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Background

Born Michael Anthony Wright, he began learning the guitar at age eight, taught by his mother, and at age thirteen he started performing in public. He formed And So I Watch You From Afar in 2004 with members of his previous bands, PepperBook and Zombie Safari Park, Johnny Adger, Rory Friers and Chris Wee, respectively. After two albums, three EPs and seven years of touring in the USA, Russia, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Latvia, Ireland and the UK, Wright left the band in 2011.

Solo career

Wright has released three EPs, VCV EP (2011), "Six Songs" (2012) and The Inches EP (2013), and two albums, VerseChorusVerse (2014) and, "Say & Do" (2015). His second EP, "Six Songs", reached number 3 on the Bandcamp charts. It was a collection of lo-fi covers of some of his favourite alternative and punk acts, all proceeds were donated to the Action Cancer and First Fortnight charities. It was a limited release and is now deleted. To accompany his third EP, "The Inches EP", Wright moved into the moving visual art medium for the first time, releasing a video for each track, conceiving and directing two of them himself and acting in the other two. The project was called, "VerseChorusVideo", with the releases premiered on the popular Nialler9 & Harmless Noise music blogs. The first eponymous album was produced by Iain Archer and was nominated for the 2014 NI Music Prize. In 2015 he released Say & Do, a collaborative album of his original songs produced by and featuring David Lyttle. It charted at number 21 on the UK album charts and number 1 on the Amazon Blues Charts. He has toured with Gogol Bordello, Jesse Malin, Devin Townsend, Anneke Van Giersbergen, Daniel Johnston, Tim Wheeler of Ash, Andy Cairns of Therapy? and Jonah Matranga amongst others. His live sets are known for their honest, conversational, inclusive and energetic style.

Discography