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!

The first (and probably only) Mister Fusty Christmas single is now available and it’s FREE. The song, “Jump Up and Down for Christmas”, is suitably festive and comes in two flavours – regular and instrumental (both with extra cheese.)

I’d had this backing track for a while and decided it was a little too ‘jaunty’ for a regular Mister Fusty track (which is saying something) so I thought it would make a good Christmas tune.

You can listen and download using the player below or by going here, I hope you like it.

All the best for the holidays from all at Mister Fusty HQ!

UPDATE: 18/2/2011 As it’s WAY beyond Christmas I’ve taken this off Bandcamp now, you’ll have the chance to listen/download next Christmas..maybe.

Hello there,

I’ve not posted any news for a while, so here’s a little update on the goings on in Fusty land, should you be bothered!

The Connect EP had a few nice reviews, links below, which was encouraging. I wish I could say I’ve raised a lot of money for charity – I haven’t. A shame but I tried. Either I’m not very good at getting the message out (likely), or the music must be really bad (possible) or people really don’t want to pay for any music these days, especially from an obscure hobbyist like me (bingo!). Not to worry though, I really like making all this stuff up so I’ll continue throwing these songs and musical nuggets out there. Tough!

For an experiment I put some of my music on a Bittorrent site, Mininova, who now only distribute legal torrents. It’s actually a great way of getting stuff out there, whether you are a movie-maker or musician, providing you don’t want to be paid for it of course. Anyway, I tried it and I had a LOT of downloads – well, for me anyway. Whether people actually liked what they downloaded I don’t know, but at least it brought the music to their attention. Perhaps it might persuade them to buy a lossless download or try one of my paid for albums, who knows? As long as more people hear the music I make I don’t really mind. I was never in this for the money, this is a hobby and will always be so. I might as well do this for all future releases, at least a few more people will hear it. Future releases..ah yes….

I’ve started work on the, as yet untitled, 4th Mister Fusty album. It’s at the very early stages yet but I have a few ideas, it’s hopefully going to be a bit different to the last, perhaps a little more experimental and lyrically I’m going for a different direction too. We shall see! I have a few older songs floating about that I may post here, songs that might not fit on the new album.

I have it on good authority that the very first Mister Fusty cover is happening, i.e. someone covering one of my songs as opposed to the other way around. I’m honoured that someone would actually want to play one of my songs so it’s a thrill for me. I won’t say anymore about who and when, watch this space!

There’s also a possible collaboration with some talented comic book artists in the pipeline, one of my new songs may feature in a some sort of comic book/music crossover scheme. More news on that to come but it sounds like a great project.

And finally the big news is…I’m doing a Christmas song! Yeah, why not eh? I’ve had a backing track floating around for a few months that is slighty too cheesy (even for my standards) to use on the new album but would make a great bit of festive frivolity. So all I need to do is write some pithy lyrics, add some vocals (and a few sleigh bells of course) and there we have it. Be afraid.

http://popshifter.com/2010-07-30/mister-fusty-connect-ep/

http://thisispopmusic.blogspot.com/2010/06/mister-fusty-releases-connect-ep-for.html

http://monolithcocktail.wordpress.com/july-2010/reviews/

Thanks for reading my blathering,

Rob

I’d like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a very merry Christmas and a happy new year. As a christmas gift from Fusty Towers HQ here’s a brand new track specially made for the season, totally free to download. It’s called, “Falling Snow” and it’s a twinkly instrumental.

Listen below or download here

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