ASIWYFA : Belfast
Trans in association with Smalltown America present the most exciting show of 2009, The four piece instrumental juggernaut from Belfast, And So I Watch You From Afar are headlining Belfast’s Ulster Hall on December 18th 2009, with a full support bill which includes some very special guests.
Since the bands sold out Mandela Hall Album launch show in march, this was always the next step for ASIWYFA, due to their ever increasing fan base and unmatched live performance these guys are a must see. If you haven’t heard of ASIWYFA, where have you been? This will be a show you do not want to miss!
Other bands talk about it, And So I Watch You From Afar do it. In 2009, ASIWYFA played a mammoth 170 gigs all over Europe. From extensive tours in the UK to opening Pukkelpop festival in Belgium in front of 4500 captivated people to Novarock festival in Austria, gigs in Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine and Russia, this is band that mean business.
Their hometown Belfast shows are legendary from the 1,000 capacity headline Christmas homecoming gig in the Ulster Hall right down to a small secret basement party which was shut down by the police late in the night for being too insane.
Everything about ASIWYFA is gargantuan. Their critically-acclaimed, self-titled debut album released in 2009 is exhibit A. From the the iron-clad riffs to the pummelling crash of the cymbals to the palpable positivity of the music, it’s everything great rock (never mind just instrumental rock) music should be. Even the song which take in titles like ‘Set Guitars To Kill’, ‘Clench Fists, Grit Teeth… GO!’ and the ASIWYFA practice what you preach mantra ‘Don’t Waste Time Doing Things You Hate’, are epic in scale.
Filled with monstrous guitars, bulging rock histrionics and genuinely breathtaking moments, And So I Watch You from Afar is easily one of the best records of 2009.
Revered music publications like The Quietus (‘Quite some distance ahead of the rest of ’09’s guitar albums so far’), NME (‘The sound of someone crashing an oil tanker through Sigur Ros’ ice floe’), Kerrang! (‘ It’s rare for a body of work to be so dreamy and elegiac yet conversely monstrously heavy’) and Vice (‘rescuing the instrumetal ship from the deepest depths of irrevocable mediocrity’) all agree.
ASIWYFA are a band that are only going to get bigger and more inspiring. Expect a new EP – The Letters in January 2010 and a second album in the first half of the year. Meanwhile, catch the band’s incendiary live show at a venue near you.
Tickets are available now and are priced at a very reasonable £8 in advance and can be purchased from the Waterfront Hall Box Office on 028 9033 4455 and from The Ulster Hall. Full supporting line up to be announced soon, check website for details.
links:
www.myspace.com/andsoiwatchyoufromafar
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