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Title: Welcome To Poppy?s
Release date: 10 July, 2003
Record label: Sanctuary Records
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Official website: Sanctuary Records
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Tracklisting
1. Too Hot
2. Stray Bullet
3. Living On The Streets
4. Lost It All
5. Friday Night
6. You Got A Problem
7. Running For Cover
8. Take Me Back
9. What Had Happened
10. Got Our Love
11. This Sick World
12. Bottle Of Wine
13. Beautiful
14. Baby (Party Dress)
15. You Just Can't Have It All
+ Enhanced portion with video for "Too Hot"
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Send to a FriendHuey met Fast back in 1993 ? the two were employees at NYC's notorious Limelight club. Fast was already in a band - he and F-L-C's first drummer Steve-O had formed a techno group, Moses On Acid. Meanwhile, Huey who was spending a lot of time playing blues guitar, started writing tunes with Fast. Huey and Fast recruited Steve-O to drum, and the Fun Lovin' Criminals were born.
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The three became roommates and ended up jamming together in their apartment and writing songs until they had enough material to convince the Limelight's manager to let them play a gig at the club.
Their sixth performance was seen by the head of A&R for EMI America who passed them a business card and asked them to give him a call. EMI had soon booked them into a studio for a two-week recording session. However, the band finished all of their recording inside of three days and spent the rest of the studio time running up a huge alcohol and food bill and waiting for EMI to wake up to what was going on.
Instead, one year later, EMI released Come Find Yourself, which spawned the hit singles: The Fun Lovin' Criminal, King of New York and the UK number 1, Scooby Snacks. The Fun Lovin' Criminal is the band's self professed ?redneck hip-hop song,' an introduction to the ways of F-L-C, and a good musical overview, containing funky guitar riffs, trumpets, harmonicas and a catchy bass line (the latter three all played by Fast). King of New York shows a slightly more political side to the trio, with calls to ?Free John Gotti' while reserving the story-telling rapping for Huey.
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The band, having toured the world in support of Come Find Yourself, made us wait until 1999 for their follow up, 100% Colombian. That release was short-lived as corporate nonsense led to the bands parting ways with Virgin Records. No tears were shed as the band hopped the next plane to London to begin a self-imposed exile. The next bunch of records, Mimosa, the amazing Loco, and Bag ?O Hits, which crashed into the UK charts at number 5. were only available in the US as imports. Prior to the release of Bag of Hits, F-L-C also released Love Ya Back, a DVD featuring all their promo videos up to the end of Mimosa, their film debut - the classic Maui Homicide 2000 - and lots of tour footage.
The band have taken their label, DiFontaine Records, to a new home - Sanctuary Records. The deal with Sanctuary sees the band not only releasing their new album, Welcome To Poppy's, on October 7th, but will also see the guys release their first film score music. They have two soundtracks due over the next 12 months and at least another two in 2004. This year's soundtracks are for Irish feature film Headrush (www.headrushthemovie.com), which also showcases Huey in a realistic portrayal of a transvestite drug-dealing man-ho, and Spanish/UK co-production Oh Marbella (www.ohmarbella.com). F-L-C will be performing at the premiere of Oh Marbella in Marbella, Spain on August 22nd. Look out for the soundtracks to be released on DiFontaine/Sanctuary Records by the end of 2003!
For the new album, F-L-C have yet another new drummer, Frank The Rhythm Master. The third in an impressive line of drummers, The Rhythm Man is a UK native, hailing from Leicester, where he has received much notoriety for his work in many different bands.
Welcome To Poppy's features ?old skool' F-L-C tracks like You Got A Problem and Got Our Love, live favourite Baby - a great punk rock tune, new single, Too Hot, a song that looks set to become a summer smash, and also Lost It All - a three minute burst of guitars and "ooh ooh" and "hey" backing shouts. With all the oohs, heys, guitar feedback and hip-hop beats, what the Fun Lovin' Criminals are trying to say is that they still mean business, and business is still very, very cool.
Welcome To Poppy's is released on DiFontaine/Sanctuary Records on October 7, 2003 and will be preceded by the single Too Hot.
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