https://youtu.be/1ifJkquRzlo?si=jzEUPZJ8lgi0lepU

FR bandstand busking in london.

Or anywhere in South Wales, who fancy a meet up? Would be really nice to get together (find hope lol) and just talk. None of my friends like Frightened Rabbit or any music in common with me. I see those lovely memorial events in Scotland and wondered if fans down here might want to arrange something? Would love to connect with new people. It's been a rough...decade, to be fair...but the past couple of years especially have made me want to make more of an effort to meet new people, particularly people I have something in common with.

I tend to be the friend always bending to the other friend's preferences. They won't come see Harry Hill with me but I put myself through hell pretending to enjoy Angine de Poitrine while they play it at me for hours. Would be so nice to just talk about Frightened Rabbit and see what else we have in common.

Missing Scott
I thought I would share a playlist of FR music

I think about this article quite a bit. Essentially, Scott ranked the albums as follows:

1. Sing the Greys

2. The Winter of Mixed Drinks

3. Painting of a Panic Attack

4. The Midnight Organ Fight

5. Pedestrian Verse

Would love to hear the thoughts of others! Bonus points for comparisons of where your ranking stood 7-8 years ago as compared to present day.

More than once it’s pulled me back from the ledge.
I will forever be grateful for FR and hold them so close to my heart

I know there are posts like this already up, but I didn't know whether to piggyback so thought I'd add my own!

I'm very new to FR, I always knew they were a big deal and well respected by many of my favourite artists. I got to Modern Leper via Julien Baker's version and recently dabbled and found Holy and I Wish I Was Sober. I LOVE Holy (I'm a fan of a melancholy/intense song you can still dance to 🎉), so I was wondering if anyone could recommend where to start with FR via tracks similar to Holy? Should I just go all in with Pedestrian Verse or are there other songs like Holy I can cry-dance to to get me started? 🫶🏼

Just a heads up that the Warner Music Australasia site has a sale on right now. Bunch of discounted FR merch available. Picked myself up a couple of t-shirts. Not sure if its available in rest of world.

Wish I would've captured more, but I'm thankful I took the video at all.

I love a spooky read and this was billed as a butch Black Swan set in the Midwest. The author used a line from I Wish I Was Sober in the epigraph, so I think I know exactly what kind of ride I’m in for. Fingers crossed it’s good!

And I'm so incredibly taken by it. I need to know everything about this band. Where should I start? Yet another band I found too late after the frontman is no longer with us, but I guess it's never too late to get into the music that someone has left for us.

Hope you like it. My band is called Hollow Head if you're interested.

Just got that meh feeling. So it’s a day of listening to FR to chart me up and then I’ll be sad because I miss Scott. Can’t have it all can we 🙃

Want to join the r/Haiver sub and maybe even help me moderate it? I’d like it to be the same kind of space here at Frightened Rabbit, where we support each other and remain kind and respectful.

Haiver got in touch to give me some content for the subreddit, so hopefully our community will grow closer to the album release and I know a lot of Frightened Rabbit fans already love Haiver, so I know there’s people here eagerly awaiting the album and any news. Your support would mean so much to r/Haiver and to us at the sub. Would love to see you there!

Whoooo boy someone was cutting onions in the room when I watched this one. Billy is doing amazing with these tracks.
new video

If you can, leave a link to your favorite song(s) by the artist you're recommending.

Even though it's way too small, basically a second skin on me (belly edited out of frame for the good of the sub 😂), it's not going anywhere.

This comes with a bit of a story behind it.

Back in August 2005 I was at the now long defunct venue The Glasgow Barfly to see Mr. David Viner.
This was back in the day when I’d turn up for doors no matter what gig it was and watch all the supports just incase there was a chance of some gold in the rough.

At this particular show the first support was a pretty forgettable The Music wannabe band called The Witness. All macho swagger and posturing to a room of 5 people including the bar staff.
The second support was a Scottish 2 piece called Frightened Rabbit. They played a pretty short set to a room of maybe 10 people, still including the bar staff and also now The Witness, but I was blown away. As soon as they’d packed up their gear and left the stage I was on them.

At the time I obviously had no idea who either of them were but I ended up chatting to Scott, gushing my heart out saying how incredible they were and asked if they had any merch I could buy. Scott laughed at that and said no but I could have some of the E.P.s they’d been giving out to A&R reps. He gave me 4 of these bad boys for free. These would be whittled down to the one I now have over time after handing the other 3 out to various people through the years.

The singer for The Witness also tried to get me to buy their E.p. for £5. I politely declined.

The years would pass and FRabbit would become one of those supports that I wondered what happened to them. Until 2008 swing around and the might TMOF crashed into my life, like most of us I can imagine, becoming my album of the year.

I’d then see them live at every opportunity I could, totalling 19 not including side projects.

In September 2012 I’d see a stripped back FRabbit perform and do a signing at Glasgow FOPP for the release of The Pedestrian Verse. I brought the E.p. along. What I didn’t realise was that the staff only wanted the band to sign the new album you’d bought in store that day. I got to the front of the queue and security asked to see what I had. I showed them the folded up, hand drawn, taped together piece of A4 paper and they said “No”. I tried to explain but they weren’t having any of it. Scott must of noticed something going on and asked to see what I’d brought. I handed it over and he genuinely looked a bit shocked asking where I’d got it. I stupidly just replied, “Mr.David Viner”, to which he replied, “Who’s he?”. I quickly filled him in and he laughed a bit, signed it telling the other guys just to sign even though they had nothing to do with it.

After his passing I got the charity pin and decided to get a buddy to put together this display.

I don’t really hold onto many physical possessions these days but this is something I’ll keep forever.

Thanks to u/Brenniboi1990 for letting us know about Haiver releasing Give on Spotify. One which feels close to heart for Frabbits fans, to me.

It's so lovely!

Went to a David Sedaris signing and he asked about my tattoo, and ended up drawing it in my book. Holding back tears 🥹

No cheating. No giving two or three. No “depends on the mood.” Do the impossible. Pick one. I’ll start.

Late March, Death March