Adam Follett 16

@adforperu 

Chesterfie UK   Jan 2011

adfollett.bandcamp.com  

Artist Bio

Influences:   Dorian Electra and Joan Armatrading

He/him

2022; aka FAWM #12!

What's new since last year?

Me and @judypie bought a house together, so a new environment for songwriting and recording. Our offices/studios are now next door rooms so we'll see how the logistics work in that regard...

I have joined a new band (very early days) as a guitarist and as such have purchased some new pedals and an amp. I'm hoping to record some mic'd up amp noize but it might be too noisy in the house, we'll see.

I've done a fair bit of recording over the year, mostly covers but it's kept me warmed up ready for February.

I'm still hosting a weekly radio show which I love doing, I've interviewed some amazing and talented people; you can listen to past episodes over here: https://www.mixcloud.com/deepcutssheffield/

11 previous FAWM albums here: adfollett.bandcamp.com

My wondrous partner @judypie is FAWMing again (hopefully anyway, feel free to shame her into it), so go see her please.

Thanks in advance for the comments, I try and comment back to everyone that comes to say hey and comments on a song, even if it's a little belated. Good luck everyone!

I love collaborating but can't make any promises or guarantees, and I do already have people in mind.. but you never know.

1st March: 14 done! 12 out of 12 FAWM wins! Huge thank you to @bigmood, @balancelost, @tangle, @susyblue, and @hanley for the collabs, each one was an absolute dream! Thanks to everyone who has left a comment, honoured and bemused that you'd spent your time listening to my stuff. I will be around to catch up on my commenting!

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  • @santadharma Mar 2022

    One of these days...that's cool that you're in a band though. Keep us posted!!!

  • @sailingmagpie  Mar 2022

    Right back at ya on the commenting. I've really enjoyed your stuff this year. Definitely been an up and down one for me this time around though.
    You've probably forgotten but you asked how I made that distant orchestra sound on my Ukraine song. It's just the BBC Orchestra vst (the free one, obviously because I'm a cheapskate!). Then I just put...checks settings...a metric fuckton of reverb on it.

  • @santadharma Mar 2022

    What's your new band's name?

  • @fonte  Mar 2022

    Ha yeah good point! Hopefully next year will be an actual thing... if it is I will be here, synthesiser at the ready.

  • @sorby69  Mar 2022

    Thanks Ad! It was fun to add a harmony to @cleanshoes 's song.

  • @fonte  Mar 2022

    Absolutely blown away again by your output this FAWM. Thanks so much, really inspiring. Quality is insane! I’m going for another deep listen this week. I’d say let’s try a collab next year but I don’t think you need me and I have no idea what I’d bring to the party! :-)

  • @br0th3rh00d Mar 2022

    @mikedebenham - took me all year! But it's here! On this basis I have added it as a collab without Adam's say so for this year, but I'm sorry if that's too much of a liberty. I had tried to get him/someone to claim it - but it perhaps needs vocals if someone wanted to extract the wav from chromelabs. Or start again! The words are just suggested by the melody so far (or vice versa). Anyone else can have another go if they like, I'm not precious! I apologise for my efforts.

  • @mikedebenham  Feb 2022

    Any update on the Helen Mirren situation?

  • @judypie  Feb 2022

    >:-( UR MOM sounds like Carly Rae Jepsen

  • @sorby69  Feb 2022

    Thanks @adforperu - alas I didn't record that guitar part and/or drum track anywhere except the tape, so I don't have a copy of it to send you guys - sorry! I'd be happy to re-recod it propery to my DAW over something suitable so you can hear roughly how it started life :)

  • @sorby69  Feb 2022

    Adam! My god your voice & lyrics on our 4-track Tape #6 are beyond amazing! Sterling work my friend.

  • @iwilleatyou Feb 2022

    Julie and I were first

  • @intoyourlight  Feb 2022

    Thank you so much for your comment, I’m happy you liked the song :) yes that’s a good advice, I‘m actually in a colab right now and it really motivates you again :D

  • @halfwayhome  Feb 2022

    Cheers Ad for you official review of 'Lost in the Woods' - honoured to be mentioned in the same breath as Tomorrow's Modern Boxes in any context! Yeah, it's not a massive hooky song, but quite fun to listen to on a late-night headphone session....

  • @drivebylovefest Feb 2022

    OOPS! Thanks for the heads up <3

  • @bigmood Feb 2022

    Ahh yess bless u for that Tierra whack reference!! She's the best. Really appreciated your comment :)

  • @shortdan  Feb 2022

    Great minds - I recorded a version of those bits exactly like you suggested first but I couldn't work out how to stop it interfering with the next line so I redid it the way it is now!

  • @tangle Feb 2022

    Thanks man! This does feel kind of unnervingly straightforward for me and I wanted to add piano and an ice crunching effect and and and but just had to let it gooooo. Thanks for listening. :)

  • @ryako  Feb 2022

    I've basically got 4 more songs to wrap up this story/D&D session, so I need to make sure everything progresses to a certain point. No worries if you can't listen or follow along, but I appreciate what you've said so far!

  • @vomvorton  Feb 2022

    I did consider throwing the guitar solo through the pitch shifter! But then realised I was quite lazy.

  • @intoyourlight  Feb 2022

    Oh and I’ll listen to your songs as song as I have some time to do so!

  • @intoyourlight  Feb 2022

    Thank you so much for your comment on „change of weather“ and the other songs as well! Very happy that you enjoyed them :)
    I don’t know either what the scale is, I play by ear most of the time, but yes it is a bit eerie :)

  • @guatecoop  Feb 2022

    Oh hello there....I finally got here for some listening! all muzak this year, eh? hmmm.. I doubt that highly.

  • @kendrakinsey  Feb 2022

    Okay, Julia holter, I’ve heard a few of these— love it!

  • @kendrakinsey  Feb 2022

    Thanks so much!! Julia Holter, I’ll have to look it up. Thanks

  • @judypie  Feb 2022

    I am glad to hear that cos that’s exactly the woman I was trying to channel :D

  • @thesoundof Feb 2022

    Thanks! For the comment and the egg slicer pun. I love puns, puns are simply awesome! :)

  • @melaniepegge Feb 2022

    Oh and I loved what you said about the guy walking across Wales in a straight line. Such a great image to connect to my song.

  • @melaniepegge Feb 2022

    Thanks for your lovely comment on my song. Hope you're having a good fawm!

  • @scottlake Feb 2022

    Are you a W0rd1e fan as well? Letters disguised so as to not give a spoiler

  • @ddd Feb 2022

    Thanks for your comment on The Duel

  • @halfwayhome  Feb 2022

    Hey man, thanks for putting your ear to my music - really appreciate all the wise words and getting a chance to experience the listening experience through someone else. Can sometimes be a bit disorientating listening to the same song a hundred times - and trying to maintain any confidence that something isn't just worthy of this world simply because it's been on repeat for the last four hours!
    And spotted I'm now on your watchlist. No pressure there then ;)

  • @bigmood Feb 2022

    hey, I'd love to collab with you! down for acoustic or electronic, whatever sounds good to you. Could be nice to do a sweet lil acoustic tune?

  • @jdschramm Feb 2022

    Thanks for the kind words on Your Eyes! Love all the stuff you are putting on FAWM this year. Keeping us all inspired :)

  • @sorby69  Feb 2022

    Hey Ad - thanks for the kind words about my song! It's really not the kind of song I'd normally - but I suppose that's what FAWM's about eh?

  • @shortdan  Feb 2022

    Yeah... I'd noticed that the lower register stuff disappears. In another year I'd have messed about until the wee hours with some volume automation (or beefed it up with an extra pass or two) but it's just finding the time this year! Might fix it post FAWM (but probably won't!).

  • @doeeyes  Feb 2022

    Haha definitely wasn't accusing you of nicking actual Rumpus tunes! But the style was right there in the first loud bit.

    ...

    Now you'll have to do it again a bunch to sate my appetite :)

  • @sapient  Feb 2022

    Thanks so much for listening!
    The secret to that modal ambiguity is.... making it all up as I go along!
    I have very little in the way of a foundation in music theory. I just put my fingers on different frets until I get a sound that I like. With those levels of gain, three note chords usually do the trick, though throwing in an octave above or below does wonders to thicken things up.
    Guitar solos always take me ages to figure out becuase my default is the good ol' minor pentatonic, and then I find that there will be a note that goes, "Oi! NO!" at me and I have to spend ages noodling to find out why... ;)

  • @atam94  Feb 2022

    Oh man, I appreciate my song's comparison to Explosions In The Sky, so thank you for the comment!

  • @vomvorton  Feb 2022

    Just outing yourself as a one-time listener like it's NOTHING? Brave. Yes the lead lines are the synth, but put through the same fuzz pedal!

  • @ddd Feb 2022

    Thanks for your comment on Baby I Got You.

  • @nahlej381  Feb 2022

    Thanks for the kind words. I do like listener so I’ll take that as a compliment for sure!

  • @zecoop  Feb 2022

    I would love to hear a long list radio transmission come in… that’s why I am hoping people (like you) do something with these loops and add/make stuff!

  • @radiobenedetto  Feb 2022

    Thanks for the thoughtful listen to Opening Closing Remarks. I knew it! I was influenced by that space thread as well. At various times I had a muted guitar, an additional bass line, and even brass in the final section. I stripped all that away and I think the song is better for it.” Agree with vocal effect taking up the sonic field … especially after hearing it on different speakers now. It was over the line anyway but I threw a stereo spread on late in the mixing when my ears were already beat and it just exacerbated it.

  • @skylermf  Feb 2022

    Hey thanks for your comment! I have been having a lot of issues getting my tracks to a normal volume, I’ll try your audacity tip!

  • @balancelost  Feb 2022

    It's "Please don't make me choose between all of these canoes". If you can't even get the lyrics to my most famous song right how will you ever memorise my b-sides

  • @zecoop  Feb 2022

    Karl mentioned Verve… yet another band I sound like that I have never heard. Blur was another. I missed a lot of 90’s bands when our kids were little, lol. I was also in a big time alt-folk phase back then. I loved a few but missed a bunch.

  • @jackdawfactories  Feb 2022

    It’s always guitar time.

    BAM

  • @zecoop  Feb 2022

    So, two people mention Sigus Ros… I guess that means Is better go listen to them, lol. I have heard of them but have never heard them. And yes, the JHS 3 Fuzz was on the baritone guitar and had the solos in the first and last part. The Jazzmaster played the middle solo sans fuzz (just the amp’s crunch)

  • @ddd Feb 2022

    Thanks for your comment on Accumulation Game.

  • @ryako  Feb 2022

    LOL I was just uploading a better file! It should work now!

  • @mikedebenham  Feb 2022

    AF! I just realised that every single letter of your name is a musical note. Except the M, the O, the L, the other L, the T, and the other T. Weird, eh?

  • @vomvorton  Feb 2022

    I'M ASSUMING the pizza was a "bit cardboardy" but I couldn't find a way to organically fit that into the lyric.

  • @sci Feb 2022

    there might be a chance that I'm around this year. who is to say, really?

  • @cipapilio Feb 2022

    Well hello there squire! Nice to be on board now, just to get something written!

  • @kissinginpublic  Feb 2022

    FFFFAAAAAWWWWM

  • @badgag Feb 2022

    Hey, Thanks! Looking forward to hearing your stuff!

  • @hanley  Feb 2022

    Well if it isn’t DJ Chef Deep Cutz (aka DC/DC).
    Looking forward to your aural culinary delights, satisfying our cravings for Post-Neo-Metal-Folk, Future-Wave-Gregorian-Cha-Cha-Chants and Soft-Spoken-Nu-Noise-Jazz-EDM.

  • @susyblue  Jan 2022

    Oh yeah

  • @heidiserwer  Jan 2022

    Hiiiii! Happy FAWMing!

  • @ryako  Jan 2022

    Hey, nerd! Nice to see you, too.

  • @zecoop  Jan 2022

    Go to the thrift store and grab some old commercial tapes, tape up the hole on top and record over them. :)

  • @gregthehero Jan 2022

    He must be / must have been quite well known in Manchester I suppose. I met him in Morocco, of all places, but made it up to one of the CP all-dayers back in the glory days of the mid/late 00's some time.

  • @zecoop  Jan 2022

    Yeah, I have two 424mkII (bought long before things got stupid expensive). One is going to be my dedicated loop recorder - I taped some foil over the erase head.

    Do a couple practice rounds with it pre-FAWM, though. Remember to have the levels nice and hot, near the top at all times. :)

  • @gregthehero Jan 2022

    p.s. I see we have Matthew B-G as a mutual on instagram, he used to Plan things very Carefully

  • @gregthehero Jan 2022

    Well adieu does rhyme with Peru, so in some ways it's better than your actual username. Haha.

  • @gregthehero Jan 2022

    I always thought your username was aduforperu / adieu for peru , but just realised I wrong. Adieu!

  • @zecoop  Jan 2022

    Oooohhh!!!!! And you have the very best one too! (ahem, in my personal opinion) ;) Congrats - I hope you love it!

  • @sueawesome Jan 2022

    adddddiiieeee.... if we can’t collab... give me something to dance to (you’re always so good at that)

  • @karlsburg25  Jan 2022

    Holaaa back at ya dude

  • @cts  Jan 2022

    *tossin' up the peace sign*
    Happy FAWMing - may good times be had to the fullest. I'll be around.

  • @gslade Jan 2022

    I am perpetual rockededlybon

  • @tamsnumber4  Jan 2022

    Have a great FAWM!!

  • @piney Jan 2022

    I am looking forward to hearing you again this year! Happy FAWM!

  • @chasingandromeda  Jan 2022

    haven't determined how much of a participant I will be this year but I will definitely be listening. Best of luck to you!

  • @timfatchen  Jan 2022

    Will there be a fight over who is using the office and who is using the studio at any given moment? :D Good to see you both back!

  • @paulh1237  Jan 2022

    Hello! Happy fawming. I look forward to some truely epic hammer-playing.

  • @jeustan  Jan 2022

    I discovered your songs through FAWM last year but it was March, so I don't remember if I even commented. Anyways, I REALLY liked your music. Looking forward to whatever happens in 2022. Happy FAWMing!

  • @unpronounceable  Jan 2022

    Hello friend! Looking forward to the sounds you make this year. Congrats on home ownership!

  • @fonte  Jan 2022

    Hey there, very much looking forward to hearing you this Feb :-) Good luck!

  • @johncrossman  Jan 2022

    Looking forward to the noise you make! I seem to remember a cameo from a pizza guy last year.... good stuff.

  • @cairobraga  Jan 2022

    Hiyaaaaaaaa! Happy FAWM, Adam!

  • @meatcoup85 Jan 2022

    Cheers bro! Baby and work is time consuming but I do have a plan! Let’s see!
    Obvs you will create masterpieces #itsagiven

  • @tangle Jan 2022

    Heyyyy! It's happening!!!

  • @westayedinthewater  Jan 2022

    thank u for the kind words! so glad you dig :’) I’m gna try my best to be in/stay in this year! excited to see what you got cookin…

  • @atam94  Jan 2022

    I'm not sure if I'll be doing Japan themed flashbacks for my music this year or not yet. I haven't been able to travel there since 2019 now, but I'll find other sources of inspiration for this year's FAWM, for sure.

  • @thelowestbitter Jan 2022

    the influences list hasn't even been updated yet, it's about to get even longer

  • @owl  Jan 2022

    Oh hi!!!

  • @looprication  Jan 2022

    Congratulations on all your (positive) changes! Happy FAWM and can't wait to check out your stuff m8.

  • @iwilleatyou Jan 2022

    Are you going to do a Metal song for some of that amped noize? That would be insane. If so please don't do Nu-Metal. Stick with grindcore or speed.

  • @atam94  Jan 2022

    Can't wait to hear what you create this year and welcome back!

  • @santadharma Jan 2022

    Hello! Looking forward to your cool jams and hopefully we can manage a collab again (no pressure of course!).

  • @doeeyes  Jan 2022

    Hey woah we're doing housecalls already? I can't take almost two weeks of anticipation!!

  • @loveonamixtape  Jan 2022

    Hey hey, thank you for the welcome and the congrats! Good to see you here, too and congrats to YOU all on the house and the band! Looking forward to hearing what you two come up with in y'all's new space this FAWM.

  • @kristian  Jan 2022

    I thought I had installed an Ad-blocker!

    ….

    Thank you, I’ll be here all week!

  • @zecoop  Jan 2022

    Questions that I’ve wondered about you as well… let’s just start with the 4-track.

  • @theawkwardsleep Jan 2022

    Hey. Hope the cracked ribs don’t stop you from sweet songmaking. I’m excited to hear your creations, friend!
    -ru

  • @cleanshoes  Jan 2022

    Hey! Yes, I'm here and ready to make some lovely music!

  • @guatecoop  Jan 2022

    Greetings good sir!! Always a pleasure to hear from you and I’m looking forward to hearing your music again! Happy FAWM to you! I’ll be listening.

  • @zecoop  Jan 2022

    One last thing - I seriously hope your ribs feel better soon. Take care of yourself! <3