We have three live missions to complete this side of the year’s end before retreating to our secret bunker to continue album 4 recordings. First up is our genteel piano, violin and vocal cabaret trio, opening for our friend Chiara Berardelli at the launch for her new single “Rodeo” on Wednesday 22nd November at the Poetry Club, Glasgow. Tickets here… Read more →

Gig news!  Glad Café gig(s), Saturday October 7th!  A gig! Twice!  Roll up folks for a sneaky peek at album 4! And more!  With all the hits* too!   On Saturday October 7th at the beloved Glad Café, we break cover for our first Glasgow gigs of the year with two live performances, kicking off with a young team-friendly acoustic matinée… Read more →

My god Edinburgh, you are a beautiful city. Thank you very much to everyone who came to the show last night.Thank you Fido and Tam for all your help, to Lori for your company, to Colvin and Luke at the Wee Red Bar and to Stewart and Ross at Xfire for putting us on.I had marvellous fun. I hope you… Read more →

Thank you very much to everyone who came to the show last night. One fainting (thankfully the person concerned is okay), one fire alarm (I’ve heard various rumours including someone smoking in the bogs to a bomb alert) and so an unscheduled interval for everyone in the car park, plus our usual onstage technical gremlins made for all kinds of… Read more →

All writings from “A Traveller’s Guide to Lost and Later Songs” have been collected and are available to read in full for the first time at the link here. P.S. A few Edinburgh gig tickets are still available here. Just saying like. Read more →

Stage times for this weekend folks- CumbernauldDoors: 7:00pm LORI: 7:30pm ANI: 8:15pm EdinburghDoors: 7:00pm LORI: 7:30pm ANI: 8:30pm See you doon the front bx Read more →

Edinburgh, you’re our Saturday night and tickets are available here-https://bit.ly/3XyYPca Friday night in Cumbernauld is sold out. Thank you to everyone who has bought tickets so far and to @xfirepresents. You make it possible. bx Read more →

“A New International released a new double album of dramatic torch songs aching to be watched played and sung in an ancient velvet draped theatre to a haunted lost audience. Beautiful.” 2022 – The Writer Sums Up – Fighting Boredom (fighting-boredom.co.uk) Our thanks to Adrian Bloxham for his time and kind words. Band seeking audience, haunted, lost or otherwise, for… Read more →

“We must make for the audience a box of delights. Or at least fail entertainingly in the attempt” Full blog and ticket links for the first live shows of the year are here: https://linktr.ee/anewinternational Cumbernauld, Friday January 27th Edinburgh, Saturday January 28th Read more →

Dear Folks, Our whistle-stop tour of the Scottish central belt continues with a weekender double header. Live shows on – Friday January 27th – Lanternhouse Theatre, Cumbernauld (hey, that’s my hometown!) Saturday January 28th – the Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh. All welcome, bring yer pals. bx Tickets here – Cumbernauld – https://lanternhousearts.org/choose-seats/… Edinburgh – skiddle.com/e/36244725 Read more →