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The Filaments
...spielten am 25.11.04 im
Schicksaal!
The Filaments began many years ago, back in the day when a pack of
bensons were less than L4 and everyone had shit haircuts; of course
some things never change aint that right Wilson, anyways back to the
point. The Filaments started out as two people, Jon Poulten and Jon
Fleming, attempting to play their favourite punk and ska tunes in
Flemings garage, of course it was not complete until a guitarist was
found. It was then that a friend was called upon namely Mike Jones,
who at the time didn't play guitar but was well up for it so bought
one and decided to learn. Although Mike was a quick learner it's
impossible to learn overnight so another person, Jon Fawkes (known
to his mates as 'no Fawkes I won't give you money!'), was asked to
jam with the band and soon decided to join full time.
Fawksy soon started to bash out the first Filaments tunes and things
started to pick up except for the lack of vocals and shite amps so
another mate, Ed Seymour, was invited to take charge of the vocals.
After a couple of practises The Filaments decided to ruin more
peoples lives and drafted Adam Williams to play trombone. Soon later
the band started to take its proper shape with the recruitment of
Lord Horatio Smellman of Third Ave. (Rob Bellman) on trumpet, and at
the same time time the new and improved Mike rejoined.
The first pracitse as a whole band was a real shock, Rob was
actually good at the trumpet and Mike had become pretty good on
guitar. The band began to gell well and Fawksey and Mike started
writing some songs such as Oi! it's The Filaments, U.K. Now and
Segregation. The songs began to take a more political stance and the
sound became more punk and stronger. It wasn't long before another
problem hit us, after one gig Ed decided he had other commitments
and had to leave. It was then that Fawksy got a chance to sing and
proved to better than we could have all hoped. After a couple of
drunk gigs, one which involved a ban at the Army & Navy (cos some
fucking wankers decided they'd be 'hard' and smash up the toilets
and the pool room!) we booked ourselves into a studio (What a pile
of shit this turned out to be!!). All you have to know is when the
sound engineer listens to trance don't let him mix your recording!!
This recording was done with our current drummer Tim Wilson who was
brought in as Flemming decided to leave. With the recruitement of
Tim a number of gigs were played pretty infrequently until the
unfortunate day that Adam decided to leave to go to Australia for a
year. This left us with a lack of brass and it was by complete luck
that we met Iain (McEyelash) and (Stone Cold) Paul Humberstone.
These guys were well into their ska and punk and were more than
happy to learn trumpet and trombone. The next step was to get a
better recording than the previous disaster, which was made possible
through King Pin Records, who we were hooked up with by our mates
Opreation Nail Bomb (Oi! Oi! you slags!!). At this point we called
yet another brass member, Meg, on the trumbone to record with us and
she shortly decided to join full time. By now our band was looking
more like a 'football team' when as if by magic Pete the Viking
decended from heaven with his shiny golden saxaphone and joined up
full time which truly was a fucking godsend!! FUCK! he is good at
sax!! Oh well, there you have it a long and boring account of The
Filaments for those of you that actually care.
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