Gin-Soaked Yankee Drops!

FtH Group
A Subsidiary of FozCorp.

Touching ourselves and others since 2011

Press Release

For Immediate Release
Contact: Bjorn Skaptason, fozthehook@gmail.com

Chicago - June 15, 2011 - Today FtH Group, creators of Foz the Hook™ brand music, nationally recognized for producing cheerful songs about shame and disgrace, announced the release of their long-anticipated debut album Gin-Soaked Yankee and Other Disgraces. The album is available for digital download, at an introductory price of $5.00 at http://fozthehook.bandcamp.com/ .

A special release of Gin-Soaked Yankee on CD, limited, numbered, and signed, will be available for $5.00, June 15 at Cole’s Bar, 2338 N. Milwaukee Ave., in Chicago at 8:00 p.m., prior to Cole’s Amazing Gut-Busting Pee-Yourself Laughing Open Mic Featuring Cameron Esposito and Adam Burke (CAG-BP-YLOMFCEaAB). CD’s will not be available between 9:00-9:30, as FtH Group personnel will be “playing music” with “instruments” for the purposes of Comedy™. CD’s will be available again after 9:30 from FtH agents at Cole’s. Inquire after Patrick, Leon, or Olde Foz for purchase.

Gin-Soaked Yankee will officially debut at Cole’s on Friday night, June 17, at 7:00, at Cole’s Birthday Party™ (CBP). Musical impresario and noted mixologist Coleman Brice will celebrate his birthday by providing an evening of music from bands associated with Cole’s Bar.

Gin-Soaked Yankee is the result of more than a year of writing, arranging, recording, drinking, falling asleep, accidentally deleting, recording again, mixing, drinking, enabling, re-mixing, and re-recording funny music, says Olde Foz, piano player and singer. “These songs are good, I think,” said Foz, who was not speaking on the record because he did not authorize himself to speak to the press. “Leave me alone,” added Leon “Cuddle Fish” Strokes, who plays bass and also sings.

Other Chicago luminaries were effusive in their praise of Foz the Hook and Gin-Soaked Yankee. Bob Palos, a mostly sober comic says Foz the Hook “is Randy Newman with the alcoholism of Tom Waits.” Sideways-mulleted comic Cameron Esposito says, “Foz the Hook is The Muppet Show meets Tom Waits. A thinking man's funny band, Foz's tunes are pure poetic sing-a-long. The energy and conviction of the band are matched perfectly with the music's lyrical strength of force. Wanna cry while laughing about astronauts, alcohol and the moon? These are your guys. And if you don't wanna cry while laughing about astronauts, alcohol and the moon, these are the guys to change your mind.”

Foz the Hook can be seen each Wednesday night at Cole’s for CAG-BP-YLOMFCEaAB. Shows start at 9:00.

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