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play lo-fi play hi-fi  Alice (Demo)
play lo-fi play hi-fi  Song of Solomon
play lo-fi play hi-fi  Critics
play lo-fi play hi-fi  Darling
play lo-fi play hi-fi  Die in style
play lo-fi play hi-fi  Everything's classier in black and white
play lo-fi play hi-fi  Unfinished love song
play lo-fi play hi-fi  Clockwork man
play lo-fi play hi-fi  19 years (2007)
play lo-fi play hi-fi  A little piece tired
Fay Wray started out way back in about 2000 as a pop-punk band named FOA. Over the years it evolved into Fay Wray and settled on a heavily Sabbath-influenced sound in about 2002. On a journey that has spanned 5 years, 2 EPs, and now an album, it has evolved further into a melodic-stoner-doom-prog-metal monster with a black and white retro aesthetic and songs about clockwork robots and alien children.
Why this name?
It's from a line in the Rocky Horror Show: "Whatever happened to Fay Wray?"
Do you play live?
We've never had enough members, so now it's just a recording project.
How, do you think, does the internet (or mp3) change the music industry?
If it didn't exist, no one would have heard our band, I'd have no incentive to get songs together, to record them and to get people sorted out with what they're doing. It's pretty much given Fay Wray motivation...
Would you sign a record contract with a major label?
As any band would say, we'd only do it as long as we got artistic control and got to do what we wanted. But other than that, why wouldn't we sign? If they're gonna give us greater distribution and get us out to more people without the hassle of us working our asses off when we should be concentrating on making the music sound good, then it's all good. We have no qualms about not staying "underground", we make music for people, the more people, the better. If a "scene" rejects us for getting big, then f*** 'em, we're not bloody emo kids...
Band History:
Like hell am I explaining all that. We've been going as Fay Wray for about 5 years now and had various different line-ups...
Your influences?
Black Sabbath, The Misfits, The Obssessed, Clutch, Alice In Chains, Faith No More, Coheed & Cambria, Type O Negative, Big Black, Mastodon, David Bowie, Danzig

Also stuff like old films, sci-fi stories (esp. steampunk stuff), old movie heroines, various things revolving around the colours black & white...
Favorite spot?
Leicester, England
Equipment used:
Modified Vintage VS6B > Marshall Shredmaster > Fender FM212R
Cruiser CX-100 > Marshall Shredmaster > Danelectro French Toast > DI
Hydrogen for drums
Tascam US-122 > Cubasis 4.0 for recording
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