Instruments: Voice, drums, cello, guitars, bass, keyboards, synth, groovebox, e-bow, drum machine, melodica, toy accordian, percussion, mountain bike.
Sounds Like
According to reviews, etc; Broadcast, Cocteau Twins, Low, Stereolab, Yo La Tengo and Bang Bang Machine. 'Dans L'aide...' is "the devil's folk song", apparently.
We like it when people send us messages. Feel free to add us, but it would be nice if you stroke our egos first. It's only polite, and there's a greater chance of us actually accepting your advances. We're slightly old fashioned like that.
The A Forest are Cat, Chris, Eilidh, Ewan, George and Michael who between them play voice, bass, cello, drums, guitar, synth, groovebox, percussion and melodica.
We have played with some lovely bands, made some lovely friends and some of us are even getting married to each oter. Aren't civil parterships great!
Our debut single was a split 7" with Mercury Tilt Switch, released in the UK on September 2004 on Glasgow's Too Many Fireworks records. Our debut album is due for release in the Autumn on Pet Piranha Records. We've mixed it!
The A Forest have been told they sound "twinkly" and "sleepy", and were very pleased to be told that they sound like "Low having sex with Yo La Tengo and giving birth to Broadcast".
QUOTES
"if you like things all twinkly and nice then this is the band for you. They play lovely, stripped-down electronica" NME
"a bittersweet dreamscape of breathy Stereolab romance" The List - Single of the Week
"these guys and girls are like the soundtrack to a dream" Drowned in Sound
"simply a magnificent soundscape...it feels like a long time since a band from Scotland has created something so lovely in this genre" Stayfun
"a gorgeous vocal, stuttering drums, twinkly things, lilting and sad. a band that sticks out a mile from their local contemporaries; music for films and sweet dreams." Blowgun
"vocal lines that Elizabeth Fraser would kill for" Friends Of The Heroes
We are very excited to announce our first 'real world' photograph exhibition at the 13th Note in Glasgow. To launch this exhibition, we are putting on a show on the opening night - the 6th July.
The bands playing are
Debutant http://www.myspace.com/musicbydebutant Call To Mind http://www.myspace.com/calltomind Hindle Wakes http://www.myspace.com/hindlewakesband
Tickets are £4 and all profits of the gig will be given to Yorkhill Childrens Foundation.
You can also bring along a mixed cd which you can swap with someone else. Please include a tracklist and have fun with the cover. This is a great opportunity to promote all the bands you love (or your own band) and show your creative side. Please come along, get some new music & badges, view photos, enjoy amazing bands & say hello. :)
Just to let you know that on friday the 19th of june we will be doing a headline show @ Dexters in Dundee. This is gonna prob be our only show in our local town for a wee while so we are planning on making a night of it! we would love to see you there!
Also depending on our progress in the recording studio this coming week we will hopefully be giving out a c.d of our latest studio efforts for free for ALL that attend!
Hey cats. Cheers for the nice comments about the music Mike, always appreciated. Will have to figure out how to do it live on my own then will be up and running like a pro! When is the new a-forest record out eh? Ive been waiting...like....forever!
Speak soon man (and the rest of you lot). Keep rocking and rolling.
Tawit Tawoo! Thanks for adding us back. Glad you like our music. There will be some new dates added to our site soon if you would like to hear us live. Give us a shout back. Liam
thanks for accepting. I like your songs - they're like a massive sound of smallness. If you get me. Loads of layers, but still very easy to take. in a good way! I'm crap at talking.
cheers man im glad you like it , yeah you can get a copy of course ,its the only one thats near to finished but i ll let you here the others in the car when we go bowling he he he ,
The 200th concert review has just been posted on the Dead Earnest website (www.btinternet.co.uk/Dundee.htm). I'd just like to thank all the bands, musicians, venue owners, promotors and fans who've been so generous this last 12 months and had so many kind things to say, that, without all of you who I've seen many times to those having a bit of a hiatus, none of what I do would be possible and that, in my opinion, the Dundee Scene remains as the most accomplished, enjoyable and potentially commercial music scene in the UK right now. To all of you who I won't get to see tonight, who may read this now, who may read this nursing one helluva hangover in the morning, thanks for producing/featuring all the amazing music in 2007 and a heartfelt and seriously Happy New Year to all of you - may 2008 take you further up the ladder of success!!
Juliet Kilo would like to thank The A Forest for thinking we are no bad, ken. Juliet Kilo would like to respond to the aforementioned commendation by saying that they think The A Forest are also no bad, Kenneth.
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