Band Biographies: The Fods

The Fods are a transatlantic writing and recording partnership who augment their unique indie Punk rock sound with some of the most talented vocalists around.

Comprising a rotating cast of collaborators, stretching back to long-standing writing partnerships from the ’90s right through to new cohorts found in the Wild West that is the internet.

As a result, the material is eclectic, but always guitar-forward, genre-traversing, energetic tunes. Writers, performers, collaborators, and technicians contribute from anywhere across this earth, so each song will have its own individual sensation.

As of Spring 2023, The Fods entered a “write an EP in a month” challenge, the result of which was the “One To Watch” EP, named after the accolade it was awarded. The lead-off single Gil Barco was released on all streaming platforms on 14th July 2023, with the EP following on 13th October.

In late 2023, The Fods started the Don’t Argue project, which revisits the very earliest ancestry of Good Stock Records, modernising tracks recorded on 4-track tape by the band of the same name in the early 1990s. The lead single You’ve Not Got Me dropped in late Dec 2023, with the 2nd single My Fine Derangement in May 2024 and the 3rd single Volumes of Silence following in August. The project came to a noisy conclusion with the EP release on streaming services and a run of digipak CDs in September 2024.

2025 kicked off with a series of single / EP releases with new material on “side A” and archival / covers/curiosities on the B side – the first of which was The Ineffectuals / Shopping, released in Jan. After a few months of intense recording, in preparation for a full LP, the 2nd single I Get Blamed b/w What Do I Get? appeared in Sep 2025, followed by a spectacular collaboration …Is Very Much Enough? with Georgina White in October.

Monthly releases continued to the end of 2025, with A Matter of Time (ft Jay Luke) in Nov, and What (ft. Krassy from Icicle) in Dec. 2026 started off with contrasting releases – Fuel ft. NEVIN and Cold ft. Sonia Hutchinson.

May saw The Fods in punk mood again with I Don’t Hate It, ft. Yorkshire’s The Puncturists, and then the 10th and final release of the “Does Not Conform To Regulations” LP was indie banger The Still Pouring Rain with LUDIOSIS, with that single and the full album released on the same day, June 26th, 2026.

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