Glen on guitar and vocals, Karen on bass and vocals and sometimes guitar, Ants on drums and vocals, and Don on guitar, vocals and theremin or keyboards. All loudly at the same time if possible.
Influences
Great kiwi bands like the Clean, the Bats, Bailterspace, the Pin Group and Dissolve, Drill, the 3Ds, and modern kiwi bands like Fang, Substandard, Ed Gains and the Demi Whores ... also where we live is the biggest influence of all.
Sounds Like
We've been told (because we are all a bit deaf, and can't tell anymore) that we sound a lot like the 3Ds, the Clean and even the Gordons! Pretty damned pleased by those comments! We sound very Dunedin-esque, often very loud but harmonious, very catchy but in a noisy crashy way. We've also been compared to the Pixies quite a lot. We're basically a whole lot of influences (being music geeks) put in a blender - a lot of blender noise along with our influences sprinkled throughout, ending up with our own interesting mixture.
--- We got together, starved for decent rock/noise/pop/Dunedin music, in 2000, jammed a whole heap, and eventually put out a 7 song EP (’Quarterpack’) in 2001. ---
We couldn’t stop writing songs and playing and jamming, and soon had enough new tracks for an album, ’Hang On, I’m Still Mutating’, which we released in 2004. We changed drummers in this time - losing Al and gaining Ants - and ’Mutating’ has tracks from sessions we recorded with both band versions. (At some point we’d like to travel to Al’s overseas home and play a gig with both of them, AT THE SAME TIME!!!) ---
Still the songs kept coming, thick and very fast (many of them under 2 minutes), and we kept playing round town and jamming incessantly. We were basically playing every two weeks for eight months or more, and found that practising for gigs was getting in the way of the new material that desperately wanted to LIVE, so we took a bit of time off to learn new songs, and recorded some of the old songs for our second EP, ’Sneepy’, which we released in 2006. Other creative bits and pieces ended up on ’Sneepy’ in the form of music videos as well, some of which you can view below. ---
Basically we can’t stop writing songs, jamming together, and playing gigs. We fully expect this cycle of creation, madness and obsession to continue until arthritis sets in, and even then someone would’ve invented telepathic instruments or something ... --- Next on the agenda is some post-touring recording for a new album or EP (we have so much beloved backlogged material we really ought to cut our losses and go straight for a boxset). We start mixing 14 tracks this week (mid Jan 08)!!!!
An extra special big thanks to Mr Chris Tegg for the great video for Bugged:
Watch this one too!
Hey guys, We're coming up to Dunedin again this Wednesday 17th of June to play at Refuel with our good friends Stonehurst from Christchurch, Made In China from Dunedin and Ellen Wilcox will do a short acoustic set at the start. Its free entry & the booze is cheap! Hope to see you there! Cheers Osmium
Hey Don. Thanks heaps for playing with us. Let us know when the Auckland show is. Next time we're down it will definitely be a Chicks show though. The rest of the tour was amazing. I wrote a few blogs about it on our website yule.net.nz. I'm not on face book so I'll have to get someone to get those photo's off for me.
one step ahead of you mate. I've been looking forward to checking out both bands. thanks for making it easy for me to see em in one hit. can you make sure you play your instrumental track for me. looking at getting a post rock comp going and web guy pete said this is a goodie
Thanks heaps for the add and for supporting Kiwi Music! We've just released our single "Now" on our Myspace. Check it out and let us know what you think.
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