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The Austin Francis Connection

....acoustic hiphop for you....AND your mum!...

About Me

The AFC in the Studio June 07

Add to My ProfileWe Play Acoustic, Head Nodding, Smile Making, Hiphop for you..... AND your mum! Together since Feb 2005, this 3 piece ensemble simply enjoy making music together and travel around to paying gigs and open mics alike.... Taking the Underground sound of the streets of America, putting it on an exchange holiday to Gloucestershire, then inviting it in for a nice slice of cake and a cup of tea.....possibly with two sugars.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/29/2006
Band Website: theafc.co.uk
Band Members: Edi Johnston - Vocals

Mark Finney - Guitars
Hobbit - Beatbox


Influences: Some more obvious than others I guess....some more personal rather than style of content... Cut Chemist, Ben Folds, Jack Johnson, Athlete, Freestylers, Prodigy, Duke Special, Beastie Boys, Goldrush, Kanye West, A Tribe Called Quest, The Roots, Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield, The Polyphonic Spree, Hell is for Heroes, Rage Against the Machine, DJ Format, Jurassic 5, Muse, Foo Fighters, Five Iron Frenzy, Sigur Ros, Reliant K, Grits, LA Symphony, David Ford, Dilated Peoples, Magic Numbers, Funeral for a Friend, Ozomatli etc etc... MyGen Profile Generator
Sounds Like: Hiphop to listen to whilst having a cuppa / bbq / cricket match / diy etc... as opposed to in a club surrounded by ho's & cristal - Ipersonally haven't come across this in my own line of hiphop; (maybe I'm just doing it wrong!)
Record Label: Photogenetic
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Tis the Season!....

It's been a good few weeks since I've had the chance to post a blog - many apologies!! we've been to Coventry a couple of times recently - Hope & Anchor last week, and The Albany last night.... bo...
Posted by The Austin Francis Connection on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 03:20:00 PST

This weekend

2 things. 1. When you log into a blog on MySpace, it tells you the stats - eg how many people are reading as well as how many comments/posts etc there are.... Now, I know we're not a massive band, but...
Posted by The Austin Francis Connection on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 03:50:00 PST

hacked off...

OK, so I'm officially annoyed now.   since we gigged in Winchester, my throat has been really dodgy but now it's the worst that it has been. The main issue is that it's part of my job - I'm a PE ...
Posted by The Austin Francis Connection on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:55:00 PST

Sore Throats & Busted Wrists!....

Many apologies to all our subscribers & regular readers.... I've been incredibly lax recently in terms of updates & blogger-erring! We've had a couple of things of late - (late being the appro...
Posted by The Austin Francis Connection on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 06:36:00 PST

new song alert.... video inside!!

Many apologies for the quality of this gubbins, but it is our first recording of this thing ever (incl me rapping from word sheets!) chekkit & comment! Outstanding Demo from Quad Studios, Leics mu...
Posted by The Austin Francis Connection on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:57:00 PST

Some more of my favourite things...

So now I'm feeling awful and have been managing to just about stop coughing up my entire oesophogus by being on the laptop...But I thought I'd share with you a few of my current fave things to check o...
Posted by The Austin Francis Connection on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:20:00 PST

3 new songs people!!!

We went to the wonderful Quad studios in Leics last night in order to really focus on our writing.... got 3 new & 1 cover kinda sorted - gotta write a new verse for one of them, and then memorise ...
Posted by The Austin Francis Connection on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 03:54:00 PST

This week I has been mostly....

....eating sherbert. But seriously. Mark's been a busy bunny, getting some bits and pieces together sorting out our actual website - theafc.co.uk !!! it's been about 2 years since we got the webspace,...
Posted by The Austin Francis Connection on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 01:40:00 PST

1000 friends!! and a discussion...

Many congratulations go to our new MySpace friend - Beth from Norwich - as she becomes the 1000th MyS person to get connected! Now not wanting to appear biased towards one person cos we love you all v...
Posted by The Austin Francis Connection on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 03:37:00 PST

Greenbelt Blog. That’s it really. Says it all.

Right then. Here goes. Those of you reading who don't know, Greenbelt is an Arts Festival held on August Bank Holiday at Cheltenham Racecourse.... and the place where the three of us actually met...
Posted by The Austin Francis Connection on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 03:17:00 PST