And So I Watch You From Afar

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Belfast, Northern Ireland (2005 – present)

And So I Watch You From Afar are a three-piece rock band from Belfast, Northern Ireland. The band consists of Rory Friers on guitar, Johnny Adger on bass and Chris Wee on drums. They write largely instrumental music, Rory is the main songwriter but they arrange and contribute to these songs in the rehearsal room as a three piece to make them into finished ASIWYFA songs, it is an ever changing process. They are signed to Richter Collective and in October of 2011 the band announced a deal in North America with management and record label Sargent House who released Gangs on November 8th, 2011.

Beginnings

The band was formed in late 2005 after Johnny and Rory spent a night listening to music at Johnnys parents house, they had their first jam in July after returning from Oxegen music festival. They played their first show under the name And So I Watch You From Afar in 2006 at a friends birthday party in Portrush. They moved to Belfast in 2007, Chris Wee left his job in Newcastle upon Tyne and Rory Friers dropped out of second year Music Technology course of that year in Bangor to do the band semi full time. They self recorded and self released a single for Mount Kailash in Rorys home in White Park Bay on the north coast of Antrim in 2006 for their first Belfast headline show in The Black Box as part of that years BelFEST, it was mixed and mastered by Bo Sheppard and Rory Friers. They self recorded and self released their debut mini-album This Is Our Machine and Nothing Can Stop It in early 2007 on their label Our Machine, this was distributed on and they launched it in Auntie Annies in Belfast, it was mixed and mastered by Bo Sheppard and Rory Friers.
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