AND SO I WATCH YOU FROM AFAR, JOGGING & HUNTER-GATHERER, Whelan's, NYE Dec 31st

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Whelanslive.com presents
The New Year’s Eve Party with

AND SO I WATCH YOU FROM AFAR
With very special guests JOGGING & HUNTER-GATHERER

New Year’s Eve, Fri 31st December, 7:30pm
Whelan’s, 25 Wexford St, Dublin 2

Tickets are €20 plus booking fee available now from WAV Tickets (1890 200 078), www.tickets.ie, City Discs & Ticketmaster Outlets nationwide.

Whelanslive.com are delighted to announce that AND SO I WATCH YOU FROM AFAR, Northern Ireland’s post rock giants, will he ringing in the new year in Whelan’s on Dec 31st. They’ve already packed the place during the FMC tour just pasted, evidence of their ear shattering set can be found HERE. They will be joined by Dublin post hardcore outfit JOGGING, who have been having a very successful year following the release of their debut album “Minutes” & faceless electronic wunderkind HUNTER-GATHERER who will also be capping of a wonderful 2010 with his brand of dark/atmospheric beats.

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Other bands talk about it, And So I Watch You From Afar do it.

Northern Ireland sensations And So I Watch You From Afar had an amazing start to their 2010, returning from this years EuroSonic Festival, courtesy of RTE 2FM, to find out they have been nominated for both Irelands Choice Music Prize and XFM New Music Album of the Year for 2009 in the UK putting them up against some of the UK and Irelands finest bands and artists, Cementing them as one of the finest in the UK and Ireland.

Along side support from BBC Radio 1, touring in 2010 has brought the band to the US and a total of 17 countries in Europe. As well as festival shows, the bands own shows, they have had time to slot in a support tour with Them Crooked Vultures! This tour had the band cross Europe again ending with a mind bending show at the Brixton Academy. The remainder of the summer will see the band have festival appearances including Lowlands, Sonisphere all the way as far as Latvia.

In 2009, ASIWYFA played a mammoth 170 gigs all over Europe. From extensive tours in the UK to opening Pukkelpop festival in Belgium in front of 4500 captivated people to Novarock festival in Austria, gigs in Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine and Russia, this is a band that means business.

Their hometown Belfast shows are legendary from the 1,000 capacity headline Christmas homecoming gig in the Ulster Hall right down to a small secret basement party which was shut down by the police late in the night for being too insane.

Everything about ASIWYFA is gargantuan. Their critically-acclaimed, self-titled debut album released in 2009 is exhibit A. From the iron-clad riffs to the pummeling crash of the cymbals to the palpable positivity of the music, it's everything great rock (never mind just instrumental rock) music should be. Even the song which take in titles like 'Set Guitars To Kill', 'Clench Fists, Grit Teeth... GO!' and the ASIWYFA practice what you preach mantra 'Don't Waste Time Doing Things You Hate', are epic in scale.

Filled with monstrous guitars, bulging rock histrionics and genuinely breathtaking moments, And So I Watch You from Afar is easily one of the best records of 2009.

Revered music publications like The Quietus (‘quite some distance ahead of the rest of '09's guitar albums so far'), NME ('The sound of someone crashing an oil tanker through Sigur Ros' ice floe'), Kerrang! (' It's rare for a body of work to be so dreamy and elegiac yet conversely monstrously heavy') and Vice ('rescuing the instrumental ship from the deepest depths of irrevocable mediocrity') all agree.

ASIWYFA are a band that are only going to get bigger and more inspiring. The Letters EP was releasedJanuary 2010 and there will be further releases throughout the year. Meanwhile, catch the band's incendiary live show at a venue near you.

www.myspace.com/andsoiwatchyoufromafar
www.facebook.com/andsoiwatchyoufromafar

ASIWYFA Album reviews

“A sensational debut couldn't fade into the wallpaper if it tried.”

10/10 - State Magazine

“They make Mogwai sound like McFly.”

Dan Hegarty RTE 2FM

“If the apocalypse is televised, these guys will provide the soundtrack.”

10/10 - BBC R1

“…the album is set to drop, we’ve heard it and it’s awesome, so there.”

Rock Sound - Ones To Watch 2009

“…the sound of someone crashing an oil tanker through Sigur Ros’ ice flow.”

NME

“It’s rare for a body of work to be so dreamy and elegiac yet conversely monstrously heavy… sounds like the end of the world”

KKKK - Kerrang!

"And So I Watch You From Afar effortlessly deliver, bringing a brain-annihilating barrage of rhythms [like a] Rottweiler, what’s just been kicked in the knackers."

9/10 – Drowned In Sound

“Imagine if Mogwai were from Belfast and had massive balls, or if Pelican still meant it.” - 8/10 - Vice

"One of the most hotly tipped British bands around at the moment."

Big Cheese

And So I Watch You From Afar - ‘Straight Through The Sun’

Single released: 15th November (Digital Download)
Label: Smalltown America

These two brand new tracks were produced and recorded by Jetplane Landings ‘Andrew Ferris’ on 01st November and will be made available for FREE on ‘Pay By Tweet’ from 15th November from smalltownamerica.co.uk and myspace.com/andsoiwatchyoufromafar. A 7 Inch vinyl version will also be made available exclusively on the bands upcoming tour from November 22nd and on the Smalltown America Webstore from 27th November 2010.

This one-off single will be the last new material before ASIWYFA release the follow up to their critically acclaimed eponymous debut album in spring 2011. 2010 has been quite a year N.Irish 4 piece, highlights include:

Nominated for the XFM New Music Award
Nominated for the Choice Music Prize
Supporting Them Crooked Vultures across Europe
150 live shows in 2010, including 26 date U.S tour as well as Irish, UK and European headline tours, appearances at SXSW, Eurosonic and Sonisphere.

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Jogging

Having played as side-men in a laundry list of Dublin indie luminaries (Jape, Jeff Martin, Goodtime John, Coldspoon Conspiracy, Cap Pas Cap, Guilty Optics, Crayonsmith) the 3 members of Jogging have finally stepped out in to the limelight in 2010. The band have steadily built up a fan base around Ireland in their short existence; very much at a grassroots level. Word of mouth from fans and kind words from webzines like Ragged Words and State Magazine have been spreading word of their exciting live shows which also lead to support slots with Parts & Labor, Polvo, Crystal Antlers and Ponytail among others (including been chosen multiple times to play with The Redneck Manifesto & And So I Watch you from Afar) throughout the year. Musically, the band would not be out of place sitting among Dischord/Wahington luminaries like Fugazi, Faraquet and even early Q and Not U which is also helped by the stamp of approval by TJ Lipple (Medications, Aloha) who mastered this record in Washington, DC. Jogging are an intense, raw blend of Punk, Indie, laden with thrilling riffage, and deftly controlled aggression while maintaining a fresh, urgent and current edge. Their new record, entitled Minutes, was recorded in Kilcoole, Co. Wicklow by James Eager & Eoin Whitfield and Mastered in Washington DC by TJ Lipple.

Their debut album Minutes, released on the Richter Collective label, is a highlight of 2010. http://jogging.bandcamp.com/

“If first impressions were all that went in to album reviews, this debut would have so many gold stars on it you'd think it was space. No ironic eyebrows raised, Minutes is a genuinely watertight rock record of impressive quality.” - Totally Dublin 4/5

“Their raucous debut fires out of the traps and maintains a breakneck pace relentlessly until the end...challenging style and melody, and coming out well on top. There may be other instruments in here somewhere, but Minutes is all about screaming vocals and loud, frantic guitars with clever, intricate, fiddly parts aplenty, over a robust racket of thundering drums. Excellent." - The Sunday Business Post 4/5

"Jogging are loud. Delightfully so. From the opening salvo of the first track it becomes clear that Minutes is an unforgiving album which unapologetically moves from one surging, breathless track to the next before ending just like it began – fast, loud and hard. It’s difficult to deny Jogging’s excellence at crafting songs of the highest intensity. Dark and foreboding, yet simultaneously catchy and memorable – a notoriously difficult balance to achieve.” - State.ie

www.myspace.com/joggingband
www.facebook.com/joggingband

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Hunter-Gatherer

You have now entered the realm of the dark and mysterious ‘Hunter-Gatherer’.

The masked electronic wunderkind and Witch House enthusiast, conjures up a haunting athmosphere of icy yet oddly uplifting melancholia. An emotional smorgasbord of chilling chord progressions and brooding programming that has found some secret kind of third place between home listening and the dance floor.

Following in a long tradition of Hibernian gothic, Hunter-Gatherer emerges into the light with a slab of vinyl holding two tracks of athmospheric gothtronica. The beautiful and beguiling ‘Pere Lechaise’ that slowly entwines itself around your inner ear and the more relentless ‘Undergrowth” that beats a spiritual path to your door.

Hunter-Gatherer’s debut album ‘I Dreamed I Was A Footstep In The Trail Of A Murderer’ was one of the most critically acclaimed Irish releases of 2009. Some quotes below;

"A debut album of many wonders" - The Irish Times (4/5)

"Its intricacy and intensity mark this debut as a must-listen" - Totally Dublin (4/5)

"Takes you on a near-spiritual journey" - AU (Alternative Ulster) Magazine

"Hunter-Gatherer's Kid A-esque electronica has struck a chord.....he's one of the best we've heard in a long time" - Hot Press (4/5)

"A cracking debut........This is our first recommend of 2010" - HeinekenMusic.ie

“Hunter-Gatherer's futuristic tunes weave a beguiling line into Aphex Twin territory" - Hot Press (4/5)

www.myspace.com/huntergathererforever

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That_Guy

And So I Watch You From Afar are fcuking incredible.

big_show

That_Guy wrote: »

And So I Watch You From Afar are fcuking incredible.

Words can't describe...

I'm sick that im missing this!

tupelopenny

At least they are back again pretty quick after NYE,

http://firstfortnight.com/

big_show

tupelopenny wrote: »

At least they are back again pretty quick after NYE,

http://firstfortnight.com/

Ill not be missing this cheers for the heads up

Penfailed

That_Guy wrote: »

And So I Watch You From Afar are fcuking incredible.

Indeed they are

Saaron

Anybody know if you can pay on the door for this one?? Thanks

Ouravit

Looking forward to this big time.
Has anyone been to a new years gig in whelans ?

Misfit Mum

tupelopenny wrote: »

At least they are back again pretty quick after NYE,

http://firstfortnight.com/

Cheers did not know about this!!!!
Feel better about having to spend New Years Eve with family now

whelanslive

Saaron wrote: »

Anybody know if you can pay on the door for this one?? Thanks

I'll let you know a little later on if there will be tickets on the door. At the moment allocations for Ticketmaster & Tickets.ie are nearly gone so if you want to pre book call WAV Tickets on 1890 200 078 or drop in to the Ticket office on Camden Row beside Whelan's, it's open until 8pm.

Jem_

That_Guy wrote: »

And So I Watch You From Afar are fcuking incredible.

Definitely interesting band I really wish I could see them live
Anyways good luck with the gig