The Great Wide Open

EP by Funeral for a Friend

Released

15 October 2007

Recorded

Barfly, London (tracks 2-9)

Genre

Alternative rock, post-hardcore

Label

Atlantic

Producer

Gil Norton (track 1), Romesh Dodangoda (tracks 2-9)

Funeral for a Friend chronology

Tales Don't Tell Themselves
(2007)

The Great Wide Open
(2007)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
BBC Wales	(favourable) link
Kerrang!
Time Off	link

The Great Wide Open is a "mini-album" from Funeral for a Friend, the title track taken from the album Tales Don't Tell Themselves. Originally planned as the third single from the album (as announced in a news post on 14 August 2007), it was later deferred by two weeks and expanded to a mini-album in order to release the live tracks recorded in August (see below).

Music video

The song's music video shows the band playing in a little shack lost on a beach at night with waves resting on the shore. Around the middle of the video, some green, red and white lights flash throughout the house.

Mini-album

Atlantic Records released a very special mini album on 15 October 2007. Entitled 'The Great Wide Open', it includes the track of the same name from the 'Tales Don't Tell Themselves' album as well as the video that is currently in rotation but also 8 classic live tracks - the 1st 2 EPs 'Between Order & Model' and 'Four Ways to Scream Your Name' - in full recorded live at the Barfly in London in August 2007. These tracks are not available anywhere else and are exclusive to this release.

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Great Wide Open"	3:33
2.	"10.45 Amsterdam Conversations" (Live)	4:14
3.	"Juneau" (Live)	4:11
4.	"Red is the New Black" (Live)	6:00
5.	"The Art of American Football" (Live)	2:48
6.	"This Year's Most Open Heartbreak" (Live)	3:54
7.	"She Drove Me to Daytime Television" (Live)	4:52
8.	"Kiss and Makeup (All Bets Are Off)" (Live)	3:32
9.	"Escape Artists Never Die" (Live)	6:07
10.	"The Great Wide Open" (Video)	3:33

External links

Funeral for a Friend

Gavin Burrough Kris Coombs-Roberts Matthew Davies-Kreye Richard Boucher Gareth Ellis-Davies Matthew Evans Andi Morris Johnny Phillips Kerry Roberts Darran Smith Ryan Richards Pat Lundy

Studio albums	Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation (2003) Hours (2005) Tales Don't Tell Themselves (2007) Memory and Humanity (2008) Welcome Home Armageddon (2011) Conduit (2013) Chapter and Verse (2015)

Extended plays	Between Order and Model (2002) Four Ways to Scream Your Name (2003) Seven Ways to Scream Your Name (2003) Bullet Theory/My Dying Day (2004) The Great Wide Open (2007) The Young and Defenceless (2010) See You All In Hell (2011)

Compilations	Your History Is Mine: 2002–2009 (2009)

Live albums	Spilling Blood in 8 mm (2004) Final Hours at Hammersmith (2006)

Singles	"Juneau" "She Drove Me to Daytime Television/Bullet Theory" "Escape Artists Never Die" "Streetcar" "Monsters" "History" "Roses for the Dead" "Into Oblivion (Reunion)" "Walk Away" "The Great Wide Open" "Waterfront Dance Club/Beneath the Burning Tree" "Kicking and Screaming" "Rules and Games" "Front Row Seats To The End Of The World" "Sixteen" "Broken Foundation" "High Castles" "Best Friends & Hospital Beds" "The Distance" "Nails"

Related	Discography International Tour Cardiff music scene

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