And So I Watch You from Afar
| And So I Watch You from Afar | |
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 Live at the Glasgowbury Music Festival 2009 |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Post rock |
| founding | 2005 |
| Website | Appearance at Bandcamp |
| Current occupation | |
| Rory Friers (The Chip) | |
| Jonathan Adger (The Bearded Dragon) | |
| Niall Kennedy | |
| Chris Wee (The Big) | |
| former members | |
| Tony Wright | |
And So I Watch You from Afar ( ASIWYFA for short ) is an instrumental British post-rock band from Belfast , Northern Ireland . The band consists of Rory Friers and Tony Wright on guitars, Jonathan Adger on bass and Chris Wee on drums. They are traded very highly by many relevant music magazines. They are known among genre fans for their live performances.
history
The band was formed in late 2005 and released their debut EP Tonight the City Burns in spring 2007. This release was followed by the EP This Is Our Machine and Nothing Can Stop It (October 2007), with vocals by Cahir O'Doherty of Fighting with Wire and Jetplane Landing . At the time they recorded their debut album in the studio, they also went on a solo tour through Great Britain, but also played concerts with other bands such as High on Fire , Crippled Black Phoenix , 65daysofstatic or Yourcodenameis: milo . At that time they were also noticed by music critics and DJs, Huw Stephens of BBC Radio 1 was the first to play one of their tracks on national radio.
Their debut album, named after them, was released in April 2009 and received consistently positive reviews in music magazines such as Kerrang! , RockSound , Drowned In Sound , Visions and Metal Hammer . They spent the rest of the year performing live in the UK, which received positive coverage in magazines and blogs alike. In February 2010 the EP The Letters followed .
In September 2011, founding member Tony Wright announced his departure from the band. He was replaced by Niall Kennedy for the tour that was then in progress. Tony Wright is now active as a singer-songwriter under the name VerseChorusVerse.
In March 2013, the band released their third studio album, All hail bright futures , which was released under the Sargent House label. The album received rather sympathetic reviews from critics, so Metacritic awarded 67 out of 100 points. In the summer of 2014 the band toured Europe.
In July 2014 the band began recording their fourth album Heirs , which was released in 2015.
Discography
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- 2007: Tonight the City Burns (EP)
- 2007: This Is Our Machine and Nothing Can Stop It (EP)
- 2009: And So I Watch You from Afar
- 2009: Set Guitars to Kill / A Little Solidarity Goes a Long Way (CD-R, single, promo)
- 2010: The Letters (EP)
- 2010: Straight Through the Sun Without a Scratch (Single)
- 2011: Search: Party: Animal (Single)
- 2011: gangs
- 2013: All Hail Bright Futures
- 2015: Heirs
- 2017: The Endless Shimmering
And So I Watch You from Afar at Paaspop 2014
Web links
- And So I Watch You from Afar at Bandcamp
- And So I Watch You from Afar at last.fm
- And So I Watch You From Afar at Discogs (English)
- And So I Watch You from Afar at laut.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Katie: Introduce: And So I Watch You From Afar . In: Kerrang! Magazines . March 24, 2009, ISSN 0262-6624 .
- ↑ And So I Watch You From Afar - And So I Watch You From Afar (Re-Release) . Visions .de. Retrieved September 1, 2013.
- ↑ ATL: BBC - Across the Line: Tony Wright leaves And So I Watch You From Afar. Retrieved November 27, 2017 .
- ↑ Review of All hail bright futures . Metacritic ; Retrieved October 19, 2014
- ↑ Photo series from the studio of sargenthouse on Instagram ; Retrieved October 19, 2014
- ↑ Holley Perry: And So I Watch You From Afar . Huffington Post . April 6, 2015. Accessed April 13, 2015.
- ↑ And So I Watch You from Afar in the Irish charts