About Failure
Inimitable alternative rock band Failure have announced a special appearance at the Garage, London on Monday May 18th2015. This event will mark the band’s first performance on UK soil in 20 years.
Multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Ken Andrews had this to say about their return to the UK: “So much of the England’s musical history is in the DNA of Failure’s sound. After 17 years away, we’ve spent the last year finding our feet again as a live band as well as writing and recording our new album, The Heart is a Monster. We’re in the best form of our career and we’re now ready to bring Failure back to the UK for what is the first of many shows to come."
Failure returned from a 17-year hiatus in early 2014 with a single Los Angeles date planned. The show sold out in seconds, which led to a North American tour, including a run of dates with Tool, and eventually back to the studio. Failure formed in Los Angeles in the early ‘90s, releasing Comfort, their debut album, in 1992 via Slash Records. Magnified followed in the spring of 1994 with the band’s final offering, Fantastic Planet, released in 1996. Fantastic Planet earned a perfect 5-star score from Alternative Press with the magazine saying the album was able “to breathe life into the corpse of contemporary, guitar-driven rock,” adding that the band was “willing to stretch the definition of both their instruments and their songs.” The 17-track album is considered one of the era’s most influential and enduring rock records. Over the years, Failure has become known as a “band’s band” whose songs have been covered by such diverse artists as A Perfect Circle (“The Nurse Who Loved Me”) and Paramore (“Stuck On You"). Tool/A Perfect Circle singer Maynard James Keenan said “Failure has been a huge inspiration to me. They say amateurs borrow and professionals steal. Well over the years this pro has robbed those poor saps blind.”
