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Ffredi Blino (pronounced Bleeno) grew up in the Southern Hemisphere, gravitating to guitar and songwriting from age 4. His first composition was “A Bare Bottom” – arguably a high point! There followed years of fronting scratchy rock’n’roll bands, with a competing pull towards melodic, acoustic folk. Home-made, lo-fi and genre-neutral, Ffredi’s new solo project mashes these sounds together with funky pop and modern Welsh influences. His multi-lingual debut album ‘The Dishwasher Tapes’ was recorded at home in September 2020 and is defined by the limited tools available: a single mic, a creaking Windows Vista laptop and no bandmates! The ethos is lo-fi, the drums are (mostly) electronic, happy mistakes are kept in, and experiments are everywhere. The influences are as diverse as: Pavement, Prince, Gruff Rhys, Talking Heads, Joni Mitchell, Lou Reed… plus a whole lot of unconscious ones which will jump out differently to different listeners. Why ‘Ffredi Blino’? It’s an invented name which reflects Ffredi’s love of linguistic word-play and gives a big nod to his adopted homeland. In Welsh, ‘wedi blino’ means ‘tired’ – you might say it in the middle of a yawn. ‘Ffredi Blino’ turns that phrase into a name – and one that a non-Welsh-speaker can have a good chance of pronouncing right at first glance!