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AIR TRAFFIC CONTINUE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR, RELEASE VIDEO TOUR DIARY

DEBUT ALBUM FRACTURED LIFE OUT NOW

"An album of startling beauty and depth." - FILTER

"...fresh and revealing...poetic yet accessible" - PLAYGIRL

The blogosphere is alive with buzz about Air Traffic's live show as the band continues its debut US trek. The band just released a behind-the-scenes video of some of their recent shenanigans, which you can check out here:

Air Traffic's Fractured Life is quickly building momentum with its brilliantly brutal mood music. After climbing to #1 on the Specialty Album chart, they have also just re-entered the Top 100 Itunes "Next Big Thing" album chart. Their music is also currently being featured on The Hills, One Tree Hill and Kyle XY. As an unlikely product of Bournemouth, UK, the group's singer, Chris Wall was initially fed musically by his Celtic roots. Both his parents are Irish born and bred, and his uncle, Jimmy McCarthy, who still lives in Cork, is a well known folk singer. Wall met his bandmates (drummer David Jordan, bassist Jim Maddock, guitarist Tom Pritchard) and while still in school. It all happened during the academic year when they were up in London, ostensibly studying, in reality, investing their student loans in rehearsal and recording time.

After the band were signed to Astralwerks/EMI, Air Traffic set up in Rockfield Studios to begin working on their new album. Soon thereafter, Wall heard of a friend's loss via news of a fatal car crash,"I could feel the grief, and the sense of helplessness was overwhelming." This swiftly inspired the album's most poignant and beautiful moment, the aching piano ballad, "Empty Space." The two month Rockfield experience was, overall, cathartic. "It made us focus on what we do, and also appreciate how different we are from other bands." In a world in which it is increasingly easy to confuse things that sound urgent with things that are actually important, Air Traffic are, triumphantly, both.

The band has garnered a phenomenal reputation for their extraordinary, energetic and propulsive live shows as evidenced by their CMJ appearances last year. See for yourself right here:

Air Traffic: CMJ 2007 Interview Video Interviews - Blender Online Video Channel

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Air Traffic North American Tour Dates

5/12 Phoenix Brickhouse
5/14 Dallas House of Blues
5/15 Tulsa Bob at Cain's
5/17 Kansas City Record Bar
5/18 Chicago The Bottom Lounge
5/19 Columbus The Basement
5/20 Detroit Shelter
5/22 Cambridge TT The Bears
5/23 Philadelphia Johnny Brenda's
5/24 New York Knitting Factory

MP3 for "No More Running Away" (live) : zSHARE - 03 no more running away - live.mp3

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