Hi there! The first post of 2012 is a new track called “Sunrise (It’s a Good Start)” which you can download FOR FREE using the player below or on the Soundcloud page. My vague plan this year is to try and release a track a month (roughly) and if they hang together well, and I have enough songs, gather them up like marbles and release an album of them. So far I’m on track! Although it is only January…
Sunrise (It’s a Good Start) by Mister Fusty
Greetings. Remember the incredibly corny Christmas tune I released last year? Well, it’s back! I’ve made it available again for this years festive season, including it’s instrumental version as the “b-side” (which IMO is the better version). Listen or download below or at Bandcamp.
Now on to Mister Fusty’s future…
Recently I have been pondering what to do with old Fusty. Options I have considered include: abandoning him in a forest, changing his name or putting him in a cupboard for a few years. Any of these things may still happen! However next year, instead of recording a collection of songs for months on end (rather like a squirrel gathering nuts for the winter) and then releasing an album, I’m going to release one song at a time . So whenever I finish a song, and decide it’s good enough to enter the wild, it will magically appear for you to download free here and on the Facebook page, Soundcloud etc. Hopefully this will happen at fairly regular intervals during 2012/13. If I have a decent number of tracks that I’m happy with I might add some spit & polish and make it an album. It’s a vague plan, and I am prone to change my mind, but I’m trying a different approach anyway.
Thanks for listening. Have a great festive season – cheers!
Nov 28
It’s that time of year again where I declare my favourite albums from the last 12 months, it’s not been a vintage year but there’s still been some great stuff around. For those with Spotify I’ve created a list of all the albums (apart from the two that aren’t on there*) HERE. I’ve also made a shorter playlist featuring a track from each album HERE
Here’s the list in no particular order..
PJ Harvey – “Let England Shake”
Iron & Wine – “Kiss Each Other Clean”
Gruff Rhys – “Hotel Shampoo”
Pugwash – “The Olympus Sound”
The Horrors – “Skying”
Treefight for Sunlight – “Treefight for Sunlight”
Jonathan Wilson – “Gentle Spirit”
Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi – “Rome”
Jonny – “Jonny”
Fionn Regan – “100 Acres of Sycamore”
Wilco – “The Whole Love”
Jay Z & Kanye West – “Watch the Throne”
The Jayhawks – “Mockingbird Time”
White Denim – “D”
Ryan Adams – “Ashes & Fire”
The Silver Seas – “Chateau Revenge”
Ron Sexsmith – “Long Player Late Bloomer”
Real Estate – “Days”
*The High Llamas – “Talahomi Way”
*Gillian Welsh -“The Harrow & The Harvest”
The Beach Boys -”The SMiLE Sessions” (Technically a re-issue but as The Beach Boys version of SMiLE hasn’t been officially released before I’m counting it as new)
Mister Fusty – “The Waiting Room” (Oh ok, that last one was a plug!)
Sep 21
Athen's Finest
REM have been one of my favourite bands since I was about 16 (many years ago) so I was quite sad to hear that they’d called it a day. However they have created a body of work most bands would kill for. The music critics have been desperate to write them off for a while, probably since Bill Berry left, but they’ve still (mostly) come up with great music. Even a fan like me would admit their last couple of albums have felt that perhaps they were losing their fire a little bit.
Although initially Berry’s departure seemed to invigorate them, their first album afterwards ,”Up”, is one of my favourites and seemed to give them a new sound from their previous records before that. Perhaps “Up” wasn’t successful enough and so the albums that followed returned to type – still pretty good but it’s almost like they decided to sound atypical REM. They never really made a bad album, (although “Around the Sun” comes close!) and were one of the most consistent bands I knew. Favourites? Pretty hard but I’ll always have a soft spot for “Green” which was the first album I heard and the one that got me into them.
So adieu R.E.M. and thank you. I’ll leave you with the first R.E.M. song I heard, “Stand”, which I distinctly remember dancing to at a youthful age at the Sleaford Rugby Club 6th form disco. It didn’t impress any girls…
Sep 5
For no particular reason, other than fun, I have remixed the track “Chemistry” (from the current album “The Waiting Room”).
Take a listen using the player below, you can also download it for free.
Chemistry (Desert mix) by Mister Fusty
I’ve decided to make the new Mister Fusty album, “The Waiting Room”, free to download at Soundcloud. I enjoy making music and I’d love as many people to hear it as possible. If they like it- even better! Previously you could stream the whole album free there and at Bandcamp anyway, so I figured that I’d make it available for mp3 download too. If you really like it and want to support the artist it’s available to buy at iTunes, Bandcamp (if you want lossless go there) and many other places. If you download it and can’t afford to buy it then that’s ok. As I mentioned before I love messing around making music, I don’t do it for financial gain. I’m actually not sure it is possible to gain anything financially from music anymore anyway!
Unfortunately I think you have to download each track individually but don’t let that put you off, download away me hearties!
The Waiting Room by Mister Fusty
Here it is at long last, the new album from Mister Fusty, “The Waiting Room”.
The album was recorded on and off between Aug 2010 & February 2011 by myself with mastering and additional mixing by Jimmy Ether and artwork by Paul Thompson. Thanks to Jimmy & Paul for their time & efforts!
I’m very proud of it and I think it’s the best thing I’ve done as Mister Fusty. Of course I would say that though!
The idea, lyrically, behind this album was that each song would be from another person’s perpective, each song would be a different story (or part of one). The rule I set myself was that none of the songs would be about me or particularly based on my own experiences. Although some of the ideas are based on real events, for instance “Empty Chairs” came about from reading Julia Baird’s memoir about her relationship with her half-brother John Lennon. John’s mother died tragically after being knocked down by a car and I remember reading in the book that John & his mother Julia were due to visit his Aunty (one of Julia’s sisters) the day after the accident. His Aunty (Anne I think, but I don’t have the book to hand), obviously devastated from the news, took a picture of the chairs they would have sat in out in the garden on that summer day and framed it. It struck me as a sad and strange thing to do and it became an idea for a song.
Another real life inspiration was “Rainbow Valley” whose lyrics were inspired by this article about the dead bodies that litter Mount Everest (warning: link contains images you may find disturbing).
I hope you enjoy the album, it’s available to listen & download (in a multitude of formats) at the Bandcamp store or using the player above. The album is also available on iTunes and will appear on other stores/music services shortly. There might be a vinyl release later in the year, more news on that at later date.
Do let me know what you think of the album in the comments below or on the Facebook page or through Twitter. It’s always helpful and I very much appreciate feedback.
Thanks!
- Rob Gibson, August 2011
The new Mister Fusty single has been unleashed! “All Seeing Eye” from the forthcoming album, “The Waiting Room” is available now, it’s b-side is a non-album track “Arthur’s Apothecary”.
You can listen and download an mp3 version here at Soundcloud.
Or if you want a lossless version (and to support the artist!) You can download using the player below, it’s only 99p for two songs –a bargain!
If you don’t see the player click here
I also made a video, it’s shot on my phone although don’t let that put you off.
“All Seeing Eye” – Mister Fusty from Mister Fusty on Vimeo.
Here’s the artwork, by Paul Thompson, of the new album by Mister Fusty called, “The Waiting Room” and below is the track listing.
The album is now finished and tracks from it will be previewed on the Mister Fusty Facebook page over the next week, do stop by and have a listen!
A free digital single, “All Seeing Eye” with a non-album b-side, “Arthur’s Apothecary” will be out soon. Stay tuned for more info!
All Seeing Eye
Empty Chairs
Running Off the Edge of the World
Rainbow Valley
There are Seven Levels
All at Sea
Maniacs
Chemistry
Cargo
Tattershall
Station Announcement
Jun 24
Here’s a video for “Chemistry” which is from the forthcoming album, “The Waiting Room”. It’s the first of two videos I’m doing for tracks from the new album (forthcoming single “All Seeing Eye” is the other one). More details on the single and new album soon!
Mister Fusty – “Chemistry” from Mister Fusty on Vimeo.