Castlepalooza is the last music festival to reveal its lineup I think. It's held in Charleville Castle, Tullamore, Co Offaly, on the August bank holiday weekend, August 2-4. That's the same weekend as Oxegen and Cork's Indiependence so it'll be a battle between the three for punters. This is the [Read more]
This year's Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival will take place in a variety of Belfast venues next month; and over eleven days, the 14th CQAF will stage music, comedy, spoken word and visual arts. We're going to focus on the festival's musical elements, and with the bill boasting old favourties such as Dexys and Adam Ant as well as a truly eclectic mix young and unknown talent, there should be something for anyone who finds themselves at the festival. There's even a guy covering Nick Cave if you fancy it. Thursday, 2nd May [...]
This year's Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival will take place in a variety of Belfast venues next month; and over eleven days, the 14th CQAF will stage music, comedy, spoken word and visual arts. We're going to focus on the festival's musical elements, and with the bill boasting old favourties such as Dexys and Adam Ant as well as a truly eclectic mix young and unknown talent, there should be something for anyone who finds themselves at the festival. There's even a guy covering Nick Cave if you fancy it. Thursday, 2nd May [...]
And So I Watch You from Afar will perform at Whelan's on 15th and 16th May. ASIWYFA will curate the bill for the two evenings, entitled The Stay Golden, in support of their new album, All Hail Bright Futures . Tickets for for Wednesday, 15th May and Thursday, 16th May are available now and cost €14.50.
And So I Watch You from Afar will perform at Whelan's on 15th and 16th May. ASIWYFA will curate the bill for the two evenings, entitled The Stay Golden, in support of their new album, All Hail Bright Futures . Tickets for for Wednesday, 15th May and Thursday, 16th May are available now and cost €14.50.
Irelands' finest postrockers from AND SO I WATCH YOU FROM AFAR came out with a new album last week. It’s called All Hail Bright Futures and is the third full-lengths release of the band. And - to my apology - I almost overlooked that tiny little masterpiece over the daily haze and everything. But it's The post And So I Watch You From Afar - All Hail Bright Futures appeared first on Nothing But Hope And Passion - NBHAP - Music Magazine & more .
Indiependence make first announcement. Again... U.K. chart toppers Bastille were confirmed for the Mitchelstown music meet-up only last week but the official first line-up has now been revealed at special simultaneous launch parties held in both Cork and Dublin. The stand out headliner is of course legendary Long Islanders De La Soul with the hip hop trailblazers confirmed alongside motormouth mixer Beardyman and Glaswegian indie trio The Fratellis . A whole host of Irish talent will be making their way down to Deer Farm too [...]
True fans of music spend countless hours searching for that next great song, album or artist, whether it be online or in a local record shop. The beautiful thing about music in today's age is that technology has created an infinite supply of great music that is available to...
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La band nord-irlandese (da Belfast) ha realizzato lo scorso 19 marzo il terzo LP dal titolo "All Hail Bright Futures", etichetta Sargent House. Il disco è ora interamente in streaming qui: I And So I Watch You From Afar saranno ad inizio aprile in Italia per 3 date: Apr 03, 2013 - Modena, Italy @ La Tenda * Apr 04, 2013 - Rome, Italy @ Traffic Club * Apr 05, 2013 - Conegliano, Italy @ Appartamento Hoffman * * Support: Gallops [...]
And So I Watch You From Afar release stream of new album. Belfast, Northern Ireland's And So I Watch You From Afar released their third album, All Hail Bright Futures, this week through...
Best DIY poster ever? It's all guts and sweat on Barrack Street this evening as northern noise-makers Axis Of combine forces with local scream-beasts Terriers to launch new album Finding St Kilda in Nancy Spains . Tickets are just €5 and it's an early-ish starter so be there for 9pm. It's riffs a-plenty this week continuing into Thursday as Bats [...]
It should be no surprise that several of the artists topping this week's list of new releases were making appearances at SXSW last week, but two of them were also previewing their new songs live on KEXP during our broadcast from Mellow Johnny's Bike Shop. Billy Bragg and Palma Violets both gave memorable performances. Bragg, the veteran songwriter, worked with veteran producer Joe Henry (an accomplished songwriter himself) on his 13th studio album, and first in five years, which our Music Director, Don Yates, says that Tooth and Nail "is steeped in world-weary melancholy [...]
All the major flaws present on math rockers And So I Watch You From Afar's last LP, Gangs , have been corrected on the exuberant All Hail Bright Futures , their best work to date. The word-salad title of "Big Thinks Do Remarkable" may not make any sense, but as a piece of music it says everything about All Hail Bright Futures, the third LP by math rockers And So I Watch You From Afar. After the brief overture "Eunoia", zippy, high-pitched guitar runs slap the listener in the face, leaving bruises of exuberance behind. The song [...]
Have you ever felt pure joy? Perhaps you were running, naked and free in a glorious field surrounded by sunshine and lollipops. Maybe you were blissfully asleep, your slumber full of smiles as your dreams, for a fleeting moment, are as good as reality. Whatever your definition of delirious happiness, All Hail Bright Futures is full of that same sense of rapturous joy in abundance. Everything about And So I Watch You From Afar ’s third record is staggeringly delightful. From beginning to end it is a wonderful medley [...]
Roger Sargent I find it equally amusing/confounding that veteran artists who return after long hiatuses or breakups are almost always initially met with open arms - my favourite band when I was a teenager is back! - but it's rarely long before that goodwill starts turning a bit sour. Tour the greatest hits that everyone thinks they want to hear, and it's all "you're just cashing in on my nostalgia!" but have the audacity to record new material, and with few exceptions the best they can hope for is a tepid, "it's not as good as your old [...]
Ireland's And So I Watch You From Afar have posted a stream of their 2013 full length, All Hail Bright Futures . The record is due out March 19, 2013 .
Atmospheric instrumental outfit And So I Watch You From Afar's new album All Hail Bright Futures is streaming in full.
Well, we didn't see this coming. Although their second album Gangs garnered almost as much praise as their self-titled debut, there was a nagging doubt that And So I Watch You From Afar had already exhausted their initial idea. While vocal bands can keep rehashing the same formula, life isn't quite so easy for their instrumental cousins. The mysterious departure of Tony Wright (very much the focal point of the band live) suggested that perhaps a third album of the same material might be a distinctly unwise move. If All Hail Bright Futures [...]
I think I've already said this once before, but And So I Watch You From Afar's new album All Hail Bright Futures is the first great album of 2013. This cataclysmic conglomeration of euphoric math-rock might be the best thing these guys have done yet. So do yourself a favor and stream it below. Preorder it here
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