Fleming and John is a musical husband and wife team, Fleming McWilliams and John Mark Painter, currently living in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.
In 1994, the band recorded "Harder to Believe than Not To" for I Predict A Clone, a tribute album to Steve Taylor. The following year, the couple released their first album, Delusions of Grandeur on Universal Records. Ben Folds, who called Fleming and John "the Carpenters of the 1990s with Led Zeppelin's rhythm section", invited them to open for his band. They continued to perform and record with Folds for many years, with both being featured on Folds' experimental album, Fear of Pop: Volume 1.
In 1999, Fleming and John released their second album, The Way We Are, which spawned a minor hit with the single "Ugly Girl".
The band has been dormant since the tour for The Way We Are finished in the late 1990s. However, they made songs available for purchase on their page on their MySpace pace, and they successfully funded a 2015 Kickstarter campaign to record a new album.[1] Initially promised by Christmas that year, as of 2024 the album has still not been released.[2]
John and Fleming continue to run IHOF (International House of Fleming) studios[3] and the DWEEB recording label,[4] blogging about their latest projects.[5]
Discography
Delusions of Grandeur, 1995 debut album - R.E.X. Music
Delusions of Grandeur, 1996 debut album - remixed and released by Universal Records