General Fiasco

General Fiasco
Origin	Magherafelt, Northern Ireland
Genres	Indie Alternative Pop rock
Years active	2007–present
Labels	Infectious Records (2009-2011) Dirty Hit (2011-present)
Associated acts	The Tides
Website	generalfiasco.co.uk
Members
Owen Strathern Enda Strathern Stephen Leacock Stuart Bell

General Fiasco are an indie rock group from Bellaghy, Northern Ireland. Since their formation in 2006, they have toured with Fighting With Wire, The Wombats, One Night Only, The Pigeon Detectives, The Enemy, Jet and Kids In Glass Houses. They released their debut album, Buildings, on 22 March 2010.

Touring and Recording (2007-2010)

In between touring and gigs the band were constantly recording. A demo in the summer of 2008 landed them a spot on the BBC Introducing Stage at that year’s Reading & Leeds festival. Their first single, "Rebel Get By," was released in November 2008 and their second single, "Something Sometime," became Zane Lowe's "Hottest Record In The World". They signed to Infectious Records that summer. NME included them as one of "the ten hopes for the near future."^{[citation needed]} Since then they have been part of the BBC Introducing line-up at the Electric Proms in October 2008. The band started to receive plays from Zane Lowe, Steve Lamacq, Colin Murray, Huw Stephens, John Kennedy, Rigsy on Across The Line, Jenny Huston and Sara Cox and was playlisted at Xfm. They were later invited to perform an acoustic set at Jo Whiley's prestigious Little Noise Sessions. The band completed three tours in late 2009 including a UK headline tour as well as main support to both The Enemy and The Answer.^{[citation needed]}

Buildings & new member (2010-present)

Their debut album Buildings was released on 22 March 2010 to mixed reviews. The band played at SXSW in Texas. They were nominated for Best British Newcomer at the Kerrang awards. They played at T in the Park 2010, played in 2010 at the Glastonbury Festival, Leeds and Reading Festivals, the Pinkpop Festival and London Calling, and embarked on a tour of the UK and Ireland in October 2010, with additional guitarist Stuart Bell, former guitarist of fellow Irish band Panama Kings. General Fiasco also supported Snow Patrol on their Homecoming Ward Park date on 5 June 2010 which made Northern Irish history attracting 45,000 fans.^{[citation needed]}

The band released Waves EP on November 14th 2011 having just completed a tour of Britain and Ireland to promote it the previous month. Another as yet unnamed EP is planned for early 2012 with the first song from it, Don't You Ever being released on February 27th.

The band have nearly completed work on their second album due for release in spring 2012. It is expected to contain the songs The Age You Start Losing Friends, Waves, German Roads, I Wanna Eat Her, Hollows, Don't You Ever and The Bottom.

Discography

Albums

List of albums, with selected chart positions and certifications

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions			Certifications
		IRL	NZL	UK
Buildings	Released: 22 March 2010 Label: Infectious Records Formats: CD, digital download	—	37	77
"—" denotes a title that did not chart, or was not released in that territory.

Singles

List of singles, with selected chart positions, showing year released and album name

Title	Year	Peak chart positions			Album
		IRL	UK	UK Indie
"Rebel Get By"	2008	—	—	—	Buildings
"Something Sometime"	2009	—	—	2
"We Are the Foolish"	2009	—	—	—
"Ever So Shy"	2010	—	87	5
"I'm Not Made Of Eyes"	2010	—	—	—
"The That Age You Start Losing Friends"	2011	—	—	—	TBA
"Waves"	2011	—	—	—
"Don't You Ever"	2012	—	—	—
"—" denotes a title that did not chart, or was not released in that territory.

EPs

• iTunes Live: London Festival '09
• Ever So Shy
• Waves EP

Members

• Owen Strathern – Bass and lead vocals
• Enda Strathern – Guitar and backing vocals
• Stephen Leacock – Drums and percussion
• Stuart Bell – Guitar and percussion

External links

• Official website
• Facebook
• MySpace