About Suffering Fools

The following information about SUFFERING FOOLS is presented in the popular "Frequently Asked Questions" format.  If we're frequently asked any other questions, we'll include them here.

 

 

Who are Suffering Fools?

 

Suffering Fools were formed by a chemical reaction between a tungsten filament and a smoked kipper. We operate on a variable frequency between 10-40,000 Hz, depending on the humidity.

• Fool 1 is our producer/engineer and supplies drums and miscellaneous sound defects.
• Fool 2 plays keyboards and other stuff and is the only one who knows anything.
• Fool 3 plays guitars and other stuff with great feeling and without an excess of skill.
• All of us sing, Fool 3 more than necessary.

 

How long have Suffering Fools been together?

 

It depends on how you measure time.  We've been together for a lot of milliseconds but very few epochs.  Some would argue that we're still not together.  We've been suffering fools all our lives, but we've been using the name Suffering Fools since 2003.

 

What names did you have before Suffering Fools?

 

Those would include Gentle Pipe, Shameful Shoe, Believe Anything, Various Artists, and Wasteband.  We like to think they were all pointing inevitably toward Suffering Fools in some tiresome Heideggerian way.

 

Is Speaking of Biscuits your first official release?

 

In a word, yes.  But we've procrastinated a long time in releasing it, so the second one shouldn't be far off.  The hundreds of albums by "Various Artists" we don't claim as our own.

 

What exactly is the song "Infant Fever" about?

 

Catching a fever from an infant.  What else would it be?

 

Why don't you do social networking sites like SpaceFace and Blither?

 

It's just a personal preference, the way some people don't do self-flagellation or rat poison.  We do real life occasionally, though.