Manuel Agnelli from Afterhours reveals some news about Afterhours’ next release.
You can watch the interview here.
Archive for 2007
Watch the Amsterdam show on online-concert-channel Fabchannel.com
September 24th Italian rock band Afterhours performs at the legendary Paradiso in Amsterdam. Good news for everybody that can’t make it to Amsterdam, the entire performance will be webcast live, in video and audio, on online-concert-channel Fabchannel.com.
Afterhours was formed in the late 80’s and is highly estimated in the Italian music industry. The five-piece make dark and brooding rock in line of bands like The Frames and dEUS. In 2004 Afterhours co-headlined a tour with The Twilight Singers. Since this tour, both bands have been contributing greatly to each other’s work. The band decided to shift course and, after 5 Italian albums, they released their first English album ‘Ballads For Little Hyenas’ in 2005.
The webcast starts at 22:00 CET. Afterwards the concert will be included in the online video archive at www.fabchannel.com, where it can be watched 24/7. Live as well as on demand the Afterhours concert is free for everybody to watch.
Fabchannel weekly broadcasts concerts at Paradiso and Melkweg on the internet. Besides live webcasts Fabchannel.com offers an extensive online video archive including over 800 concerts of artists like Josh Ritter, The Frames, Zita Swoon, The Veils, Sondre Lerche and Cold War Kids.
Watch the webcast from this link
Kerrang!, the world top selling rock magazine, has reviewed Afterhours’ show at the Mercury Lounge in New York held last June, giving an evaluation of 4 stars out of 5.
Kerrang!’s review joins the other good review of “I Milanesi Ammazzano il Sabato”, published by Time Out as preview of the NY show.
In the meantime, Manuel Agnelli was invited by Mark Lanegan and Greg Dulli to join the Gutter Twins as keyboard player on three important shows of their Summer tour: 13/8 at the Sheperd’s Bush Empire in London, 15/8 at the Pukkelpop Festival in Belgium and 16/8 at the Lowlands Festival in Holland.
Joe Levy, vice-director of Rolling Stone US, has written a review of “Hai Paura Del Buio” (1997) for Rolling Stone Italia.
Here it is:
‘Loud, sludgy, melodic – it’s grunge! And it is, in part, clearly influenced if not shaped by Nirvana, but also by the Chili Peppers in ballad mode, ans various British combinations of guitar noise and string orchestrations.
It’s varied, openminded, creative, ambitious, and above all adventurous (though it’s a little long at an hour-plus).
Free from any of the rules, restrictions and expectations of American punk, they add a cool synthesizer groan to one of their most clearly Nirvana-inspired tunes, “Elymania” (even the title sounds like Nirvana), which is something Nirvana ever got to do.
The roar of “Dea” is impressive, and so is the Chili Peppers-like power ballad “Voglio una pelle splendida”.
Pretty great’.
Joe Levy, vice-director of Rolling Stone US for Rolling Stone Italy n, 47 – September 2007
“Hai Paura Del Buio” (and also the complete Afterhours discography in Italian) is available for download through the iTunes Store.
Afterhours is currently taking a break, before heading to the studio, where the band will start the recordings for the new album, due in early 2008.
In the meantime, a short European tour has been confirmed. These are the only shows scheduled for 2007.
Sept 24 – Amsterdam (Netherlands) – Paradiso
Sept 25 – Brussels (Belgium) – De Vaartkapoen
Sept 27 – Luxembourg (Luxembourg) – d-qliq (special acoustic show)
Sept 28 – Luxembourg (Luxembourg) – d-qliq
Oct 1 – London (UK) – Dingwalls
Afterhours’ DVD “Io non tremo” is # 1 in the official DVD chart for the third, consecutive week.
Great news for all our U.S. fans.
Afterhours discography in Italian is now available through the iTunes Store.
You will be able to find all the songs in Italian you’ve heard during our live shows.
Our DVD Io Non Tremo is # 1 in the DVD chart, for the 2nd week in a row.
Meanwhile, the first chapter of the DVD Non usate preucauzioni/Fatevi infettare is back in the chart at number 11.
Thanks to everybody who made this possible!
Further to the big success of the first DVD “Non usate precauzioni – Fatevi infettare“, released in February 2007 and after the positive U.S tour, the second chapter of the Afterhours anthology on DVD, “Afterhours – Io non tremo”, is available in Italy from Friday 11th May 2007, once again release by Virgin.
Afterhours / Io non tremo contains almost 4 hours of material which follows the artistic itinerary from 1997 until today.
Exclusive interviews with the protagonists, unreleased live recordings, rare videos and pictures, special events (Tora! Tora!, Triennale, Agnelli Clementi, etc…).
A journey through 5 album of great value: Non è per sempre, the double live Siam tre piccoli porcellin, Quello che non c’è, Ballate per piccole iene and its international version, Ballads for little hyenas. Plus a ten minutes special about the U.S. tour with love recordings and more.
Plus a second DVD containing a gallery of 30 homemade and official live recordings from 1985 until today.
A document to define Afterhours‘ project, for those who have never seen them, but also for those who think to know them.
Greg Dulli from the Twilight Singers/The Gutter Twins will be our very special guest at the One Eyed Jacks in New Orleans on March 18th.
