Album Notes

Fyrefly are Miche (vocals), Jimi (drums), Blue (guitars), Sooz (bass) & Sam (guitars) and are based in North London, UK. They came together with incredibly diverse tastes and influences in music. Miche, Jimi & Blue have been playing together for ten years in several bands until deciding they were ready to explore and merge their musical differences.

The years of hard graft, learning their trade, some intense song-writing and several months recording have produced ‘BOHO SHEEP’ – an awesome selfpenned, self-produced eclectic collection of songs that will take you on a journey through the joy and despair of life, love, passion and heartache.At the core of their influences are Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Queen, The Small Faces & Pink Floyd but these influences are brought to a modern level with the fusion of tribal and ethnic rhythms, contemporary vocals and production techniques.

‘YOU’ opens the album with a beautiful and yet chilling statement of how love can affect you. From there you are taken through the pain of ‘EMISSARY’ to the rollercoaster ride that is ‘I DON’T KNOW.’ The ride continues into the immense ‘LIVING IN YOUR SHADOW.’

From there ‘ME OH MY’ will screw with your head while ‘PRIME DREAM’ and ‘YOU SAY’ just keep you wondering where things will go next. And here you arrive at ‘STAIN’ – an awesome 7’30” epic the scale of which has not been heard since Pink Floyd’s ‘Comfortably Numb.’ ‘STAIN’ will grab you by the throat and choke you with a vocal that makes you cry and a guitar solo that will just leave you floored. ‘STAIN’ reached No 1 in the KIAC Big 50 chart in March this year – a testament to its future status as a classic.

The addition of new members Sam and Sooz has given Fyrefly the platform to take their eclectic album and release it live onto an unsuspecting audience – the reaction has been astonishing and there is no doubt that live these guys must be seen to be believed.

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Langford band celebrates more success in USA
A Mid Beds band, Fyreflys ascent of one of America’s top charts has reached new heights after notching up another top ten hit. Indie rock group Fyrefly are celebrating after a second song from their debut album reached number three in the country’s IAC Big 50. Track Jus’ Lookin entered the chart at number 34 but has risen steadily after thousands of fans downloaded and listened to the song over the internet. It follows hot on the heals of the group’s success in March when their song Stain got to number one in the same chart.

Lead singer Miche Follano of Old Mill Close, Langford, said: “We were blown away with the success we had with Stain. To have another song in the Big 50 is just amazing.” The Independent Artists Company (IAC) is the largest independent US internet radio content provider giving bands a platform to submit their work.

Miche, added: “A panel then looks at all the songs submitted and decide which ones they think are good enough to go in the chart.” Their position is then decided by the number of music fans who log on and listen to the songs.

Fyrefly’s latest chart success rounds off a busy summer for the band which has seen them perform in front of thousands of fans at Hitchin’s Rhythms of the World festival. The band’s debut album Boho Sheep is due to be released in America and Canada within the next six weeks and work on their second album is already well underway.

See this week’s Biggleswade Chronicle (August 31) for the full report.