Amusement Parks on Fire

Amusement Parks on Fire
Amusement Parks on Fire - Live in Concert
Background information
Origin	Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
Genres	Experimental rock, art rock, shoegazing
Years active	2004–present
Labels	Invada Records V2 Records
Associated acts	Silversun Pickups, Giant Drag
Members	Michael Feerick Daniel Knowles Gavin Poole Joe Hardy
Past members	Pete Dale Jez Cox John Sampson

Amusement Parks on Fire are a British rock band from Nottingham.

The band was established by Michael Feerick in 2004, who wrote and performed all the instruments for the self-titled debut album.

The band began as the solo project of Michael Feerick in 2004, who wrote and recorded nine songs on a small budget with friend Daniel Knowles engineering the sessions. The self-titled debut album was released in on Invada Records, the label run by Geoff Barrow of Portishead in 2005.

A live band was put together including Daniel Knowles (guitar), Pete Dale (drums), Jez Cox (bass) and John Sampson (keyboards/samples). The band signed to V2 Records in 2005 and recorded their second studio album Out Of The Angeles at various UK studios, eventually decamping to Sigur Rós' Sundlaugin studio in Álafoss, Iceland for a month to complete the record. They then toured Europe and America extensively.

The line-up altered in summer 2006 with the addition of Gavin Poole (bass) and Joe Hardy (keyboards/guitar). This line-up then embarked a co-headline tour of the UK with the American noise outfit Scarling. and a headline tour across mainland Europe and Scandinavia. The band played in Japan for the first time at the Summer Sonic Festival 2006.

In addition to the second album Out Of The Angeles, the band released a series of limited edition 12" EPs — the first of which, Blackout was released in late 2005, In Flight in September 2006 and A Star Is Born on 2 April 2007 which, according to a Rough Trade review, showcased "other dimensions to Amusement Parks On Fire's otherwordly sound ...Feerick's classical influences...and hinting at a more bullish Amusement Parks direction to come." with Drowned In Sound calling it "a dizzying mini-epic... a chilly metaphysical beauty".

2009 saw the band tour Ireland followed up in April and May by a well received UK tour supporting 65daysofstatic as well as their own headline dates. The band then moved to Los Angeles, California, to begin work on their third album with producer Michael Patterson.