Biography
From writing songs together for 8 years, hundreds of songs, from a relationship that goes beyond just being songwriters. Mr Frederick and Mr Clark met through a mutual friend neither of them can remember. They both love The Show About Nothing, south coast sport, Joe R. Lansdale, Richard Ford and Annie Proulx, a good roast dinner. Mr Frederick served his rock apprenticeship with the ahead-of-it's-time band The Family Cat, UK Top 50 singles and all, later splitting the group to form a new band with Mr Clark, releasing a radio-friendly, play-listed single 'Here Come The Millionaires', (now a collector's item due to a pulping error at the distributor's end) as Pure Grain. Fierce Panda also released their 'Sweetest Song' on a 45, 'Cry Me A Liver'.But the songwriting took over and the studio became their obsession. Jack Adaptor became the focus of all their energies. In the studio they recorded enough material for 4 LPs. Musically eclectic and adventurous, they planned each record to be different to the next. Lyrically, Mr Frederick explores the modern world with his cynical and entertaining eye for detail. Inspired by American fiction and the tough joys of life in London, his characters discuss with us modern topics such as thwarted ambition, fear of failure, fear of work, fear of the very young, consumerism, ex-girlfriends on holiday, gameshow hosts, unfulfilled travel plans, sexual frustration. 'I'm a pessimistic optimist,' he says. 'I try to have one good joke in every song' he says, 'even in the really dark ones.'
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