Now a high-energy folk band for big stages and bigger crowds, Ferdinand the Bull hit the road, playing everywhere from Seattle to Los Angeles. The album spent two weeks on the NACC Top 200 chart with a peak at 130 and climbed to #8 on the College Radio charts, earning airplay on hundreds of radio stations nationwide. Inspired by the organic folk music of the band's early influences as well as the anthemic, festival-friendly sounds of Arcade Fire, Painting Over Pictures featured drums, a string quartet, horns, and electric guitars. It was followed two years later by Painting Over Pictures, an album that found Ferdinand the Bull expanding and electrifying its sound.
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We learned how to make people listen.ĭays We Forgot arrived in 2016, marking the band's full-length debut. We learned to be boisterous and to keep the energy up. They'd finish their set, and then here comes this folk band with a banjo. We were playing with a lot of punk bands and rock bands who had loud, distorted guitars. "If you wanted to play shows, you had to play in local basements. "When we started playing in Pittsburgh, there wasn't a big folk scene," Snyder remembers. Recorded nearly an hour outside of the city, Amber Skies and the Evergreen helped Ferdinand the Bull build its reputation as one of the city's premiere folk revivalists. Things began to expand with 2015's Amber Skies and the Evergreen, an EP that made room for mandolin, banjo, swooning strings, and thick stacks of harmony. The band's lineup grew over the next two years, bringing a new sense of energy and dynamics to Snyder's songs. Released in 2013, the self-produced Ella EP introduced that stripped-down sound, with Snyder handling all songwriting and instrumental duties apart from harmonica. The band was initially an acoustic project, its songs punctuated by vocal harmonies, heartland hooks, and the influence of rootsy contemporaries like The Avett Brothers.
Raised an hour from Philadelphia in Kutztown, Snyder later moved to Pittsburgh, where he launched Ferdinand the Bull in 2013. “What’s killing for him is it seems week after week someone is questioning something about Harry Maguire, and it’s quite glaring,” Ferdinand said.Press Kit/One Page // Radio Campaign “Hot Sheet”įormed by Pennsylvania-based frontman Nick Snyder, Ferdinand the Bull is an indie-folk collective rooted in big hooks, carefully crafted songwriting, and a dynamic stage show. The pundit then spoke about Maguire and why he is struggling under the United spotlight. I would sign the Uruguayan at Barcelona ,” Ferdinand told his Vibe with Five Youtube channel ( via CaughtOffside). Rio Ferdinand agrees with Man Utd pursuitįerdinand thinks Ralf Rangnick’s side should bring in Araujo, as well as another world-class star. They are ‘pushing hard’ to land the central defender as contract talks with Barca continue to stall. The Red Devils are reportedly hoping to sign Ronald Araujo from Barcelona. Me, personally, for United to go forward, that’s the starting area.”
Parker added: “I don’t know if it’s going to happen. “I think Lindelof and Varane, they could build something on there maybe, in a mode of what they’re looking for and where the club wants to be.” “If United, in my opinion, were to get somewhere near to their money back on Harry Maguire, I think they’ll have to think about it,” he told the Daily Express. And his £80million transfer fee, which remains a world-record sum for a defender, is consistently brought up.Įarlier this month, former United man Paul Parker told the club to part ways with their skipper. The England international tends to be the first port of call for criticism whenever United put in a disappointing performance. Rio Ferdinand has told Manchester United to sign two big-name centre-backs, and revealed what is ‘killing’ current player Harry Maguire.
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