Tenby-based band The Afternoons appear on S4C's Popcorn tonight (Friday) to promote the release of their Welsh language single 'Dwi'n Mynd i Newid Dy Feddwl'. The single has received widespread radio play and been well reviewed in the Welsh language press and beyond, the Big Issue describing it as 'lovely pastoral pop in the mould of Belle and Sebastian'.
The band's debut album 'The Days We Found in the Sun' was released in Japan last July and has so far sold over 500 copies. They have received a number of e-mails from Japan and a Tokyo-based internet site has been set up by fans.
There was more good news for the Afternoons this month when they signed a three-year publishing deal with London-based Bucks Music who will licence their music for television and films as well as for release in foreign countries.
The band, comprising of local musicians Sarah Ellison, Paul Rapi and Pete Morgan, and their friends Richard Griffiths and Andrew Walters, of Cardiff, are currently recording their second album in Monnow Valley with Greg Haver, who recently received Producer of the Year in the Welsh Music Awards for his work with the Manic Street Preachers. The album is scheduled for release in the autumn with a single to proceed it in the late summer.