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  • AFH: Upturned single launch: 12th April @ Power Lunches!

    Hi everyone…
    Just to say the next show, our little Upturned (but hey, in a basement) launch do is at Power Lunches and we’ve got a dream bill of musical diversions for you all… the elegantly intuitive Machine Gunners will be opening proceedings, followed by the total pop of Tim Ten Yen with supportive parallel world of musical marvels from DREAMTRAK and DJ Soft Focus on the decks.

    A free CDsingle (remember them? stare at the artwork as you listen on soundcloud mes cheres…) to the first 20 arrivals too!

    See you there, doors 7pm, live music starts at 8.30:
    http://powerlunchesltd.co.uk/
    (nearest station: Dalston Kingsland / Dalston Junction)
    AFH x

  • Next show: 21st March – 93feeteast

    Next show: 21st March – 93feeteast

    Hey, hey , is this on? Cool. Just a quick note to say, although, yes it’s technically Timothy Dalton’s birthday, that’s no reason not to come along for AFH’s next show – at the lovely 93 feet east. It’s Wednesday 21st March, and team AFH is on at 9.15 sharp. You can get tix from seetickets.com apparently. link as soon as we have it mes chers. x

  • Presenting … “Upturned”

    Exciting times..! The “Upturned” single is coming out in April 2012, and to get you in the ah, mood, we present a dark, dark video concerning the perils of the auditioning process, when you travel a world away, to the sea. Directed by Julius Beltrame, with graphics by Linda Baritski, puppet cameo from Mr Charles of New Jersey, and featuring a semi-animate starring role for a lost village out near Clacton-on-Sea…

  • Phew! and Thanks! and More Soon!

    Phew! and Thanks! and More Soon!

    Thanks to all who came down and made the first Alexander’s Festival Hall full-live show so enjoyable! 5 chaps = less complicated than one laptop – who knew? And we’re looking at more dates to detonate in your diaries soon! pip pip…

  • Check out a preview of AFH’s “Judo (what we’ve been playing)” from Olympics compilation

    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:

    It’s the taking part (site)

  • Next show: 2k12!

    Next show: 2k12!

    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!

  • Getting all turned up…

    Getting all turned up…

    AFH has been busy readying some promos for the new year… Upturned + 3 smashing remixes, refits, reworks, recourses from Simon Bookish, Zachary Gray, and AFH lui-meme… Ye-es! Here’s Zach’s delectable chillwavey rework of “Upturned”:

  • Next show: AFH at the Betsey, 3rd November

    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!

  • More remixing royalty: Simon Bookish Slo-Mo Mix of Upturned…

    More remixing royalty: Simon Bookish Slo-Mo Mix of Upturned…

    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.

  • AFH Live show… 15th March… with Tim Ten Yen

    [singlepic id=66 w=200 float=left]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

  • AFH pre-album EP in progress! Mixing, remixing, demixing it…

    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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  • Album finished!

    Insert sound of clapping/dancing/falling-over but the debut AFH album, so very long in the brewing to our secret recipe, has now been finished and mastered! Titled “Not a dry eye in London“, and being some 13 delectable tracks in length, the AFH record features twinkling sounds from birds in the trees, to cellos in the basement, synths in the club to sweet words on the breeze.

    Update: released by State51/MelodicalTrax in March 2013. Listen here…

  • AFH in secret guise: live at Rocketcottage Radio Roadshow, 6th August

    AFH in secret guise: live at Rocketcottage Radio Roadshow, 6th August

    And so… a side-project of manifest bizarreness… all dating back to a long-time Denim/GoKartMozart obsession,… having worked with Denim’s producer Brian O’Shaunghessy and knowing Christian Flamm, German artists responsible for FoxtrotEchoLimaTango – a book about Lawrence’s former band Felt. What could it add up to but… the Rocketcottage Radio Roadshow! A live, probably-never-to-be-repeated* performance by Tim and Alex of Baxendale parish, at the Betsey Trotwood, 6th August, 7pm…

    Preview track: “Kings of the Road”

    Imagery from the show, update yo:
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    *until ATP gets Lawrence to curate in 2058 😉

  • Konzert news! AFH to play Introducing, Berlin, and DJ slot at Melt! 2k10

    Konzert news! AFH to play Introducing, Berlin, and DJ slot at Melt! 2k10

    News in of next show! AFH is extremely excited to be playing at INTRO-DUCING, the pre-party, warm-up for Melt! Festival 2010 just south of the city.

    Show is at Thursday’s Child/Magnet [map].
    UPDATE: AFH is also DJing at Melt! Festival, Saturday Night, 00.00 hours / mit Severin Most und Thomas Venker.
    Vielen dank, mes amis. We can’t wait! x

    UPDATES:
    Show was a blast – thanks to all who came along. Here’s a shot from row C 😉
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  • AFH refits “Cinema Verité” for remix album

    Ah the remix, … all hand-claps in a canyon and extendo-c-c-c-choruses. Two minutes of slowly building stab chords and a voice going “Uh-huh… Uh-huh, yeah!”… Well, AFH likes a nice refit-remix – where you take the song on a trip to DisneyLand kind of against its will but in a good way 😉 It’s even better when the band who asks you to do it is really musically interesting and open to a little adventure…

    Cinema Verité, (“like the Beach Boys in a colder climate”) are a dreamy post-rocking duo from Canada, whose debut “Sunrise, sunset” is out on LGM this summer. They’re also releasing a separate remix album on Lebanon, Mass. Records and asked AFH to contribute a reimagining of their “Perfect Day”… Excerpt of the mix to follow! x