Quick Update 17.11.11

Everything is going great with the new record. We have 11 songs done. December will bring us the final few we want so we can choose what’s going to end up making it on there. It’s been an interesting time, we never thought we’d see Summer and Winter in the desert whilst dong this. Still, it’s happening and we’re very excited so we hope you are too. Lots will be changing round here soon so keep checking back. Ciao. ASF.x

Quick Update 17.11.11

Everything is going great with the new record. We have 11 songs done. December will bring us the final few we want so we can choose what’s going to end up making it on there. It’s been an interesting time, we never thought we’d see Summer and Winter in the desert whilst dong this. Still, it’s happening and we’re very excited so we hope you are too. Lots will be changing round here soon so keep checking back. Ciao. ASF.x

A note from Karl…

So I’m sitting outside 3 weeks later, 9 hospital days, 10 therapy sessions, a morphine withdrawal and a $110,000 medical bill. The planes flying above me are making me want to be going somewhere actually. Not sure why, I think there’s something slightly romantic about seeing a plane in the sky and wondering where it’s headed. Some of you may have read that I broke my arm/wrist pretty badly a short while ago. It was pretty much smashed to pieces until the wonderful Dr Wagner and Dr Champagne (yes) put me back together over here in America. The whole situation has really made me think about a few things, some nice and some not so nice. A swift reality check that no one is invincible is a good first lesson. Put it this way, it could’ve been a LOT worse than it was. I actually feel ridiculously lucky that it was just my arm that got damaged. Yes, it’s not what I wanted to happen but you have to take what life throws at you sometimes and this is my part of that. The hospital actually turned out to be quite fun once the initial surgery was done and the pain was under control courtesy of an IV drug called Dilaudid which pretty much blew my mind everytime I pressed the little buzzer to call the nurse in. As a side note to that, it occurred to me near the end of my stay there that you’re basically made a drug addict for a brief period then sent back into the World to deal with it and make sure you can get off it again. That takes a strong will, trust me. I can completely understand how medical drugs can destroy so many peoples’ lives through addictions, weather starting in a hospital or just on the street. The withdrawal from my $400 worth of prescription pills has been pretty awful, not something I had thought about until Spencer worked out  that was what was going on. Anyway, I got looked after very well in that place. But then at the cost of $110,000 you’d hope so. I did wonder for a second that it was too easy to get pretty much ANYTHING in that place within about 10 minutes. Pack of baby wipes? No problem, that’s probably $40. I feel terrible for the families here that have to face the hardship of trying to pay insane medical bills for situations that they were unfortunately exposed to that no one ever wants. I heard that these bills are the main reason for bankruptcy in the United States and I’ve seen first-hand why. Hopefully one day this will be resolved for good and everyone, no matter who you are, will receive the treatment they need, at a cost that’s not going to destroy their lives. Anyway, I don’t mean to go on but I wanted to write something for you guys. I know that you’re waiting patiently for this new record and it’s happening, I promise. This situation shouldn’t actually end up causing the release to be any later than planned I don’t think. We’ve just slightly readjusted the plans. It just means less time in cold England, which I’m actually fine with. So there’s always something positive to come out of shit situations. Oh and Spencer was awesome in the hospital, completely made all the difference and got me through those rough days. A true friend will go and get sushi so you don’t have to eat hospital food for 9 days. Take care and we’ll see you in the New Year. Karl.

 

A note from Karl…

So I’m sitting outside 3 weeks later, 9 hospital days, 10 therapy sessions, a morphine withdrawal and a $110,000 medical bill. The planes flying above me are making me want to be going somewhere actually. Not sure why, I think there’s something slightly romantic about seeing a plane in the sky and wondering where it’s headed. Some of you may have read that I broke my arm/wrist pretty badly a short while ago. It was pretty much smashed to pieces until the wonderful Dr Wagner and Dr Champagne (yes) put me back together over here in America. The whole situation has really made me think about a few things, some nice and some not so nice. A swift reality check that no one is invincible is a good first lesson. Put it this way, it could’ve been a LOT worse than it was. I actually feel ridiculously lucky that it was just my arm that got damaged. Yes, it’s not what I wanted to happen but you have to take what life throws at you sometimes and this is my part of that. The hospital actually turned out to be quite fun once the initial surgery was done and the pain was under control courtesy of an IV drug called Dilaudid which pretty much blew my mind everytime I pressed the little buzzer to call the nurse in. As a side note to that, it occurred to me near the end of my stay there that you’re basically made a drug addict for a brief period then sent back into the World to deal with it and make sure you can get off it again. That takes a strong will, trust me. I can completely understand how medical drugs can destroy so many peoples’ lives through addictions, weather starting in a hospital or just on the street. The withdrawal from my $400 worth of prescription pills has been pretty awful, not something I had thought about until Spencer worked out  that was what was going on. Anyway, I got looked after very well in that place. But then at the cost of $110,000 you’d hope so. I did wonder for a second that it was too easy to get pretty much ANYTHING in that place within about 10 minutes. Pack of baby wipes? No problem, that’s probably $40. I feel terrible for the families here that have to face the hardship of trying to pay insane medical bills for situations that they were unfortunately exposed to that no one ever wants. I heard that these bills are the main reason for bankruptcy in the United States and I’ve seen first-hand why. Hopefully one day this will be resolved for good and everyone, no matter who you are, will receive the treatment they need, at a cost that’s not going to destroy their lives. Anyway, I don’t mean to go on but I wanted to write something for you guys. I know that you’re waiting patiently for this new record and it’s happening, I promise. This situation shouldn’t actually end up causing the release to be any later than planned I don’t think. We’ve just slightly readjusted the plans. It just means less time in cold England, which I’m actually fine with. So there’s always something positive to come out of shit situations. Oh and Spencer was awesome in the hospital, completely made all the difference and got me through those rough days. A true friend will go and get sushi so you don’t have to eat hospital food for 9 days. Take care and we’ll see you in the New Year. Karl.

 

And the winner is…

Thanks so much to everyone that took the time to make a video for Driven By Their Beating Hearts. It was amazing to see how differently people interpret the song to make it their own so thank you all. We chose Cynthia Rumery’s video because we felt that the visual direction of it worked so well alongside the sentiment of the song and the time put into making stop frame animation is obviously worthy of recognition too! So here it is… please pass it around your friends and post it up on your blogs and stuff like that. See you out on tour in July. ASFx

Driven By Their Beating Hearts

You can also click HERE to watch it.

And the winner is…

Thanks so much to everyone that took the time to make a video for Driven By Their Beating Hearts. It was amazing to see how differently people interpret the song to make it their own so thank you all. We chose Cynthia Rumery’s video because we felt that the visual direction of it worked so well alongside the sentiment of the song and the time put into making stop frame animation is obviously worthy of recognition too! So here it is… please pass it around your friends and post it up on your blogs and stuff like that. See you out on tour in July. ASFx

Driven By Their Beating Hearts

You can also click HERE to watch it.

MTV’s The Hard Times Of R J Berger

Those of you MTV guys may have noticed that ‘You Will Leave A Mark’ & ‘Feather White’ have both been featured in the latest series of MTV’s The Hard Times Of R J Berger show. Pretty cool huh?

MTV’s The Hard Times Of R J Berger

Those of you MTV guys may have noticed that ‘You Will Leave A Mark’ & ‘Feather White’ have both been featured in the latest series of MTV’s The Hard Times Of R J Berger show. Pretty cool huh?

Quick Update

Hi everyone,
Sorry we haven’t been too busy on here recently. We decided to stay in America to work on the new record and the preparation for that has taken up a lot of time. We did some shows over the last couple of weeks though and met a lot of new people. Philadelphia was amazing, so many of you and we got to play with Biffy Clyro. Before that we popped over to Albany, NY and then did a four day residency in Las Vegas which ended up being one of the most fun things we’ve ever done. It’s Sin City for sure but it’s also Fun City if you let it happen. That place is like nothing else on this planet but it also has one of the most beautiful sunrises ever. 6am Vegas hotel balcony is the place to be. I’m sure we’ll go back there, how can we not? We actually like it for some reason. It took all of the money we don’t have but we still hold it close to our hearts. I guess you just have to go there to see it. I have a video from my balcony, I’ll put it up later today, just trying to choose the music to have on it. It’s tricky now everything Warners (everything) is illegal. Leave it with me. So we’re back at our house working on new songs. It’s turning out to be amazing. We’re getting versions of the songs some of you probably heard on the Civil Twilight tour recorded and also starting to write the new record. I can’t say too much but it’s making me excited so I hope we don’t let you down. It’s going to be bold and a forward movement. Scary? Yes, of course. But we’ll deal with it and so will you guys.
We’re also working out a way for you to be able to check the progress of the new record a bit more closely so stick with us, we’ll let you know when that happens. If you have any suggestions of what you’d like to see then leave a message on Twitter or Facebook and we’ll see if it’s possible. Right, that’s enough of this, currently listening to rough mixes of some new stuff, you’ll love it. Laters. Karl.x

Quick Update

Hi everyone,
Sorry we haven’t been too busy on here recently. We decided to stay in America to work on the new record and the preparation for that has taken up a lot of time. We did some shows over the last couple of weeks though and met a lot of new people. Philadelphia was amazing, so many of you and we got to play with Biffy Clyro. Before that we popped over to Albany, NY and then did a four day residency in Las Vegas which ended up being one of the most fun things we’ve ever done. It’s Sin City for sure but it’s also Fun City if you let it happen. That place is like nothing else on this planet but it also has one of the most beautiful sunrises ever. 6am Vegas hotel balcony is the place to be. I’m sure we’ll go back there, how can we not? We actually like it for some reason. It took all of the money we don’t have but we still hold it close to our hearts. I guess you just have to go there to see it. I have a video from my balcony, I’ll put it up later today, just trying to choose the music to have on it. It’s tricky now everything Warners (everything) is illegal. Leave it with me. So we’re back at our house working on new songs. It’s turning out to be amazing. We’re getting versions of the songs some of you probably heard on the Civil Twilight tour recorded and also starting to write the new record. I can’t say too much but it’s making me excited so I hope we don’t let you down. It’s going to be bold and a forward movement. Scary? Yes, of course. But we’ll deal with it and so will you guys.
We’re also working out a way for you to be able to check the progress of the new record a bit more closely so stick with us, we’ll let you know when that happens. If you have any suggestions of what you’d like to see then leave a message on Twitter or Facebook and we’ll see if it’s possible. Right, that’s enough of this, currently listening to rough mixes of some new stuff, you’ll love it. Laters. Karl.x

Free Download

US Photo Stills Spring 2011 – Click here to download! Includes a brand new recording of Rob playing a Lemonheads song.

Free Download

US Photo Stills Spring 2011 – Click here to download! Includes a brand new recording of Rob playing a Lemonheads song.

‘Driven…’ Video Contest

So we’re running a contest for the new single ‘Driven By Their Beating Hearts’. We want YOU guys to make the video for it. Be as imaginative as you can – Flip Cam, HD, Animation, anything goes! The winning director will get $1,000.00 and a whole load of ASF merchandise plus your video will be shown all over the world. Upload your masterpiece to Vimeo then send the link to info@bielerbros.com (closing date for submissions is April 23rd 2011).

‘Driven…’ Video Contest

So we’re running a contest for the new single ‘Driven By Their Beating Hearts’. We want YOU guys to make the video for it. Be as imaginative as you can – Flip Cam, HD, Animation, anything goes! The winning director will get $1,000.00 and a whole load of ASF merchandise plus your video will be shown all over the world. Upload your masterpiece to Vimeo then send the link to info@bielerbros.com (closing date for submissions is April 23rd 2011).

Toronto

So today we finally get to play in Toronto. Pretty damn excited to be honest. This city has been good to a couple of us in the past so to get to play here is amazing. The show is at El Mocambo. We’re on at 8.45pm. See you there.

Toronto

So today we finally get to play in Toronto. Pretty damn excited to be honest. This city has been good to a couple of us in the past so to get to play here is amazing. The show is at El Mocambo. We’re on at 8.45pm. See you there.

SXSW Show Times

Friday March 18th – Red Eyed Fly 5.05pm //
Saturday March 19th – Rusty Spurs 8pm

SXSW Show Times

Friday March 18th – Red Eyed Fly 5.05pm //
Saturday March 19th – Rusty Spurs 8pm

Radio 94.7 Movie Theatre Show

If you’re part of the KNRK Portland 94.7 Mobile Nation then check your phone around noon to get an invitation to a very special show we’re playing this afternoon at a secret location in downtown Portland. It’s going to be fun! The Civil Twilight tour starts tonight at the Hawthorne Theatre. Check the Shows page for all ticket links and details. ASF.

Radio 94.7 Movie Theatre Show

If you’re part of the KNRK Portland 94.7 Mobile Nation then check your phone around noon to get an invitation to a very special show we’re playing this afternoon at a secret location in downtown Portland. It’s going to be fun! The Civil Twilight tour starts tonight at the Hawthorne Theatre. Check the Shows page for all ticket links and details. ASF.