Venue: Tenby Rugby Club

Time: 8pm

Details: Known for their noisy yet literate pop style, the Afternoons are one of the most critically acclaimed Welsh indie bands of the past decade. Within a year of forming in 1999 a Radio1 session led to their first single, A Change in Season, being chosen as one of the New Musical Express’ singles of the week, and the band have been releasing records (on labels in the UK, Japan and Spain) ever since.
Each of the Afternoons’ four albums to date has been met with four-star reviews from national magazines such as Uncut, the NME, and Drowned in Sound. The band’s singles have been played not just on Radio 1, 2 and 6, but also on stations throughout the world, in countries as diverse as France, Chile, the USA and Australia. 2008’s Sweet Action was the band’s most successful record yet. Both its singles (Don’t Turn Back and High Summer Lovers) won Single of the Week on Radio 2’s prestigious Radcliffe and Maconie show. Manic Street Preacher Nicky Wire (a champion of the band since Rocket Summer) invited the Afternoons to support the Manics at Newport Centre in August 2008, and James Dean Bradfield, in dedicating Design For Life to the band added, “We think the Afternoons are brilliant. Go and buy their album - it’s f*****g mega!”
The Afternoons new album, recorded in the Manics’ new studio in Cardiff is due for release in the autumn of 2010.