June 7, 2006.
Kat, our violinist, is on tour in Japan with the New York Metropolitan Opera. So to all our Japanese fans, if you're around say "Hi" to her! PS We are still working away on our album....stay tuned!

Feb 9, 2006.
Thanks to you all for your support last year. We played out a lot in 2005 and toured Ireland supporting our last EP. But during this time as a band we changed.What we�ve come to realize is that we're a totally different band now, both musically and personality wise. We together inhabit a world that is Audio Fiction.

It�s never easy trying to keep a good thing going. It�s the hardest thing in the world trying to be in a band and grow it, nurture it. Ultimately though, it�s an amazingly rewarding experience playing live and creating music from our heads. This is what makes it worthwhile.

But it's time to recreate, recharge and re-energize ourselves as a band. We may not be currently gigging but we are working hard in the studio. We are excited by what we are creating. Expect to hear a very different and interesting band when we come out the other side of this. We expect to see you all again mid to end of Summer. And don't forget to sign up to our Mailing List under CONTACT.

Cheers - AF

Jan 17, 2006.

The band is back from its amazingly successful mini tour of Ireland. We were honored to read that the band made Ireland's version of Rolling Stone - Hot Press Magazine's Hot Pick for 2006 �bands to watch�. Check the article out here Hot Press Magazine.

Due to popular demand, the band also added an extra show on Friday in the Harbour Bar. What a fantastic night it was and we thank all our new Irish fans for making it a night to remember.

We�d like to thank Ed Guy, Adam Saynuk & Peter Dobbins for making us sound and look good. You can check out some tour pics here�Irish Tour pics

On a more personal note, the band slept and ate like kings thanks to the wonderful Irish hospitality. Jay almost didn�t come back he enjoyed himself so much! Mark and Ferg were totally in their element, Mimi was �fuckin� deadly� as usual, and Kat learned lots of nasty Irish sayings that she�s currently testing out on the streets of Manhattan. The band can�t wait to go back to Ireland!

Jan 12, 2006.
Our Irish tour got off to an unbelievable start last night. We did two back to back energetic gigs to a great crowd and sold a ton of CD's. We bought Ireland's version of Rolling Stone, 'Hot Press' today to see that the band made the magazine's 2006 Hot Pick list accompanied by an article!! Roll on Dublin tonight at Doran's in Temple Bar.

Dec 26, 2005.
We just posted two of the new tracks, Kite High and Impenetrable on our Myspace.com/audiofictionband page to listen too. Enjoy and be merry!

Dec 23, 2005.
Happy Holidays and New Year to you!!! The band has just announced dates and venues for it�s first ever tour of Ireland. That�s right folks, we�re crossing the Atlantic to the land of Ferg & Mark, where we�re hoping their respective mammies will be dishing up the band some home cooked meals. All these shows will be packed, so for our Irish crew get there early!!

The band has just had it�s first 3 track single mastered by this years Grammy nominated Vic Anesini @ Sony Music Studios. (Big thanks to Tom Moon & Peter Cho) We will be bringing the CD to Ireland. It�s expected it will be available on iTUNES etc by Feb or March. We�ll try and put them up on our Myspace page before then.

You can catch the band the night before they head off to Ireland at Piano�s Sat Jan 7th 2006. If you haven�t seen us in a while, come out and catch the new lineup and all new songs and see what everyone�s been talking about!

Audio Fiction Saturday Jan 7th @ 9.30pm Piano�s 158 Ludlow & Stanton St. Lower Eastside, NYC

The band will play one more show after we get back from Ireland at Sin-E on the lower eastside of NYC Sat Jan 21st @ 8.30pm. Then we head back to the studio to complete the record. We hope to be back on a stage in Spring 2006.

Dec 11, 2005.
Mimi & Kat stopped traffic on Times Square Friday night. They both ended up on a Time Magazine's Person of the Year's huge billboard high above Times Square during rushhour. Pretty cool girls! And great pic from our photo masters Jen & Adam.

Finally our 3 track single from our upcoming debut album is finally finished. We hike over to Sony this week for mastering. Then we trot off to the studio for rehearsals for our upcoming Ireland tour. With the holidays just around the corner, we struggle with what to get each for Christmas. Mark's nipple rings for the girls didn't go down well last year. Mimi and Kat are in discussions as to whether the black or red patent leather matching gimp masks would look good on Ferg and Mark, while Jay is working his mohawk into a frenzy selling awesome Filipino trinkets to the super model-hotties of Bryant Park.

Nov 17, 2005.
Tick Tock is in heavy rotation on Evolving Artist radio. Please vote for the song here....Evolving Artist Radio

In other news, the band is mixing a three track single, tentatively titled "Kite High" for release in advance of our tour in Ireland the beginning of January. The few music biz insiders that have heard it think it rocks, and so do we!! These songs will be included in the upcoming album later in 2006.

Meanwhile, band members are trying to keep their sanity and hold it together. Ferg has begun hallucinating seeing dancing babies, Mark's continued paranoia of hidden cameras in taxis has now moved to the shower, Mimi's become more of a bad-ass, and now only has to look at the boys and they drop dead, Kat keeps getting asked her nationality and has actually forgotten it herself, she still wonders what it is, and Jay is still looking for a girlfriend while getting names for our growing mailing list.

Sept 15, 2005.
We wouldn't be rock stars in the making if we didn't get to attend this weeks New York Fashion Shows at Bryant Park. Let's face it, supermodels to rock stars are like fish to water - they just can't live without each other. Miraculously, band members Mark and Katherine scored third row seats to ultra hip Annu Sui's show. It was super cool. The clothes were sexy, cool, elegant and fab, but they didn't get to take any of these fab clothes to the bands photo shoot this Sunday for the new record. Bummer ;-)

Mark did get to stand next to Naomi Campbell while she changed backstage after the show. But in typical fashion, he was totally ignored. Mark got to hit on Anna Sui instead. Katherine fared much better with her friends Scott Weiland (Velvet Revolver and ex-Stone Temple Pilots) and film director Sofia Coppola. Here's a few snaps of the occasion bottom of our photo page Okay, now back to the studio.......it's all about the music man!

Sept 7, 2005.
The studio work is really starting to come together. After the success of our last EP, we really have to kick it up 20 notches. Our amazing sound engineer, Ed Guy kicks ass! He can make a fart sound tuneful. We expect we will be working on recording and mixing now through December for a hopeful early New Year release.

We will have a couple of gigs and special guest appearances at MEANY Fest (Knitting Factory) and Rocktober Fest at BB King�s between now and then.

Aug 10, 2005.
The band have hit # 1 on Mp3tunes.com 's 80's pop chart!!! Mp3tunes.com

The band is featured in this month's issue of GO NYC Magazine under "Artists We Love" - we are in good company with Ani DiFranco, Sleater-Kinney and Meshell Ndegeocello to name but a few.

Our fans on Myspace have grown to 1,034. Our work in the studio is really beggining to pay off. It so rocks...but you'll have to wait until late fall to see what happen's.. Thanks to you all for your continued support. More news on the band to come over the next month or so. In the meantime, come out and see us Wed Aug 31st 8pm Lion's Den, NYC...

Aug 5, 2005.
The EP has continued to climb the pop charts on MP3tunes.com and is now at #3!!!... you can check out the happiness here.Mp3tunes.com

The band and our drummer also get a mention in this weeks Village Voice in an article called Taxicab Hookups by Rachel Kramer Bussel. HBO is airing the spanish version of Mark blabbering his heart out on Taxicab Confessions, New York tonight.

July 19, 2005.
The band's EP has charted on MP3tunes.com at # 23!!!... you can check out the amazingness here.Mp3tunes.com

July 17, 2005.
Mimi and the band are featured in this month's issue of Curve Magazine. (With Gwen Stefani on the cover). The band is headed back into the studio for the next few months to come up with some new material for our debut album.
Sign up to our Myspace page. MySpace.com/audiofictionband

June 3, 2005.
The band incredibly made the New York Post's Page Six gossip column again today! Ms. Fong will be playing with us again June 10th at Sin-e. Here's what Page Six had to say (under Sightings).... "ANNA Sui at CBGB catching Audio Fiction accompanied by Metropolitan Opera violinist Katherine Fong, whose performance blew the crowd away." Page Six

May 27, 2005.
The band is excited to announce that acclaimed violinist, Katherine Fong, with the New York Metropolitan Opera will be accompanying the band when they play at the 10th Annual Lower Eastside festival this Saturday and at CBGB's May 31st and Sin-E June 10th. These shows should not be missed!!! Also, we have been profiled on FemaleMusician.com this month. Click Here to read the syrup

May 12, 2005.
The band has a great interview out today on music site Aeki Tuesday. We are up there in great company, Kasabian, Aqualung etc Click Here to read the deliciousness

April 28, 2005.
The band's northeast radio campaign is gaining momentum. The EP is spinning on college radio stations in 13 states! Please help them stay on the radio. If you live in one of the states listed, please send a request in to have AF played. The band is # 15 on the charts at Keane State, NH. Click Here to see the stations and request our songs

April 19, 2005.
Another great review of our EP from excellent music site Rock & Roll Report. Click Here to read the piece

April 17, 2005.
Our intrepid drummer, Mark, appears in a story about The Strokes drummer, Fabrizio, in last Thursday's New York Daily News. The real question is, when are we gonna tackle world peace and North Korea?!? Click Here to read the piece

April 12, 2005.
Great news! Our Northeastern college radio campaign is barely two weeks old and we have already been added to over 44 college radio stations, with 22 more stations still in review. We expect and hope this list will continue to grow out over the coming weeks.

The band is also covered in a feature article in last weeks issue of The Aquarian.

March 19, 2005. Our EP "Songs in the Key of Orange Alert" is now available on Apple iTunes!!! Check it out.

February 20, 2005. The band just got a nice article and review in this months GO NYC Magazine....."Ferraro's baby-soft voice is well suited and haunting in the album's first three tracks...."
Click Here to read the piece

February 13, 2005. The band and Mark just got mentioned in today's New York Post Page Six gossip column!!! Now if only we could get signed.....
Click Here to read the piece

February 4, 2005. New York, NY -- Holy shite!!! The band just made Rush & Molloy's nationally syndicated Rush & Molloy gossip column in The New York Daily News and The Hollywood Reporter.

O'Toole's Confession (The New York Daily News) It was just another 5 a.m. cab ride for Audio Fiction drummer Mark O'Toole and he was feeling so fine, he didn't even notice the 15-minute journey turning into 45. The Irish rocker chatted on ...
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Airs on HBO Sat Feb 5th. The band plays Arlene's Grocery, NYC, Thurs Feb 10th.

February 1, 2005. New York, NY -- Mark O'Toole, Irish drummer & lyricist with upcoming New York rock band Audio Fiction is an unwitting star of the series premiere of HBO's Emmy- award winning show 'Taxicab Confessions: New York, New York: America Undercover.' O'Toole and a friend hopped into one of the show�s rigged cabs on the way home from a party. None of the passengers were aware that their conversations were being captured with hidden lipstick cameras and microphones until the ride was over. Airs on HBO Sat Feb 5th. The band plays Arlene's Grocery, NYC, Thurs Feb 10th. Stay tuned......
Click Here to read the piece

December 30, 2004. Happy New Year to you all, and thanks for making our year great in 2004. The band will be onto bigger and better things in 2005. We will be back on the road again late March early April with a radio campaign and short tour. Sign up to our mailing list on the CONTACT page for notification of our next gigs. As they say in Ireland...Slan Leat 2004!!!

December 6, 2004. The band plays 2 gigs this week. This is your last chance to catch them in 2004. They will be back on the road in Feb 2005. They play The Knitting Factory Tues 7th @ 8pm and then headline Kenny's Castaway Sat Dec 11th @ 11.30 until late. Oh yeah...and happy holidays one and all!!

November 14, 2004. Here's a sample of our early reviews for "Songs in the Key of Orange Alert"....and they are great!!! Click on the link below them to read the full review.

Score Music Magazine

"...punky vocals and pop-rock sensibilities....despite its punked-up 'tude, and while only six songs long it is a nice overall look into what this band has to offer: strong vocals and rhythm, good song structures and a balance of dark, deep, and sometimes depressing vibes with rocked-up dance tunes and a throw-back vibe." - Siren Kimmie
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Gay City News - full feature article

Perhaps not since William Faulkner�s �The Sound and the Fury� has there been a group so obsessed with loss, regret and time slipping away.
But the band�s sound is hardly gloom and doom. Like most commercially successful acts, nostalgia figures largely into the equation. Audio Fiction evokes an 80s New Wave carefree innocence, and ultra-chic lead singer Mimi Ferraro�s voice is lofty and full of sweet emotion. She can sing a pretty tune, to be sure, as evidenced on tracks like �Race the Hourglass� and �Wanna Be Wild,� but her voice seems even stronger when suffused with a bit of grit, as in the cut �Impenetrable.� The band has not been numbed into apoliticism, throwing barbs into the album�s first track, the pointedly political anti-war tune, �Tick Tock.� It decries the barbarism of our �American Psycho� with the lyrics, �I dropped a bomb and killed your cat/ Wondering if I missed your dog/ Did you like that? Want some more?/ Life is good, if you�re on the right side.� The success of the song lies largely in the irony that juxtaposes these caustic images with sugarcoated pop instrumentals. ...the band is on the right path and moving with rapid precision toward becoming serious players. - Winnie McCroy
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Neumu

"Tick Tock," is deliriously enjoyable ear candy� the song is so much fun to bop around to like you're 14 years old that it's hard to pay much attention to what Ferraro's singing about. ��"Impenetrable," �. is an example of a great marriage between music and words. It also best showcases Ferraro's voice in a gorgeous, sultry tune as she expresses her frailty in a romantic entanglement that has her pleading "not for salvation/ Just grace." " is much more evocative in its imagery of light and darkness, creating a mood of sensuous melancholy�..(AF) they could be a contender. � Kirthana Ramisetti
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Gothamist (full feature article)

Not to pigeon-hole them as only a politically driven band they are catchy pop rock with a message. Check them out now, we haven't heard a voice like Mimi's since...well, we don't know when, but Gwen Stefani comes to mind. And we hear they put on a kick ass live show - Jen Carlson
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IndieMusicExplosion.com

"The handful of pop nuggets found in the pocket of NYC's AUDIO FICTION presents the audience with plenty of sounds to make them listen. �. Bringing the listener to memories of the playful tunes of Blondie and Souixie and the Banshees. Coupled with a modern day dose of Natalie Merchant and a dash of No Doubt. �you are sure to find a hook or two for your ears when flipping through this short but sweet listen. Fall into the driving, hook laden bass work on RACE THE HOURGLASS [track 2]. Settle into the dreamy, Cure-esque guitar work on BLESS ME [track 6]. Whether you hone into the vocals, the whimsical guitar work or the solid rhythm, don't forget to grab up this handful of quirky pop tunes. � Elke Bourne

The Irish Voice - New York

The lead-off single is �Tick Tock,� a cheery power pop marshmallow with deceptively caustic lyrics that rally against the war effort. �I smash your face with my open hand/marvel at your bloody nose/did I make my point or should I go on?/Life is good, if you�re on the right side/I dropped a bomb and killed your cat/wondering if I missed your dog/Did you like that? Want some more?� sings Mimi Ferraro in a coquettish delivery that recalls the ballsy pillow talk of Blondie�s Debbie Harry. ). On �Don�t Do It,� the band begins with a Velvet Underground-esque spoken word mood piece that breaks into a grunge chorus on a hairpin beat. �.�Impenetrable� is a slinky R&B track that would feel right at home on a Norah Jones CD" - Mike Farragher
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The Aquarian
- I get it. �Orange Alert� because they�re from New York. Good one. The content here isn�t half as embittered as the sardonic title would have you believe. Soft collegey vibes�.�Impenetrable, .. is a moody, smoky jazz-club crooner�� - JJ Koczan

October 12, 2004. Ferg and Mark play at Planet Hollywood on Times Square, NYC tonight to support the charity "A Leg to Stand On" - www.altso.org. Ferg gets to loosen his vocal pipes. They are assisted by Jesse and Ken. 800 tickets have been sold, so it should be a good night.

August 28, 2004. The band has just made Ben Widdicombes Gatecrasher gossip column in New York's Daily News. This column amazingly is internationally syndicated! We love Ben!!! Here's the piece: LL Cool J is launching a suits, shirts and jeans line called James Todd Smith, his birth name. ... Supermodel, Harvey Weinstein The Mira-maximus has dropped a few pounds and fit right in with Heidi Klum and her leggy pals at the "Project Runway" party at Hiro on Tuesday. ... They eat! The Olsen twins circumvented an hour-long wait Tuesday night at Nolita's Cafe Habana, where they enjoyed corn on the cob. The white powder on it was cotija cheese. ... NYC rockers Audio Fiction have released their Bush-unfriendly album "Songs in the Key of Orange Alert" in time for the convention.

August 25, 2004. The band has announced a college radio promotion venture with The Planetary Group, a Boston based radio promotion company, who's past clients include David Bowie, The Foo Fighters and Ben Folds Five. The band will be playing selected venues in the Northeast in November and December. Check our calendar for the latest schedules.

August 8, 2004. Thanks to all the people that made it out to our pre-release party. It was a great time. Thanks for all the energy. Hope everyone is enjoying their CDs. We've put our heart into it. Let us know what you think. We've also got tshirts coming!

August 3, 2004. New York, NY (PRWEB) -- Audio Fiction, a NYC based female fronted rock band, announces their upcoming release of their debut album, "Songs in the Key of Orange Alert" (title inspired by the NY terror alert status under which the songs were written). The timing couldn't have been more ironic, given that a new Orange Alert status has just been declared today. Lead singer Mimi Ferraro says "Outside of Baghdad, it would appear that NYC is possibly the most dangerous place in the world" but she added "that's never a good enough reason for not living your life, otherwise they win". Added Mark O'Toole, drummer for the band " People in New York City are so used to living under an Orange Alert these days, it's like talking about the weather. Let's hope we never have to cry wolf."

The band has planned a special pre-release party for their fans at Crash Mansion w/ guests Olivia Maxwell and Andrea Grant.

Tues August 3rd @ 8pm
Crash Mansion (Below BLVD)
199 Bowery at Spring St
New York, NY