February Album Writing Month - FAWM.ORG

expendablefriend (@expendablefriend)

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

Soundboard

Leave a message. Log in to FAWM or sign up first!

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.
frenchcricket 2 months ago
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...
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
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

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 !! 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?

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
tobermory 3 months ago

Youuuuu'rre baaaacccckk. Is this just temporary until it rains on Sunday evening?
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. 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.

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.

Have a good time, Jens.
rosieposy8 3 months ago

boo 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 ...
songsville 3 months ago

Yup, here I am, but I am not quick enough clearly, as you are already gone! 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

. we'll miss you.
errol 3 months ago

Aw. Sad.
ianuarius 3 months ago

I'm telling you -- I've never heard of them!
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.

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.

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!
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.

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 . excellence! lookin' forward to hearin' ya .
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. 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
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. 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
davotron 4 months ago

Hey! I'm from WAN!
orinoco 4 months ago

Hello
frenchcricket 4 months ago

It's that time again