'YOUR HISTORY IS MINE: 2002-2009' - A COLLECTION OF CLASSIC FFAF PLUS AN EPs WORTH OF NEW SONGS

On September 28 2009 Funeral For A Friend open another chapter in their career with the release of 'Your History Is Mine: 2002-2009' - a retrospective look at some of the band's finest moments on record from their early days in South Wales right bang up to date with the inclusion of 4 brand new tracks.

The album is notable for being the first involving Gavin Burrough fully in the writing and recording process. ‘It's made a huge difference having [Gav] come into the band as a fan, and almost like a spokesman for all the fans out there who've been wanting to hear elements of the band they fell in love with that maybe have been missing for a while,’ says drummer/vocalist Ryan Richards. ‘We've always said we never wanted to go backwards, but now we've been able to re-explore a lot of the old elements of what we did and make it sound brand new by having Gav's musical and vocal input in there. It's very exciting – for us and for the fans, especially the ones that have been there from the start.’

‘It's been hard,’ adds vocalist Matthew Davies, ‘whittling down the best of four albums and a bunch of EP's to come up with what we consider to be the best of our 'formative years'. We're still trying to rewrite the rock and roll music text book with everything we've done since then. It's been interesting to see just how many songs we've written that have affected both us and our audience over the last 7 and a half years and having them all in one place will be a good reflection of our music up to this point for both newcomers and for old friends.’

'I like to think of the record as the end of one road and the start of another,’ continues Richards. ‘We wanted to document the history of the band up until now but at the same time usher in a New Age of Aural Awesomeness – or NAAA to the abbreviators out there who've come to know and love us as the FFAF.’


FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND - YOUR HISTORY IS MINE: 2002-2009

10.45 Amsterdam Conversations
This Year’s Most Open Heartbreak
Juneau
She Drove Me To Daytime Television
Escape Artists Never Die
Red Is The New Black
Streetcar
Roses For The Dead
History
Into Oblivion (Reunion)
Walk Away
Kicking And Screaming

No Honour Among Thieves
Built To Last
Wrench
Captains Of Industry


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Current mood: excited!

I love this band, but i haven't listen to them since Hours. I may purchase this.

I thought they broke up for a second, and was like what?

a seven-year retrospective album?

Interesting.

Are they trying to get off of their label or something?

This band has fading away for quite some time now ...

Made me think they broke up at first. :P
Some great songs on this.

What a ridiculous and stupid idea. They must owe their record label.

I love this band so much. I'm hoping the new songs are more along the lines of their older material.

They don't really "owe" Victory shit, they're honestly one of the best bands that label still has left. They're a very consistent band who put out albums pretty much yearly and with the exception of "Tales", they never disappoint. Even though I'm not a fan of Greatest Hits albums, I'll take 4 new songs to go with it!

10:45 Amsterdam Conversation is such a great great song.

I don't own any of their songs. I might get this.

I love everything this band has done and will ever do.