Marseille Figs


		Marseille Figs biographies, links and miscellany.

Ex-Lax Fig Flavor contains a tasteless medicinal ingredient, and is widely used with generally good results. This is combined with choice juicy figs for their fine taste and flavor.

She treats me like a monkey but I can't stay away

Here comes King Kong, bird in hand,
Forty-four foot long lover man,
He's feeling good, looking cute,
He's a dirty little monkey in a monkey suit.

Hugo's Speaker Palace, 9 October 2004

Fanklub der Marseille Figs im Frankenwald

We love our loyal friends.

Marseille Figs' The Dirty Canon is being distributed by Cargo in the UK and Europe, and worldwide through the Cargo website. It's available in the States from CDBaby.

Tom Chant's work with the Eddie Prévost trio can be gotten from Matchless Recordings, and can be read about in this review. Tom also plays with the Cinematic Orchestra, who have a nice looking website. And of course he has a website of his own, at www.tomchant.com.

J. Maizlish & Marcia Farquhar work together as Dodo. Some of their projects can be seen in the Dodo area of Marcia's website, as well as in the swimming pool bit and the FUMW bit. If you haven't yet, you ought to visit marciafarquhar.com.

Some of Dorian McFarland's past work can be seen at his lofoto site. He and Maizlish also do design work together as Moneymouth. Moneymouth is the brains behind all the Figs' designs. Trine Nedreaas has great work at www.nedreaas.org.

Jem Finer is responsible for both the swimming pool videos and the above polaroid of Marcia. His Cosmolog documents his astrophysical residency. His Longplayer website is streaming a 1000 year long composition. El Rino is his label. Also, he and fellow Big Shit Show artist DM Bob are touring the world. The two of them produced The Dirty Canon, the first Figs lp. Brian O'Shaughnessy is the man who finished it for us, and mixed it so marvellously. He's at Bark.

Milo Waterfield's highly recommended works can be seen at www.sevenzeds.com. Silke Thoss' website has all sorts of great stuff, including Big Shit Show pictures. Hats off to the Viva Cake girls, who are up to all sorts of brilliant things. Resonance FM is an artist's access radio broadcaster in London. They're online. Dorkbot is also an international contingent, at whose 1st birthday celebration the Figs had the pleasure of performing. Greetings to them. The Figs are glad to be associated with Michael Weinkove of talkaoke.com. Photographer and Figs loyalist Tim Wainwright deserves a mention here. A warm hello too to Figs regular Uriel Orlow of urielorlow.net renown. Longtime Fig Darryl Hunt departed our ranks a few years back. A biography of Darryl can be found at www.pogues.com. And last but not least, Adam Butler's Vert website is located here, and it's worth seeing.

Some Biographical Information

Dorian McFarland plays accordions, whistles, blues harps, jews harps, horns and miscellany. He is an artist, working in photography, video, electronic media and live performance. He's shown work in England, Norway, France, Portugal, New York and New Zealand. He was born in Cambridge, and he lives in Hackney with his partner Trine Nedreaas and their son Oskar. He was studying with Punk and Performance godfather Stuart Brisley at the Slade School of Art when he acquired his first accordion, and he learned to play it for the purposes of Marseille Figs.

J. Maizlish writes songs, sings and plays guitars and ukeleles. He also makes short films, drawings, sound works and installations. He was born in California, and he turned 18 in New York. He came to London in 1994 to study at St. Martins. He's living in Berlin now. In the Summer of '98, he and McFarland exhibited together in the same show in Marseille, alongside Marcia Farquhar (through whom, incidentally, he and McFarland met Tom Chant). Around that time, he started playing guitar and writing songs, and the Figs began rehearsing in Brixton a few months later.

Tom Chant mostly plays saxophones, clarinets and keyboards. He was born in Dublin, and raised in Lavender Hill. He is a member of the Eddie Prévost Trio, Cinematic Orchestra, the London Improvisers Orchestra and Marseille Figs, and has played with most people associated with the free improvised music scene in London. Over the last 10 years he's recorded and played in situations big and small from Los Angeles to Tokyo via Moscow. He's also run clubs and radio shows, and appeared with people like Fontella Bass, Sunny Murray, Coldcut and Steve Beresford. He's living in Barcelona now with his wife Emilie.

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Hugos Speaker Palace, Jun 04

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