Fifteen by Sheffield’s Standard Fare most definitely does have a hook; a bloody great big one and it’s hauled me in. A terrific galloping slice of jangly indiepop, it even pitches up with a more than decent flipside, the mournful but lush Understand. "
Sounds XP
"If you love Kenickie, The Long Blondes, The Siddeleys or Girls At Our Best you will fall instantly in love with Standard Fare."
Rough Trade
"This single relates an infatuation with a no-doubt pale and pretty teenage indie boy, with short, choppy Housemartins-y guitars, and Emma’s vocal veering between spoken-with-a-raised-eyebrow and a banshee wail, it’s just one of those records that’s fucking right-now immediate. Charming, charming stuff."
Showburner
"It's not just in location and label that they remind us of those early Long Blondes single, smart but uncomfortably bittersweet songs shot through with the joy of being in a band, all kinetic energy and Emma Kupa's pleasingly untutored vocals, wracked but somewhat defiant."
Sweeping The Nation
"While A-side "Fifteen" perfectly fulfills the role of the infectious sing-along hit, B-side "Understand" gives Emma's voice another chance to kiss the stars on a splendid New Pornographers-like tune, full of melodic brilliance & emphasis."
Pop N Cherries Blog
"Imagine a little sister to 'Once and never again' by the Long Blondes', its a lay to the bewildering confusion of young lust. This ones a grower. Expect to be humming it when you least expect it."
Brill Dream Blog
"Love this! "Fifteen" is a great slice of jangly indie pop that rattles along at a fair old pace and although it's kinda cute it's ballsy too, mainly down to singer Emma's great vocals. "Understand" on the flip, is a slower more introspective song, that recalls Morrissey's songwriting at it's best. Ones to keep an eye on this year I think."
Piccadilly Records
"Sheffield’s favourite tune-terrific. toe-tapping, tearaway-trio return to the fray with another cutely coiled slice of razor-sharpened, spiky, pop loveliness courtesy of ‘Fifteen’. Pressed up on blue vinyl this little cutie seesaws and shimmies with such affectionately drilled wonky aplomb you could almost kiss it for its sheer audacity as it opines more bitter-sweet scars from the affairs of the heart, and into the bargain turns in a neat and dandy line in classic-era Postcard cues, albeit as though rewired by some drop-dead and dandy pact, formulated by a pairing of a lovelorn, shoe-shuffling, early career Weddoes and the Shop Assistants. Repeat plays may cause pleasurable panic attacks. Consider yourselves well and truly warned."
Losing Today
Originating from the icey cold loft of a big old house in a small town and then relocating to a small cottage out in the unknown hills of the countryside, Standard Fare have now discovered the luxuries of rehearsal rooms and with that discovery, a whole different world outside of the Buxton bubble!
So with the bright lights pulling them towards the 'big big city', well that and all moving in different directions, the band are now based in Sheffield (where the one way systems +permanent road works confuse the hell out of their little country minds!).
Friends of Manchester festival Live Review Jabez Clegg 30th January 2010 BUZZ LIVE MUSIC REVIEWS
Were back in the main stage, Standard Fare open with a song called “Philadelphia”, the diminutive female singer has a charmingly understated vocal style that steals the show. The trio are young, but play like veterans, their charm lies in the songs, the blend, a boy, a girl, a beat, simple uncomplicated brilliance, no pretense no swagger, a vital performance from a band destined to rise the ranks and produce classic indie hits. Rumor has it a ..USA.. tour is on for spring, well deserved, good luck; don’t stay away too long as we expect a least one warm ....UK.... summer festival appearance from this non standard trio in 2010
Hey! I play "Fifteen" in my February show for Dandelion Radio - The online radio station inspired by John Peel!
To listen, go to our website at dandelionradio.com and click on one of the "Listen Live" links on the front page.
You will be able to hear my show every day for the whole of the month! Plus a host of other shows playing an eclectic variety of new and unreleased music. See schedule on website for details!
Ahh, thanks for the invite to the Buxton show - but twud be a bit of a mission from London I'm afraid! V cool that you guys are lined up for SXSW tho, I'll definitely make a point of catching you down south to support the cause. :)
Heard and loved your stuff on 6Music - greetings from a fellow High Peak lad! Best of luck to you guys, you've got a brilliant sound and a great songwriting knack. Hope to catch you live soon!
Standard Fare features in the offical 2009 Dandelion Radio John Peel Festive Fifty listeners chart, repeating every day until the end of January. Dandelion Radio is a John Peel-inspired online station playing exciting new and unsigned music. To view the schedule and listen to the Festive 50 countdown show (repeating every day until the end of January) visit www.DandelionRadio.com, or find us on MySpace at myspace.com/dandelionradio.
Andrew Morrison
Dandelion Radio
"A blast of broadcasting nonconformity" (Q Magazine) "A sanctuary of thumping, spirited weirdness" (The Guardian)
Hey, I think your songs are great! I'm becoming a fan. I also have a debut single coming out on BAR/NONE in April. Maybe we can gig together sometime in NY or NJ? Good luck with your new album!
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