This is a song describing my teenage years up north in Muskoka Canada, inspired by the photographic work of Tina Barney.

MIXED TAPE single

Running With Scissors

This was an experiment, and it may have failed horribly. I wanted to try something a little more saccharine and behold Fable found it's way to a release. I'm trying all kinds of stuff out right now. Let me know what you think.

Fable by The Ugly Fun

I had a very close friend growing up. We used to sleep on the roof of his house, make cassette tapes of our private conversations and break into the local High School on the weekends hiding from the janitors behind costumes in the drama room. In an age of social media and what seems like hyper-connectivity I can't find him anywhere. It's like he disappeared. Hope he's still alive. Our childhood friendship will always haunt me.

Bounce

A Slow Life

Sucker

Friends Without Benefits

Bathed in blue light every night of the week, I just want to get off my phone. This is another track I constructed in my tiny Toronto closet studio. Always interested in feedback, drop me a line and let me know what you think.

Ugly

Tilt

Crazy Town

Bomb

Just dropping this in advance of our show tonight at The Bovine Sex Club.

BLIND DATE

CATTLE

TOOTH AND CLAW

DEATH BY MISADVENTURE

Crisis

CRISIS

"I don't want to let you down" by The sleepovers.wav

"Stumble"  by The Sleepovers

"one man audience" by The Sleepovers

Toronto-based genre-defying producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist The Ugly Fun is
breathing new life into his music with a fresh name, vision and approach. His music is
cherry-picked from indie, garage and pop elements, with a unique guitar-led and progressive
spin. His process is one that thrives from collaboration; constantly seeking fresh and
innovative ways to tap into new avenues of creativity, and often incorporating other artistic
sources to spark inspiration - most recently connecting with the work of art photographers to
ignite refreshing musical and lyrical ideas.
Having been making music for 40 years, he has come far from his days of recording on an
old tascam Portastudio that his father would rent for him once a year. In a flurry of youthful
creativity he would use his two week rental window to scrape together crudely recorded
tapes, later gifting them to whoever would listen. A talented multi-instrumentalist, he began
his instrumental journey playing piano and drums, and later at the age of 12 found the love
for guitar when discovering a battered fake stratocaster and giving it a second chance at life.
In 2015 he launched indie garage trio The Sleepovers, playing shows and recording a few
EPs until the trio eventually went their separate ways. Inspired by the abundance of voice
notes left unfinished on his phone, he is now injecting new life into old ideas under solo and
collaborative rebrand The Ugly Fun. The result is daring, guitar-driven, lofi-injected garage
pop infusions. His debut single ‘Mixed Tape’ is out September 3rd, and is deeply inspired by
his teenage years at the lake, and influenced by the works of art photographer Tina Barney.

The Ugly Fun

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