Wow, normally I wouldn't expect someone to come close to Frank Zappa's style, and do it with the same musical prowess, but you guys pulled it off!
The song is hilarious, the arrangements work well, and the musicianship is top notch
Keep it up!

I have no idea, what Balaclava means...but this rock song is impressing without understanding the lyrics. What a fat production! Mick Clack has tons of original ideas for comedy, rock and every genre, he wants to serve. This is just another example.
Awesome guitars, great work!

Oh yes I totally understand the need to protect that precious fishing balaclava since I would walk over hot coals to save my glorious ghetto hat, I wanted one for years and finally got my very own in pretend suede....ahhh blisssss!!!!

It's so nice to meet your WONDERFUL music, guitars are outrageously FAB and drums are hammering the edges down with gusto, vocals are pure Zep-esq divinity, bass is a barrel full o' timbre and arrangements are nothing short of GENIUS!!!

Synchronize all balaclava's for the ride of a lifetime, you are the Fast Show with instruments, HELL YEAH!!!!!!!!

Thank you!

Great guitar work and those vox!The spirit of Frank Zappa must have been in the room!
The arrangement of this is incredible!
All the little subtle elements are there!
In every fine detail!Really like the guitar riff that sounds like it is turning inside out!
HIGHLY Recommended!!!!!!!!!!!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
YAS,YAS,YAS,YAS,YAS,OH YAS!X4

One of the things I delight in is showering in the euphoric fall out that comes raining down around this office whenever a new Frank Fish & the Fins track has been released. In an ideal world, the BBC and other worthy news programmes around the world would announce these releases with glee and excitement knowing, as we do, that Frank and his entourage tend to produce instant classics that are not unlike a spring clean for the head!

Jacques Cousteau was an adventurer, oceanographer, French fella that loved messing about with fish and things that swim without the need for a filleting table.

The musicianship in this go go guitar dominated bass and drums ensemble is pioneering and pleasing to the sensible senses... those parts of us that react happily and enthusiastically when listening to astonishing music!

The arrangement is a few light years ahead of the band's time.. (an advantage for musical soothsayers and crystal collectors who also happen to write reviews). The lyrics are superbly intricate and clever but it's the sheer imagination that has been deployed all over the track that makes you think... hmmmm crazy or genius??? Well ... as the band hasn't been locked up???

I love... sorry WE love Frank Fish and you will too, providing your not on any dodgy medication!!! get over to SoundClick and grab the lot while it's free... cos one thing is for sure... it won't be free for long!

Balaclava......

What a great merge of 80's influenced progressive rock, rock and pop! I am constantly amazed by the music you bring me.... Extremely diverse and always well done.

Nice rock intro with (as always) interesting lyrics. The intro feels rock, but once the verse starts we're into 80's style production pop. I really like the lyrics, very unconventional. The changes during the chorus are also really nice. Many unexpected changes. The guitar work is excellent with some nice riffs throughout. The bass riffs are also very nice. There are some unique vocal harmonies, mixed with different effects, to a nice finish. This song will have you tapping your toes, humming along, and wanting more! Very cool.....

Rating 8 of 10.....

Surf, pop, rock.... Funny lyrics, surf style guitar leads, and rock/pop rhythms. I thought the lyrics were pretty funny. Made me think of the Loch Ness monster. I don't know if that's what the song is really about. The song is a fun listen, and has some unique guitar solos and a few odd chord changes. The lyrics really dominate your attention throughout the song.

I've seen lots of great gigs, but one that I have fond memories of was at the Jericho Tav, many years ago by Frank Fish & The Fins. The sight of grown men wearing flippers, snorkels and sombreros and playing such fat rocking music with ease is an image that endures in my rose-tinted memory.

Frank's back! Oxford's most manic muso has returned from overseas and even as you read this, the man whom it was once said "Fish has had his chips," is preparing to confound his critics with a mega-exciting gig at the Jericho Tavern tomorrow night. Yes folks, Frank Fish and the Fins are alive and wriggling after months of doubt over whether they would ever get back together on a permanent basis. Mole decided to get the lowdown on where Frank's head has been at since he split for foreign parts and what horrors he plans to wreak on Oxford's unsuspecting pop punters. So a meeting was arranged at a riverside hostelry not far from the burrow...
He was accompanied by two of the Fins - guitarist Mick Stickleclack and drummer Whale Marshall. Mr. F's first priority was to establish that he had not been leading the life of a recluse in
Amsterdam as his adoring fans had been led to believe.
"No, I've been in Tibet," he said. Oh yes?
"Yes, I went there to study under one of the world's greatest guitar teachers because so many complete strangers had been coming up to me in the streeet and saying 'Fish, you're a useless guitarist'. Anyway, he taught me how to play underwater and so now my playing is a lot more fluid." And Frank's alleged sojourn in that mysterious land has apparently filled him with a new enthusiasm.
"I've decided to stay in Oxford and try to extend what the band was doing before I left. The main thing is entertainment. We want to give everyone in our audience complete joy." Humour, as ever, will play a big part in the stage show.
"There are too few comic bands who just want to make people laugh. And too many songs are about anger and depression. We're having none of that."

Purely another plug for Oxford's wackiest combo, you understand, not for your information. Could that fungus-faced individual murdering rock classics outside Selfridges really have been Frank Fish? Can times have got so hard for the chubby chap that he's been forced onto the streets?

Frank Fish scaled new heights in the local pop music scene last week with his band The Fins as they took to the stage at the St Paul's Arts Centre in Walton Street, Oxford. The zany, giant- sized singer dresses up as a Roman Gladiator while the Fins wear flippers on their heads! It certainly proved a hit with the fans who packed in to enjoy the show.

What a catch! Rockstar nets an interview with Frank Fish and the Fins and a right funny kettle of fish they turned out to be too. Mr. Fish, together with Mick Stickleclack and a dog, turned up at our offices to tell us of the band's progress and to elucidate us on their emergence into the world of we air-breathing music lovers.
The band have just finished a three week tour of Holland and are back to rehearse and play a few gigs in Oxford before returning to Dutchland for a more extensive six week tour which includes headlining a festival and a possible TV slot - and Holland's EMI bigwigs are hot on their tail. For those of you who have not met Thames Water Authority's answer to Crocodile Dundee and his mates, they are zany, weird and only sing and talk about fish. The band consists of Frank, Mick, The Sarge, Opah Soffe, and Ray 'Binky' Manta - all playing bass (not the fish) drums, keyboards, guitar and singing on a sort of rota basis. "I portray a character in each song" says Frank, "infact, for our incarnation of King Neptune track I play four - Jacques Cousteau, the Devil of Pollution and Greed, Mr. Clean, and a Referee, during which the referee fights the devil.
"I've got a new guitar with four necks made for me by Mick. It's codstumised and called a Findus Bert Reynoldsacaster". It must produce a good sound. Radio stations in Edinburgh, Stoke on Trent, Reding and Oxford are playing the new Fish single.
Frank is the sort of guy who appears to be in a world of his own. He showed me photos of their Holland gigs and rattled on about fish until the subject wasa coming out of my ears. I asked what advice they would give to budding bands and musicians. Then a sort of cold, heartfelt seriousness came over Mr. Fish. "My philosophy is keep on trying. Oxford drastically lacks reasonable or good venues to play in and with thousands of young people and students coming to the city each year, there is something very wrong indeed. Record companies are only interested in 'in vogue' music so talent falls by the way a lot of the time for junk and hype to flow through which is very sad."
They certainly have their sights on being a professional outfit. Their music is intricate and well written but the most ridiculous lyrics I have ever heard. They are showmen and showmen they will always be. All the success they have in Holland is well deserved.

The LP ends with the wild-men antics of Frank Fish and the Fins bewailing an excess of salt and vinegar oon their fish and chips, and exploring the mysteries of the deep. They align themselves with the great British eccentrics and the likes of Frank Zappa with such lines as: "I minced across the sand dunes wiggling both my hips, true happiness for me is eating fish and chips."

Quite frankly, there's something fishy happening on the Oxford music scene. Frank Fish and the Fins, the city's maddest rock band, have been making waves on the local pub and club circuit for a couple of years. Now they're hoping to net a new catch of fun-loving Fins fans and maybe even chart a course to splash-hit pop chart success. The bait? The band's first single release - which naturally has a fishy flavour!
The Living World of Sea Creatures (Makes Me want to Whistle) jumps out of the water and into the shops this week on the independent - and cannily named - new Red Herring label. The Fins hope their vinyl debut will lauch them on a voyage to discovery by the big fish of Britain's music industry. The Fins are front man and guitarist Frank Fish, singer and guitarist Mick 'Stickle' Clack, drummer Simon Mills and bass guitarist Jerry 'Opah' Soffe. Also contributing to the background vocals on the single are Mick's dog Snakehead and Jerry's dog Eggar! It's a very catchy tune.

Saturday night at the Jericho Tavern saw the full FF and the Fs line-up pumping out their usual celebration of the living world of sea creatures -again to a capacity audience. The strength of the band has always been their sense of humour and a determination to put on an imaginative and lively stage show. On Saturday they were as silly and superb as ever. Mr. Fish went through a series of quick costume changes to give us a mad professor, a crazed viking and a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Fins' musical hero Johnny Winter. Frank himself was without his trousers for most of the gig. Not a pretty sight but nothing out of the ordinary for him. What was a little over the top was his behaviour at the climax of the show when he smashed his electric guitar to pieces. Steady on Frank!