expendablefriend (@expendablefriend)

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progress: 15 winner!
joined: March 6 2009
location: Cambridgeshire, UK
website: www.expendablefriend.com
influences: Gravenhurst, Neil Finn, Iron and Wine, Mew, Plusminus, Andrew Bird, Oysterband, Third Eye Blind, Horse Feathers.

Bio

It seems I am mostly a weekend FAWMer this year.

4th Feb: Snow is forecast for this weekend....anyone who's lived in the UK will realise that this is a DISASTER which means that NO-ONE can go ANYWHERE or do ANYTHING that requires them to leave the house....therefore I now have a bonus weekend at home that I didn't think I would have, so snow and songs to follow!

2012 Songs

1 Dragon! (Don't worry) 43 comments // 3 months ago
2 Gold among the rocks 33 comments // 3 months ago
3 Residential area 24 comments // 3 months ago
4 Intact 26 comments // 3 months ago
5 No lunch until you do another song 21 comments // 3 months ago
6 I'm a keeper (with mctown) 42 comments // 3 months ago
7 Learning the hard way 22 comments // 3 months ago
8 Hair on your head 15 comments // 3 months ago
9 Super Heidi's helmet hair 12 comments // 3 months ago
10 Hipster haircut blues 18 comments // 3 months ago
11 Cleaned out 16 comments // 2 months ago
12 Strangers In Cars (with  kristian) 39 comments // 2 months ago
13 I'm Still Counting (with  orinoco) 16 comments // 2 months ago
14 Number One Fan (with  orinoco) 19 comments // 2 months ago
15 In conclusion (with  helenseviltwin) 10 comments // 2 months ago

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  •  calumcarlyle 1 month ago
    it's a pity you're not attending this sunday's London FOP, maybe one day i'll meet you for real. smile
  •  frenchcricket 2 months ago
    big_smile
  • mistermann 2 months ago
    Buggers! I disappeared around the middle of this month! February is a busy month to begin with for me and is only busier now that I'm in a long distance relationship. This month went to see my other half every weekend but the last, so I've been running around like mad. Perhaps we can shoot for post-FAWM collaboration? I'm only getting a handful of songs in for my first FAWM and that's by cheating by posting now and tweaking later...
  •  frenchcricket 2 months ago
    Thanks for cheerleading me! I needed it!
  •  frenchcricket 2 months ago
    Haha - I think there's some duff uns in there! But the author is the last one you should listen to. Got another pop one coming then it's gonna be down to any old shit to get to 14.5
  • theawkwardsleep 2 months ago
    ha, its a bit late in the game for us too---still working on a couple other collabs. but maybe in future fawm years... smile
  •  mikedebenham 2 months ago
    Thanks, EF. I'm saving your stuff up for a big undistracted listening binge once I hit my fourteen. It's good to have a carrot.

    P.S. My partner has also become an enormous fan of yours since our collab last FAWM turned her on to your music. Guaranteed ticket sale there for your Aussie tour!
  •  thetau 2 months ago
    Wow you've done pretty good for a weekend wonder. Congrats on the win you beat me.
  • theawkwardsleep 2 months ago
    i love your voice lady! glad i found you....wish i had prior to now, so we could've done a collab...im still yet to do a collab with another female singer, it would be so sweet...i suppose we could still do it outside of fawm though...let me know rupa.nataraj@gmail.com -rupa
  •  orinoco 2 months ago
    Songs uploaded - you're a WINNER!
  •  frenchcricket 2 months ago
    Thanks! That seems to be consensus opinion though it didn't feel like it when I was writing it. The writer clearly knows squat
  • eyeseaewe 2 months ago
    ahhs - no worries! I wish I could have put forward something more constructive rather than fawm (oh ho) all over you but there we have it! ... now I think it may well be bed time!
  • eyeseaewe 2 months ago
    ahhh yes! Visited your page on the off chance you'd found the time to fawm and was well chuffed to see you were at the 10 song mark! looking forward to listening through these!
  •  helenseviltwin 2 months ago
    Haha - if you can be arsed to make a beer bottle backing track, that would be superb, but guitars and drums are also good. Fancy doing a backing track each and the other finish it? If not, am happy to do whichever is best for you.
  •  charliecheney 2 months ago
    I just sent a lyric idea to an address at @expendablefriend.com
  •  charliecheney 2 months ago
    Ooooooh. Yes please.
  •  helenseviltwin 2 months ago
    Yes, defo want to collab. I'm normally a start with music type person, but am happy to go with whatever. I'm a bit rubbish at writing lyrics first, though. Do you have a preference?
  • duckthomas 3 months ago
    Thanks. Looks interesting.
  •  evelbist 3 months ago
    thank @taylortay for me being here. But i am really the one to thank HIM. because if i hadnt followed him here, i wouldnt have been engaged for this long. you have the sound i love, if only ... please dont change a thing.
  •  taylortay 3 months ago
    Thank you for commenting back on my track! I'm glad you liked that line, it was the first one I wrote in the whole song and I wasn't sure whether it conveyed everything I wanted it to but I think it did!
  •  valeriecox 3 months ago
    I came by to thank you for the comment on my songs with Kristian, and saw all these songs from you! What? Awesome.
  • mctown 3 months ago
    wow... songs a flying...David
  •  spiritdancer 3 months ago
    Thank you for your comments on "Rise Up" I appreciate you taking the time to listen!
  •  whatsurdamage 3 months ago
    I just have to tell you again how much I love "I'm a keeper". It's totally my current jam.
  • seantwright 3 months ago
    thanks for the cool comments!!!
  •  dawnsoap 3 months ago
    Thank you so much for your beautiful comment on "Ocean Breeze!"
  •  frenchcricket 3 months ago
    Have you got any more off the cuff stuff a la our last collab? I need some quick wins to get back on track and I'd be right up for glitching. Maybe Crystal Castles/Broadcast-y sort of thing.... Well, let me know if you fancy it.
  •  whatsurdamage 3 months ago
    Thanks so much for the info about your equipment! That mic looks amazing, I might have to invest in something like that...
  •  errol 3 months ago
    Oh wow, you have songs.

    I am never too busy for you.

    If you want to do a duet with me, I'm there.
  •  sherrycanary 3 months ago
    Thank you for comment on my song. The truth does have a way of coming out smile
    Now I am back to hear more of you!
  • bong 3 months ago
    I hope you make a lot of keepers this FAWM. So glad you are here.
  •  frenchcricket 3 months ago
    Cheers. Can't keep up the complexity all the way through, I need to give my brain a rest! Are you still going or is that it for you this month?
  •  whatsurdamage 3 months ago
    Hey, can I ask you, what equipment do you use for recording? The production quality on your songs totally blows me away.
  • lazyafro 3 months ago
    big_smile Yay! i'm glad you enjoyed them
  •  rosieposy8 3 months ago
    thanks so much for your encouraging and helpful comments.. they mean a lot and keep me plugging away at these technical things that seem so tricky at the moment!
  •  rosieposy8 3 months ago
    thank heavens for the snow !! big_smile Yaya
  •  calumcarlyle 3 months ago
    there will be more for sure, from me. By the way, as you know, i am open to the idea of another collaboration between you and i, i know you must be thinking "oh no, another one for the list!" it's okay, it can wait! however if you fancy such a collaboration at any point, let me know.
  •  st8st8 3 months ago
    Hey - I thought you weren't doing this, this year?
  •  orinoco 3 months ago
    Is that a good eeep or a bad eeep? wink

    And no. IT IS NOT.
  •  orinoco 3 months ago
    Oh, and Let it rain - I had the guitar part first. It is an Alberti bass, you know. The first part of the accompaniment is stolen from the first movement of a Sonata in C by Mozart.
  •  orinoco 3 months ago
    Nothing to do except write songs and master room to stand, you mean?
  •  orinoco 3 months ago
    Haha... Do you know, I think apart from Fawm 2010 you've said that you won't participate in every fawm and 5090. And yet you always have. Drama queen tongue
  •  tobermory 3 months ago
    Youuuuu'rre baaaacccckk. Is this just temporary until it rains on Sunday evening? smile
  •  chasingandromeda 3 months ago
    You know that feeling when you go back home and decide to go to that favorite place to eat only to find it closed. Yeah, it's like that. Will check back later in the month. Miss your music and your comments. Hope all is well!
  •  karan 3 months ago
    Oooooh! You will be missed!!!
    Doing a couple of songs when you have the time is a good idea. My bandmate always has loads of work in February, and he does the same. Don't put yourself under any pressure. Good luck with everything you have on your plate!
  •  valeriecox 3 months ago
    But...but...I look so forward to getting my little owl fix during February. sad Well, I guess I'll have to hope for the song or two that may pop up.
  •  calumcarlyle 3 months ago
    Hi EF, i just saw your note that you aren't FAWMing this year. Well, that's life, i suppose. Nevertheless, next time you stretch your songwriting muscles i'll be one of the many people listening eagerly. smile

    Take care and remember - you're definitely not expendable to us FAWMers!
  • meadows 3 months ago
    Hey EF, sad to hear that you're not able to do FAWM this year. But I assume, for what ever squeezed in, it's a good decision for you, even though many of us here will miss you much (me included). And one song at the end of February would be so great - give it a try. wink

    Have a good time, Jens.
  •  rosieposy8 3 months ago
    boo sad gutted.. will have to listen to your old stuff instead!
  •  balancelost 3 months ago
    An expendable friend-less fawm is like christmas with no crackers. I hope you are able to squeeze out a couple of pop nuggets for us at least. (I had to fight the urge to type "poop nuggets" there, I consider this a semi-victory against immaturity).
  • eyeseaewe 3 months ago
    awwwnooo - I was so looking forward to hearing your stuff this year, you were one of my favourites of last year >.<
  • scottlake 3 months ago
    Here's hoping the Almighty blesses you with your own loop on the space-time continuum - thereby allowing all of us to enjoy your output once again...
  •  cowex 3 months ago
    Word. I know the feeling. Hope you're able to meet your ideal FAWM self-satisfaction quotient before the current month is spelled with fewer characters.
  •  stevenwesleyguiles 3 months ago
    Sorry you're going to be so busy this year!
    Glad you'll still pop in and around sometimes.
  •  songsville 3 months ago
    PS I'm sure that if you post just a few lalala melodies done on a mobile phone, or a few chorus' worth of lyrics, people would love to expand on those SongSeeds and bingo! 14 songs ... after all, it's the tracking, production and fooling around on the forum that take the biggest chunks of time ... smile
  •  songsville 3 months ago
    Yup, here I am, but I am not quick enough clearly, as you are already gone! smile Hope to hear you somehow anyway ...
  •  frenchcricket 3 months ago
    Sad to hear that J, but life just gets in the way sometimes. Pesky life
  • thedustcollector 3 months ago
    sad. we'll miss you.
  •  errol 3 months ago
    Aw. Sad. sad
  •  ianuarius 3 months ago
    I'm telling you -- I've never heard of them! big_smile
  • mctown 3 months ago
    You know it,,,,,,David
  •  ianuarius 3 months ago
    Hello there. Delighted to make your acquaintance. Just trying to meet some new peoples here. smile

    What a nerdy bunch of influences you've got there! ;D I only know Mew of thems. Can't say I've ever even heard any of those other ones by name. Maybe you'll make similar kinda demos in this year's FAWM and familiarize me with them that way. wink

    Good luck!
  •  calumcarlyle 3 months ago
    hi Ms Friend. I'll be honest, there are one or two FAWMers (yourself included) who, if they asked me to sing on a track, i would make it happen! By the way my mate Steve and i spent yesterday evening listening to all your songs from FAWM 2011, incredible stuff. My top three in no particular order are probably "the way i roll", "pierce or burn" and"be the best that you can be" (they're all great thou, "moon on a stick" and "turned out ok" for example are just as good) anyway, let's hear some more songs just as good this year, no pressure now! smile
  •  whatsurdamage 3 months ago
    Yay, it's time for FAWM 2012! I'm totally in and looking forward to writing new songs. So glad you've been enjoying "Only Shadows" over the past year. I'm excited to hear your music this year!
  •  hero 3 months ago
    I believe I'm becoming a crazy fan of yours. Looking forward to some expendabletunes this year... well, not expendable... but... you know what I mean.
  •  balancelost 3 months ago
    Hey ho Let's gooooooo!
  •  calumcarlyle 3 months ago
    hey, i am looking forward to your stuff this fawm. smile

    i am too injured to play any music unfortunately this year but i will be listening out for music from FAWM, such as your own fine fare!
  • thedustcollector 3 months ago
    Oh YAY. It's an expendablefriend big_smile. excellence! lookin' forward to hearin' ya smile.
  • randyxpher 3 months ago
    Your tunes are always worth the price of admission. What? What do you mean "they're free"?

    Your Christmas EP is still in my car CD changer. I think it may be there all year. Great stuff.
  •  sherrycanary 3 months ago
    Looking forward to your music! Happy Fawming
  • embersofautumn 3 months ago
    Hey--wasn't around last year to hear all the awesome Expendable Friend stuff. Gotta make up for it this year.
  • izaakalexander 3 months ago
    My ears are open, hear you soon!
  • lazyafro 3 months ago
    haha drastic enough to where I should be lazypeachfuzz... or something...
  • evinwolverton 3 months ago
    doin it doin it doin it
  • lazyafro 3 months ago
    I was a bad FAWMer and didn't actually listen to the newest FAWM compilation until well into July.
    During said listening excursion, I heard "I am your Adult" and it was fantastic and beautiful and awesome. And i listened to it nonstop for a week or so.

    Thought you should know. Welcome back!
  •  girlsinuniform 3 months ago
    Hoorah! Harrumble!

    #Return of the Jacq'...
  •  chasingandromeda 3 months ago
    Mmmmm....another month of silky vocals...me likey!
  •  helenseviltwin 3 months ago
    You missed me. We were going to write some punk songs so you could put "I don't want you to die" on your next EP. That said, I'm supposed to be writing a rock opera, so feel free to put me at the bottom of your list.
  •  cts 3 months ago
    ...it's the return of coolness. wink Welcome back!
  •  kristian 3 months ago
    aw yeah, def. a collab with Geoff! That one is already mutually agreed upon, pending signing of said contract between the respective parties.

    btw: How is your collab schedule? Got time to go for one?
  •  taylortay 3 months ago
    I think that's the only way to get through it sometimes - just phone it in! (FAWM it in?) Good luck for February smile
  •  gslade 4 months ago
    yo yo yo go go go
  •  tobermory 4 months ago
    Are we going to the beach?! Yay! ... just ignore my trunks.
  •  max 4 months ago
    Here's hoping you'll have a fantastic, productiveTwentyTwelve FAWM.
  •  charliecheney 4 months ago
    Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
  •  kristian 4 months ago
    Yo girl... you got it going on... aaaahhh yeah...

    hmm.. yes! good to see you!
  •  tobermory 4 months ago
    Hello hello, we're definitely doing this right? On your marks!
  •  taylortay 4 months ago
    Yay, you're back again! When I saw you'd written on my Soundboard I actually made a little fanboy "squee" noise. tongue I loved your Christmas EP and I'm sure you will continue to effortlessly produce more brilliant songs this FAWM! No pressure or anything though tongue
  • davotron 4 months ago
    Hey! I'm from WAN!
  •  orinoco 4 months ago
    Hello smile
  •  frenchcricket 4 months ago
    It's that time again
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