Not sure what to say. I like the fact that you center on the major problem, which is, the lack of new music. There are a lot of angry confused fans at the moment. Someone actually said in a comment that INXS knew this new direction would mean that they would lose the JD Fortune Fans. I hope this isnt't the case because it means you let us waste the last 6 years following the last new direction . Are you trying to say Pretty Vegas, Afterglow, Devils Party and Gods Top Ten ment Nothing?
Queen faced a similar issue I guess, after Freddie Mercury passed away - Queen have toured with heaps of different artists and a few of the original Queen band members have come out from behind their instruments to sing lead in concert. I've seen a clip of Andrew Farriss sing and perform "By Your Side" and he was pretty good.
@UKINXSFAN...it helps to have the facts straight before commenting. JD cowrote THREE songs with the band. He would've have written more for an upcoming album, HAD THEY LET HIM. Perhaps JD intimidates Andrew, because if you could hear what I have heard in the last 2.5 years, you'd be blown away by how prolific and versatile this guy is. This is INXS's mess now. "True Fans"....you can have what's left of this once great band.
AURICFIELD... too late I am afraid. I just heard a video clip of a new singer that INXS hired -actually they were singing a new INXS song. The song did not sound anything like INXS music and the vocal... well I will be kind, the vocal was worse than JD (I did not think it would be possible but it is). It is crazy that they now have a singer with a worse vocal singing a song that doesn't reflect the INXS sound (nor does it seem like a sound from this decade). Sad Michael was and is INXS!
INXS... you need to find a GREAT singer. You guys should know that a good vocal makes a good singer -but a great singer has a good vocal and sings from their heart to tug at you soul. Michael was a Great singer because he had developed a good vocal ability combined with that soulful singing you believed what he was singing so he touched your soul with the great songs you guys wrote. And you were all a team and paid your dues together. Take some time & find a Great singer & write Great songs=INXS
As for 'Tiny Summer' - this is so far removed from INXS it isn't funny. It sounds like the bastard child of Coldplay and U2. To go from seeing the BEST concert EVER at A Day On The Green earlier this year to hearing this is just so deflating :(. JD all the way!!!
Seriously, guys,with this approach you'll be up shit creek without a paddle in no time. JD was bloody awesome & he's the reason we come to your shows & follow your music. No one's interested in INXS with a bunch of random guest singers and especially not INXS with Ciaran Gribbin. Can you imagine this guy rocking out on Devil Inside or pulling off songs like Need You Tonight and Taste It?! Those are some seriously sexy songs & he has neither the voice nor the sex appeal required to succeed.
Dont think they listened to you Auricfield. Cieran Gribbin, is the new singer of INXS. The fact he is 35 and totally unheard of as a frontman says it all. Good luck. I wont be going to watch another singer butcher Hutchence's fine work.
So Inxs has a new lead singer who, from the sound of it was waiting in the wings. I remember Jon Stevens telling JD, when he won Rockstar to make sure he had a good lawyer. I hope JD knows how much better he can be without them. For me I have no desire to see or hear the new INXS, right bunch of dicks they turned out to be.
I couldn't agree MORE! Noone wants to buy tix to a show..when they don't know who the singer will be! JD was the one at least the best one since Michael, and they blew it AGAIN! and JD's statement on his website I dont believe a word of it! Even Kirk said in interviews they had been writing while on tour and were going to release it after! If they knew he was done in Aug why would he of said that! I am still SO mad/upset about this!I see JD stop follow inxs on twitter but still is following Kirk
rumour has it INXS have officially sacked JD for second time, but thankfully they are about to go back to their original name The Farris Brothers, which i think is what they should have done yeara ago. new singer unveiled this week.
What happened to the Tiny Summer clip that was posted with the anti-Chris Murphy graphic? There was some great discussion on that page. But now it has gone!
It's well known that JD wrote and co-wrote several songs for Inxs, his Pretty Vegas was a huge hit, and whoever has heard JD's solo work, whoever read any of his lyrics, knows very well how incredible and fantastic songwriter he is. Obviously Inxs only played with him when it suited to them. But his solo career will prove his undeniable qualities as songwriter, singer and, I believe, as actor too.
@timbit4inxs That's true... but I've heard it from reliable sources that CM Murphy doesn't like JD... and it's clear from all the interview footage I've seen and read with Murphy he thought Original Sin was going to be bigger than KICK... the guy is poisoning INXS... he may be a great number cruncher but he's past his use by date for what INXS need today. They're on a self-destruct path now and I doubt they'll ever get back in the game the way most fans would like. Their life.
ohhh thank you so much for this, you have shared what so many of us have felt for so long!!! your truth brings tears to my eyes i hope inxs feels what you are trying to convey and dumps murphy who in my opinion has poisoned them from the truth. Thank you again!!!! xoxoxoxoxoxo
Well said! I am another frustrated INXS who has been very happy with JD as the lead singer....I've seen them eight times now. JD is the reason I embarked on road trips to meet up with many others who like JD with the band. I hope they listen.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, for so beautifully expressing what so many INXS fans were unable to express (thanks to all the banning at Facebook). This band has made so many missteps in regard to the lead singer "situation". JD Fortune is an outstanding writer and frontman and is the reason INXS was able to tour twice since 2006. Their treatment of him has been a travesty, and there are MANY angry fans. If they don't listen, they will not be able to tour anymore. No one will go.
OMG I COULD SO KISS YOU RIGHT NOW! Thanks for saying what needs to be said. On behalf of all the the banned fans who were just speaking our minds a huge Rock n Roll THANK YOU!
@dennycranium If only INXS could see themselves from the perspective of a fan that has put all this energy into the 'new' INXS with JD... just to have it taken away...
I don't understand all your message to INXS because I am french (a french fan of INXS band) but I understand a little bit this message who want INXS fans need more if you wish to keep them fans (sorry if write not very well)!!
If INXS need more inspiration for written some songs for a new CD, my idea : INXS fans must write and compose together the musics and songs for product a new CD with JD Fortune on the micro!!!! You understand me??!!
cont....many older INXS female fans loved the cute cheeky young guy that fronted the band and thats what INXS wanted in many ways....u think for one second if they hired a singer close to there own age the SWITCH album would have been a sucess?...?...once again it was for marketing etc...? INXS as a brand name have to move with the times...and there doing so !!...so give INXS the support they need.... TRUE FANS WILL !!...
Cont... If you look back to the ROCKSTAR:INXS show...it was clear from a marketing point of view that they had there eye on an AMERICAN or CANADIAN to revamp INXS career once again and they successfully done that...they toured close to 2YEARS on the strength of that show etc....then JD came out with the INXS DUMPED ME BLAH BLAH !!....only to bring attention for the reason to self promote his new album DEATH OF A MOT etc singer ....cont>>>>
its ironic did u have the same view when JD joined{karaoke singer} in which he aint a songwriter..he was only hired as a GUEST singer and is or was nothing else.INXS is a brand name from day one...no matter in what way you look at it...and are still going since 1977 till 2011+ JD fortune is and was i liability.....one thing i do agree is ,it took them far to long to come out with new material etc....but now they have and now there getting slated !!.U cant base this new album on ONE SONG
@UKINXSFAN Also - what has whether or not JD sung 'karaoke' or not before he joined INXS got to do with the price of fish??? It's about the fact that when JD joined INXS they were a BAND again... until of course when CM Murphy came and stuffed things up.
@UKINXSFAN How can you say that JD is not a songwriter? He co-wrote three songs on Switch plus a bonus track. Pretty Vegas and Devil's Party are just as strong as most of INXS past hits. I've also heard many of the songs he's written since the 2007 tour ended and they're great.
Sorry mate you are totally wrong and living in the past. INXS are good musos, they had their day, they lost their golden goose in Hutch but it doesnt matter who you put in front of INXS they wont ever get it back the way you all want them too. These guys are old, they are in their 50's, they should be touring as the Farris Brothers with who ever playing the music they won people over with and not trying to reinvent themselves. Fortune is a good showman but thats it, he is a cover band singer
I agree! I've said a lot of this myself to anyone that would listen. I so hope that INXS hears this. For me, I think it is too late. They've spit on this fan's dreams for the last time.
OMG you are so right!!! I hate the new song!!! The new song doesn't sound at all like the band. I never thought that Andrew and the band might be jelous of his youth and vigor! I also agree that JD is the only replacement after michael. He's the only one that fits the bill. I'm telling you man, I saw them in Halifax Canada with JD this past summer and my brains were blown out. JD rocked that stage and sung those songs with everything in his heart! Check my videos Much love and respect to you!
@Auricfield I sent a tweet to Kirk & INXS with the link to this, also going to e-mail admins at INXS.com once I'm not on my phone, Thanks for making this, it needed to be said. I've been a fan for 25 years, but "Tiny Summer" is a $hit song, and w/out JD they are nothing again. He brought life back to the songs that died w/Micheal (RIP my friend) and it took him awhile to accepted but we did it, and now they took him away. Shame on INXS!
And my message are always deleted on their facebook wall, but my tweets on twitter get through. I pray this message at least makes it to Andrew, I'll tweet it to Kirk!
Sinceramente pase por todas las etapas de INXS, y la verdad la de JD...para mi fue pesima!
Solo fui al recital para ver al resto, a los 5 integrantes originales.
Nadie puede comprender que JD se le habia terminado el contrato con INXS?
Porque no averiguan bien como fue dicha situacion!....
Hay mucho trasfondo con el
carula79 1 month ago
Not sure what to say. I like the fact that you center on the major problem, which is, the lack of new music. There are a lot of angry confused fans at the moment. Someone actually said in a comment that INXS knew this new direction would mean that they would lose the JD Fortune Fans. I hope this isnt't the case because it means you let us waste the last 6 years following the last new direction . Are you trying to say Pretty Vegas, Afterglow, Devils Party and Gods Top Ten ment Nothing?
inxshello 2 months ago
Queen faced a similar issue I guess, after Freddie Mercury passed away - Queen have toured with heaps of different artists and a few of the original Queen band members have come out from behind their instruments to sing lead in concert. I've seen a clip of Andrew Farriss sing and perform "By Your Side" and he was pretty good.
MsJh1970 2 months ago
@UKINXSFAN...it helps to have the facts straight before commenting. JD cowrote THREE songs with the band. He would've have written more for an upcoming album, HAD THEY LET HIM. Perhaps JD intimidates Andrew, because if you could hear what I have heard in the last 2.5 years, you'd be blown away by how prolific and versatile this guy is. This is INXS's mess now. "True Fans"....you can have what's left of this once great band.
GabbyD448 4 months ago
AURICFIELD... too late I am afraid. I just heard a video clip of a new singer that INXS hired -actually they were singing a new INXS song. The song did not sound anything like INXS music and the vocal... well I will be kind, the vocal was worse than JD (I did not think it would be possible but it is). It is crazy that they now have a singer with a worse vocal singing a song that doesn't reflect the INXS sound (nor does it seem like a sound from this decade). Sad Michael was and is INXS!
5954ldydi 4 months ago
INXS... you need to find a GREAT singer. You guys should know that a good vocal makes a good singer -but a great singer has a good vocal and sings from their heart to tug at you soul. Michael was a Great singer because he had developed a good vocal ability combined with that soulful singing you believed what he was singing so he touched your soul with the great songs you guys wrote. And you were all a team and paid your dues together. Take some time & find a Great singer & write Great songs=INXS
5954ldydi 4 months ago
As for 'Tiny Summer' - this is so far removed from INXS it isn't funny. It sounds like the bastard child of Coldplay and U2. To go from seeing the BEST concert EVER at A Day On The Green earlier this year to hearing this is just so deflating :(. JD all the way!!!
katierenee27au 5 months ago
@katierenee27au I think it sounds like Tiny Tim!
dianekeddy 4 months ago
Seriously, guys,with this approach you'll be up shit creek without a paddle in no time. JD was bloody awesome & he's the reason we come to your shows & follow your music. No one's interested in INXS with a bunch of random guest singers and especially not INXS with Ciaran Gribbin. Can you imagine this guy rocking out on Devil Inside or pulling off songs like Need You Tonight and Taste It?! Those are some seriously sexy songs & he has neither the voice nor the sex appeal required to succeed.
katierenee27au 5 months ago
Dinosaurs.
eatenbybearspr 5 months ago
Dont think they listened to you Auricfield. Cieran Gribbin, is the new singer of INXS. The fact he is 35 and totally unheard of as a frontman says it all. Good luck. I wont be going to watch another singer butcher Hutchence's fine work.
shimmer1 5 months ago
So Inxs has a new lead singer who, from the sound of it was waiting in the wings. I remember Jon Stevens telling JD, when he won Rockstar to make sure he had a good lawyer. I hope JD knows how much better he can be without them. For me I have no desire to see or hear the new INXS, right bunch of dicks they turned out to be.
squonkwaller 5 months ago
I couldn't agree MORE! Noone wants to buy tix to a show..when they don't know who the singer will be! JD was the one at least the best one since Michael, and they blew it AGAIN! and JD's statement on his website I dont believe a word of it! Even Kirk said in interviews they had been writing while on tour and were going to release it after! If they knew he was done in Aug why would he of said that! I am still SO mad/upset about this!I see JD stop follow inxs on twitter but still is following Kirk
berlyn3300 5 months ago
rumour has it INXS have officially sacked JD for second time, but thankfully they are about to go back to their original name The Farris Brothers, which i think is what they should have done yeara ago. new singer unveiled this week.
shimmer1 5 months ago
@shimmer1 Go to JD's site - he's released an official statement claiming he wasn't sacked.
Auricfield 5 months ago
@shimmer1 and you have inside knowledge do you? what a joke. How about you people stop spreadind lies.
Hutchrocks1 3 months ago
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What happened to the Tiny Summer clip that was posted with the anti-Chris Murphy graphic? There was some great discussion on that page. But now it has gone!
MeanMrCustard 5 months ago
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MeanMrCustard 5 months ago
It's well known that JD wrote and co-wrote several songs for Inxs, his Pretty Vegas was a huge hit, and whoever has heard JD's solo work, whoever read any of his lyrics, knows very well how incredible and fantastic songwriter he is. Obviously Inxs only played with him when it suited to them. But his solo career will prove his undeniable qualities as songwriter, singer and, I believe, as actor too.
snjeska7 5 months ago 2
Everyone is assuming a lot of things happened one way when they could've easily happened any number of ways.
timbit4inxs 5 months ago
@timbit4inxs That's true... but I've heard it from reliable sources that CM Murphy doesn't like JD... and it's clear from all the interview footage I've seen and read with Murphy he thought Original Sin was going to be bigger than KICK... the guy is poisoning INXS... he may be a great number cruncher but he's past his use by date for what INXS need today. They're on a self-destruct path now and I doubt they'll ever get back in the game the way most fans would like. Their life.
Auricfield 5 months ago 2
ohhh thank you so much for this, you have shared what so many of us have felt for so long!!! your truth brings tears to my eyes i hope inxs feels what you are trying to convey and dumps murphy who in my opinion has poisoned them from the truth. Thank you again!!!! xoxoxoxoxoxo
heatherlg212 5 months ago
Well said! I am another frustrated INXS who has been very happy with JD as the lead singer....I've seen them eight times now. JD is the reason I embarked on road trips to meet up with many others who like JD with the band. I hope they listen.
calgal32 5 months ago
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, for so beautifully expressing what so many INXS fans were unable to express (thanks to all the banning at Facebook). This band has made so many missteps in regard to the lead singer "situation". JD Fortune is an outstanding writer and frontman and is the reason INXS was able to tour twice since 2006. Their treatment of him has been a travesty, and there are MANY angry fans. If they don't listen, they will not be able to tour anymore. No one will go.
GabbyD448 5 months ago
Everyone, please tweet this to Kirk Pengilly.
JVoyageur 5 months ago
OMG I COULD SO KISS YOU RIGHT NOW! Thanks for saying what needs to be said. On behalf of all the the banned fans who were just speaking our minds a huge Rock n Roll THANK YOU!
JVoyageur 5 months ago
Well put mate.
The thing that gets me is that I initially groaned when the Rockstar thing started.
I asked myself "Who can replace Hutch?"
But as the show progressed I felt that JD was the only guy who I could hear singing the INXS back catalog. Even Dave Navarro said this about JD.
Then Pretty Vegas came out and I was hooked. So was the band.
I then saw INXS on the Canadian tour in 2006 in an arena not a stadium.
After seeing the band live with JD it reignited my interest in INXS
dennycranium 5 months ago 4
@dennycranium If only INXS could see themselves from the perspective of a fan that has put all this energy into the 'new' INXS with JD... just to have it taken away...
Auricfield 5 months ago 3
@Auricfield I saw two shows this year and I took a friend to see the Detroit show who wasn't convinced about JD.
He was a believer after the show.
Yeah I don't get INXS either. JD is in He"s out
Frustrating
dennycranium 5 months ago
@Auricfield I saw two shows this year and I took a friend to see the Detroit show who wasn't convinced about JD.
He was a believer after the show.
Yeah I don't get INXS either. JD is in He"s out
Frustrating. Ill probably just move on if JD is out for good
dennycranium 5 months ago
I don't understand all your message to INXS because I am french (a french fan of INXS band) but I understand a little bit this message who want INXS fans need more if you wish to keep them fans (sorry if write not very well)!!
If INXS need more inspiration for written some songs for a new CD, my idea : INXS fans must write and compose together the musics and songs for product a new CD with JD Fortune on the micro!!!! You understand me??!!
inxs.skyrock.com
rockXS3785 5 months ago
cont....many older INXS female fans loved the cute cheeky young guy that fronted the band and thats what INXS wanted in many ways....u think for one second if they hired a singer close to there own age the SWITCH album would have been a sucess?...?...once again it was for marketing etc...? INXS as a brand name have to move with the times...and there doing so !!...so give INXS the support they need.... TRUE FANS WILL !!...
UKINXSFAN
UKINXSFAN 5 months ago
Cont... If you look back to the ROCKSTAR:INXS show...it was clear from a marketing point of view that they had there eye on an AMERICAN or CANADIAN to revamp INXS career once again and they successfully done that...they toured close to 2YEARS on the strength of that show etc....then JD came out with the INXS DUMPED ME BLAH BLAH !!....only to bring attention for the reason to self promote his new album DEATH OF A MOT etc singer ....cont>>>>
UKINXSFAN 5 months ago
its ironic did u have the same view when JD joined{karaoke singer} in which he aint a songwriter..he was only hired as a GUEST singer and is or was nothing else.INXS is a brand name from day one...no matter in what way you look at it...and are still going since 1977 till 2011+ JD fortune is and was i liability.....one thing i do agree is ,it took them far to long to come out with new material etc....but now they have and now there getting slated !!.U cant base this new album on ONE SONG
UKINXSFAN 5 months ago
@UKINXSFAN See video response - search YouTube for "Response to: UKINXSFAN", or go to my video list above and you will see it.
Auricfield 5 months ago
@UKINXSFAN Also - what has whether or not JD sung 'karaoke' or not before he joined INXS got to do with the price of fish??? It's about the fact that when JD joined INXS they were a BAND again... until of course when CM Murphy came and stuffed things up.
Auricfield 5 months ago
@UKINXSFAN How can you say that JD is not a songwriter? He co-wrote three songs on Switch plus a bonus track. Pretty Vegas and Devil's Party are just as strong as most of INXS past hits. I've also heard many of the songs he's written since the 2007 tour ended and they're great.
MuzzikLvr 5 months ago
Sorry mate you are totally wrong and living in the past. INXS are good musos, they had their day, they lost their golden goose in Hutch but it doesnt matter who you put in front of INXS they wont ever get it back the way you all want them too. These guys are old, they are in their 50's, they should be touring as the Farris Brothers with who ever playing the music they won people over with and not trying to reinvent themselves. Fortune is a good showman but thats it, he is a cover band singer
shimmer1 5 months ago
I agree! I've said a lot of this myself to anyone that would listen. I so hope that INXS hears this. For me, I think it is too late. They've spit on this fan's dreams for the last time.
fortune4me 5 months ago
Couldnt of put it any better myself (UK)
19roach69 5 months ago
OMG you are so right!!! I hate the new song!!! The new song doesn't sound at all like the band. I never thought that Andrew and the band might be jelous of his youth and vigor! I also agree that JD is the only replacement after michael. He's the only one that fits the bill. I'm telling you man, I saw them in Halifax Canada with JD this past summer and my brains were blown out. JD rocked that stage and sung those songs with everything in his heart! Check my videos Much love and respect to you!
nsjoemaclover 5 months ago
Totalmente de acuerdo, saludos desde Argentina.
Farrissbros 5 months ago
i sent this message to JD...
annetta448 5 months ago
Please, please someone get this message to INXS.
squonkwaller 5 months ago
Yes please try and get it to INXS - maybe... just maybe... they'll listen...
Auricfield 5 months ago
@Auricfield I sent a tweet to Kirk & INXS with the link to this, also going to e-mail admins at INXS.com once I'm not on my phone, Thanks for making this, it needed to be said. I've been a fan for 25 years, but "Tiny Summer" is a $hit song, and w/out JD they are nothing again. He brought life back to the songs that died w/Micheal (RIP my friend) and it took him awhile to accepted but we did it, and now they took him away. Shame on INXS!
goddessjfw721 5 months ago
And my message are always deleted on their facebook wall, but my tweets on twitter get through. I pray this message at least makes it to Andrew, I'll tweet it to Kirk!
goddessjfw721 5 months ago
GREAT message! 100% agree with you!
goddessjfw721 5 months ago