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Hope & Social
Background information
OriginLeeds, England
MembersSimon Wainwright
Rich Huxley
Ed Waring
Jason Miller
Ash

Four Day Hombre are an active five-piece rock band from Leeds, England.

They tour extensively, and March 13 2006 saw the nationwide release of their debut album, Experiments in Living, through their own record label, Alamo Music.

The publicity activities accompanying the release of this album, along with the unusual history of Alamo Music, have raised the profile of the band considerably during 2006. On February 7 2006 they played a half-hour session on the Janice Long show on BBC Radio 2, which featured a number of live acoustic performances as well as a discussion with the band. The album release was followed by a tour of Barfly venues around Britain.

Members

  • Simon Wainwright – Vocals and guitar
  • Rich Huxley – Guitar and vocals
  • Ed Waring – Keyboards
  • Jason Miller – Bass
  • Ash – Drums

Discography

Given in chronological order of release.

Early demos

Four Day Hombre

Self-recorded demo, 2000. Available on CD only; no catalogue number.

Track listing
  1. "Tenth White Lie"
  2. "Crying Shame"
  3. "Christina's Song"
  4. "Poor Substitute"
  5. "Little Ditty"
  6. "It's Happening to Me"
  7. "Oh Katherine"

Live 2000

Self-recorded demo, 2000. Available on CD only; no catalogue number.

Track listing
  1. "Needed to Know"
  2. "Small Talk"
  3. "Don't Tell Me Now"
  4. "Waiting for the Sun"
  5. "Allow Me"
  6. "Trace My Way"
  7. "Friends Like You"
  8. "Childrens' Shoes"

Official releases

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Front cover of A Night at the Theatre

A Night at the Theatre

DVD, released through Alamo Music, 2006. Catalogue number ALM DVD001.

This a live DVD, featuring the entirety of the City Varieties show from which originated the tracks accompanying "Don't Go Gently" on iTunes. This footage was directed by Mark Wordsworth, who also directed the videos for "Mr. M", "1000 Bulbs", "The First Word Is the Hardest" and "Don't Go Gently", which are on the disc amongst the accompanying special features.

Upcoming releases

Preparatory work is underway on a second album, as yet untitled and with no firm track listing or release date. It is expected that, as with Experiments in Living, this will be produced by Dave Odlum, once guitarist with The Frames, who the members of Four Day Hombre have acknowledged as having a strong influence on their early development as a band.

Alamo Music

Alamo Music is Four Day Hombre's own record label, created in 2004 due to the frustration the members of the band were experiencing in attempting to secure a major label deal which they perceived as satisfactory.

Though Alamo had a brief existence as being funded entirely through income produced by the band, an appeal in the autumn of 2004 to members of their mailing list lead to a number of fans of the band venturing the capital necessary to formalise the label, and to finance the recording and marketing of the debut album. They hence became share-holders in Alamo. This 'fan-funded' approach has produced significant publicity for the band in national and regional press. For example, an article concerning the label and its formation was featured on the front page of the BBC website on March 13, 2006, the day of release of Experiments in Living.

The name Alamo was, fairly obviously, chosen in reference to the Battle of the Alamo. A quote from William Barret Travis, commander of the Texan forces at this battle, is printed on the inside of Experiments in Living: "I shall have to fight the enemy on his own terms."

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