FESTIVALS ETC.

SmashBash Music Festival (2011)

SLC Freedom Festival (2011)

Uncle Uncanny's Music Festival (2011)

City Weekly Music Awards Showcase (2011)

Utah Arts Festival (2010)

Uncle Uncanny's Summer Session (2010)

Music @ Main (2010)

SLUG Localized (2010)

Radio Not Included (2010)

Ogden Rock Fest (2010)

Earth Jam (2010)

Uncle Uncanny's Music Festival (2010)

Ogden Arts Festival (2009)

Ogden Arts Festival (2007)

TOUR SUPPORT

The Builders and the Butchers

Morning Teleportation

Or, The Whale

Howlies

Mr. Gnome

Mark Mallman

Leopold and His Fiction

The Growlers

The Black Arrows

The Black Clouds

The Thermals

Dark Meat

The Beat Seekers

System and Station

Hypnogaja

DJ Logic

Sister Monk

Boom Chick

Sam Vicari

As a People

Philip Gibbs

PSYCH WITH SOUL

Back in 2006, in a small town called Ogden, four men came together on a Monday to start a band who already had a show booked for the following Friday. And so set the pace for the rise of Fox Van Cleef’s vision of music gone mad, gone dancing and gone fishing for years to come.

Pairing two very eccentric and opposing guitars, those of Hodshire and Bessire, as well as Bessire’s unique and soul-stained voice, with the steady brew of grooves that Baur’s nimble fingers pulled out of his bass strings created a perfect bed for drummer maestro Froling to excel with his brand of jazzy hip-hop spiced joints. The tempo bursting antics and desire to try anything musically, was at first met with some confusion and odd stares from the local crowds in Utah, but like all great wines and cheeses, all Fox Van Cleef needed was some aging, and maturing.

In 2008 Fox stormed into Archive Studios in the city of Salt for what would be the first of two EP’s. That year saw the release of Cigarettes, Terrorism, Etc., an unusually long short player with several classic tracks the band had crafted over the years (‘Torpedo’, ‘Lies’, ‘Chestnut BOOM!’) as well as newer tracks like ‘Lyle the Man’. Cigarettes garnered Fox Van Cleef much recognition in the press as well as local radio play and spins from around the globe on internet radio stations. This also saw the off the wall studio-bred ideas of Baur and Hodshire, who would continue to compose such spur of the moment fragments with 2009’s Pleasure Junkies.

In between such barn burners as ‘Red’ and ‘Somethin’ 'bout the Way’, and the dark jazz of ‘Dizzy’ the boys expanded into realms of country, hip hop, and punk rock in interludes that illustrated individual member’s compositions.

In the time between studio dates, adding the mad keyboards of Newey as well as Mouse’s saxophone riots, the Fox began to catch wind and growing favor in the Utah scene. Fox was chosen to play the Uncle Uncanny’s Music Festival two years running, the Utah Arts Festival, Earth Jam, Freedom Fest, and venues and bars all over the top of Utah. This also led to a west-coast tour, the aptly named Deficit Explosion Tour, which took the band through San Francisco, Santa Monica, Las Vegas and more. On the road the band was met with enthusiastic crowds and delighted old drunk guys.

2011 finds Fox Van Cleef back in the studio laying down tracks for the first LP: Prescription Tea Party. Fox was thrilled to once again work with Wes Johnson of Archive Recordings, who bravely manned the boards and put up with the excesses exhibited in previous recording sessions with style and cool. The LP is now available for digital download and will be on the shelves soon at Graywhale locations. 2011 also saw Fox Van Cleef receive an artist of the year nomination for the City Weekly Music Awards.

Though the band remains in Ogden, Fox has none the less been crucial in helping shape the emerging psychedelic rock scene based mainly in Salt Lake City. With fellow minded bands and brothers-and-sisters-in-arms like Red Dog Revival, Hip White People, Max Pain and the Groovies, Spell Talk and Dirty Blonde; the boys hope to forge a huge, all encompassing, all welcoming scene that covers all musical and artistic realms and supports every person’s creative endeavors.

Fox Van Cleef has supported many touring bands over the years including The Builders and the Butchers, Morning Teleportation, Or, The Whale, Howlies, Mr. Gnome, Mark Mallman, Leopold and His Fiction, The Growlers, The Black Arrows, The Black Clouds, The Thermals, Dark Meat, The Beat Seekers, System and Station, Hypnogaja, DJ Logic, Sister Monk, Boom Chick and others.