TFWLADWTGLOISATTFWTSIAPAIADR immediately attracted attention from record producers even before picking up an instrument. “A blunt bunch of lad’s with good hair,” said Kevin Walters of Snap Zero records describing what attracted him to the band, “so needless to say in today’s market, they were quite sellable due to the length of their fringes.” Rufus, Cheney, and Dolf would soon be household MySpace names.
“Yeah nah, it was hard to go anywhere on the internet without people stopping you and trying to stick a trogon down your pants,” said Dolf reflecting on the MySpace announcement of their signing.
Record executives considered TFWLADWTGLOISATTFWTSIAPAIADR to be too long, so the band changed their name to Genesis. When they found out that this name was taken already, they tried to sue the Bible, but then decided that it was easier to sue Phil Collins.
Losing the legal battle they split. 10 days later they reunited as Chicken or Beef? for a farewell tour even though their career had just begun. Two months later, after a lunch date with John Farnham, they were touring again. Over the next two years the band changed their name several times including:
- Kick in the goolies
- 42 kicks to the goolies
- Some mothers like to have 'em
- Cracked screen
- Cracked screen on my iPhone
- LEGO sex
- LEGO Orgy
- LEGO on his own go
- Tonguing the gutter
- One more in the goolies
- Spoon full of kick to the face
- This will leave a mark
- Reconstructed Shoulder
- Paper cut from a tissue
- Scissor my sister
- A bitch ain't one but $3.50
- Throwing dice
- Throwing shoes
- Throwing the shoes at the band
- Band Hero
- Soft ass
- Snorting washing powder
- Bleached nose hair
- Van full of puppies
- T-shirt full of puppies
- Going going going going going somewhere fun
- Rained in at the ski fields
- Don't look at me like that
And then finally settling on Adrian Punch; the second longest serving name to date. As Adrian Punch they released 2 full length Albums and 3 EPs in 18 months; including their market breaking record “Get the Farmers in with the hammers” which was voted number 1 “Most waste of a download” in a survey composed by IT departments worldwide. None of the albums went gold, but their concerts were sell-outs.
“Yeah nah, every night we played we would sell-out within minutes”, said the lead guitarist Rufus Pufferface recalling the early glory days and the quick rise to fame.” Mostly because I only had a 3 seater couch in the lounge room, but even when I bought [the] recliner in from the veranda, there were still people we had to turn away. One day we played in the front yard [up to] almost 10 people, and the shear noise of the crowd was unreal. [It] was [scary] at times; especially since half were cops in riot gear. We got a good smoke effect from the tear gas though.”
With pressure from record companies increasing, the bonds within the band started crack. The mutual love of chicken salt was not enough to sustain the group for much longer, they needed success, and to make bail. The bonds cracked some more, and finally they broke.
“Yeah nah, the band had to have sometime apart. We were spending up to 8 hours a week with each other, sometimes that was in one day” speaks Cheney Noise the bands lead singer. “People in the boring world wouldn’t know what it’s like spending 8 hours with someone. It gives you the shits.”
This hiatus would last the good part of six weeks with the three band members taking on different projects. Dolf would take up breeding pigeons, Rufus grain farming and animal rights, and Cheney pigeon shooting. Naturally this would lead to more arguments and the eventual official split of the band. The outpouring of emotion of their MySpace page was overwhelming for the group.
“Yeah nah, we had at least 17 comments after the announcement; some girl even topped herself,” said Rufus.
“Was that in retaliation to the band splitting?”
“No, but I’d like to think so.”
When the ex-band members got together and delivered a “sorry to the family” message on YouTube for the loss, the family was quite stunned
“We’d never even heard of Adrian Punch,” said the mother.
The post attracted over a million hits and re-kindled interest in the band.
“Yeah nah, with interest in our fringes once more and the health fad in McDonalds over, people wanted to hear the salty sounds of our punk. But the stigma attached to us was too [fucked],” said Rufus. So naturally they did what they do best; they changed their name once more.
Returning to the world as Three Fools Who Laugh at Death, as homage to their humble beginnings, the band returned better than before. They released “Nipples below the seams”, a full length album that contained the hit single “Chicken should be handled with a strict pants policy” and the theme song from the internet animated series Conan. The band is now playing at actual venues and has even discussed getting someone to play bass.
“Yeah nah, I’m not that keen on the idea personally, salted punk is meant to be almost bass-less because it needs to be pumped out shit speakers at punk volumes. I want people to tinny the shit of it,” says Rufus.
“What do the other band members think?”
“Thinking is not a skill”
“What is then?”
“Fringes and putting on the right amount of chicken salt.”
Three Fools Who Laugh at Death is touring. Check out that creepy guy out the front with the trench coat for tickets. Hope that he isn’t a cop.
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