F&M

about

F&M is a gently sardonic, dark and hopelessly clever art-folk band that began as a 48 hour experiment in recording during a fireworks festival. Delicate, glacial, heady, F&M approaches folk music with refreshing maturity and restraint. Music that breathes. F&M began in 2002 as Ryan Anderson's 48 hour experiment in self-recording. Ryan prefers to think of himself as experience-trained. He believes in the cocktail-napkin method of song-writing: a brilliant idea could hit at any moment and he has never written two songs the same way. He draws his musical inspiration from some of his favourite artists Leonard Cohen, Smog, Will Oldham, and The National, to name a few ‹ from famous playwrights like Bernard Shaw and from human experience. He was once approached after a gig and told you sing the saddest songs, but with the biggest smile! After a hiatus to travel and study, F&M grew into a collaboration between Ryan and Becky Anderson, with new music, an updated image, two additional musicians stolen from a defunct electronic-pop band, and a long lost brother to play the bass. Becky acquired formal music training on the pipe organ, but is mainly self-taught in piano, accordion, guitar and cymbeline. She is rooted in deep academic longings and completed a Masters in Soviet Russian Rock Music Culture. When performing, She has a dramatic playing style and will often leave her microphone to just walk out into the audience to sing and play the accordion acoustically. Becky draws her ins