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AFH in his guise within The Age of Reason, has completed production and arrangement duties on the marvellous new Piney Gir album. Check out her myspace for sample tracks. Album should be out later this year.

Next shows for
Piney Gir & the Age of Reason:

Tonigsberg Festival, Norway:18.07.2008

Truck Festival,
Oxford: 20.07.2008

New AFH booty:
disco deconstruction
AFH's latest, a proper disco outing to boot, 'Like "79' is now available to human ears on myspace.com. It's a trip through a year in just over 4 minutes. Features the myriad talents of the Piney Gir Country Roadshow's rhythm and chop section on Chic-duties. Enjoy.x

A minute of your time? ;-)
[June 2008]
AFH has just completed a minute long song (you read that right) for a new vinyl compilation of ... one minute songs. It's over on myspace to preview. Read the whole update on myspace as well to find out about a brutish and dandy filled collaboration...

Older news


Shows! a CD! Xmas! London! Oxford.
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AFH DJ set at CurzonSoho

"Night Haunts", an evening of diverse horror-strewn spoken words, underground film and beats in the well stocked bar courtesy of AFH. Shaftesbury Avenue.
Friday 12th October.
From 8.30-9pm. Do come!
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STOP PRESS:
Next show: 13th August:
CRAFT NITE, Notting Hill Arts Club
Come along to see AFH at the ever mind expanding Craft Nite courtesy of Galia (Psapp) and her coterie of skill based diversions.
This editions craft is "making an imaginary friend." which might be a gag but it's a good one.

AFH onstage at 8.15ish.

www.myspace.com/craftnight

what you're getting into ;-) :
from former crafts...

STOP PRESS:
Next show: 4th July, @ TescoDisco, Hedges & Butler, Regent Street. Onstage 8.15pm!
www.tescodisco.co.uk = theme Anna Karenina ;-)

Discussion on hedonism at the ICA (12.05.07)

Alexander M. will be joining a panel discussion entitled
"Can we be hedonistic anymore?" at the ICA's SpeakEasy night.
With Simon Clark, director, Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco; Travis Elborough, freelance writer; Alexander Mayor of Alexander's Festival Hall; Sam Roddick, founder, Coco de Mer; and Tamara Tyrer, co-founder, Whoopee Club. Chair: John Noi, Editor, Spektacle.

link: ICA

Shoot that poison arrow ! (01.02.07)



Yes, AFH is releasing another fine slice of lush, beeping, high concept heartbreak. From Feb 6th you'll be able to buy 'You are becoming the reason' from another fine LGM compilation "A Very Magistery Valentine". Available from iTunes worldwide.

Check out the sample on AFH's myspace page and drop us a line if you like it.
SHOW: AFH will be playing the Metro, opening for Paris Motel on cupid's big day, 14/2/07, Oxford St. Doors 8pm. See you there.

That season / festivus update
Tis almost the time to deck the house once more for sure. So why not scoot over to iTunes and pick up a copy of "Silent Nites" or one of the other fine songs on a Very Magistery Christmas! Silent Nites can be heard on AFH's myspace page too. Bonus!

"If the cast of the Last Christmas video had decided to ditch the bubble perms and had taken degrees in architecture and philosophy they would be playing this album" iTunes.




Dec 06: AFH has been busy in his new studio and will have more releases to announce in the new year. In the meantime have a cool yule chums. X

>Video Clip: Lunchbox Festival
Scroll down for a clip from The Life Backstage and some top OAP shape-throwing!

Thank you, merci, for now...

AFH Interview: spektacle magazine: interview with alexander m. in Spektacle magazine, also featuring V/VM
[Link]

Piney/Age of Reason vs The Beatles on Radio1
The Age of Reason aka Alexander M. and his chum Mr Simon H. esq, have collaborated with Piney Gir on a Beatles cover "Bungalow Bill" from the White Album. It's for a show about John Lennon on Radio1 Monday 5th Dec (One World, One Album). We've taken the song on a short and minimally funded Greek holiday. Listen in! [link]

Thanks / merci / danke to those who came down to the AFH show at the rather rocking Marquee (hem hem). Some movie clips here.

(afh #5 @ marquee london)

Picture Browser
is here: > link

Press shot:
>afh_108

Aural Voyeurism...
begins at home... Wonderful slash awful stupid life-denying internet technology that's almost everywhere. You can literally relive the home djing horror of a Barbra Streisand vs Shostakovich slapdown without having to be there (!):

Compadres & Delectations
>Timewasting.net - Home of the multiple light source that is Rhodri Marsden. Pop, Thought, Radio and Raconteurish wit at its finest.

>PineyGir - the finest futuristic schoolhouse rockin' from the delightful Kansonian chanteuse

>Spektacle.com - a fine livin' quarterly that's every few weeks or so. You'll never worry about how to carry scissors again.

Notes & thanks:
all press photos by vicki churchill (contact), building designs by stephen o'neill, rfh shots by a.m., gig shots by b.mayor

Collaborators
Here are some of the lovely people who help comprise alexanders festival hall:

Dave Howell - double bass
Josh Gennet - guitars
Will Mayor - synthesizer
Luci Smallwood - singing
Piney Gir - occasional duetting
Vicki Churchill - photography
Stephen O'Neill - design
Michael Coleman - guitar
Ed Thaw - wires, space design

Who or what?
Alexander's Festival Hall is... the sound of Bill Wyman solo records played too loud, tape measures snapping happily back into their casings, Dm7, black and white guitars, wrong riff theories, digitalsquelch, ad hoc committees, a festival of the heart, and all of it inspired by spending large doses of time in the Royal Festival Hall, a place where simply nothing bad could ever happen to you.

1. Listen Up!/MP3s
AFH work in progress tunes are to be found at *that* place:

Alex is also part of baxendale who are here [site]