Earthling Society biography The EARTHLING SOCIETY formed January 2004 in Fleetwood/UK when singer songwriter/guitarist Fred Laird and David Fyall met up with drummer Jon Blacow. Disillusioned with the current music trends and sharing a love of 70's progressive rock, krautrock and 60's psychedelia the band built a primitive 8 track recording studio in a corner of a disused glass factory. Influenced by their heroes Funkadelic/Ash Ra Tempel/Can/Amon Duul II and Hawkwind they were ignoring any commercial intention and started recording what became their debut album purely as they had the ability to do so.'Albion' was initially released on Mylodon Records based in Santiago, Chile in March 2005, a move that Fred Laird described as a disaster. The release however started to receive glowing praise and critical acclaim amongst the press. In June 2005 'Albion' was picked up by Hans Georg Bier, head of Berlin based psychedelic label Nasoni Records who promptly re-released it on CD and vinyl formats. By August 2005 it became album of the month on Julian Cope's website Head Heritage.Expanding their line-up with the addition of keyboard player Joe Orban EARTHLING SOCIETY began to work on the follow up entitled 'Plastic Jesus And The Third Eye Blind'. It was released after supporting Julian Cope on his 2006 Dark Orgasm tour early that summer. The band in the meantime had become firm favourites on the European and UK festival circuits and for their appearance in Berlin at the tenth anniversary of Nasoni records, Irish keyboardist Kevy Canavan joined the group on a permanent basis.The winter of 2006 saw EARTHLING SOCIETY writing and recording their third studio album, a 70 minute double LP entitled 'Tears Of Andromeda, Black Sails Against The Sky'. Again released through Nasoni it was eventually released on April 20th 2007 to co incide with their debut appearance at the Roadburn festival alongside acts such as Blue Cheer, The Melvins, Sundial and Guru Guru. A gig broadcast simultaneously live on several European radio stations.After a couple of appearances in the UK and the internet becoming littered with live and studio reviews EARTHLING SOCIETY have been in negotiations with UK based record distribution company Cargo records who officially released the band's entire back catalogue in the UK for the first time in September 2007. A live track from their Roadburn festival performance appears on the 2008 compilation album 'Under The Radar Vol. 4' and the same year their current album 'Beauty And The Beast' was published, this time with Kevy Canavan on diverse keyboards.(based on the band's wikipedia entry)