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'''Rich Fownes''' is the guitarist for the British rock band The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster and current multi-instrumentalist for [[Nine Inch Nails]]. He has also played guitar live with $cissors and UNKLE.
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'''Rich Fownes''' (born October of 1983) is the guitarist for the British rock band The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster and current multi-instrumentalist for [[Nine Inch Nails]]. He has also played guitar live with With $cissors and UNKLE.
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==Career==
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Fownes was born and raised in London and moved to Brighton at the age of 19. At 12, he took up guitar after first listening to Nirvana and lists [[Dave Grohl]] as one of his biggest influences. It wasn't until Fownes arrived in Brighton that his career began to take off. He became the guitarist for With $cissors and later joined the Eighties B-Line Movie disaster, catching the attention of UNKLE at a stadium performance opening for System Of A Down. The band was invited to play on UNKLE's 2007 album and joined them on tour, scoring an opening gig for Nine Inch Nails in [[2007/09/05 Tel Aviv, Israel|Tel Aviv]].
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In late 2007/early 2008, Fownes received an e-mail from NIN founder [[Trent Reznor]], inviting him to Los Angeles to audition for the latest live incarnation of Nine Inch Nails. Fownes was announced as a new addition to the band on April 4, 2008.
  
 
==Body of Work==
 
==Body of Work==
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===With $cissors===
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*''Chickenhawk/I Breathe The Spears'' split EP (2007; Milliepeed)
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*''Take A Worm For A Walk Week/Orion Arm'' Split EP (2008; Nocixel/Small Town)
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===The Eighties B-Line Movie Disaster===
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*''In The Garden'' EP (2007; No Death/Degenerate)
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===UNKLE===
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*''War Stories'' (2007; Surrender all)-unreleased track
  
 
==External Links==
 
==External Links==

Revision as of 23:16, 7 April 2008


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Instruments:Bass/Guitar
Active:2008–
Tours:Performance 2008

Rich Fownes (born October of 1983) is the guitarist for the British rock band The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster and current multi-instrumentalist for Nine Inch Nails. He has also played guitar live with With $cissors and UNKLE.

Contents

  • 1 Career
  • 2 Body of Work
    • 2.1 With $cissors
    • 2.2 The Eighties B-Line Movie Disaster
    • 2.3 UNKLE
  • 3 External Links

Career

Fownes was born and raised in London and moved to Brighton at the age of 19. At 12, he took up guitar after first listening to Nirvana and lists Dave Grohl as one of his biggest influences. It wasn't until Fownes arrived in Brighton that his career began to take off. He became the guitarist for With $cissors and later joined the Eighties B-Line Movie disaster, catching the attention of UNKLE at a stadium performance opening for System Of A Down. The band was invited to play on UNKLE's 2007 album and joined them on tour, scoring an opening gig for Nine Inch Nails in Tel Aviv.

In late 2007/early 2008, Fownes received an e-mail from NIN founder Trent Reznor, inviting him to Los Angeles to audition for the latest live incarnation of Nine Inch Nails. Fownes was announced as a new addition to the band on April 4, 2008.

Body of Work

With $cissors

  • Chickenhawk/I Breathe The Spears split EP (2007; Milliepeed)
  • Take A Worm For A Walk Week/Orion Arm Split EP (2008; Nocixel/Small Town)

The Eighties B-Line Movie Disaster

  • In The Garden EP (2007; No Death/Degenerate)

UNKLE

  • War Stories (2007; Surrender all)-unreleased track

External Links

  • The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster's official MySpace page
  • Fownes' MySpace page
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