Watch ASIWYFA Live at London Calling, Amsterdam

Set Guitars To Kill, Dutch TV feed from London Calling Fest in Amsterdam from April, blap!

LaFaro Launch Show Live Footage from Bandwidth

Missed out on the Apr 28th LaFaro album launch show at the Menagerie? Watch Will McConnell's superb video footage at the always excellent Bandwidth Sessions site.

Footage: ASIWYFA Supporting Them Crooked Vultures In Amsterdam

Poised...

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Originally uploaded by ben_jamie

I found this amazing photo of an ASIWYFA foot (I think it's Rory's - can't be sure) on our Flickr Groupstream this afternoon.

I have to get off the internet now - I've been locked in a Posterous spiral of linking Blog to Flickr to Posterous to Twitter to ... you get me. Anyways - the best things come to those that stumble for long enough in the internet twilight I reckon.

I love this photo: it seems to sum up this band's last eighteen months: expectant, illuminated and loud as fuck.

The Moi Non Plus Video - In Conversation & Live Track

Snippets of The Moi Non Plus chatting backstage to STA documentary maker Aaron before their set at the Lexington plus a chance to see their Yuri Landman custom made guitar in action during the set itself.

Album on sale now!

Shut Em Down - ASIWYFA/AU Secret Show

STA All Ages Bank Holiday August

We've got two all ages gigs happening on Bank Holiday August Weekend - WOOT!

This Ain't No Picnic - Matinee
St. Columb's Hall, Derry - Saturday 29th August
Doors: 3pm-6pm
Door Tax: 5 Lids
Bands: LaFaro plus support

Then - And So I Watch You From Afar plus support (in conjunction with MCD)
Academy 2, Dublin - Sunday 30th August
Doors: 3pm

Loot Required: €11.80
Buy Tickets Now

Bus leaving from Belfast to Dublin for the ASI show being announced soon.

Future Of The Left to Headline This Ain't No Picnic - Derry Version

The last time I saw FOTL was in a Mexican restaurant in Texas - even more oblique will seeing them play at St. Columb's Hall in Orchard Street in Derry at the end of the month (August 29th to be precise) - regional press release here. St. Columb's Hall is where little kids go to perform Irish Dances and sing Gregorian Chants in a competion called The Feis every Easter in Derry. The irony of FOTL ripping seven shades of shit out of such a pastoral setting is not lost on me.

Kudos to Brian and Charlene for pulling this lineup together - it's so good that I told them that I wanted to play as well. I can do things like that because I'M IN CHARGE. I'm particularly looking forward to seeing Spectator, Black Bear Saloon and LaFaro - who are leading the current NIHXC revival. This really is a cheap ticket and it would be great if you could all buy in advance from WeGotTickets - Kelson's rider alone is costing a bomb.

If you don't have 'Curses' or 'Travels With Myself And Another' yet - then you're missing something integral in your musical life. Records so strong in fact that Brian Magill bought real ACTUAL COPIES WITH PAPER INSERTS AND EVERYTHING. If MCPS got hold of this man's computer they'd take him to the cleaners. Perhaps he's fearful of the wrath of Falco and rightly so, so irate was he over the leakage of the new record - "'Buy' such a dirty word...perhaps I should come to an arrangement with my landlord, through the musician-rent-waiver programme" - the man is a legend.

Full lineup is: LaFaro (Main Support), Panama Kings, Black Bear Saloon, Andrew Ferris, Dangerfields, Stereo War Favourites, Spectator, AER and The Beat Poets.

Our show kicks of at 3pm on Saturday August 29th at St Columb's Hall in Derry and admission is a bargain £8.

Tickets are available in advance from We Got Tickets - Right Now!

And So I Watch You From Afar - Live @ Oxegen 2009

This is what went on, on the other stage at Oxegen 2009 - take that KOL.

ASIWYFA October UK Tour Announced

Barfly in association with us lot present And So I Watch You From Afar UK tour at the end of September/beginning of October. Faces, melted... yes!

Ticket links thus:
21.09 London Barfly
24.09 Cardiff Barfly
25.09 Liverpool Masque
26.09 Birmingham The Flapper
28.09 York Fibbers
29.09 Manchester Moho Live
30.09 Dundee Fat Sams
01.10 Aberdeen Tunnels
02.10 Glasgow Twisted Wheel

Facebook is telling us that there are already 172 confirmed guests for the Ulster Hall gig on December 18th. Please buy tickets in advance for this gig to avoid sadness :(

And So I Watch You From Afar - Live @ Tower Records

This instore performance was part of the Hard Working Class Heroes Launch event in Dublin, the lads played an exclusive set for Tower Records.

Read more about the festival on the excellent Nialler9 Blog >>