LOCAL band, The Afternoons (pictured) play two warm-up shows in Pembroke over the next fortnight.
The first is at the Station Inn, Pembroke Dock, tonight (Friday), while the second is at the Normandie Inn, Tenby, next Friday, October 21.
Both are in preparation for their appearance at the Easy Pop festival in Zaragoza, Spain, where their single Rocket Summer was an independent-radio hit.
As well as garnering plaudits in the Spanish music press and alt-radio, the band's album (also called Rocket Summer) was supported in the UK by a number of high-profile admirers, including Radio One's Huw Stephens, Radio Two's Marc Radcliffe, and the Radio Six breakfast-show host Phil Jupitus. The album, produced by Manic Street Preachers producer Greg Haver, and described by the NME as "creamy, dreamy pop," was released in the UK and Japan in June.
Subsequent to a string of US reviews, the album has also acquired distribution stateside through the Not Lame label, and the band have recently discovered that it will also be distributed in Australia, where their previous album My Lost City received an enthusiastic radio response.
Rocket Summer, distributed by Shellshock, is available from most good record shops, or on-line; either on i-tunes or through the band's website http://www.theafternoons.com">www.theafternoons.com.