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We'd like to tell you that we write our songs in an abandoned airplane hangar, just to account for all the echoing, but that would be very untrue and a little fanciful. Instead, most of the songwriting occurs in the wee hours of the morning, travelling on a shivering bus to nowhere important. Because we are without sleep, we are well-acquainted with the mysterious feeling the city leaves you with when you walk out to the empty streets at 6am with the first few cars quietly puffing along. At this hour, the most comforting thing is a bubbling kettle for tea, or perhaps the little tunes that simmer up inside as you scurry down a chilly sidewalk; both offer a much needed warmth, for which we are equally thankful and dependent upon...

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Member Since: 5/8/2005
Band Website: theairfields.ca
Band Members: David Lush - vox/12-string guitar/words; Ian Jackson - jazzmaster & telecaster antics; Ali Sunderji - bass guitar; Jakob Thiesen - drum kit/basement ambition; Sheila Sampath - farfisa organ/synthesizer/bells & whistles.
Influences: sarah records-style indie-pop records; old creation, 4AD & factory records; the aislers set; the clientele, the clean; josef k; the razorcuts; brittle stars; the wake; mCcarthy; ecstacy & wine; the pale saints; moose; the cat's miaow; the innocence mission; galaxie 500, the velvet underground, rem, pulp.... reverb coils; stray cats; semi-colons; wind-up music boxes; tree-lined roads; crumbling buildings; city laneways and gardens; frosty mornings; sunny afternoons; and many of the excellent musical groups in our city, toronto.
Sounds Like: "...the ghost of some of the sweetest, most forlorn pop music you ever did hear."
Record Label: humblebee recordings
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

were making a record!

yes, it's true. we are indeed making a record - a full-length one this time - so it's been a busy summer for us. in july, we went to the toronto island for a weekend to record with Dale Morningstar ...
Posted by the Airfields on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 05:07:00 PST

POP MONTREAL 2007 - WE’RE GOING!

more specific details to follow, but for now we can tell you that we're playing at the Green Room (montreal of course, not toronto...) on Thursday October 4th with The Brother Kite, My Dad Vs You...
Posted by the Airfields on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 01:47:00 PST

airfields for jesus...

we haven't played as a live band in over 6 months or something. it's been ages. and we really want to do that again. very soon. we're really excited too. only problem is, well, we aren't quite ready. ...
Posted by the Airfields on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 11:04:00 PST

ordering our music

if you would like to have our NEW "laneways" e.p., it will be available on 10" vinyl and cd via the ineffable humblebee recordings!  http://www.indiepages.com/humblebee/ it is also available by m...
Posted by the Airfields on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:55:00 PST