Just booked a ticket for this but I'll be honest AFI r the one of the main reasons I am going to Outbreak London!
Has anyone ever sequenced DU adding in The View from Here into the track listing? Interested in hearing where people would place it on the album!
my custom du tracklist is pretty different all around ill see if i can find it at home. lot of the stuff from that time period that i dig isnt on the album itself
Secured tickets for Bristol. So excited. Can't quite believe it's been 16 years since their last headline tour here.
Got my ticket for Birmingham on O2 priority presale!! I'll be seeing them at the Deftones headline day at All Points East then Birmingham the next day, I am gonna be completely shattered and knackered by the end but it's gonna be worth it because it's been far too long!
Debating if to go to the Manchester gig as well incase they do rotating songs in the set. Not very often AFI grace us with their presence in the UK as well.
Assuming they repeat the formula they've done on the last few American tours, every show is going to have an ENTIRELY different setlist, so go to every show you can lol
seconded. i don't think they've had anything resembling a static setlist since decemberunderground era. yet, for some fucking reason, they always play one of the 2 336 tracks in Boston and Reiver's Music will finally let me put that ghost to bed. ugh. sidenote, I've long debated writing something more in-depth about them (i was a writer for esquire briefly, covered music at the philadelphia inquirer, wrote for propertyofzack for 4ish years before it closed) and have never had the proper framing in mind. so 33 1/3 is accepting submissions and my bud Keegan from Camp Trash is gonna help me get my pitch together. Hope it works! I know too much about their history to not spread, and I know I can get some interview time from the guys. speaking of which, some shameless self promotion other afi nerds might like - a few years back i was on my buddy Heather and Ramsey's short lived music podcast and the albums i "bandsplained" to them were sing the sorrow and war all the time, heres a link to the sing the sorrow episode if you wanna hear a dork hitting his weed pen for 90 minutes and giving a college-grade lecture (to them at least) on the record that fully changed my life even though it was actually art of drowning
Never listened to AFI before this week. Always knew they were a punk band, but I think I always had them and HIM combined in my brain as the same band, so never actually knowingly listened to them. Have now listened to their first two albums (I always check out a bands earlier stuff first so you can see how they progress) and I enjoyed them a lot. Will I continue to like them as the years pass and their sound evolves? Who knows. But we'll soon find out.
They go through a very unique evolution. Their first couple albums are very punk, but as the gothic influences take shape they form their own sound that culminates in The Art Of Drowning and Sing The Sorrow. From there on I'd say they become a New Sound Album band, each one has its own identity.
I can't imagine the experience of listening to Very Proud of Ya without knowing Miss Murder or Love Like Winter and then getting to that era of their discography, please let us know your thoughts
I got into them with The Art Of Drowning. I mean, there are lots of people with that experience, believe it or not.
I also got into them when AoD came out. I remember hearing Girls Not Grey for the first time and being completely blown away.
i got into them at the tail end of black sails and Art of Drowning immediately became my favorite album. Despair Faction kids got an email with times local radio stations were going to premiere girls not grey, so there i sat with my boom box and hit record and it was like whoa what? Art of Drowning era is still what I picture in my head when I think of them.
Obviously I know that lol I meant it more like I can't imagine having that experience in the year 2026, super cool to be able to experience all of that evolution while going in blind