AFTER THE FALL NEWS

COASTER FESTIVAL

Hi all!

Had a busy week last week, we were full flight into writing some new jams when we got the call we were at late addition to the Coaster Festival. So we cut the writing short and got a killer set together!

I was probably the 2nd hottest day EVER but we soldiered on and nailed our set. After we played we got to hang out and see the bronx play and Andrew tried to steal a couch...he didnt get far.

Check out the video!

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AFTER THE FALL w/ CALLING ALL CARS " GO HUNTING TOUR "

So the 'Go Hunting' national tour with our new friends Calling All Cars begins in a few weeks!

Very excited about these shows! It's going to be good to get into some sweaty rooms and play some music for you all!

Tickets for all the shows are on sale RIGHT NOW head over to www.afterthefall.com.au/tickets

You can also hit up www.posse.com to sell tickets for us. We'll pay you about $1 for each ticket you sell... easy way to make a few hundred bucks !

Working on some new merch designs too so make sure you bring your spare pennys! as always they will be killer tee's for a killer price!

We will be also selling the first two album's as our fantastic old label Warner music has made it nigh on impossible to purchase them! It's cool though cause i have BOXES of them in the lounge room just waiting to be sold!

Also if your quick i have a very small amount of the Japanese version of 'always forever now' which also includes the 1st record as well. NICE!

That's about it for now, really looking forward to the shows for all the deeets head over here... www.myspace.com/afterthefallaustralia

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RANDOMNESSSSSSSSS

I have a new favourite blog http://peopleofwalmart.com/



Oh also i was at the post office today...anyone remember the claymation show from ABC 'trapdoor'

well you can get the DVD at Australia post of all places for $10! Thats 205 mins of trapdoor right there!

check out the awesome opening theme!

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Bye for now

See you at a show!!

Mark and the Bastards

NEW ALBUM - [IN] EXILE OUT THIS FRIDAY

[IN] EXILE OUT THIS FRIDAY!

HELLLLLOOOOOOO....OUR NEW RECORD '[In] Exile' is yours to own (if you choose) this FRIDAY!


I can say that we are all excited to be finally getting this thing out there for the world to hear. After telling everyone that it was coming for so long, there were points were it felt i wasn't going to come out at all. BUT we got there and we are so keen for you all to hear it and MOST importantly to get back out on stage and play.

You can still pre order it here if you haven't or you can hit the record stores on Friday.

You'll be able to buy it on itunes here ......

After The Fall on iTunes here

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TOUR TIME !

I think i have been promising a tour for almost as long as the album has taken...but for serious it is all booked and ready to go... just need to iron out a few details and we are on like donkey kong!

We can say it starts in Newcastle on the 8/10/09 and finishes in Melbourne on the 5/12/09 to give you some idea of how big it's going to be !


More details very very soon.

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THE REVIEWS ARE IN!

If you need more convincing that you should buy our new record over the new short stack or Rob Thomas records you can pick up a copy of this months 'Rolling Stone' for a sweet review...and if your still not convinced to part with your hard earned these is another cool review by the ever honest Bronwyn Thompson in this months BLUNT mag + a sweet double page interview.







If you see anymore out there pass them on, good or bad...if it's indifferent don't bother.

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Now for something completely different.

Is patrick wolf actually Bruno?

You decide...

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Till next time .......

Mark ATF

New Video out NOW > Melbourne Wrap up!

DESIRE VIDEO!

After The Fall - Desire



Finally our new video is DONE!

That’s right... the new video for Desire, taken from the our upcoming album [In] Exile
can now be seen only and exclusively on Myspace Australia.
Directed by the same crew who gave us the amazing Empire of the Sun clips.... thanks Elvira, Maricar, Josh and everyone over there at Mathematics!!!

Head over to Myspace www.myspace.com or direct at www.myspace.com/afterthefallaustralia

You can also check out the making of the video as well as all the other After the Fall videos there too.

We would love you all to check it out and let us know what you think.

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MELBOURNE SHOW WRAP UP!

Our Melbourne adventure started with a 4:30am Lobby call...by lobby i mean the cold street i live on.

Ben was twenty minutes late for the pickup which means i could have got about 19 minutes extra sleep! and at that hour...well its worth it!

Picked up the rest of the Fellas as well as J-fresh (also known as Josh from Angelas Dish) and Hit the Frog an toad for real.

We always see this sign on the Hume highway 'Best coffee on the Hume'. So this time instead of driving past we stopped in to see if in fact it was the 'Best'.

The unanimous decision was that it may very well have been the 'Best Coffee on the Hume', but was probably some of the worst coffee we have tasted.

Now thats out of our system we will never speak off it again.

Got to the show and had a 5 minute soundcheck(!) got some sweet Chinese from Mao's on Brunswick st with a Pizza chaser from Lamb and back to check out Kill Teen angst

These guys are from Perth so they already win, but i was pretty keen on checking them out after hearing some tunes on myspace. They have some pretty Rocking tunes with Beards to match, think Hot water music, small brown bike kinda vibe...the music! not the beards.

Played the show and caught up with heaps of friends we havn't seen for a long time which is always good! Then ended up at a Kebab shop at 4am. Seems we were the only ones privvy to the fact they served booze?

So to Melbourne...THANKS FOR COMING OUT!!!!!!! we really appreciate it and we will see you again for a bigger and better show SOOOOON!

More on the show front! We will be annoucning a MASSSSIVE national tour VERY soon..like within days! so stay tuned! very excited to be hitting te road for a hard slog!

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RANDOMNESS...

I was going to put a clip off Killing Joke 'Love like blood' But they have a shitty record label who wont let me do it.

So you get this instead...killer track!






Peace MARK ATF


p.s.... Pre-Order the new album [IN] EXILE here
and we will send you some love

Sydney wrap up - Melbourne show > FREE TIX!

First up I want to thank everyone that came out to our first show back in yonks! It felt really good to be back up on stage sweating it out, it took us a long time and a lot of hard work to get to this point and we would like to thank each and every one of you! I think we are still coming down from it!


Super anxious for more touring in the coming months!

Ok so the Melbourne show at northcote social clu is tomorrow or tonight depending on when you read this. We would like to offer you free double passes to the show! Oh but there is a catch...pre order our new record [In] Exile from jb and email info@afterthefall.com.au the recepit of purchase to email addy by 5pm Friday to score a double pass! Too easy!






Don't forget if you got the Twitter follow us at Twitter.com/atfmusic

Or facebook at facebook.com/afterthefall

Melbourne we will see you soon, fir the rest off you stay tuned for a tour announcement!


Love after the fall

FREE TIX FOR SYDNEY SHOW + PRE-ORDER NEW ALBUM

So we are giving you...... our fans FREE double passes to the Oxford Art Factory Show,
Friday 17th... Tomorrow / Tonight depending on when you read this.
But there is a catch !.......

Simply Pre-Order our new record [In]Exile from Jb Hi Fi ... CLICK HERE and email info@afterthefall.com.au your receipt of purchase with your full name and we'll wack you on the guest list !

It's that simple!

The new album is out AUG 28 but you can Pre-Order it now. If you Pre-Order it you get the Limited Edition Digi Pack with two Bonus tracks!






See you at the show!

ATF !!

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The New album [In] Exile OUT AUG 28
Pre-Order NOW - CLICK HERE

www.myspace.com/afterthefallaustralia
www.twitter.com/atfmusic
www.facebook.com/afterthefall

SHOWS

Not long now until we hit the stage for our first shows in AGES.

We have been working a a set for a little while now and things are starting to fall into place! Very much looking forward to hitting the stage!

We have facebook event pages for the Sydney and Melbourne shows with all the details for tickets, supports etc.

For all the Sydney info click here.
And for all the Melbourne info go here.

July
Fri 17
Oxford Art factory- Sydney

Fri 24
Northcote Social Club - Melbourne

All Tickets: www.myspace.com/afterthefallaustralia

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YOU CAN HELP SPREAD THE WORD AND MAKE CASH TOO

We want you spread the word & make cash !
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We'd love if you could support the show by becoming an official online promoter on www.posse.com . You can download ads for the shows and invite your friends.
If your friends buy tickets through your link then you get paid! You can tell your mates via the facebook and myspace apps and earn 5% on everything you sell. It’s free and easy to sign-up. Join Posse and help spread the word about the shows!

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DESIRE

As you may know we filmed a video for our new track 'Desire' which isn't that far off now!
But in the mean time we have a little making off on our YouTube here.
And if you think all that green is a little boring head over here to get an idea off what the video will look like once it is complete...see no green!

We would also LOVE it if you requested 'Desire' at triple J radio. there are Four ways to do it!

tweet in your request too http://twitter.com/triplejsr
SMS it to 1975 7 555
Call it in too 1300 0555 36
or hit up this webpage and type it in http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/requests/

MUCHO APRECIATIS!!!!

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SOCIAL NETWORKING

So we have facebook, facebook.com/afterthefall we would love it if you added us!
Also we gots twitter twitter.com/atfmusic if you follow us we will learn you lots
cool, thanks.

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ALBUM NEWS

So i know you all have the 28th of august in your calenders as the release date of '[In] Exile', but maybe your wondering...whats it look like? or...i need to know more?
well i can help you there! click here
to see the awesome artwork and all the other gory details.

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Ok thats enough for now...thanks for your time and see you at a show!
BYE!

music is life

Long time no blog...

My life used to revolve around seeing bands, if i wasn't playing a show i would be on the train to Sydney checking out a show. Then as time went on and the band got more active going to see a loud rock band was the last thing i wanted to do, but recently i have been getting back into the swing of things, have seen some great shows over the last little while.

Neil Young blew my mind in Sydney, I dont really go for the 'shredder' guitar hero guy, but Neil...i could listen to him play for days. I dig alot of his acoustic stuff but for me he's electric playing is just off the hook!

I was mesmerised! I would be in the zone just watching and listening and before i knew it, it was 20 minutes later. It was like meditation...but alot louder. He said all of two words the whole show, which was cool...he didnt have to say anything, it was all their in his playing.

Whilst we we were mixing the record in Melbourne I checked out Biffy Clyro. Saw these guys in a bar in Texas years ago and hey blew my mind! was such a cool experience, so expectations were high! the were killer once again...despite them coming half way round the world to paly to a room full of Scots they put on a killer show, tight and energetic. 

Back when we first started getting shows in Sydney i think it's safe to say collectively Hot Water Music were a big influence on our band, particularly the album 'a flight and a crash'. I remember when we were recording our first E.P and playing to the engineer as an indication of what i wanted us to sound like...subsequently i think we fell rather short of that mark...anyways Chuck Ragan used to sing/still does sing in HWM and he was recently out here with Tom Gabel from against me doing Solo Acoustic shows. I think i had it in my mind that Tom was going to steal the night...how i was WRONG...CHUCK...fuck man...

I was so tired i didn't even really want to go to the show but i had tickets so off we trek longneck in hand. The prospect of a couple of dudes singing over acoustic guitars wasn't really getting my blood pumping but as soon as i got a posse Chuck HAD me! This was the real deal, He's voice was so powerful and intense. So much heart so much soul. Never would i have thought a dude and a guitar could be so captivating! Anyways Tom came on and he was good but man it must be hard going on after what came before.

Most recently i saw Bertie Blackman. I had Downloaded her single 'Heart' of itunes as it was free. Thing is i didn't even listen to it for about a month and then i heard it on the radio and im like 'I know this song...what is it...man its so good!' then it clciked! that's the song i downloaded a while back. Now 'Heart' is on CONSTANT roatation! When i heard about the show i got some tickets (lucky! as it sold out in advance) and went along I got there a little late due to some unforseen circumstances and i think Bertie may have been on the first or second song? My first though was  'nice sleeves' as in napoleon dynamite...she had a killer set on! 

But the show was great, i really Dug the jams off her new album, lots of cool percussive and electronic elements, lots off cool grooves and energy. 

And the venue is Rad too...cant wait to play it in July!

I guess the point off all this is one of the best ways to experience music is to just get out there and go to a show. Take a chance on something new. It invigorates and inspires! Music is LIFE.

as you were.