10 Things You Didn't Know About: Funeral For a Friend.
1. "Funeral For a Friend" (Love Lies Bleeding) is the opening track on Elton John's '73 album "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road".
2. Guitarist Darren Smith used to play in another band from the South Wales Scene called Dopamine: www.dopaminemusic.com
3.The other guitarist Kris Roberts had to have an ingrowing toenail removed shortly before their US tour, which acounts for the fact that he's wearing pool shoes in all the pictures.
4. Drummer and co-vocalist Ryan Richardson is possibly the biggest ever fan of the "Rocky" movies. Hence the photos of FFAF sodding about on the same steps in Philadelphia that Stallone famously ran up.
5. When they played London's Garage, a girl came up to bassist Gareth Davies and said: "Hi i'm your cousin Stephanie" Gareth didn't even know he had a cousin Stephanie.Weird.
6. Frontman Matt Davies used to work in a record store in Bridgend until he realised he didn't like it there, and so he ploughed all his savings into his own record store.
7. Ryan was a customer services operator for a mobile phone company and sat there with his headset on listening to people bitching all day. He says those customers were basically the bane of his life. He still wears a headmic in FFAF.
8. The whole band are planning to get "job dodger" tattoos just like the one that Nathan Gray from Boysetfire has.
9. Matt never really considered himself straight-edge but he didn't used to drink. Until he went to the Metal Hammer Golden God Awards, where he got so drunk he had to be taken home and he's never looked back since.
But the best fansite address is: www.lineinyourbook.com The name for this fansite comes from lyrics featured in FFAF's song Juneau. 
