Who's Wred and What's This Website?

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Wred Fright is the pen/stage name of one of the many thousands of blokes named "Fred Wright" wandering around our world today. This one primarily potters around Ohio and Pennsylvania in the USA but occasionally has been known to migrate farther afield. One of these migrations is cyberspace and this little website which makes a nice outlet for himself and others to keep tabs on him and his writing and music and whatnot.

Writingwise, Wred enjoys journalism (usually of the gonzo variety), fiction (usually of the humorous variety), and poetry (usually of the short variety). He's written for a plethora of publications (including some that actually pay such as Scene and some that are actually respectable such as The Journal For The Psychoanalysis Of Culture And Society), but he especially loves writing for blogs, comics, ezines, and zines such as Babel Magazine, Fightin' Fun Comics, Go Metric!, Zine World, and his own SMASH and drinkdrankdrunk. His novel The Pornographic Flabbergasted Emus is a humorous look at the life of a hapless garage rock band. He's also been on the Perpetual Motion Roadshow, an indie lit tour circuit; toured with Crazy Carl on the Underground Literary America reading tour; done numerous literary performances and readings; and used to be a member of the Underground Literary Alliance. Writing by Wred can be found in the Library portion of this website.

Musically, Wred likes to sing and play guitar, with the occasional runs on bass, drums, accordion, theremin, and whatever else. The music is often described as rock and roll, punk, alternative, garage, and pop by listeners. In the past, he's played solo and in such bands as The Darrow Dregs, The Escaped Fetal Pigs, Satan Tortilla, The Flaming Toasters, Anal Spikemobile, The Lenin Spoonful, Yeast?, Ungoat, Rage Against Dabney Coleman, Shang Tsang, The Hot Glue Guns, The GoGoBots, The Joslyns, and Team Fright. Currently, he occasionally plays out solo or with a band under the Wred Fright name. The Audio portion of this website sometimes hosts some of Wred's music, as well as his fiction, poetry, and spoken word work.

In terms of whatnot, Wred's curated a couple festivals over the years: The Self-Indulgent Festival, a celebration of one person bands and other solo pursuits (Kent, Ohio 2001), and The F Independent Literary Festival (Cleveland, Ohio area 2006), a celebration of indie lit he put together for the ULA to live up to his Ohio Bureau Chief title. Over the years at concerts and readings, he's performed with many other great musicians and writers including Sean Carswell, Mickey Hess, Jellyboy the Clown, Joe Meno, More Or Les, Unsane, Frank Walsh, and Jessica Wilber. You can find more of Wred's friends and interests on the Links portion of this website.

If you're press, and you need a photo, feel free to use the one above, which is also available as a high resolution JPG 1.94 MB if you need to print it.

Here's some of what our friends in the press have said about Wred:
Textnovelblog 2008
The New Castle News 2007
Pittsburgh City Paper 2007
Philadelphia Star newspapers 2007
Lakewood Observer 2006
Cleveland Magazine 2006
Utter Trash 2004
Cincinnati CityBeat 2003
Montreal McGill Daily 2003
But don't take their word for it! So if you have any questions, please contact Wred yourself!