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  • Playlists from outer space…

    [singlepic id=52 w=200 float=left]Well, with only 13 minutes of official training in the art of space suit maintenance and no pockets to stash the space mints… Here are the setlists from Friday night’s Barbarella Night at the Curzon. AFH dj’d with Mr James in a kind of triple tracker tag team that saw the arrayed synths of Giorgio Moroder take on the hairy space hippy freaks!
    Most jolly. Thanks to Nadia’s team at the cinema for inviting us to play…

    AFH’s SonicSpatialness Mix:
    Barbarella – Geoff Love Orchestra
    Holiday on Ice – Le Knight Club
    Running in the City – Space
    Baby Blue – Giorgio Moroder
    Space Invaders – Playback
    Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind – Ronnie Aldrich
    Clouds across the Moon – The Rah Band
    Intergalactic – Beastie Boys
    Galaxy of Love – Crown Heights Affair
    Money (8 Bit Dark Side of the Moon) – Pink Floyd
    Drunk Girls (Holy Ghost! Remix) – LCD Soundsystem
    Rocket – Goldfrapp
    Spacer – Sheila B and Devotion
    Holiday on Ice – Le Knight Club
    Like an Eagle – Dennis Parker
    Chicago – Roy Ayers
    2001 – Deodato

    James’s Hot Psyche’n 60s-70s Phreaklist
    Since You Asked – Singers Unlimited
    Me And Mrs Jones – Billy Paul
    I Am And So Are You – Affinity
    Camel Back – A.B.Skhy
    You keep me Hangin’ on – Vanilla Fudge
    Super Stupid – Funkadelic
    Black Magic Woman – Fleetwood Mac
    The Battle Of The Locusts – Aphrodite’s Child
    One-Armed Bandit – Jaga Jazzist
    A Man and A Woman – A Man and A Woman OST
    Butterflies Are Free – The Free Design
    Beautiful Scarlet – Capability Brown
    Fire – Arthur Brown
    Are You Man Enough – The Four Tops
    It’s About Time – HP Lovecraft
    Cronus (Saturn) – Chase
    Barracuda – Heart
    She’ not there – Zombies
    You’re The Song I’ve Always Wanted To Sing – Timmy Thomas
    You Must Be Joking – Locomotive

    (thanks to MegaEye for the image!)

  • A minute of your time? New album track preview

    [singlepic id=51 w=200 float=left]Hi all, here’s a new track from the debut album (still simmering but oh-so-very-close!). It will be available to buy from an album of 60 second songs from Le Grand Magistery this summer, which promises to be a playground of colourful sounds indeed. Meanwhile, in a nightclub in Koln…

  • AFH spinning intergalactical tunes at next Curzon Midnite Movies

    [singlepic id=48 w=200 float=left] A week’s notice to my space-headz 😉 But self aka AFH will be spinning some intergalactically spacey tunes next Friday at the Curzon’s Barbarella Midnight Cinema in Soho! Grab a ticket, don your pervotronique outfit and see you there… I can promise an otherworldly set of chansons indeed… xx

    Date: 30th April 2010
    Grab a ticket here: here
    barb_flyerClick here for groovy poster!

  • New album preview: Upturned

    [singlepic id=47 w=320 h=240 float=left]New song preview friends!
    Check out “Upturned” in the soundcloud player, right. (or go here)
    There was a point, marked clearly in one of my notebooks early on, where this song was going to be called “cover her upturned face in burning kisses – part III” … but saner and wiser heads prevailed. The story is still a story though – kind of a fairytale… inspired part by Murakami and part by Wodehouse.

  • It’s that time of year..!

    [singlepic id=46 w=179 h=178 float=left]Yes, insert uptempo comment about snow, crampons, yuletidings and the whole sherry mid-afternoon in front of Roger Moore thing. Whilst the egg nog simmers on the stove, here’s a revisit from the AFH tune bunker… Click on “Silent Nites” on the new player, right… Kind of inspired by Kay Starr and the possibility of a Christmas gone awry…
    Happy holidaze! AFH x

  • Escaping the labyrinth!

    Well, what a well dressed peacocking and friendly bunch were the assembled throng at the Curzon Midnight Movie showing of Labyrinth last night… Afh judged the mood as requiring a blend of scritti politti, Ryan Paris, human league and by the end the 14th consecutive 80s revival was definitely in full swing 😉 thanks to Nadia and all you pretty things… X

  • Get lost in the Labyrinth! AFH DJ-set vs Curzon Soho!

    [singlepic id=45 w=320 h=240 float=left]Aloha team, time to put on your mask, fluff your mullet (!?) and get yourselves tickets to the midnight Masquerade at the Curzon Soho! AFH will be playing a DJ set of classical-madness-and-80s-Bowie-baiting hitz to follow the screeny goodness. Friday 27th November is the date. Click the image for more details! Or go here to find out more and book tickets…

  • Thanks… and next…

    [singlepic id=40 w=320 h=240 float=left]Thanks to everyone who came to AFH’s show at Beyond Retro on Saturday… Resisted the urge to butcher Bowie’s “Fashion”, and the warm coat selection was exemplary so a win all round we think. More pics from the talented Steve Brummel in the Gallery…

    Enter the Labyrinth!
    Next live show to be scheduled but AFH will be DJing at the Soho Curzon Cinema’s “Late nights” on 27th November, which is (reads from card) “Labyrinth Masquerade” themed… More details will be up soon on the Curzon’s facebook page: link

  • AFH next live show: Beyond Retro Shoreditch Oct 24th…

    [singlepic id=38 w=320 h=240 float=left]Come see AFH play amid the frocks, pantaloons and assorted yesteryear accessories at Beyond Retro’s ubershoppe of vintage goodies on Cheshire Street, just off Brick Lane… 3pm, October 24th 2009.

    Update: Facebook Event Link

  • AFH live on BalconyTV: video now up!

    Hey team, here in all its raintastic and chilly glory is our acoustic rendering of “I’m gonna get married” live on BalconyTV. Simon from Vatican Cellars helping out on guitar, Will Byers from BeeStings on Cello and Clare Younis providing the vocal heartbreak. (PS If you look very carefully you’ll see us being pelted with confetti amid the raindrops… x)

  • AFH plays BalconyTV.com

    balconytvMost exciting! AFH will be playing a little acoustic, single-song set (nano-gig? ach, whatever…) for BalconyTV, on the LockLounge balcony on Tuesday 15th September. It’s the end of the summer but there’s still time for a wedding song we think…
    Link: BalconyTV. We’ll post the video up here once the nice people at BalconyTV have put it up… For now here’s what it was like singing to a month’s rain in a single nacht! Pictures by the superbly waterproof slash diligently dry Nicholas Tucker!

  • Playing six strings for Miss Piney Gir

    Playing six strings for Miss Piney Gir

    Nice little performance of some Piney Gir tracks from the Yearling album which AFH produced and played on, here acoustified in the Ol’ Blue Last in darkest Shoreditch…

    Watch “Miss Havisham”…

  • The Yearling gets 4**** in Q magazine!

    Good news everyone!
    [singlepic id=27 w=320 h=240 float=left]The AFH-produced/arranged new Piney Gir album “The Yearling” gets **** out of 5* in the Sept. 2009 issue of Q magazine. Hooray! The record hits the shops on 14th of the month too, for which “woo!”. (UK, released in USA mid October on Grey Day Records/Warner).

    More great reviews from the web’n’blogosphere:
    Musoguide: http://musosguide.com/…
    Music Fix: http://www.themusicfix.co.uk…/
    Gigwise: http://www.gigwise.com/…
    Adequacy.Net: http://www.adequacy.net/…
    ALayerOfChips: http://alayerofchips.blogspot.com/…
    SubbaCultcha: http://www.subba-cultcha.com/…”
    IndieHandbook: http://theindiehandbook.wordpress.com/…

  • AFH’s Springsteen cover: now available on Amazon/iTunes

    51bpugs+QyL._SL500_AA240_Late last year AFH was approached to contribute to an album of Bruce (“Broooce”) Springsteen cover versions by the nice people at the WIAIWYA label. A chancey gambit you might think, as AFH knew next to nothing of the Boss’s back catalogue and had spent little time in checkered shirts or contemplating the ups and downs of life in New Jersey.

    However, there’s nothing like a short-ferry ride away from the old music komfort zone so AFH readily agreed and went into deep Brucemmersion. The result is “Empty Sky”, a song chosen for its dark 9/11 subject and forceful simplicity. Piney Gir lends her lovely voice to the choruses. Dedicated to the memory of Suria Clarke. Hope you like it. x

    AFH is on Disk 2: Track 16 but there are lots of other treats on this mega expansive 38 track overview!
    Amazon: “Empty Sky”
    iTunes: Empty Sky

  • AFH plays bones for Psapp…

    [singlepic id=37 w=320 h=240 float=left]Old video guest appearance news…! AFH braved the cold with friends Psapp last winter to play bones percussion (the smell of lamb has polluted the old AFH mittens to this day…) on their Bandstand Busking acoustic set in Arnold’s Circus. Songs are from their excellent album “The camel’s back”. Watch clips here