28.04.21 | Alex Sievers
2021 marks a decade since the best and most explosive Funeral For A Friend record, ‘Welcome Home Armageddon!’
Released on March 14th through Distiller Records in the U.K. and via Good Fight Music over in the U.S., I have no idea why ‘
Welcome Home Armageddon!‘ isn’t spoken of with the same reverence as ‘
Casually Dressed & Deep In Conversation‘ (2003) or even ‘
Hours‘ (2005). For this is
Funeral For A Friend’s best record; like a relevant, direct sequel to those first two much-loved albums. I will forever die on this hill, over and over again, day in and day out, like a famous-less, post-hardcore Bill Murray.
22nd – London, Shepherd’s Bush Empire
The band’s 2019 comeback charity shows came in support of one of the band’s biggest fans, Stuart Brothers, who had been given “a few short weeks to live by his Doctors”.
“Recently, a man who can quite legitimately lay claim to being the world’s biggest FFAF fan (both literally and figuratively!), our friend Stuart ‘Big Stu’ Brothers, has been stricken with a terrible illness which has ultimately led to a terminal prognosis,” the band wrote.
“As Stu’s friends, we wanted to do something to help; particularly for his family and three young sons, who are going through unspeakable trauma right now.” Proceeds from the show went directly to Brothers’ family.
Funeral For A Friend Reschedule UK Tour To January 2022 Monday, 22 February 2021
Funeral For A Friend have rescheduled their UK tour to 2022.
Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the post-hardcore band have pushed back their dates previously confirmed for spring to January.
The shows will see them performing material from their first three albums: 2003’s Casually Dressed & Deep In Conversation , 2005’s Hours and 2007’s Tales Don t Tell Themselves . Original tickets will be honoured, with the remainder on sale now.
Funeral For A Friend Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Sat January 08 2022 - CARDIFF University Great Hall
Sun January 09 2022 - CARDIFF University Great Hall
18.02.21 | Alex Sievers
2005 was a big 12-month window for music! Fall Out Boy’s breakout ‘From Under The Cork Tree,’ The Mars Volta’s first step toward glorious self-indulgence with ‘Frances The Mute,’ the core of The Black Dahlia Murder’s evil sound on ‘Miasma,’ Bullet For My Valentine exploding due to ‘The Poison,’ Trivium making their claim on ‘Ascendency,’ Avenged Sevenfold blowing up more by way of ‘City Of Evil,’ and 30 Seconds To Mars getting big off the 40% of ‘A Beautiful Lie’ that people actually remember and like.
As for the great fifteen albums from 2005 that are covered here, they might not necessarily be the biggest from their respective creators, but they are some of these artists’ strongest offerings. Equally important, these are releases that I dearly enjoy and deeply respect. Albums that I personally revisited many times during 2020 when they all hit this milestone; albums that have withstood time, the harshest critic of the