News From The Week That Was
The countdown is on to the release of Songs About Crying! We are hoping to have a release date out to you by next week. I know that we have been mentioning it a lot here in the last little while, so a little note for those who are new to the concept. As we were writing Dandelions and Failure, we had a number of slower, more piano and acoustic based songs that didn’t really fit with the first record. We had put them aside and are now looking to release them as a full album. This will be nothing like Dandelions – slower, softer, more introspective. Maybe this becomes your mom’s favourite Fighting Whiskey record?
A History of ….
The Cube, Part I: Plucked From The Hallowed Halls
Dating back for more than ten years, Scarfo had always jammed out of a room in what was called the “Hallowed Halls” of Courtland. This is where For The Hard Way and The Dexter Holmes story wrote, rehearsed and recorded. After a leak made the SexDwarf room uninhabitable, Boyne joined the boys and the hall was always a bustle with creativity. It was in this room that Fighting Whiskey was born. Songs like Old Gil from Dandelions and Impression of You from Songs About Crying were laid down here.
Unfortunately, on an evening in May of 2021, Scarfo received an unnerving phone call. There was water pouring out of the room. Boyne and Stroker (long time friend of FW and guest vocalist on “Good Man” went to investigate and the news was grave. There had been a leak from above and the hall was flooded. Even worse, the damage inside the ceiling was inevitably going to lead to black mould, so there was no choice – Fighting Whiskey had to move.
The only remaining available room in the building was a former plumbing company’s supply room. More on the transformation of this next week in part 2 – “From Stink to Party Cube”.
Three Things I’ve Learned This Week
- Baseball games played by 8 year olds do not have stellar defense.
- When Boyne and Linz get chatting, you either need all of the context or to ignore random sentences you hear.
- Sometimes you just gotta ‘Jump in’.