3/07/08 NB ADDRESS CHANGE FOR TONIGHT
SORRY FOR THE LATE SHOUT OUT, BUT THE ADDRESS FOR THE BATH HOUSE IN CAMBRIDGE IS 3 BENET STREET, CAMBRIDGE CB2 3 QN , not 17 Trinity Street as I'd advertised......
4/06/08 Rock 247 Radio Show Co Host Online For You To Hear!
Go straight to the media section of the site and scroll to the down and you can hear the whole of my Rock 247 show co host with Steve Payne and find a video or two from it!
26/05/08 Live on 209 Radio Show
Looking forward to visiting the guys on the Living Room show at 209 radio on Monday and play some songs live too! Tune in on 209radio.co.uk or if you’re in Cambridge you can get it on 105fm. 7pm till 8pm 209 Radio
19/05/08 Rock 247 Radio Co Host!
I'm looking forward to checking into the Rock 247 radio sofa and co hosting the morning show with Steve Payne on Wednesday the 21st May. That's three hours of me and Steve having a laugh at the daily papers, talking music and spinning tracks from my album and loads of my influences. I'ts gonna be bosh. Tune in on Wednesday to http://www.rock247online.com at 11am!
1205/08 New Media Added!
Loads of really cool media from the Sometimes tour has just been added to the media page... Go check it out and find my performance live on the Channel M Breakfast Show and interviews with BBC Stoke and BBC Leeds
22/04/08 One Tour Down, Hopefully Many To Go!
Just got back from an interview with BBC Radio Stoke and that is the end of my first tour! I had an AMAZING time and there is so much to tell, all coming to you in a tour diary which I am writing up at the moment and will post soon! I'm reunited with my band The Austrian Wrecking crew this Friday to smash Soho up so see you there!
4/04/08 Sometimes UK Tour Starts Monday
Well peeps I'm looking forward to my first mini tour across the UK! Over the next two weeks you can catch me in Leeds, Sheffield, Camden, Chelmsford, Cambridge and Birmingham. You can also see me on channel Manchester TV and hear me on BBC Bristol, BBC Leeds and BBC Stoke. :) Check the gigs page for complete listing.
19/03/08 TFest Radio Interview
This is a funky little recording that has just surfaced of a live interview I did at Tfest towards the end of last year (remember, the album is already out!) Click here to hear it
14/03/08 Interview with Glasswerk
I did an interview with Glasswerk journalist Ant Standring shortly after I won the award for Best New Singer / Songwriter last year, and they have posted it recently. It’s a cheeky little number, you can find out more about my music, life, and song and structure idea: Click here to read it!
25/02/08 SOMETIMES REGIONAL TOUR AND RADIO SESSIONS
'Sometimes' has been chosen to lead my April promotional campaign (why? Because we love it!) We've put together some dates for my *first* UK regional tour with live radio sessions to be added soon. It's all listed at the gigs page. If you know any people in these areas send them to the gig or make them tune in for some Fanous magic! (March 12th: Manchester, April 2nd: London, April: 7 Leeds, April 8: Sheffield, April 9: London, April 10: Chelmsford, April 11: Cambridge., April 15th: BBC Bristol live radio session, April 16th: Birmingham) . Check back for more radio dates soon.
22/01/08 KARIM FEATURES IN BBC STREETSTARS PROMO
Fresh off the plane from the Norway Mini tour in December '07 I made my way straight from Stansted to London's Embankment to start filming a promo for a new BBC series concept called 'Streetstars' . The idea is that they pick 'shabby', 'gritty', 'hard working' street performers (that's me by the way) randomly off the street and take them to the 'big stage'. I had a great time with the lovely crew which culminated in an afternoon's filming at The Criterion Theatre in London (perhaps I was the winner too ;) ). Go straight to the media page to see the promo video and two behind the scenes videos of filming my live performance in Theatre. Thanks for a good time and big up to the BBC crew! Assistant Producer: Camilla Cope , Director: Mat Hodgson , Project Manager: Claire Louise Cooke, Executive Producer: Gareth Williams, Creative Director: Ben Hall.
3/01/08 HAPPY NEW YEAR
Wishing you peeps a very happy new year and nice and lovely 2008!
12/12/07 NEW GIGS ADDED
Venues and dates for January and February and March have been added on the gigs page... There will be a couple more added soon so keep checking back!
10/12/07 SONG AND STRUCTURE MYSPACE AND NEW SONG 'ARCHITECT'S SON'
Well it's here peeps - the inevitable but very groovy move to myspace for music and buildings has been made. It is now called SONG AND STRUCTURE and can be found at here
There are a load of very cool new comments so go have a look and leave some more! Also posted is a BRAND NEW SONG called 'ARCHITECT'S SON' which I have written especially for the project. It's different, and lovely, and still very me. You can hear it here
6/12/07 NEW VIDEO FROM NORWICH GRAPEVINE GIG
A new live video of 'On Top Of The World' has been uploaded onto the media page from the Grapevine gig in Norwich. For your viewing pleasure on the media page!
4/12/07 NEW PRESS REVIEWS Have a look at the press section for two new reviews from Glasswerk and Music-News.com
20/11/07 GUARDIAN ARTS BLOG FEATURE MUSIC AND BUILDINGS PROJECT
Chris Cottingham on the Guardian arts blog has picked up on the music and buildings idea that I am running. Read the article here
15/11/07 NEW WEBSITE UP AND RUNNING
Welcome to the new website! The ship almost sank, we nearly went stir crazy but a whiff of sweet perfume brought us back and now there's only the thin bits to do. Scroll to the bottom of this page for info on how to use the site. I would like to say a HUGE thank you to David Sherwood for sailing the stormy seas and getting the site up and running!
24/10/07 KARIM WINGS BEST SINGER SONGWRITER IN GLASSWERK NEW MUSIC AWARDS 2007
Delighted to announce my win in the Best Singer/Songwriter category at this breaking talent awards ceremony, in good company alongside a host of other nationwide acts like Koopa who have had top 40 chart success.
'Thank you, I would like to say a few words' :)
The awards night was held at AKA Kings Cross and was hosted by Peter Brame of Fame Academy and Tony Right of Terrorvision/Laika Dog. They also screened my 'Perfume' music video and I sang a couple of songs at the after party. It was a cool experience, and a nice reward for some hard work! As I said in my now 'legendary' acceptance speech: "This is the second time in my life I have been given an award for my music and they have both been nice surprises. The first was for a clarinet solo when I was an eleven year old little tinkle." :)
15/10/07 DEBUT ALBUM STIR CRAZY RELEASED TODAY
We're happy and proud to announce that my debut album 'Stir Crazy' officially goes on sale today. You can buy it in cd and groovy artwork form from Amazon , Play.com , or HMV.co.uk , or download it from itunes
01/10/07 PERFUME MUSIC VIDEO THREE TIMES A DAY ON SKY TV ACROSS EUROPE
The Perfume music video will be featured in Europe on Extreme Sports Channel's 'Extube Show', on sky 419 between 4 and 6 every day this week and next (repeats between 11pm and 1am and 7am to 9am)! Clips to come soon in the media section.
http://www.myspace.com/ex_tube
4/09/07 PERFUME ON RADIO 6
Yo peeps! Thought you might like to know that 'Perfume' has been played a couple of times on BBC Radio 6 music, during Nemone and George Lambs' shows. Fingers crossed we'll get some more plays soon so keep your ears peeled!
HOW THIS WEBSITE AND MY ONLINE PROFILE WORKS:
Ok simple stuff first! The player in the menu bar at the bottom will automatically play you clips of every song on my debut album 'Stir Crazy'. You can stop it or skip to the next song. The links at the bottom take you through the site, and the little arrows on each page at the bottom of the text scroll up and down for you. Text which is a slightly different colour is usually a link, so run your mouse over it and find out! If you click the 'Karim Fanous' in big letters at the top of each page you will be taken back to the front page of the site. Write your email in the box on the menu bar if you want to join the mailing list.
N.B. This site works best with your browser on it's original text/content settings and at a screen resolution of at least 800 * 600 but bigger is better. If you have different text sizes and fonts set up, things may go a bit funny for ya but we'll leave you to take that risk! ;) . If you are having problems seeing all the text, then reduce your text size in your browser menu.
Between myspaces, facebooks, twitters, bebos and whatchamacallit's this whole web thing is getting a bit nutso. So this is how the internet works for me and my music:
Myspace seems to be taking over the musical world for internet artist pages. Check out myspace.com/karimfanous for the whole Karim Fanous media and music thing on one concise page, with interactive commenting etc.
Not everyone likes myspace or can access it. So that's why we like having our own website here at karimfanous.com This site will be kept update with everything important: news, gigs, info and media content etc.
What about blogs and rambles?: There is a regularly updated blog on myspace which is kept mainly for music and live perfomance related stuff. If you want extras and the whole picture of what I get up to (pranks included), music and not music, then have a look at my vox.com blog. This is where I like to ramble
Basically what it comes down to, is we hope you enjoy the website, and we hope you check out all my profiles everywhere else, that way you will get the WHOLE Karim Fanous experience!
