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Entries from July 26th, 2009

AFH video: “Like 79″

July 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Songs, Video

Back indeed when girls when taller and cooler… AFH’s reverie, half imagined, half designed, about the clash of disco and apres-disco… a boy in a bar, a bar full of people and well, a video cartooned into existence by the everso talented Mr Tim Benton… Now watch on…

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Announcing VP3! VinylP3 virtual actual downloadable holdable disks!

July 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Mp3, Songs

So before the album comes out I thought it would be kind of cool to make a record, but not one, crucially, that absolutely no-one could actually play. I have a record player but it sits rather unhappy looking in the corner, its direct drive downcast, its needle needled, whilst the music hums out of [...]

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New AFH song: “I’m gonna get married”

July 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Mp3, Songs

Here’s a new AFH song, which will be on the debut album. It’s rather nuptial. I wrote it at New Year’s in Berlin, sitting looking out on a snowscape from a 4th floor window. Strangely the mood is less minimal techno and more cowboy lament, not quite sure how that happened…
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AFH video: “NightSong” by Piney Gir

July 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Remix, Songs, Video

Here’s a video, (well animated instructional thought-stream?) I made for my remix of Piney Gir’s Nightsong. The original is a lovely jazzy duet between Piney and Simple Kid. I thought it would sound cool as meltingly acidic smooth jazztronic f**k-up. The video is just because. Just because these days we all watch music rather than [...]

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Badge me up…

July 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Ahem. You’re not really a band without badges. Not sure why. Gentle intimation that your fanbase is so poor it needs them as a replacement for buttons? Wordless cultic self-identification stratagem? Whatever, AFH has made some. Available in person at shows this autumn and winter… x

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AFH stamps it up

July 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

okay this is just daft… but I got a stamp made. For the making of VP3s (of which more, later)… So yes a stamp, from Blade Rubber Stamps which on account of being opposite the British Museum, feels like a proper place for a gentleman to place an order. I feel like I’ve started my [...]

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Thanks…

July 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Live shows

.. to everyone who came down for AFH’s show with Tim Ten Yen at the Doghouse, 17th July 09…
Great to blow the dust off some old songs and give a good airing to some new ones… We’ll be back to play again soon, hopefully in September… x

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