Friday, 30 May 2008

Unfortunately a couple of dates have had to be canceled on the tour...

Liverpool :: Cavern Club
Coventry  :: Kasbah Club

Sorry about that, but there was no getting away from it I'm afraid.

The Borderline gig on 19th June is actually the 100 Club (thanks Ciara) and tickets are available here

On another note, I've been doing a lot of live sessions of late and they're now online to view... in fact they've been online for some time, but I just haven't got round to informing you of it yet; but the good news  is it's because I'm too busy making music!  anyway, here they are

The Late Late Show (on RTE)
For those of you in ireland you can get this single from download.ie by texting  'MUSIC FOY' TO 57501

Tiscali Sessions
3 live tracks and an interview... 

Interviews are interesting things, they're generally a lot of flaccid questions that inspire little or no answer, so I end up filling gaps so that it doesn't feel like it falls on it's face.  When Van Morrison says there's no need to do interviews because "it's all in the music", I know exactly what he means... Most of the time there's nothing to say.  Especially with questions like 'so tell us a bit about yourself Foy'... Which translates as " I haven't got anything of real interest to ask you, so just say something entertaining or interesting' or else just ' I don't know anything about you, so start from the beginning'... in which case it begs the question 'Why are we doing this interview?'

If you're an artist/musician and the interviewer knows nothing or you're art/music what is there to talk about that won't be mindless peripheral bull shit?  OOOOH, come off the fence there Foy and tell us what you really think...

I can imagine that the more interviews I do the, more I'll end up resorting to one or two word answers... maybe it go like this:

Q: So, tell us a bit about who Foy is... (which doesn't even constitute a question)
A:  A Musician

Q: erm... good... and eh, what sort of music do you listen to? (at least this one's a question)
A: Good music

Q: right... for instance do you like anything current?
A: yes

Q: ok... let's move off music for a minute... where did you grow up
A: who cares?

Q: good point... erm... so did you enjoy growing up?
A: Listen man... you don't know what to ask and I can'[t bare to answer, so let's just call the whole thing off... I'll go and write some more songs and you should seriously consider a job in the travel industry...

INTERVIEW ENDS

I actually wish that interview happened as it would be a lot more interesting that most of the crap we're offered... especially 'celebrity news'... "BRAD AND ANGELINA HAD EGGS ON TOAST THIS AFTERNOON AT A TOP...OH... WAIT, THIS JUST COMING THOURGH.... YES, WE CAN CONFIRM THAT THE EGGS WERE ORGANIC AND SERVED MILDLY POACHED"

aaaarrrrrggg... it makes me wanna pull my lip over my head and swallow!

There we go, I'm glad we talked about that I feel much better... in fact you guys should interview me, at least any questions you ask would be coming from people with a vested interest being that you now know and own the music yourself...  you send them in and I'll answer them, what about that!?  flick them in an email to info@foyvance.com , let's see what you really think....

Right, back to studio fun... speak soon  f