FFR (Celtic Fiesta) "Fresh Blood" VOC6368
Release date: July 28th, 2015
Running time: 40:43, 9 tracks
FFR (Celtic Fiesta) is a four piece band from Belfort (Franche-Comté, France). FFR would stand originally for Fruit Full River. The band was established in 1996 and has released one 4 track EP (“Diosa”, 2002), two live albums (tenth anniversary “Live 06/06!”, 2006, and “En Vie”, 2013) and four studio albums (“Seanchaí” ,2000, “Démenage”, 2004, “Art-y-Show”, 2011, and “Fresh Blood”, 2015). They have played at the Festival Interceltique de Lorient every year since 2004 and have also played in Germany at the Castellans Folk Sommer 2014 and several gigs in London in 2015, one of them a London Celtic Punks gig sharing the stage with Continental, The Lagan and Comrade X. The current line-up consists of Martial Redrejo (lead vocals, guitar), Marine Schmid (fiddle, vocals), Thierry (guitar) and Fred Séguin (drums, percussions, background vocals).
“Fresh Blood” begins with “On the Run”, a lively song in The Wages of Sin vein. “Dans tes bras” is obviously sung in French and it’s a longer number with a fiddle intro that reminds me of French/Welsh band Mirror Field and an awesome Hungarian feel at the end.
On “Another Love” the band moves to the Levellers fiddle territory. “True Bloody Love” is probably the Celtic punk number on “Fresh Blood” and my favourite track.
All of the band members shine on “Sunday Morning” an excellent set of tunes and probably one of the band’s hottest moments on stage. “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” is the only cover on the album and FFR do a fine job.
“Fresh Blood” is packed in a jewel case with an 8 page booklet where the lyrics to all of the songs, band pics, studio and song credits can be found.
FFR (Celtic Fiesta), together with the likes of Transpher and their neighbours The Shoepolishers, are live Celtic rock bands that are worth hearing. Go ahead and contact FFR to buy at least their latest album. Maybe you’re lucky and their previous live albums have not been sold out.
Release date: July 28th, 2015
Running time: 40:43, 9 tracks
FFR (Celtic Fiesta) is a four piece band from Belfort (Franche-Comté, France). FFR would stand originally for Fruit Full River. The band was established in 1996 and has released one 4 track EP (“Diosa”, 2002), two live albums (tenth anniversary “Live 06/06!”, 2006, and “En Vie”, 2013) and four studio albums (“Seanchaí” ,2000, “Démenage”, 2004, “Art-y-Show”, 2011, and “Fresh Blood”, 2015). They have played at the Festival Interceltique de Lorient every year since 2004 and have also played in Germany at the Castellans Folk Sommer 2014 and several gigs in London in 2015, one of them a London Celtic Punks gig sharing the stage with Continental, The Lagan and Comrade X. The current line-up consists of Martial Redrejo (lead vocals, guitar), Marine Schmid (fiddle, vocals), Thierry (guitar) and Fred Séguin (drums, percussions, background vocals).
“Fresh Blood” begins with “On the Run”, a lively song in The Wages of Sin vein. “Dans tes bras” is obviously sung in French and it’s a longer number with a fiddle intro that reminds me of French/Welsh band Mirror Field and an awesome Hungarian feel at the end.
On “Another Love” the band moves to the Levellers fiddle territory. “True Bloody Love” is probably the Celtic punk number on “Fresh Blood” and my favourite track.
All of the band members shine on “Sunday Morning” an excellent set of tunes and probably one of the band’s hottest moments on stage. “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” is the only cover on the album and FFR do a fine job.
“Fresh Blood” is packed in a jewel case with an 8 page booklet where the lyrics to all of the songs, band pics, studio and song credits can be found.
FFR (Celtic Fiesta), together with the likes of Transpher and their neighbours The Shoepolishers, are live Celtic rock bands that are worth hearing. Go ahead and contact FFR to buy at least their latest album. Maybe you’re lucky and their previous live albums have not been sold out.
1 - On the Run 3:57
2 - Dans tes bras 6:41
3 - Another Love 4:05
4 - Blinded by the Sun 4:19
5 - Run Wild 5:49
6 - True Bloody Love 3:37
7 - Sunday Morning 4:31
8 - Remontés 3:49
9 - The Devil Went Down to Georgia 4:01
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Review by Kinksmarkham
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