Friendly Fires
Friendly Fires-Curated BUGGED OUT Mixtape will Debut New Song!
Great news Friendly Fires fans! I just got an email from Jack Savidge (via the Friendly Fires email list) announcing the September 27th release of their contribution to the Suck My Deck BUGGED OUT Mixtape series. Below is an excerpt of Jack’s email detailing the release: The mix features ‘Stay Here’ an exclusive stinker composed by [...]
Friendly Fires Debut “True Love” at The Selector Festival
A few weeks ago at Holy Ghost!’s debut gig I chatted up with Friendly Fires‘ Ed MacFarlane (who was celebrating his birthday in New York) about life and album number 2…I’m sorry to say we’ll have to wait some time for a new record. However this morning a live video of a brand new song [...]
Holy Ghost! Live Debut at Under 100
For whatever reason there was a large number of “secret” shows on Saturday night in New York, but the place to be was Under 100 – the DIY basement venue run by Damon Dash in Tribeca. Holy Ghost! duo Nick Millhiser and Alex Frankel played their first show as a live band with an all-star [...]
TLC vs. Friendly Fires: Ed and Edd Discuss The Future of Friendly Fires
After having seen and met Friendly Fires (one our favorite bands) various times over the course of the past 2 years, we were stoked for our first formal interview with the band last winter prior to their NYLON tour with The Xx. We sat down with Ed MacFarlane (lead singer) and Edd Gibson (lead guitarist) [...]
The MTVU Woodie Awards 2009!
Wednesday night was my third MTVU Woodie Awards show at Roseland Ballroom and one of the most fun! We had a perfect spot near the artist lounge, enjoying a DJ set by Diplo and catching performances by Death Cab for Cutie, Passion Pit, Matt & Kim, The Dead Weather and more. There was an interesting [...]
Friendly Fires' US Tour Kickoff Party in NYC!
Last night, after being in the states for less than 24 hours, Friendly Fires played a random private party for Fred Perry at SPIN New York…and you can trust Tastes Like Caramel was there for all of the fun! It was our first time at the venue which played host to a ping pong event [...]
Things We Forgot to Mention About Friendly Fires…
While in Chicago for Lollapalooza in August, we spent the last night of the festival with Friendly Fires at Angels and Kings for drummer Jack Savidge’s DJ set. While Jack was up in the DJ booth smiling as usual (maybe a little more than usual) Ed MacFarlane and Edd Gibson (or Double D as we’ve [...]
Concertgoer(s) Wall of Shame: Friendly Fires at Le Poisson Rouge
As I previously wrote, the Friendly Fires gig at Le Poisson Rouge was a rough one to endure. It was extremely hot, the bands were delayed, and most of all…the crowd was TERRIBLE! In an unprecedented Tastes Like Caramel’s Concertgoer Wall of Shame, we actually have four from a single gig! Ugh! Check ‘em out [...]
TLC Spotlight: The xx Take on NYC
The xx are a South London-based quartet comprised of lead singers Oliver Sim (bass) and Romy Madley Croft (lead guitar), Jamie Smith (drum machine, sampler) and Baria Qureshi (guitar and keyboard.) The xx have described their influences as “everything from Aaliyah to Cocorosie, Rhianna to The Cure, Missy Elliott to The Chromatics and Mariah Carey [...]
Friendly Fires at Music Hall of Williamsburg + Le Poisson Rouge
Honestly, Friendly Fires’ gig at Le Poisson Rouge last Wednesday is one that I’d like to wipe clean from my memory. There was no air conditioning, the crowd was terrible (see Concertgoer Wall of Shame), the set times were delayed hours, all of which took it’s toll on the band. With this said I will [...]
