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FFREDI BLINO
single
‘(TAKE ME BACK TO)
HONOLULU’
a hit with UK music luminaries from
BADLY DRAWN BOY, CATATONIA
& THE FARM
HONOLULU on YouTube – Spotify – Apple
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“I got lost in this for a minute… Great escapism! Lovely tune” – Badly Drawn Boy
“Dear folk with good ears please let your lug holes loose on this @ffrediblino Welsh beauty” – Carl Hunter, The Farm
“I doubt that many bands have been dubbed They Might Be Giants meets The Sultans of Ping, but by eck this is a welcome slab of technicolor pure pop joy” – Kevin Sampson, Writer
“from the new album The Dishwasher Tapes – it sounds a fascinating trip and I can’t wait to jump in” – Cerys Matthews, Catatonia/BBC Radio 6
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Australian-expat now long-time Wales resident Ffredi Blino recently released debut album ‘The Dishwasher Tapes’, featuring breezy new single ‘(Take Me Back To) Honolulu’. The track and its quirky video have been gaining attention amongst UK music luminaries from Badly Drawn Boy to The Farm, and scoring airplay on BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Cymru, and BBC Radio 6 hosted by Catatonia’s Cerys Matthews, who has invited Ffredi in for an interview.
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HONOLULU on YouTube – Spotify – Apple
Check out Simone Tyrrell’s review of this single HERE
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Ffredi Blino (pronounced Bleeno) grew up in the Southern Hemisphere, gravitating to guitar and songwriting from age 4. There followed years of fronting scratchy rock’n’roll bands, with a competing pull towards melodic, acoustic folk.
Home-made, lo-fi and genre-neutral, Ffredi’s new solo project mashes these sounds together with funky pop and modern Welsh influences. His multi-lingual debut album ‘The Dishwasher Tapes’ was recorded at home in September 2020 and is defined by the limited tools available: a single mic, a creaking Windows Vista laptop and no bandmates! The ethos is lo-fi, the drums are (mostly) electronic, happy mistakes are kept in, and experiments are everywhere.
The influences are as diverse as: Pavement, Prince, Gruff Rhys, Talking Heads, Joni Mitchell, Lou Reed… plus a whole lot of unconscious ones which will jump out differently to different listeners.
Why ‘Ffredi Blino’? It’s an invented name which reflects Ffredi’s love of linguistic word-play and gives a big nod to his adopted homeland. In Welsh, ‘wedi blino’ means ‘tired’ – you might say it in the middle of a yawn. ‘Ffredi Blino’ turns that phrase into a name – and one that a non-Welsh-speaker can have a good chance of pronouncing right at first glance!
As frontman of various bands, Ffredi has performed at a range of gigs and festivals around mid-Wales for the last 10+ years, including Radnor Fringe, MachFest, Workhouse and his Llanidloes hometown offerings: KINGSfest and Sesiwn:Session. His debut gig as Ffredi Blino was in late December 2020, for the live streaming KINGS fest Xmas show.
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