Foxgang

FOXGANG profile  www.myspace.com/foxgang

0044 07980984632 - Ryan

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The Band is here
Foxgang is a Glasgow-based 4-piece made up of Vocals, Guitar, Bass and drums. Formed 2006 by an English lyricist/vocalist and an American guitarist living in Krakow. Foxgang has been building significant audiences in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Newcastle, London and Krakow as well as reaching out via the internet to America and Europe. Foxgang receives national radio play in both Britain and Poland, and have played with many hot acts in Scotland and England. The drummer is a professionally-trained percussionist from Poland who moved to Scotland to further his career, and the bassist's first band appeared on TV when he was still a teenager.
The Music is here
Foxgang's music packed with character is a clever, accessible and tight little package. It has been described as Post-punk with a funky Rockabilly beat and compared to the likes of Talking Heads and Aztec Camera. The vocal delivery is as purely honest as the lyrics are darkly humorous, ironic but life-affirming all the same. The memorable, powerful staccato bass-lines ride on that F.R. Beat and are iced with iconic stripped-down guitar. Foxgang gigs, of which there have been around 400, leave both the band and the audience exalted and ecstatic.
The Mission is Clear
After playing in Poland for a year and a half with a line-up of English, American and Polish musicians, the band decided to hit a new audience in the UK, where the lyrical and musical references would be more relevant and make an impact on a British music scene. Divided between pop and anti-pop, anti-folk by making bold but highly-accessible statements speak as much to the hardcore Glasgow rocker as to the bearded Edinburgh folkster. FG’s demographic appeal only appears to widen as a USA high school and college Pop Culture class elected Foxgang as a subject of lyrical analysis and produce a video from a song of there choice.
Scotland is where -
Foxgang, in both Glasgow and Edinburgh, have built up contacts and fans based on their music and charisma alone, with no friends or family living there prior to arrival. They have released 2 Eps in physical form since being in the UK and 3 singles through the new non-contractual on-line label tentracks.co.uk which has seen releases from Bjork, Alabama 3, Broken Records and Frightened Rabbit. In the Edinburgh Festival Foxgang are received by a cross-section of Comedian’s, Writers, Actors, Festival fans of all countries and teens celebrating their exam results who swiftly emptied the band of merchandise after every rockin conert.
Krakow is There
The band was founded in Krakow by a young Geordie artist keen on taking his art across the line into music and a Country-fed American guitarist from Kansas looking for musicians from different persuasions to write and perform with. Both were looking for other perspectives in life (there just has to be another way!) and music and the singer found his home country a bit easier to write about during a stint as an outsider. Krakow, known for being a city of art, music and craziness embraced Foxgang who wrote heavily, played constantly, recorded and built up a big following quickly; a following made up of both English-speaking ex-pats, and natives who loved the lyrics, the music and understood the message. Their reputation as the best live act (packing smoky venues and playing for hours) in Krakow gave the music scene there such a kick that it attracted the attention of the New York Times in 2006. Their shortly followed a label offer and TV invites. FOXGANG profile 

Band Members:
Vocals: Ryan Denton Newcastle
Guitar: Joe Brand Cansas City
Bass: Wojtek Balawender Worclaw
Drums: Pawel Banach Poznan