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afterspark accidentally wrote some songs together at the start of 2006 and since then have played on various radio shows and at gigs and festivals across the country supporting acts like Passenger, Ezio and Martha Tilston.
Introduced by a mutual friend, Cate and Adam play, write and listen to different music, argue over individual chords and words and disagree on key political and philosophical issues: In fact, they have only their love of music, and their left-handedness in common.
Over the last 6 months they have made an album containing 10 songs about a life lived in 12 months. It touches on relationships, uncertainty and the grandeur of everyday life but centres on change: The changes forced upon us, those that we force upon ourselves and how eventually those changes change us.
Recorded in their conservatory and self funded, their début is a direct and personal album, qualities that are mirrored in their live performances. Moving from intimacy with captivating and enchanting tracks like 'Little Glow', to the raw and unflinching delivery of 'Beautiful Without You', afterspark allow their songs take to centre stage.''Biting songs that will make everyone sit up and listen,'' Acoustic Sussex
''We fell in love,'' BBC Southern Counties Radioafterspark - Still Green (Live)

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Member Since: 7/25/2006
Band Website: afterspark.co.uk
Band Members: afterspark are Cate Ferris and Adam StaffAwesome Contributors: Dave Sanderson , Jote Osahn , Matt Kelly , Dave Stenhouse , Sam Blair .
Influences: Joni Mitchell, Nina Simone, Low, Bjork, Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley, Elbow, The Notwist, Wilco, Explosions in the Sky, Bob Dylan, Chemical Brothers, Death Cab for Cutie, Leonard Cohen, Lamb, Damien Rice, Arcade Fire, Blonde Redhead, Rodrigo & Gabriella, Blur, Manu Chau, Miles Davis, Ani DeFranco, Counting Crows, Pearl Jam, Shusheela Rahman, Nitin Sawhney, Mandalay, Craig Armstrong, Hybrid, Debussy, Alex Lloyd, Mozart's Requiem, MF Doom, Rachels, Fourtet, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, Rob Manning, Jewel, Nirvana, UNKLE, Tracy Chapman, Ben Folds Five, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Emiliana Torinni, Jaco Pastorius, Charlie's Magic Chocolate Machine, CSNY, Rodriguez, Radiohead and the list continues to grow and grow...
Sounds Like: Reviews of 'Sometimes We Forget': BadRobot
Type of Label: None

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Posted by afterspark on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:38:00 PST

HIJACKED

Hello there, we hope you are well. We have taken the pen from N for one post to ask for your help: "On December 27th we're opening New Slang up to you! We're continually getting people asking to play ...
Posted by afterspark on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 03:14:00 PST

GPS

Journeys to London are almost exactly like the theory of the arrow that travels half way to its destination and never arrives, as each 'half way there' takes another second. It's the same as when you ...
Posted by afterspark on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:52:00 PST

Album preview... not much narration.

I'll skip straight to the news, as that seems to be the only reason afterspark are turning away from their computers to talk to me these days: 'Sometimes We Forget' will be released in November. There...
Posted by afterspark on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 11:04:00 PST

I tried to warn you.

 Hello.  So it's all been set in motion: 12 months from the beginning, the end of the journey is in sight. As you may have noticed, Ferris is now Afterspark, but just as I said back in ...
Posted by afterspark on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 08:23:00 PST

Vow of silence

 Hello again. Apologies for my protracted absence - It's been quite a month here at 42. A lot is going on and the worst thing is that I have promised (foolishly) that I would keep everything unde...
Posted by afterspark on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 02:12:00 PST

notes

four    too for     too for    two four  two 4         2   n...
Posted by afterspark on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:28:00 PST

Finishing up

 Last week, Ferris finished 'Home' ("Yeah, all we've got to do now is the cover, the inlay, the printing and packaging, online and instore distribution, promotion, touring it to death... We can c...
Posted by afterspark on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:46:00 PST

Thursday Vocals

 Again, remarkably, Ferris have managed to stay on schedule. Vocals yesterday ran without a hitch, leaving 'Whirling', 'Still Green' and '80mph' renewed. Tom's bafflement that they could have use...
Posted by afterspark on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:43:00 PST

Studio Times

  Ferris have promised me (and indeed every audience they have played to recently) that they plan to have the album finished soon. As unlikely as that sounds, it does explain why I'm sitting in a...
Posted by afterspark on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:11:00 PST