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About Me

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1st Edition of EP available as a download from Indiecater.com
2nd edition hard copy available on limited edition @ Roadrecs.com or at gigs.
The Ambience Affair is currently comprised of a Vocalist/Guitarist Jamie Clarke,and a drummer called Marc Gallagher.
Jamie had been playing and writing for a while up until one year ago when he met Marc in the music shop they work in.Marc came to one of his solo gigs and decided there was room for some drums.
The songs are generally comprised by layering looped guitars and vocals combining them with driving rhythms.
We've supported Villagers,Fight Like Apes & Ham Sandwich among others and are looking to record our second EP soon.
We're just trying to make music that is as good as the songs we listen to. Trying to forge out that unique sound is something that we will always strive for.
If you have listened to our tracks above,bought/downloaded our EP,watched the videos or come to any of our gigs,thank you.
Expect to hear plenty more from us....

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 09/01/2007
Band Website: You are on it.
Band Members: Jamie Clarke (vocals,loops and guitar) Marc Gallagher (drums and percussion) and others yet to be introduced to us.

Influences: Jamie-

What i've been listening to recently is...

Patrick Watson,Conor Oberst,DM Stith,St.Vincent,Tiny Vipers,Bonnie 'Prince' Billy,Villagers,The Tallest Man On Earth & Cymbals Eat Guitars.

And these artistis have all made me want to pick up a guitar at some point in the past 7 years or so...

Conor Oberst,Andrew Bird,Grizzly Bear,Sigur Ros,Peter Broderick,Mystery Jets,Arcade Fire,Rufus Wainwright,,Secret Machines,

DM Stith,Mark Kozelek,Fleet Foxes,Willy Mason,Ryan Adams,Foals,Bon Iver,Jenny Lindfors,Department of Eagles,Phosphorescent,Bonnie 'Prince' Billy,Menomena,

St.Vincent,Chad Van Gaalen,TVOTR,Nick Drake,Patrick Watson,Yeasayer,Manic Street Preachers,Nada Surf,Elliott Smith,Villagers,Band of Horses, The Shins,David Gray,Elbow,Nico Muhly,The Dodos,Death Cab For Cutie,Iron And Wine,Neil Hannon,Radiohead,

Owen Pallett,Adrian Crowley,Feist,Death From Above 1979,Sufjan Stevens,Vetiver,Modest Mouse,Sam Amidon,Jeffery Lewis,The Album Leaf,Bloc Party

Marc:

Fleet Foxes, The Dodos, Wilco, Dylan,Tom Waits, The Band, Animal Collective, Joanna Newsom, Fourtet, Herbie Hancock, James Yorkston, Yeasayer, Miles Davis, Panda Bear, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,

Steve Gadd,Karen Dalton, Jonathan Richman, Grizzly Bear, Vashsti Bunyan, Conor Oberst, Arcade Fire,David Axelrod, Zombies, Bruce Springsteen,Jeffrey Lewis, Grizzly Bear, Glenn Kotche, Art Blakey, Iron & Wine, The EX.
Sounds Like: This:

.. from Souljacker on Vimeo .
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Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Developments

Hey all,So i'm just back from being guitar tech for The Angel Pier who played a blinder last night at Oxegen.It was a brilliant,brilliant experience as St.Vincent were playing before them and I was pr...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:41:00 GMT

Two Birds In A Small Cage

Hello all,Marc keeps saying he's going to post one of these oneday soon but i've yet to see even an attempt!So we played a headline show for the first time in a while last Thursday,and it turned out w...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:11:00 GMT

Ready & Able

Hello all,So we've uploaded a new song...It's called 'Mockery' and we think it's probably our most 'radio-friendly' song so far.We're pretty happy with the way it turned out and hope that you do too.I...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:25:00 GMT

What We Want

Hey All,So the dust has had time to settle on our mini-tour of Ireland.We had such a great time with Benni Hemm Hemm and everyone treated us so well in the places we played.The whelans upstairs gig wa...
Posted by on Sun, 17 May 2009 08:29:00 GMT

We''ll Be Tight Knit After This

Hello all,I just thoght i'd post up what has been going on over the past few weeks and what's in store over the coming few.We recorded a new track called 'Your Nature' last week in Dundalk and it's go...
Posted by on Mon, 04 May 2009 04:02:00 GMT

We're Held On A Tight Rope

Hello again,So today is the day our EP will get its digital release viaIndiecater Records.We're quite excited about it because it means that people like you can have access to the songs for a cheaper ...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Apr 2009 03:32:00 GMT

Grave, Shallow Dreams.

So people have been again saying lovely things about us. It's pretty crazy.We played our friends new Indie music night in Kennedys Underground and it went pretty well. Despite the fact that the sound ...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:00:00 GMT

It's An Awful Pity We Can't Dance

Hello,Just a quick note to say thanks to the people who gave our EP a cool review.Namely,-State MagazineOne of our choices for new Irish bands towatch last month, Meaths The Ambience Affairsfi rst r...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:16:00 GMT

The Moon In The Sky

So we're down to the last 20 copies of the EP's first edition.There will be a second edition,with a different colour design and (hopefully) a bonus live track included in the edition. There will be al...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:30:00 GMT

Fragile Things

Hello all.So its been a hectic couple of months for myself and Marc but I feel we're coming out the other end of all of it a better band.We've finished the EP now after various changes and chops to it...
Posted by on Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:14:00 GMT