The February issue of Rock Sound is about to hit newsagents wherein you'll find LaFaro placing on the list of best newcomers of 2010, Fighting With Wire reviewed alongside headliners Helmet and ASIWYFA look ahead to the new year.
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Showing posts with label rock sound magazine. Show all posts
Tuesday, 4 January 2011
Rock Sound Highlights - ASIWYFA 2011 Preview, LaFaro Rank Among Best Newcomers, FWW Live Review
The February issue of Rock Sound is about to hit newsagents wherein you'll find LaFaro placing on the list of best newcomers of 2010, Fighting With Wire reviewed alongside headliners Helmet and ASIWYFA look ahead to the new year.
Monday, 6 December 2010
Rock Sound Highlights - FWW Live, LaFaro #41 Album Of 2010
The January issue of Rock Sound is about to hit newsagents wherein you'll find LaFaro appearing on the Top 75 Albums of 2010, Fighting With Wire (and friends) reviewed in Brighton and a mention of next week's Fickle Public download EP.Thanks to Darren and the RS team for all their support in 2010.
Sunday, 14 November 2010
Vote STA In Rock Sound Reader's Poll 2010
Rock Sound magazine are polling their readers for their bests of the year and to be in with a chance to win a Sony Playstation 3 and £250 worth of gear from the Rock Sound merch store. Four runners-up will receive a year's subscription. Closing date for entries is December 8th. VOTE STA!
Monday, 16 August 2010
LaFaro / ASIWYFA In Rock Sound Festivals Review
The new issue of Rock Sound is hitting the doormats of subscribers at the moment and inside you'll find reviews of ASIWYFA and LaFaro from Guilfest and Sonisphere - sneaky scans below.
Monday, 28 June 2010
Rock Sound Highlights - LaFaro Live Review and Guilfest Preview
The new issue of Rock Sound has hit newsagents and among the goodness therein is a LaFaro live review and a preview of the RS curated stage at Guilfest featuring both LaFaro and ASIWYFA...
Sunday, 20 June 2010
Rory ASIWYFA Talks Sonisphere
Here's Rory from And So I Watch You From Afar in preparation for the band's Sunday slot at the Bohemia stage of Sonisphere 2010
For more check out the official Sonisphere Festival guide free with the new issue of Rock Sound.
For more check out the official Sonisphere Festival guide free with the new issue of Rock Sound.
Thursday, 29 April 2010
Rock Sound's New Band of the Month - LaFaro
Three sold out nights at Belfast's Menagerie Club to launch the debut record, even Mark Lanegan's band came down to rock it out on Wednesday night. LaFaro are certainly kicking in doors at the minute - so it's no surprise that they are Rock Sound's May centrefolds. What's this about naked wrestling back at JB's house after Tuesday night's show with Fighting With Wire... boys...!
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
ASIWYFA Album #2 Feature In New Rock Sound
The April issue of Rock Sound magazine is already with subscribers and hits the newsagents any day - it contains a feature on the in-progress 2nd And So I Watch You From Afar album, see below!
Monday, 1 February 2010
Wednesday, 2 December 2009
ASIWYFA 6th Best Album Of 2009: Rock Sound
Thanks to all of the staff at Rock Sound for voting And So I Watch You From Afar the 6th best album of the year in their Top 75 of 2009 in the new issue of the magazine, out this week, and also for their support of all of our releases this year.
Monday, 2 November 2009
4 Or 5 Magicians & Let Our Enemies Beware: Rock Sound Hats Tipped
The always astute Rock Sound give 4 Or 5 Magicians an 8/10 album review, a feature and airtime on the covermount CD as well as offering kudos to Let Our Enemies Beware for their recent album. The December issue hits the newsagents' racks this week. Thanks to Darren and his team for their ongoing support.
Sunday, 21 June 2009
Calories in Rock Sound's Play This At My Funeral
Hiding in the reviews section of the new Rock Sound is Pete Calories contributing to magazine's regular Play This At My Funeral mini-feature -
It's a really tough decision. Hopefully I should have an extensive back catalogue by the time of my demise, so I'd have that played in its entirety, it'll be like I'm talking from the grave...or maybe something from A Bull's album 'Valentine Vyse'. We recorded it in my bedroom, it's a really nice collection of songs. I could copy my Dad and have 'Save The Last Dance For Me' [the Drifters], that or the first side of 'Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven' by Godspeed You! Black Emperor, that'd probably be more of a student choice though.
The generous people at RS are also giving away Truck tickets where they are sponsoring a stage that Calories will be playing on!
It's a really tough decision. Hopefully I should have an extensive back catalogue by the time of my demise, so I'd have that played in its entirety, it'll be like I'm talking from the grave...or maybe something from A Bull's album 'Valentine Vyse'. We recorded it in my bedroom, it's a really nice collection of songs. I could copy my Dad and have 'Save The Last Dance For Me' [the Drifters], that or the first side of 'Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven' by Godspeed You! Black Emperor, that'd probably be more of a student choice though.
The generous people at RS are also giving away Truck tickets where they are sponsoring a stage that Calories will be playing on!
Friday, 12 June 2009
Monday, 6 April 2009
Calories Great Escape Show Details
Word has come through of the venue details for the previously reported Calories appearence at 
this year's Great Escape festival in Brighton - Birmingham's finest play Thursday 14th May at...
Volks
3 Madeira Dr
Brighton, BN2 1PS
which is at the pier/fun/seasidey part of the town.
Buy buy buy
this year's Great Escape festival in Brighton - Birmingham's finest play Thursday 14th May at...Volks
3 Madeira Dr
Brighton, BN2 1PS
which is at the pier/fun/seasidey part of the town.
Buy buy buy
Wednesday, 1 April 2009
The Great Escape 2009
Calories and And So I Watch You From Afar will be sharing the stage at the Rock Sound curated line-up at one of the dozens of Brighton venues taking part in this year's Great Escape. Among the 300 bands playing over the 3 day city-wide event between May 14th and 16th are Future Of The Left (returning after having loads of gear nicked at last year's TGE), Pulled Apart By Horses, Dananan, JoFo, Sky Larkin, Times New Viking, Tin Can Telephone and 4 Or 5 Magicians.
Tickets are still onsale.
Thursday, 26 March 2009
ASIWYFA Rock Sound Feature
Here's Tim Newbound's feature on ASIWYFA from the new issue of Rock Sound magazine, in newsagents now.
They defy pigeonholding and have no respect for your eardrums; Belfast’s And So I Watch You From Afar share their mission statement with Rock Sound.
“Music is number one, we don’t sit around discussing what sort of feeling we intend to evoke or any other new age bullshit with our tunes,” says And So I Watch You From Afar guitarist Rory Friers. “We want to push boundaries with what we’re doing and put across that we care so fucking deeply about the music we produce; we really hope that comes over when you listen to it. Most importantly, we wanna RAWK.”
The Northern Irish four-piece are certainly following this manifesto with their self-titled debut full-length: as emotively atmospheric as it is devastatingly overpowering, it’s an album that demands to be played loud. Although this sonic assualt is administered through largely vocal-free songs, the quartet refuse to be dubbed ‘instrumental’ – and they strongly reject the ‘post-rock’ tag.
“Post-rock is all about building textures and timbres within the music, and when it’d done right it’s incredible; I just think we have too many riffs and changes of tempo to be in that particular bracket,” reasons Rory. “There are some fucking amazing instrumental Fugazi tunes, remember – I don’t think anyone would call those legends post-rock. We certainly wouldn’t.” He adds: “We were borne out of jamming and we have never once stated that we were strictly instrumental – we herded in 40 of our friends from the Northern Ireland scene to record a huge choir on [album track] ‘Don’t Waste Time Doing Things You Hate’, and it turned out amazing, even if we do say so ourselves. Plus, the album is littered with ‘Whoops!’ And ‘Heys!’. Are those the actions of an instrumental band? We think not!”
Given their class, journalistic superlatives should be rightly flying these guys’ way soon, although they have experienced the downside of dealing with suspect media types already. “The most disgusting thing we’ve had to endure while on tour had to be this fraud journalist who turned up at a London show and proceeded to give you lovely people, professional journalists, a bad name,” says Rory. “He stuffed his nose full of coke, drank the majority of our rider, ate our food, didn’t bother watching us and went on to pretend he did, while contradicting himself constantly. He came up to us and said, ‘It was an awful show, nobody was watching’. I interjected and pointed out the place was near capacity, we’d had an amazing reception and went down really well, to which he responded, ‘Yep, it was great, the place was rammed’. The final straw was when he said, ‘Your singer was out of key the whole time!’ Huh?! The guy was an ex-pat from Belfast and also bad-mouthed a lot of people we really respect from home. I think his name was BALLBAG.”
Formed a couple of years ago and with mini-album ‘This Is Our Machine And Nothing Can Stop It’ already under their belts, the band now intend to “tour the fuck out of” their self-titled debut, as they contine to push those boundaries and set about writing album number two. Here’s to the RAWK.
Sounds like: Your most beautiful dreams and worst nightmares spliced and translated via the medium of intense volume
They defy pigeonholding and have no respect for your eardrums; Belfast’s And So I Watch You From Afar share their mission statement with Rock Sound.
“Music is number one, we don’t sit around discussing what sort of feeling we intend to evoke or any other new age bullshit with our tunes,” says And So I Watch You From Afar guitarist Rory Friers. “We want to push boundaries with what we’re doing and put across that we care so fucking deeply about the music we produce; we really hope that comes over when you listen to it. Most importantly, we wanna RAWK.”
The Northern Irish four-piece are certainly following this manifesto with their self-titled debut full-length: as emotively atmospheric as it is devastatingly overpowering, it’s an album that demands to be played loud. Although this sonic assualt is administered through largely vocal-free songs, the quartet refuse to be dubbed ‘instrumental’ – and they strongly reject the ‘post-rock’ tag.
“Post-rock is all about building textures and timbres within the music, and when it’d done right it’s incredible; I just think we have too many riffs and changes of tempo to be in that particular bracket,” reasons Rory. “There are some fucking amazing instrumental Fugazi tunes, remember – I don’t think anyone would call those legends post-rock. We certainly wouldn’t.” He adds: “We were borne out of jamming and we have never once stated that we were strictly instrumental – we herded in 40 of our friends from the Northern Ireland scene to record a huge choir on [album track] ‘Don’t Waste Time Doing Things You Hate’, and it turned out amazing, even if we do say so ourselves. Plus, the album is littered with ‘Whoops!’ And ‘Heys!’. Are those the actions of an instrumental band? We think not!”
Given their class, journalistic superlatives should be rightly flying these guys’ way soon, although they have experienced the downside of dealing with suspect media types already. “The most disgusting thing we’ve had to endure while on tour had to be this fraud journalist who turned up at a London show and proceeded to give you lovely people, professional journalists, a bad name,” says Rory. “He stuffed his nose full of coke, drank the majority of our rider, ate our food, didn’t bother watching us and went on to pretend he did, while contradicting himself constantly. He came up to us and said, ‘It was an awful show, nobody was watching’. I interjected and pointed out the place was near capacity, we’d had an amazing reception and went down really well, to which he responded, ‘Yep, it was great, the place was rammed’. The final straw was when he said, ‘Your singer was out of key the whole time!’ Huh?! The guy was an ex-pat from Belfast and also bad-mouthed a lot of people we really respect from home. I think his name was BALLBAG.”
Formed a couple of years ago and with mini-album ‘This Is Our Machine And Nothing Can Stop It’ already under their belts, the band now intend to “tour the fuck out of” their self-titled debut, as they contine to push those boundaries and set about writing album number two. Here’s to the RAWK.
Sounds like: Your most beautiful dreams and worst nightmares spliced and translated via the medium of intense volume
Tim Newbound
Saturday, 21 March 2009
Rock Sound #121
The April issue of Rock Sound magazine (with 30 Seconds To Mars on the cover) is packed with And So I Watch You From Afar goodness - a 2 page feature (which will be posted online later), the 8/10 album review below and grabbing pole position on the covermount CD with the epic A Little Bit Of Solidarity ahead of tracks from STA chums the Tupolev Ghost and the Thermals plus new Mono and Therapy?
Just when you thought you couldn't give a fig for yet more instrumental post-rock, along come these upstarts to clout you upside the head for taking your eye of the ball. Kissing cousins To Monument From Masses, ASIWYFA deal in a similar type of dynamic crashes, danceable rhythms and Dave Knudson guitar squiggle, even giving their songs similarly state-smashing titles to again raise the question of just how political you can really be while barely uttering a word. True to form, the band occasionally lose themselves amidst untold minutes of panoramic fartarsery, but there's always a tubby fucker of a riff lurking on the horizon to ensure things come back to like with another reassuring thunk.
For fans of: From Monument To Masses, Pelican, Russian Circles
8/10Both ASIWYFA's double A side single and the album itself accompanied by an exclsuive bonus disc of unreleased material can be purchased now from the STA store.
Just when you thought you couldn't give a fig for yet more instrumental post-rock, along come these upstarts to clout you upside the head for taking your eye of the ball. Kissing cousins To Monument From Masses, ASIWYFA deal in a similar type of dynamic crashes, danceable rhythms and Dave Knudson guitar squiggle, even giving their songs similarly state-smashing titles to again raise the question of just how political you can really be while barely uttering a word. True to form, the band occasionally lose themselves amidst untold minutes of panoramic fartarsery, but there's always a tubby fucker of a riff lurking on the horizon to ensure things come back to like with another reassuring thunk.
For fans of: From Monument To Masses, Pelican, Russian Circles
8/10Both ASIWYFA's double A side single and the album itself accompanied by an exclsuive bonus disc of unreleased material can be purchased now from the STA store.
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