Eugene Francis Jnr is an British musician, most famous for fronting the alternative rock bands The Fantastic Super Foofs, Kaptain Black, Dirty Perfect. Today, he is a solo musician, fronting the band Eugene Francis Jnr and The Juniors.
Eugene Francis Jnr was born in Cardiff, Wales on March 8, 1977, and raised mainly in and around South Wales. During his youth, EFJ had gravitated towards such influential '90s grunge outfits as Nirvana and The Lemo...
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Eugene Francis Jnr is an British musician, most famous for fronting the alternative rock bands The Fantastic Super Foofs, Kaptain Black, Dirty Perfect. Today, he is a solo musician, fronting the band Eugene Francis Jnr and The Juniors.
Eugene Francis Jnr was born in Cardiff, Wales on March 8, 1977, and raised mainly in and around South Wales. During his youth, EFJ had gravitated towards such influential '90s grunge outfits as Nirvana and The Lemonheads.
Along with school friends Nav Verghese and Baz Hall, he formed The Fantastic Super Foofs at Brynteg School in Bridgend circa 1994 playing under the name 'Eso Burst'. At this stage they played punk rock, and were briefly known as "Mister Puss" (after his cat), until Verghese penned a song called 'The Fantastic Super Foofs' in his side-project 'Lesters Lovechild' and hence resulted in a name change in 1996. Their first recording as a group was a Ltd EP release on "Russboy Records" titled "Gliptus."
By this point EFJ had enrolled at...
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