9 am. My mobile phone alarm goes off. Oh god. My head doesn’t belong to me today. What happened last night? Oh. Oh yeah. The copious amounts of alcohol. The cheap fiery tequila. Yuck. We’d arranged to meet Alan and Zig at Monika’s places at 10 am and then had to negotiate the Saturday morning [...]

FOUND – Anti-Climb Paint (Toad Session) from Song, by Toad on Vimeo.

See / hear all the Toad session tracks here.

FOUND – Mullokian (Toad Session) from Song, by Toad on Vimeo.

See / hear all the Toad session tracks here.

If you’re wondering why there’s been a lack of updates on the FOUND site recently it’s because I’ve been putting mosty of my energy into our latest project Cybraphon ‘the emotional robot band’ (kind of like Marvin the paranoid android from Hitchikers Guide… but in the form of an antique wardrobe full of mechanised acoustic [...]

“Scottish DIY folk quintet FOUND make a pounding experimental dance-pop that sways towards the addictive electro-kitchness of Hot Chip and then onto the sex appeal of Prince and beyond. Excellently original stuff.”

The Great Escape, Brighton, May 2009

Okay, this is actually old news (it was in the 19 Mar – 2 Apr 2009 issue) but we were away in Texas when it came out so I’ve only just got my hands on a copy.
. . . They are all highlights this issue but just miss Single of the Fortnight (5/5), an accolade [...]

Alan and I spent the first hour of the day searching for a classic diner to eat a classic New York breakfast of pancakes, maple syrup and crispy bacon. We finally found a suitable place called Life Cafe on Avenue B and East 10th. We got back to the hotel to find the other lads [...]

It was strange leaving Austin. Although we’d only been there for less than six days, it felt a lot longer. We’d really started to settle in and the ‘crayfish boil’ on Sunday had made us feel right at home. But we had gigs to play in New York, so there was nothing for it but [...]