Artist: And So I Watch You From Afar

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'The lynch pin at the heart of Belfast's extraordinary music scene'… 'A brain-annihilating barrage of rhythms and rottweilers'… 'Plucked from the heavens, colossal'. Nine tours and two EPs down, Belfast's And So I Watch You From Afar certainly have the critics purring. Their new self-titled album is arguably the most anticipated debut of 2009, and already fills the shelves of Tokyo's record stores alongside life-size cardboard cut outs of the band. It's due to land in Ireland on April the 13th, and many already have the instrumental four-piece marked down for greatness. State caught up with guitarist Tony [...]

Belfast's premier instrumentalist types And So I Watch You From Afar have confirmed details of their debut album and a massive Irish and UK tour in support. Released on the Small Town America label (home to Fighting With Wire), the self titled record will arive on April 13th. Praise for album has already been widespread, including Huw Stephen's Album of the Week, four K's in Kerrang!, 10/10 from Radio One, Band Of The Year from ATL, in the Top Ten Northern Irish Songs of our lifetime from Alternative Ulster, glowing reviews in the NME [...]

And So I Watch You From Afar is Ireland's latest exports and are the latest band on the SmallTown America label. Post-rock bands are a dime a dozen they are plenty out there. Yet, "Set Guitars To Kill" is a special track that will become a massive song. A single for an instrumental band is already hard enough but this song calls you out in the intro with the distance guitar riff and that roaring crowd that gets you fired up for the track. The song is so intense and aggressive but maintains a certain beauty to it. I am [...]

Video for the And So I Watch You From Afar track 'Set Guitars to Kill' from the forthcoming double A-side single Set Guitars to Kill / A Little Solidarity Goes A Long Way released via Smalltown America Records on 6th April 2009.

The official music video for ASIWYFA 's next single which can be purchased from Smalltown America on the 16/3/09. Video Made by Tristan Crowe ASIWYFA will release their debut double A-side single on March 16th 2009. The limited seven inch includes the live favourites 'Set Guitars to Kill' and 'A Little Solidarity Goes A Long Way'

A great gig coming up this Thursday and another involving that ever-reliant mark of quality Richter Collective along with the guys from Egoeccentric under the name Murmur and ODL Bookings . It's on in Whelan's, it's €10 and is going to be very loud with Oxford's This Town Needs Guns , Adebisi Shank and Belfast's brilliant And So I Watch You From Afar in the room. And So I Watch You From Afar - Set Guitars to Kill [...]

• And So I Watch You From Afar - Set Guitars to Kill
• THIS TOWN NEEDS GUNS - 26 Is Dancier Than 4

Thursday 5 February 2009 Whelan's 8:00PM €10 Tickets on sale in WAV Tickets now This Town Needs Guns This Town Needs Guns are an math-indie-rock band originating from Oxford, United Kingdom. They were formed in 2006.Over the years the band's musical style has progressed and changed, although the focal point of their style has been the impressive guitar work of Tim Collis interspersed with solid, and at points highly complex, drumming and sparse, melodic bass. Early releases however, featured more distorted chord [...]

It hasn't been a good year for post-rock, I've heard the promo track from Mogwai's newbie and now I can't even bring myself to listen to it. Fresh pastures are required and right now one of the most promising comes from north of the border. Belfast to be precise courtesy of a band called And So I Watch You From Afar. With a new LP waiting in the wings and a fabulous debut EP 'This Is Our Machine

• And So I Watch You From Afar - The Voiceless

For an opening gambit from a bunch of 20-somethings, the debut EP "This is our Machine and Nothing Can Stop It" from Northern Ireland's And So I Watch You From Afar couldn't be much more ambitious. Although clearly influenced by post-rock bands such as Explosions in the Sky, Mogwai, Pelican, and Mono, ASIWYFA bring enough of their own ideas (and a boltload of passion, virtuosity and sheer volume) to the table to make their release stand out above the crowd. There's a sense of real depth and sheer songwriting ability that suggests that their debut album proper will [...]