• Goodbye Mandela @ Mandela Hall, Belfast

    July 30, 2018 - By 

    So, the last gig at Mandella Hall. Probably a pretty great venue when you sit and list off all the great gigs you saw there. But nostalgia is for later. WASPS are a pleasantly rambunctious start to the evening, playing in Bar Sub they strike excitable silhouettes adrift in a haze of dry ice and some slick, stark lighting. They find their groove somewhere between desert surf and mathy punk and mine it to death, littering it with nice interplay and clever fills, throwing in some swampy rock riffs every now and then, too. They give an energetic and warm…

  • Watch: And So I Watch You From Afar @ The Live Room Belfast

    December 11, 2017 - By 

    Having just returned from a mammoth European tour and ahead of their biggest hometown show to date, our very own world-beating instrumental titans And So I Watch You From Afar play the inaugural session at The Live Room Belfast, following the release of their massively acclaimed fifth album, The Endless Shimmering. Having transcended their reputation as not just an internationally-respect math-rock outfit, but one of the cornerstones of contemporary Irish – specifically Northern – subculture, the north coast quartet are in many ways they’re the only band who could’ve fittingly kicked off this series of sessions Start Together Studio‘s Live Room, where four of their five albums have been…

  • Win Tickets To ASIWYFA in Belfast

    November 23, 2017 - By 

    We have a pair of tickets to give away to one of the shows of the year: And So I Watch You From Afar’s homecoming show at Belfast’s Telegraph Building on Saturday, December 16. With TOUTS, CATALAN! and Calling All Horses supporting on the night, it will be the globetrotting North Coast headliners’ first Belfast show since June 2015. To enter, simply Like our Facebook page here and fire us an e-mail to info@thethinair.net with your name and the title of the closing track from the band’s latest album. Good luck!

  • And So I Watch You From Afar Announce Belfast Show

    November 6, 2017 - By 

    Currently zig-zagging around European on tour off the back of the release of their new album, The Endless Shimmering, North Coast post-rock heroes And So I Watch You From Afar have announced details of a homecoming show in Belfast on December 16. Supported by Calling All Horses (a band comprised of ex-Alloy Mental, LaFaro and General Fiasco members), CATALAN! and Touts, the globetrotting four-piece will headline the newly-opened Telegraph Building on Royal Avenue on the night. The show will be the band’s first Belfast headline show since June 2015. In a Facebook post, the band said: “On Saturday 16th Dec, returning…

  • Album Review: And So I Watch You From Afar – The Endless Shimmering

    October 19, 2017 - By 

    As they embark on a vast European tour in support of their fifth album, The Endless Shimmering, it is nice to make the note that it was as a result of a decade’s worth of extensive, ubiquitous touring and ferocious dedication that North Coast instrumental behemoths And So I Watch You From Afar got to where they are now, holding a place as one the island’s best and widely loved acts. It’s something that saw them play over 300 shows between 2009 and early 2011, venturing on sprawling tours across continents and countries rarely travelled by independent and relatively niche acts –…

  • Stream: And So I Watch You From Afar – Dying Giants

    October 2, 2017 - By 

    North Coast quartet And So I Watch You From Afar are nothing if not ambitious. Having spent the last few years carving out their very own path in the world of masterfully-crafted instrumental rock, the Belfast-based foursome will release their fifth studio album, The Endless Shimmering, via Sargent House on October 20. Having let the cat out of the bag last month via lead track ‘A Slow Unfolding of Wings’, new single ‘Dying Giants’ goes one further. Blending the band’s instantly recognisable brand of intricately-woven fretboard exhibitionism with a slew of face-melting passages and a sublime – and somewhat unexpected – outro, the song’s…

  • And So I Watch You From Afar Announce Fifth Studio Album, Release New Track

    August 21, 2017 - By 

    Having revealed details of a December Irish tour just last week, North Coast instrumental rock maestros And So I Watch You From Afar have announced details of their forthcoming fifth studio album. Set for release via Sargent House on October 20, The Endless Shimmering was recorded at Machines with Magnets, a professional recording studio, art gallery, experimental music venue in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Essentially held captive in the studio due to a snowstorm, the band used the incarceration to their advantage. Rory Friers from the band said, “We tracked, ate, washed and slept at the studio, and 9 days later we had recorded…

  • And So I Watch You From Afar Set For Irish Tour in December

    August 8, 2017 - By 

    North Coast instrumental rock heroes And So I Watch You From Afar have announced they will play four Irish dates in December. Having recently recorded their forthcoming fifth studio album in the States, the band – who are also setting off on a huge European and UK tour across October and November – will play the following dates at the tail-end of the year: December 28: Academy, Dublin December 29: Garbo’s, Castlebar, Co. Mayo December 30: Cyprus Avenue, Cork December 31: Roisin Dubh, Galway Tickets go on sale tomorrow.