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artist The Airfields

Toronto, ON, CANADA
humblebee recordings
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Alt Pop, Sugar Pop
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biographical info

We'd like to tell you that we write our songs in an abandoned airplane hangar, just to account for all the echoing, but that would be very untrue and a little fanciful. Instead, most of the songwriting occurs in the wee hours of the morning, travelling on a shivering bus to nowhere important. Because we are without sleep, we are well-acquainted with the mysterious feeling the city leaves you with when you walk out to the empty streets at 6am with the first few cars quietly puffing along. At this hour, the most comforting thing is a bubbling kettle for tea, or perhaps the little tunes that simmer up inside as you scurry down a chilly sidewalk; both offer a much needed warmth, for which we are equally thankful and dependent upon...

lineup

David Lush guitar, singing, synth
Ian Jackson guitar
Jakob Thiesen pots & pans, moog fanclub president
Ali Sunderji bass guitar
Sheila Sampath Farfisas, keyboards

influences

Ecstacy & Wine era My Blood Valentine
the Aislers set & slumberland in general
the Clean, the Cat's Miaow
the Clientele, Felt
the Wake, the Field Mice
Up All Night
Label humblebee recordings
Released January, 2008
Up All Night
Laneways
Label humblebee recordings
Released April, 2006
Laneways
the City-State e.p.
Label Independent
Released March, 2005
the City-State e.p.

'Up All Night' - new album from the Airfields

posted by the airfields   
Just wanted you to know that we'll be releasing a new record.  It will likely be released in January and we have a release party show booked at Sneaky Dee's in Toronto for Saturday February 2, 2008.  More details to follow...

Until then, you can listen to a few of the new songs we've posted.

thank you!
posted by the airfields   
where to buy
572 College Street, Toronto, ON
(416) 537-1620
620 Queen West (is Dead), Toronto, ON
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