"Salute to The Fridays untuk lagu Retro Fashion Victims. Sarcasm kau aku suka. Owh. And your performance style too." - blogger Senandung K, on the band's performance supporting Mocca, Zouk Mainroom 17th Aug 2008

"Gila lebat...macam bagus jer..." - Our friends

"...lu sek2 emola brader.boleh masuk geng2 The fridays la.hahahahaha....fuck emo..." - One of the little charmers at Valentine's@Havana. We find this remark very, well, amusing! I mean, us? Emo? LOL

"Ini band lima bintang!" - Fathullah Luqman Yusuf

Perhaps in my view The Fridays display music which represents the voice of triumphed rejects, out casted, those who live in the corner of the class, those who don't give a fuck about the system...average daily heroes facing the already fabricated, plastic and materialistic world." - Stalin Mark of UnderOneLabel Webzine

"What the fuck is this band hanging around in i-bands? They could be the next OAG..." - Siang, Umbrella Records exec, meaning NO disrespect at all for www.i-bands.net

"One of the many promising young bands on MySpace which have really snagged my ears. An almost perfect balance of great indie melodies, with some jangle and bits of punkish barre chords for a bit of dirt. Also blessed with confident singing and songwriting (a rare quality amongst new local bands)." - Joe Kidd, RICECOOKER

"Who the hell are these guys?" - Half the crowd at I-bands Music Showcase 2, Tunestone Studio Klang, Aug 2006

"Best performance of the night. It's not easy to be the first, but these guys pulled it off. The Fridays rocked, and thank goodness their sarongs didn't come off. Easily my favourite 'real' band that night." - Joshua Chay, blogger, on the band's performance at Operation Just Cause, Sunway Lagoon, Dec 14th 2007




Why The Fridays?

The very essence of The Fridays as a name is simply an unassuming, practical name that works.

Powered by the belief that pop music can save the world, Acap F the box bedroom rebel, Adib Azhari the local pinup boy, Chey Bacteria the mild-mannered suburban punk rocker, Yan Jimbit the guitar anti-hero, M Said the brooding thinker and Wan Belon the child prodigy make up the band that according to the many testimonials by various people, might be the independent scene's best kept secret. Naive but at the same time biting, and real but at the same time soaked in dreaminess, few have left a Fridays' show without being touched in some way or another (sama ada menyampah atau suka, between the two lah).

Basically the music can be described as bad-pop-music-played-by-easily-satisfied-simpletons, but independent pop with substance, played as catchiest as possible, married with punk rock leanings in all the right places is obviously a better description. Independent pop laced with ironic optimism. Yeah, that's it.

 

email: acapfk@gmail.com
phone: 0129025460 (Acap) or 0122383014 (Yan)