• Album Stream: Beach Comber – Parting Cuts

    April 24, 2020 - By 

    When he’s not globetrotting with North Coast instrumental titans And So I Watch You From Afar, Belfast-based musician Rory Friers is known to keep busy. From scoring film soundtracks to concocting first-rate electronic sound as Thrash Hat, the musician is as versatile as he is driven. Today, Friers marks a significant new chapter in his mottled sonic journey to date. A very personal project that was was never intended for release, Friers said that perspective gleaned from lockdown has encouraged him to let the album out into the world. A diversion from both face-searing instrumentalism and shapeshifting beats, Beach Comber…

  • Premiere: Thrash Hat – Mend and Make Safe Remix (ASIWYFA) & Owkwerd

    November 25, 2015 - By 

    Invariably trotting the globe wielding guitar and gusto as part of North Coast post-rock machine And So I Watch You From Afar, Rory Friers can also be found as found making electronic music as Thrash Hat. Having set beats to kill on debut track ‘Pandaface‘ back in August – thereby setting the ball in motion for a hugely disparate yet no less enthralling sonic path in the making – we’re pleased to premiere two new tracks from Friers, ‘Owkwerd’ and a remix of his band’s very ‘Mend and Make Safe’. Where the former effort’s glitchy, darkly unravelling majesty stirs with some wonderfully discriminating shapes…

  • No Parachute @ Established

    December 16, 2014 - By 

    Launching in printed form in 2015, No Parachute – a new photographic project by And So I Watch You From Afar guitarist Rory Friers and their manager Graham Smith – will take place at Belfast’s Established on Thursday, December 18. Comprising of photographs taken on and off the road over the past few years, the selected images were all taken on iPhone. Speaking of the project, the pair said it “documents the duelling lives of band people and the contrasting moments that we are presented with along the way. From sureness and bliss to the harsh and unpleasant, from the…