Alexander's Festival Hall
Alexander's Festival Hall is a purveyor of timeless, broken, nightclub-tinged, electronic balladry.
Forthcoming debut album, "Not a dry eye in London", has been chiselled out of solid popcrete, and contains zippy pop, peppy electronica, and wistful whistleable tunes.
Remixes completed by Simon Bookish, DREAMTRAK, Zachary Gray, Tim Baxendale, and more...
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- Jan 20, 12
- Jan 14, 12
Check out the video and preview for AFH’s Judo track, now up on Where It’s At Is Where You Are’s site. The blog’s going to build for weeks up to release, a different musical act for each of the 26 sports! Album out in June team so head on over:
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- Nov 17, 11
Hey all, an advance note for that natty Justin Bieber / Newt Gingrich / Brian Cox 2012 Diary you’ll no doubt get from Aunt Sally this Xmas… NEXT AFH GIG: January 18th 2k12 at 93 Feet East. Fab place, awesome sound, and lovelz people. See you there!
- Nov 17, 11
- Sep 09, 11
Good news! Next AFH live show at The Betsey Trotwood, 3rd November 2011. With support from the smooth pop hooks from DJ Soft Focus and more tbc!
- Apr 22, 11
- Mar 08, 11
Well it’s an embarrassment of remixy-riches at AFH towers and no mistake. Latest to pitch up a mix for the Upturned EP (coming late March with video) is Simon Bookish, possibly one of the most talented and deserving of the description ‘musically ambitious’ people working out there today. SB has taken the song to a delicate, near-ambient state with Satie-esque pianos and ranks of recorders. Here’s a little excerpt to give you an idea of what’s coming… - Feb 24, 11
Good news everyone!
A Spring Soirée of Single-length Sensuous Song! Courtesy of the ace people at Radio Nowhere, the masterly pop chops of Mr Tim Ten Yen, and the klikkerty zingzong of Alexander’s Festival Hall. Disk Jockeying for your attention will be Mr Christopher Laird, he of the radio show. Come on down!£6/£5 with flyer (flyers can be printed from the Club Fandango website)
Adv. Tickets: www.wegottickets.com/bullandgate/event/110564 - Feb 12, 11
Some great things happen when you collaborate, or better yet just hand over a bag full of delicious songy ingredients to your talented remixing friends, stand back and simmer… And so step forward Mr DREAMTRAK who’s worked over AFH’s Like 79 discomemorabilia into a bouncey dancefloor dubby dream.
Here’s a little teaser to get you all in a lather… until release in April 2k11! - Jan 19, 11
Sound of whooping all around at AFH towers. 2k11 is underway and we’ve got some really interesting people doing mixes for the pre-album EP, based around the album tracks “Upturned” and “Like 79″. AFH himself has taken it in a strings, harmonium and acoustical de-mix direction. While over in Canada, Zachary Gray, (pictured) has gone all clubby-dreampop on us, and two more fabulous guest mixers are also prepping versions. Excitements! More details on release date as we get them mes amis.
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- Latest AFH song-based goodness here! Alexander's Festival Hall - "Upturned" (Simon Bookish Slow Motion Mix) http://t.co/8vc8RJFe
- Reminder too that AFH show is this Wednesday at 93 Feet East! Hope to see you there: http://t.co/8hXtcNc3Jan 14, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Mr AFH's Olympics song "Judo" now live for preview on WIAIWYA site! Check out the racy video (ahem.) http://t.co/chXJ9Lcw #olympics2012Jan 14, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- AFH next live show details up on FBook, so put the 18th Jan in your diaries team and set the controls for 93FeetEast! http://t.co/8hXtcNc3Jan 06, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Come to "Alexander's Festival Hall - live at 93FeetEast" 18 January from 20:00 to 23:00. Alexander's Festival... http://t.co/YPAWGzPi
- Quick dream update for all my psychoanalyst homies... I'm standing in a ticket queue for some gleaming red London... http://t.co/xvYGHxUi
- Gartside, Marsden, Hitchcock... Purveyors of quality song ... @ The Victoria, Dalston http://t.co/Zz9gi9QZ
- @darren_beach You sir are one of the last of the great romantics! Big props to you and the missus! x
- @darren_beach Followed by "Loving is really my game" by Brainstorm - total classic!
- ahem! late night twitteroake... "and I could... and left to my own devices I probably would..."Nov 18, 11 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- would I write a book, or should I take to the stage? but in the back of my head I heard distant feet, Che Guevara or Debussy to a disco beatNov 18, 11 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- "Left to my own devices". Still an astonishing soundtrack to almost anything. Luckily I'm trawling youtube for judo bits for a video...Nov 18, 11 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- The AFH promo singles are a legion of dummies! @ Omega Works http://t.co/EHlsjVeD
- Oooh rumour has it AFH is going to be played on the ineffably grate RADIO NOWHERE tonight! Do tune in! http://t.co/xymQdN6U xxNov 07, 11 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- AFH just prepping some top tunes for "Let's ramble". May not be able to sing, but +GD rekkids, Temple Set and Machine Gunners = poptastic..Nov 03, 11 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @ericamacarthur ha! and I know, total disappointfest! I shall confer with the Gunners and see if any recall stalkers for you...
- AFH struck down by vocal lurgy! Will just be DJing on Thursday at Betsey. Machine Gunners stepping manfully up. Big props. xxNov 02, 11 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @ericamacarthur Ha! yes, long-range elliptical orbits converging... Good to be sharing a stage with you next woche... (the Verve?! crumbs..)
- AFH is reading about martial arts for a Judo-themed song - 2012 olympics comp album. So far it's sounding like jpoppers Perfume... woops!Oct 11, 11 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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Biographically
- Alexander’s Festival Hall
Alexander’s Festival Hall is the brainchild, accident, ward-of-court, or otherwise hazardous musical adventure of Alexander Mayor. A musical project that began as a date with an antiquarian book-selling model went spectacularly wrong in the bar of yes, The Royal Festival Hall.
On his debut album, "Not a dry eye in London", Alexander has pulled in a diverse cast of musicians from the drummer of metallers Pig Iron to Brooklyn performance artist Clark ov Saturn, Australian folk singer Clare Younis, LA’s The Birthday Girl on 70s disco recollections, Piney Gir on a lonesome duet about the possibility of weddings, and many more. AFH doesn’t like getting pinned down to one sound and so the record which begins in the green room, dives into underground clubs, jumps back to the disco-era, noses up through German-tinged electronica and concludes bleary-eyed in a field. You can’t ask for more than that in 46 minutes.
He’s the producer who produced Piney Gir’s 2009 “The Yearling” taking a Kansas gal on a trip into Euro electronica and wonky jazz. He was one third of Baxendale when they delivered “I built this city” onto European dancefloors via those nice people at Kompakt. And now he’s teeing up his self-penned future romantronica classic (go on, it only takes 4 of us to start a micro-genre) “Not a dry eye in London” - 13 songs that chart the complexities of love in cities to the sound of broken nightclub-tinged balladry.What's next?
First single Upturned released via State51 Feb 2012.Album hits the streets later in 2012.Press: Hannah Gould PR
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- Oct 08, 11Like a kind of bizarro awful music school for slightly simple children. 4 members of the public incl. yours truly attempt to recreate one of Gonzale's early rap masterpieces under a kind of audience-participation-at-gunpoint. Utter chaos and a *special* evening all round. (If you're a fan of the original song I strongly recommend moving right along to the next link or two... ) Rest of the show it should be stressed, was music-at-its-heights -- Gonzales at his most pianistically deft. Probably the most entertaining man on the planet right now...From: afh001Views: 2190 ratings
Time: 03:07 More in Music - Jan 20, 11AFH in micro-acoustical format appeared on BalconyTV London to perform "I'm gonna get married" - and despite it raining like a mo-fo (those are raindrops not tears ;-) we had great fun far from the usual mound of amps/mics/cables and wires... Performance features my dear friends Clare Younis (singing), Will Byers (cello) and Simon Hughes (guitar). Video © BalconyTVFrom: afh001Views: 1500 ratings
Time: 05:09 More in Music - Jan 20, 11VideosForNaught Presents... "Like 79" Taking the cartoon skills of the unbelievably talented Mr Tim Benton and putative storyline of AFH's "Like 79"... Is it a disco memoir? A comment in beats? A nodder? A mover! Was it all about punk or the sashaying at Studio 54. Find out!From: afh001Views: 2160 ratings
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- Jan 26, 11
festivalhall posted a photo:
Piney and Alex played for the Neurotica new collection by the very talented Victoria McGrane...
Mr Dragon's Den was there getting his photo taken with starry-eyed fashion types. Most amusing...
www.thisisneurotica.com
photo from: Bianca Pal...
fashionslant.blogspot.com/2008/09/neurotica-ss-09-launch-... - Jan 26, 11
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