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French Cricket (@frenchcricket) progress: 16 winner! joined: January 29 2009 location: South Yorkshire, UK website: frenchcricket.tumblr.com influences: McLusky, Pavement, Deerhoof, Super Furry Animals, Why?

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2012 Songs

1		Mission Creep	39 comments // 3 months ago
2		You Fight Like A Dairy Farmer (with  paulh1237)	27 comments // 3 months ago
3		Bike Rides (with  paulh1237)	11 comments // 3 months ago
4		Boolean Operator Please (with  paulh1237)	22 comments // 3 months ago
5		Artificial, Cinematic (with  paulh1237)	3 comments // 3 months ago
6		Oh, Admiral (with  paulh1237)	5 comments // 3 months ago
7		Socrates Is My Referee (with benarol)	15 comments // 3 months ago
8		Stoptrick (with  adforperu)	18 comments // 3 months ago
9		Your Radar (with  vomvorton)	13 comments // 2 months ago
10		Hard Yards	7 comments // 2 months ago
11		Imhotep Is Invisible	6 comments // 2 months ago
12		Synonyms (with  paulh1237)	7 comments // 2 months ago
13		In The Leaky Boat	5 comments // 2 months ago
14		The Diary of a Nobody	4 comments // 2 months ago
15		Landfill (with  paulh1237)	6 comments // 2 months ago
16		(interval)	6 comments // 2 months ago

Soundboard

• foxis 2 months ago

  Thanks for the comment on my one and only song this year! Life got in the way totally this time, but such is life. As I just wrote to Errol, I think the problem with trying to fit lyrics/melody to an existing song is that it just might not be a song suitable for words. I mean, I am starting to think that you sort of know when you start what is going to be driving the song. If you don't get the words (or a melody) in your head at the start, it isn't that likely to pop in later. Well, in my experience anyway!
  
  Congrats on your succesful FAWM! I'll definitely try to have a listen as soon as my life is back in order!

•  vomvorton 2 months ago

  Thanks for the comment explosion! Re: Underground - my subtext is almost ALWAYS post-apocalyptic.
  
  Which amp have you bought for recording? I'm pretty impressed with mine - all the electric guitars on 'Armageddon Together' were recorded through it. I didn't know I could shred like that either, until the amp COAXED it from me!

• kileywatson12 2 months ago

  cool songs dude

•  adforperu 2 months ago

  Final tune is now up if you're bothered

• arthurrossi 2 months ago

  I would like to thank you very much for your gorgeous and kind comment!

•  lonelyrobot 2 months ago

  Depends on time really ... i've got 3 that have no demos at all so i'll be giving them priority for now hopefully!

•  debrandio 2 months ago

  "A.C. as remixed by Vangelis" Classic. Thx

• benjaminnolan 2 months ago

  Non, madame.
  
  J'adore les hommes de l'animalerie.

•  natchdan 2 months ago

  Thanks for all the comments! About You is an ode to the Muse indeed, and the irony of Rotten Luck is that @codex and I are both basically teetotal.

•  musicsongwriter 2 months ago

  Thank you very much for your beautiful comment on my collaboration with Kristian

•  orinoco 2 months ago

  Yay, my 'recent comments' are a wall of French Cricket. Thanks
  
  I see I have some catching up to do with your stuff, I'm looking forward to it!

•  expendablefriend 2 months ago

  YAAAY! WINNER!!!!

• revbrownnote 2 months ago

  Congrats on the win!

•  natchdan 2 months ago

  Congratulations!

•  paulh1237 2 months ago

  I think I'm sort of ashamed for winning in such a terriblly recorded acoustic trashy style (see two songs surrounding landfill on mine aha)

•  natchdan 2 months ago

  Stripped down worked for me!

•  fuzzy 2 months ago

  I want to thank you for letting us hear your amazing songs this month.

•  expendablefriend 2 months ago

  p.s. you can TOTALLY do 14. Come on!!!

•  natchdan 2 months ago

  I have tomorrow off work. This is going to get messy.

•  expendablefriend 2 months ago

  Do you realise just how amazing your stuff is this year? You are on fire!!!

•  debrandio 2 months ago

  Atmosphere by Joy Division, I had to re-listen to that song to remember it and the drums are very similar, good call. Thanks for listening.

• chriddof 2 months ago

  Thank you for the nice comments!

•  natchdan 2 months ago

  A mighty amount of sidechaining, actually - everything not a drum is sidechained to the kick (including the reverb send!). That breakdown features what I like to call "The Aphex Twin dings"

•  adforperu 3 months ago

  Track uploaded - looking forward to listening (although I've already heard it, duh). I've updated lyrics, although I did email them to you hehe.. did you get it? Also the only word you didn't get was "British", you big racist.

• benarol 3 months ago

  just realised i didn't let you know... got the track, and got something going for it. hopefully will have something to send back next couple of days. i love it, by the way.

•  lonelyrobot 3 months ago

  Top Trumps
  
  frenchcricket: fuzz bass skillz - 93
  lonelyrobot: pun reactions - 95

• timothybracken 3 months ago

  Thanks for the comment!

•  vomvorton 3 months ago

  Just a synth on "it's cold..." But I see where you're coming from!

• alexfamous 3 months ago

  Is there really a Red Hot chili Peppers sample in my song? I don't even listen to them haha. Interesting.

•  natchdan 3 months ago

  By the way, I've been trying to keep up with your videos - what camera do you have? IT's bloody clear.

•  natchdan 3 months ago

  Sort of, he's just finishing a PhD so maybe not now. They're called Afterburner, though. Also, Me, @codex and @jamestbarlow89 are 3/4 of a band called Solo Shot First.

•  natchdan 3 months ago

  Let me know when you're gigging, I'll try and get my Sheffield-based mate involved.

•  natchdan 3 months ago

  Yeah, more "inspired by" than "the same as". @tobermory is indeed a legend also. Thanks for listening! I take it you're part of a band? Do you ever gig outside Sheffield?

•  fuzzy 3 months ago

  Gentle Giant is a great '70s prog rock band. I suggest the "In A Glass house" album. Lots of stuff on YouTube...

•  natchdan 3 months ago

  I have mentioned you on many a wall over the last few days. You and Paul are basically the direct inspiration for *26744 - take that as you will!

•  taylortay 3 months ago

  I'm a big big Damon Albarn fan as evidenced on my profile - his whole career really, so hearing that you sound like Blur or Gorillaz from me is most definitely a compliment.

•  natchdan 3 months ago

  I think your songs broke me.

• thenypdchoir 3 months ago

  Cheers for the comment dude!

•  debrandio 3 months ago

  my favorite time in FAWM is now when you get almost a EP of a artist instead of singles. Thanks I really enjoyed this. You guys interplay and exploration in short complicated jams blows my mind. Fang Island, animal collective, battles, why?, so many newer vibes, but so original in its own.

•  valeriecox 3 months ago

  Thanks for the comment on my song with Kristian, but he is very male and I am very lesbian so there will no getting of rooms.

•  kidd 3 months ago

  mine too man, and you totally nailed that baby!

•  vomvorton 3 months ago

  Ha! It is a bit Magnetic Fields, isn't it? My girlfriend said the same thing. It's a comparison I'm happy to hear though!

•  balancelost 3 months ago

  Yeah, I've got the NESsynth on the ipod touch. It's free.

• arthurrossi 3 months ago

  I would like to thank you very much for your kind comment in mine and I hope I can also speak in degausser s name concerning this. Thank you!

•  adforperu 3 months ago

  And, yeah AC - i think the harmonies are very Avey Tare. Can I have "it's hardly to let go" as a song name please?

•  adforperu 3 months ago

  I tell you dude, Siri is streets ahead of Iris, BUT.... ask it something like "who directed Fargo" and you get an answer OFF THE BAT. Mindblowing. Thanks for the comments squire

• benarol 3 months ago

  hey FC, thanks for the comment! i would love (love) to do a collab. my recording set-up is pretty awkward, so my end may sound awful, but.. it's fawm. i think we should do it.

•  helenseviltwin 3 months ago

  Yeah, she did say "How appropriate, you fight like a cow" when she saw it. Confused me no end.

•  vomvorton 3 months ago

  Re: Re: Reaper (when the crowd say Bo! selecta) - right click on a track and there's a "save track as template" option... and from the file menu there's a "save project as template". Are these the things you're after? I'm on Reaper version 4, if that's significant?

•  expendablefriend 3 months ago

  I don't have anything lying around but I will bear it in mind over the next few days....I seem to be going down with a cold, though

•  expendablefriend 3 months ago

  Might squeeze a few more out over the next couple of weekends, we'll see...it would be amazing to get to 14. I've supposedly got a couple of days off work this month, so it could happen...

•  fuzzy 3 months ago

  Wow, you have great tunes!! Keep going! I need to hear more!!
  
  "My microphone has a hood.... That's what she said". Hilarious!

•  lonelyrobot 3 months ago

  haha, sod that ... keep doing what you're doing, it's glorious!!

•  natchdan 3 months ago

  Monkey Island makes everything more awesome.

•  tobermory 3 months ago

  What the??!! How come I'm not first commentor on Dairy Farmer? I demand a recount.
  
  ... oh wait I didn't press send.

• seantwright 3 months ago

  Tom Waits in disguise? I wish!!!! hehehe

• drhomd 3 months ago

  iv just created the phattest of beats, chequit!! x

•  adforperu 3 months ago

  Ooooh yeah, silly me...

•  kidd 3 months ago

  HAHAHAHA kemp folds is a master work! nearly choked on ma cider....

•  toms 3 months ago

  I am, of course, a huge J Mascis/D. Jr fan. Thank you for the kind comment.

• kandersonmusic 3 months ago

  Yup yup, it's the Guillemots dude, who made a pretty dreary solo album which has one amazing song (the aforementioned 'Walk In The Room'). I think everyone went off him when he butchered 'She's Always A Woman To Me' for that John Lewis ad. Was it John Lewis? It was someone, anyway...

•  vomvorton 3 months ago

  Good to see "knob" catching on, I bet everyone will be saying it by Easter! I've not seen any of Black Mirror yet, although I have got it downloaded to watch at some point. Thanks for the reminder!

• lightningstef 3 months ago

  my brain just doesn't want me to have nice song structures

• lightningstef 3 months ago

  i made the foundations to a song last night synth-wise, no guitars or words yet though! I'm going to use my upcoming half term (work in a school) to do most of my fawming i feel, with a sprinkling in the evenings/weekends! aha!

•  natchdan 3 months ago

  Good luck also! Enjoy your gin. (PS: bossbattlefight on Tumblr)

• mctown 3 months ago

  Thanks....David

• waar 3 months ago

  French Cricket In The USA?

• mctown 3 months ago

  cool...

•  rich 3 months ago

  ha yea there is a local band from where i am from, Cork, called Boa Morte...big music and big soccer fans..;) great band they are ..

•  rich 3 months ago

  yello....i love that Why? band....amazin... i love pavement too but sur you'd be mad not to love them.... keepin an eye on your tunes this year again i will....or an ear ....

•  vomvorton 3 months ago

  Hmm... I don't think I have recruited anyone new this year, actually! I'll just have to bug those I have recruited in the past to work harder than ever before. YOU HEAR?

•  kidd 3 months ago

  Raring to go man! Hope you have a cracker!

•  balancelost 3 months ago

  Fo real, I never go fuzzless these days. Word!

•  leslie 4 months ago

  I *love* that photo! Wolves and crows are my favourite animals. And an SFA fan, too! Very nice. Have a great FAWM!

•  lonelyrobot 4 months ago

  it's an encore p-bass ripoff, not quite as bargainous as yours mind, but should be better than the one i borrowed last year!
  are you guys using fawm to write actual songs for your band, or just mucking aboot?

•  lonelyrobot 4 months ago

  Haha, no doubt! What're your plans for this fawm?
  
  In totally unrelated news, I've just bought a new bass on ebay

•  girlsinuniform 4 months ago

  Helloingtons, Monsieur Croquette. More songs please.

•  kristian 4 months ago

  Ah Mr. Cricket Sir.. how utterly delightful to see such a fine chap! Bob's your uncle innit? Yes.. jolly good... have a cracking good FAWM dear Sir... bottoms up!

•  expendablefriend 4 months ago

  oi oi! New French Cricket songs imminent = hurrah!

•  paulh1237 4 months ago

  That sounds like a plan. I'm spending the whole of January working out how all this technological stuff works.....(alongside some less important uni things..)

•  tobermory 4 months ago

  You'll do what now!?!! I'm suddenly getting majorly stoked about this. Ideas and stuff flowing unbidden already.

•  orinoco 4 months ago

  Hello! Just checking in, looking forward to your songs. May you have a good FAWM.

• thecontortionist 4 months ago

  I'm definitely going to give it a go... just might not be as productive as last year.

•  adforperu 4 months ago

  Ha, well I'm the opposite. We're a perfect match! Now to get Emma out the picture.....
  
  Oh, hang on..

•  vomvorton 4 months ago

  Yep, if you fancy churning out an instrumental then I'm up for "busting out some rhymes" over it. I can't promise that they'll be MAD rhymes, but I'll do my best!

•  adforperu 4 months ago

  Good question. Depends how we want to do it really.. most last year was as easy as "here's an instrumental, add vocals".. could do a bit more collaboratively from scratch if you fancy it?

•  vomvorton 4 months ago

  I'm up for anything, really - we could ping some ideas back and forth or we could do a lyrics / music split, or we could utilise our RELATIVE PROXIMITY and write something and then meet up to record it, even.

•  vomvorton 4 months ago

  YES! We really must. I'm pretty excited for my fifth FAWM... it's a nice number.

•  adforperu 4 months ago

  Hey man! And so it begins *claps hands in glee*