Three Videos from Folly's Last Show in Connecticut

So I finally got around to cutting these up. These are the first three songs from Folly's set on Friday, which, if some some reason you don't know, was the last show the band is doing in Connecticut and the third to last ever. If you missed out on our photo post before you can find it here.

"Discussion is for the Pigs"



"False Evidence Appearing Real"


I've Been Running for Miles, Davis

Photos from Folly Last Night

Folly last night in Wallingford was rather ridiculous, but still a good time all around. Connecticut sent off the band in a very big way. Below we have some photos of the night followed by a link to our gallery. If I talked to you last night about contributing photos to the blog please hit us up at the e-mail on the right side of the page. We should have video up later today.





Folly

You can find the rest of the gallery here.

Tonight: Folly's Last Show in CT

Ed gave us the bad news back in February about Folly calling it quits as a band, but the band still has three shows lined up before they pack it in for good. Tonight's show will be at a place the band has frequented a number of times - the Wallingford Knights of Columbus (for some reason I thought it was the American Legion...is there a difference?)

The show starts at 6 p.m. and if you don't know the address it's 279 Quinnipiac St.

The band's latest and last album, Resist Convenience, came out about two years after they announced they were done, or February 2006. I throughly enjoyed the album and the one before it Insanity Later. One of my favorites of that year. This should be a can't miss show, but if you can't make it don't worry. As Ed and I will be there with cameras in hand. Expect not only a photo post, but also some video.

Make sure you add The Flaming Tsunamis to that list of bands too. They will be there.

PS: I interviewed Folly back in March 2006. I somehow was able to find it online so if you're interested (there's some laughs if I remember correctly) you can find it here.

Folly Calls It Quits

I hate being the bearer of bad news, but here it is. New Jersey Ska/Metalheads Folly have announced that they will be turning in their instruments in order to move on with their lives. The guys in Folly were some of the most genuine and overall nice guy I had the chance to meet as a music journalist. They always played for the crowd and nothing more, Whether it was having fans literally 5 inches from the mic or hanging out after a show at their merch table, Folly was always the most personable band to see live and they never disappointed.

This is from their MySpace:
"After a little more that a decade, we’ve decided to formally resign from the music industry. Whereas obviously we would like to have an impossibly absurd reason or scenario causing the end of this run, say “Anthony moving to Lebanon to competitively knit table cloths” or “Arben pursuing his lust for bartering lion pelts and hyena hides…” We simply just want to move on with our lives for a variety of personal reasons. It’s supposedly a very cliché reason for a band to break up, to go these ‘separate ways.’ Yet, it is as definitive and undesigning as the message in said Journey song: Someday love will find us, break these chains that bind us! Sadly, this band is no longer our raison d'être. We have other avenues to venture… other pages to turn.

Luckily, we’re all on the same page with this, and it has become a completely mutual decision to break these chains. It’s also mutually intricate for us to imagine our lives without Folly. It’s safe to say that this band has created a difficult dichotomy from which pulls us apart; there’s the alter-ego us and the self-actualized us. Both exist interdependently and cohabitate when needed, and yet they search for their own identity apart from one another. The inevitability of conclusion is tangible now, but it hadn’t been for so long. We’ve been playing together since high school, developing socially and spiritually throughout our adolescence into young adult-hood with the band as a consistent uniting factor. We created self through each other’s actions, emotions, and knowledge. In essence, Folly is as much a part of us as we are a part of it."

In a bright part of a bad news post, they have announced that they will play a few final shows before officially ending the band and Connecticut should be one of the stops due to their love of playing here. I know I can't fucking wait.