The Afterglow @ Suonovivo Studios, August 2008 - Directed by David Valley
LATEST NEWS:
SEPTEMBER 29TH, 2008 - THE AFTERGLOW NEW ALBUM OUT JUNE 2009!! The band's new album is gonna be out June next year. More details on the release will be announced within the end of October! AUGUST 29TH, 2008 - NEW WEBSITE IS ONLINE - WWW.THEAFTERGLOWOFFICIAL.COM Simple, easy and full of contents, the band's new website is now online.
AUGUST 25TH, 2008 - THE AFTERGLOW UNDER A NEW LABEL Management announced yesterday that The Afterglow are currently negotiating a new record deal with a british label that should be involved in the release of their forthcoming second LP, in 2009. AUGUST 24TH, 2008 - THE BAND ANNOUNCE RECORDING SESSIONS ARE CLOSED Recording sessions of the tracks that will compose the band's forthcoming new album are closed. Guys are much satisfied with their work, and new steps in the LP production will be told to fans and friends in the next days. AUGUST 1ST, 2008 - THE BAND RECORDING NEW ALBUM The guys entered studio premises once again, and started recordings of the new tracks. Soon here on myspace and on website a quick and funny videoclip, shooting the band during the first sessions.
JULY 28TH, 2008 - NEW LP PREPRODUCTION IS READY The band have just finished working on arrangements and preproduction of their forthcoming new album. From next week the guys will enter studio premises again, and start recording the tracks that will compose the lp.
JULY 15TH, 2008 - ALBERT GAREW IS THE AFTERGLOW NEW GUITARIST Albert Garew, who joined the band for a while during 2001, is The Afterglow new guitarist. The band and management give their warmest welcome to new member, who is already at work on new lp.
JULY 14TH, 2008 - NEW PICS IN THE GALLERY New pics in the band's galleries. The Afterglow have been shot by Turin photographer Fabrizio Garino. You can check some of his works on his updating new website www.fabriziogarino.com.
The band wish to express their gratitude to Fabrizio for his kindness and patience during the photo session.
JULY 13TH, 2008 - NEW ALBUM'S COMING SOON The band announce they're currently working on their second studio album, that will be out soon. Label and publisher are still to be revealed.
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THE BAND'S BLACKBOARD
"LITTLE THINGS AMUSE LITTLE MINDS"
We were much concerned about these recording sessions. Producing a second album, when the one before gave you big satisfactions, is always tough. When you've been close to the end of everything because you felt you weren't strong enough to carry on with all things that were happening, well, it's almost impossible.
But we've never felt strong as we feel now. And so we decided to take our own responsibilities, our own duties, and to keep the engine going.
In this kind of situation we might have chosen to fly low. To slide away, in search of rest. There's plenty of small things you can do to feel fine without taking any risk.
BUT LITTLE THINGS AMUSE LITTLE MINDS.
That's not what we're here for.
What came out from the sessions, what will come out in the next album, it's gonna be good, or bad, or shit, or great, it will all depend on what people, and you all, will feel. But you can be sure of it as we're sure of it. It's purely us.
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BIOGRAPHY
If you say The Afterglow you say what is actually meant when people speak about a fucking good, hard-edged, real indie rock band.
Founder members are the half english frontman Dave Timson and guitarist Mik Lennard, who started the band in Turin, NW Italy, in 1998. After a few line up changes they found the right drummer in Alex Cherry, who joined the pair in 2002.
The band decided to base themselves and work partially in Italy and partially in the UK, on account of their songwriting and sound, which were felt far more akin to an English 4-piece than to a typical Italian band.
Their first official 4-Tracks Ep Modern Life Virus was published in 2004 by the London based record label Silent Revolution Ltd, who discovered the band after accidentally getting a copy of their previous unofficial demo, with the briliant release of debut single Journey.
The song was hugely broadcast on many big radios in England and in Italy, while its videoclip was, quite unbelievably for an unknown indie band, broadcast on MTV.
From second Ep Love's The Cure (2005) was taken the hit single Love, that received much critical acclaim on indipendent radios and music magazines in both the UK and Italy, with the single itself being featured even in US and Australia.
That was the first release from the band after they signed with EMI Publishing UK, and it was followed by the first extended tours that brought The Afterglow to London, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Birmingham, Swindon, Peterborough, Milan, Florence, Rome, Naples and many more places in Great Britain and Italy, including, obviously, their beloved hometown Turin.
2006 proved to be a crucial year for the band, extensively on tour in Italy and UK, when their debut album Decalogue Of Modern Life, mixed at Markangelo Studios in London by Steve Orchard (U2, Travis, McCartney, Coldplay) and mastered at Soundmasters by Kevin Metcalfe (Bowie, Queen, Oasis), was released in November.
The album has been airplayed, and still is, on many radios in UK, US, Canada, Australia, Italy and in a few other european countries, while the third single Setting Sun has been broadcast on MTV, and on different music networks throughout the world.
The guys, after departure of bassist David Madson, who joined the band for about one year between 2005 and first half of 2006, kept playing live as a 3-piece until the half of 2007, collecting, among the others, their third consecutive appearance at the HUB Festival in Liverpool.
They just settled on their current 4-piece lineup in June 2008, welcoming back guitarist Albert Garew, who already joined the band in 2001, before starting classical music studies that kept him away from rock scene for a while.
The Afterglow are currently back into recording studios, working on their brand new album, due to be out in 2009.
Ciao ragazzi, grazie della richiesta! Molto belle le canzoni, così malinconiche e con quella vena british che personalmente mi garba assai... ottimo lavoro, continuate su questa linea.
