Achilles Botes (Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Keyboards, Claps and Footstamps)------
Mark Dryburgh (Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Keyboards, Hoots and Hollers)----------
Ash Harmer (Bass Guitar, Vocals, Percussion, Keyboards, Accordion, Noise)--
Andrew Grayson (Drums, Percussion, Bells and Whistles)-----------------------
Influences
Grandaddy, Silver Jews, Smog, Cat Power, Flaming Lips, Pajo, The Verlaines, Wilco, Sparklehorse, Arcade Fire, Bright Eyes, Will Oldham, Bob Dylan, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Calexico, Lambchop, M Ward, Radiohead, Doves, Gomez, Fugazi, Jim White, Neil Young, Air, Pixies, Iron and Wine, Belle and Sebastian, Sonic Youth, The Beta Band, Loose Fur, The Velvet Underground, The Band, Beck, The Black Heart Procession, Sufjan Stevens, The National, Radar Bros.... um, and lots lots more. This is probably just a list of bands we like, we probably don't sound anything like them...
Sounds Like
Ghostplane fall very approximately into the category of experimental indie rock/pop with a side of dark alt-country thrown in. With three vocalists, acoustic and electric guitars, miscellaneous semi-functioning electronic devices, lopsided rhythms, old drum machines and due respect to the random element, you could say, in musicological terms, they've got their own thing going.......................................
Beneath The Sleepy Lagoon
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Panther Vally Country Club
Ghostplane were formed on the winds of change as Wellington band, Dana Eclair, began reforming their identity. Ghostplane came to represent the fruits of pop/alt-country/indie-rock experiments. Achilles and Mark write lovely, quirky and somewhat dark indie pop gems. The rest of Ghostplane devote our time to making everything sound a bit weird. Ash brings a girl's considered touch to things.
We have two releases out, 2004's "Panther Valley Country Club" mini record and 2005's long player "Beneath The Sleepy Lagoon". We will not be modest - they are rather cracking albums, so check them out.
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VBC 88.3FM 1ST BIRTHDAY PARTY AT BODEGA SATURDAY MARCH 8TH AT BODEGA....
Birthday Cake! Golden Axe! The Tapemen! Thought Creature! The Wrongdoings with Delaney Davidson! Sons of Midas! Cougar Cougar Cougar! TV Disko!
PLUS WIN A DATE WITH PINE! Entry to the gig puts you in the draw to get PINE to play in your living room!
Only $10! YAY!
BUT BEFORE THAT......
First up we are hosting a 3pm matinee show at The Adelaide featuring:
HEAVY TURKEY TANKBLACK THE WIND UPS KNIFE FIGHT
Plus if you can not make it there will be a live to air with The Saturday Whimsy (2-6pm).
Then to round up the night, there will be a special installment of San Fran Bathhouse's late night shenanigans. VBC DJs will be breaking out the dancing tunes to ease you through to 6am. Hope to see you all there!
Kia ora Ghostplane! My new album Second Chances is available through Myspace as an exclusive pre-release for only $15! Get it now before it hits stores (for 5 bucks more...that'll get you $5 worth of chips!) Message us here if you're keen! Feat: PNC, Ethical, Flowz, FortyOne and more!
Check out Excuse my tears feat FortyOne (Frontline):
Check out more tracks from Percieve at: www.myspace.com/percievemusic www.bebo.com/percievemusic
He undertook the sacrifice of mortal existence three weeks ago, and has resurfaced in the etheral plane to play guitar-keyboard as spiritual resonance.
I'm not sure if I ever told you, but if I haven't: "In Blue Light" is so unbelievably powerful and beautiful it's almost absurd. 140 ~ 215 are my favorite 30 seconds of any sounds I have heard come out of this lovely country.
Hi Ghostplanes Just doing the interwebby rounds and slapping up the data that White Swan Black Swan are gonna release a new EP - “Castle of Useless Junk, five songs. a taster of the forthcoming double mini album (one side White Swan, the other Black Swan) mixed in Nashville by Mark Nevers (Calexico, Lambchop, Will Oldham, David Kilgour)…four of the tracks are on the myspace page. We are also playing some shows in the Auckland districts (The Dogs Bollix 29th November – with Jay Clarkson) and Wellington areas (Mighty Mighty – 8th December – with Grand Prix)…ok, thanks, thanks.
Please also check out Daniel Tuladhar's MySpace-Site - I'm proudly producing his VERY Hot DEBUT ALBUM coming out soon;-)) So you're always welcome to check out our websites for updates.. Thanks a lot!
Ps. COME BACK anytime to SEE and HEAR what's New.. And TELL ME what YOU think about the MUSIC:-)))
