Fierce Bad Rabbit promoting new album with high-end videos and home-cooked meals

Would your favorite band cook for you? Fierce Bad Rabbit would, and a select group of their fans recently found that out firsthand. As part of a recent promotion, the band treated fans that made sizable donations to FBR’s Alchemy Project-based fundraiser by dropping by their houses and delivering an intimate live performance as well as a home-cooked meal. After all, what better way to give audience members that personal touch than becoming, at least for one night, their very own personal chefs?

Rest assured that the indie rockers spared no expense. While waiting in line for coffee before the Scene interview, band members Chris Anderson, Dayton Hicks, Alana Rolfe and Adam Pitner discussed what dish to prepare for their lucky fans. Steak is considered good, and pasta is quickly dismissed.

“No pasta,” insists Rolfe, the group’s viola player. “Pasta’s like cheating.”

Generous donors also received a special edition t-shirt, hoodie and signed CD. The deal also included a free hug, which may or may not have been delivered in group form.

FBR cooking up some new sounds

The thought and care that the band puts into rewarding their fans is as evident in their warm embraces and culinary choices as it is in their new album, Spools of Thread, which will be released on October 16. Spools, the band’s sophomore album, is an inspired sequel to the group’s self-titled debut and is largely the product of the group’s evolving chemistry.

“We recorded our first CD within the first two months of being a band,” recalls Anderson, the group’s lead vocalist and guitar player. “I basically had a bunch of material ready to go and we recorded it. [Spools] is all of us working together…the songs are something we all put together as we’d been touring and writing.”

The album is also sure to sound better than its predecessor – at least in the literal sense.

“We did it in a real studio,” notes drummer Pitner in reference to the Fort Collins-based Blasting Room Studios (which has also hosted acts like Rise Against, I Hate Kate and NOFX). “You can hear the difference of spending three weeks recording it professionally instead of one week by ourselves in someone’s garage.”

Spools’s lead single “All I Have is You” is already making waves for FBR. The song’s music video, directed by Tomas Herrera, is garnering accolades less than a year into its release after receiving the audience award for ‘Best Music Video’ at last June’s Film Festival of Colorado. The video is a stunning, bleakly-colored sequence of old photos interspersed with the group performing in formal wear. All the pictures are the band members’ own, and reflect the overlying message of the song.

“The theme was to gather all these pictures that all of us have and basically say that this is what we have in our lives,” explains Anderson. “It wasn’t like anything we’d ever done before.”

Perhaps what is most remarkable about the award-winning short is where it was shot. “We shot all of it in my parent’s garage,” proudly proclaims Pitner.

If things keep going this well, the band might need a bigger stage for the next shoot.

Find Fierce Bad Rabbit online at www.myspace.com/fiercebadrabbit.