Discography   Kaleidoscope 2007 Yoru Vietnam EP 2005 "The Spectacular View..." EP 2004     Band Contact: firsttimefallen@gmail.com Bookings / Press: Kirby C&B Recs firsttimefallen@gmail.com  or Click here for First Time Fallen One Sheet

Jan 19th 2008: First Time Fallen Calls It Off...For a While Theres a lot to be said for duration. It dictates that much will change in the world over the period of any given time and as the world changes so do you. First Time Fallen has been at "it" for the better part of 7 years now and as we all gathered to discuss what we as a band and friends wanted for FTF, it came out that though we all care about the band and playing for all of you, all of us need some time away from FTF to regroup, focus on ourselves and live a life beyond the band. This isn't to say we are gone for good. But like any other relationship we need time away to see what it is we all want from life in general. I wish there was an easier way for it to be and my original plan was to write up this whole story about how so and so slept with so and so's Mom and then his sister, so they got back at them by boning their dog, or it was all Matt Bailies fault ...or sumthing. But the bottom line is we're taking a break for us and when we do get back to it, whenever that is, it'll be right. Thanks to all of you out there who listen to us and make us part of your lives. We'll talk to you when we get back. First Time Fallen ***We wont be playing any of the shows still posted on the site, please disregard the listing, I've tried deleting them but they are still up there. What you can do while your here: Check out EVERY First Time Fallen Song  - Thats right, everything we've ever released is up here. Fire up this player while your sitting at your compy and rock out with tha cock out. Just click here FIRST TIME FALLEN Bio   On First Time Fallen's full-length debut, Kaleidoscope, the songs are as multi-faceted and unpredictable as the patterns that emerge from the rotating optical instrument. The progressive rock band from Burlington, ON, lets its songs form naturally and play out as if they had minds of their own. “We used to be more straight up rock, but have now moved away from too many standard structures,” says lead singer/guitarist John Kirby. “Some basic pop formats still appear on this album, but it's a bit more free-form.” From the atmospheric-to-raging “Murder Of A Storeowner On A Dark City Street” to the mercurial “Your Vietnam” and impassioned rockers “Entertained” and “Crosses and Badges” the album is an intense and ear-bending trip. After releasing two EPs, 2004's The Spectacular View From The Ground To The Sky (which sold 500 copies locally) and 2005's Your Vietnam Live, First Time Fallen — rounded out by guitarist John Nunes, bassist Jason Hunter and drummer Randy Telo — hunkered down to work on the full album. “We put the live EP out because we knew we were going to take a little bit of time to finish writing and people were in school,” explains Kirby. First Time Fallen had won some recording time in 2005 from the DC Music Battle of the Bands and used it to track drums at DC Studios in Mississauga, ON. They recorded the rest of the 12 songs (11, plus a “hidden track,” represented by a simple line on the back of the album) in the basement studio of Jason's parents' house in Burlington. All four band members learned how to use Pro Tools and engineered each other's tracks. “The summer before, we bought all the gear with the intention of demoing and learned as we went,” says Kirby. “We knew we weren't coming out with a Bob Rock huge production CD. We knew it was going to be a grassroots independent D.I.Y. kind of thing.” If they got stressed, they'd go for a smoke or a talk. It was during the warmer months, so it was all pretty chill, but it was a long and arduous process, starting in May, 2006 and ending in October. “ I think that's why we got...not bored with it, but we just got to the point where we wanted it out,” says Kirby, who did the final edits in his room on his MacBook. They then took the self-produced album to Justin Koop (Silverstein, BurnThe8Track) to help them mix at his B Town Sound studio, also in Burlington. Kirby says the music was written first for the 12 songs on Kaleidoscope. “That's the way we've done it since we were in high school,” he explains (the band line-up was solidified in 2001). “We write the music and then I'll put words to it, based on an appropriate vibe. We then go back and change the music and work on it as a whole. Sometimes, the songs are way too long and it dilutes what I'm trying to say, so we'll start editing.” He doesn't talk to his bandmates much about his lyrics. He feels the explanation often gets too convoluted. The inspiration for them comes from real and imagined places. The simpler songs seem to be about ex-girlfriends. The title-track is about trying for an outcome that never happens, and “Stop. Listen” is a about all the things you wanted to say but didn't. But then there's more atypical subjects. A war history buff, Kirby wrote “Your Vietnam” after seeing the image of General Colin Powell holding up anthrax during his “weapons of mass destruction” argument in front of the UN Security Council in 2003. “I had read Mien Kampf and Hitler was talking about how every generation should experience a war and I figure this is our Vietnam,” Kirby says. In “Crosses And Badges,” Kirby writes of moral battles. “What you are capable of doing and what you will and won't do, if you could do anything you want without consequence and not worry about,” he explains, “but ultimately you've got those rules and guidelines and laws of governing yourself, not just from society.” And in “Murder Of a Storeowner On A Dark City Street,” he imagines a scenario where a shopkeeper is closing for the night and encounters a man in a suit, whose life has spiraled out of control. “The shopkeeper either bumps into him or something else transpires and this guy who's walking by snaps,” Kirby says. “It's about that point where you cross that threshold and there's no turning back and he ends up killing the guy and leaves him there to die.” Kirby says First Time Fallen will tour and make a video, but isn't thinking about radio and record deals. “We're destined to always be outside,” he says. “I love pop music with really catchy hooks, but we don't go, ‘Hey, we have to write a single.' We don't throw in a hook for the sake of it. Zeppelin had the same thing with ‘Whole Lotta Love,' where it just came out just the way the song was meant to be. We just end up with songs the same way.” Karen Bliss RollingStone.com, aol Canada, Billboard.com, UR, Canoe/Jam, Elle Canada, Movie Entertainment, Words & Music, Access, etc...