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.
Etkilendikleri
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.
Neye Benziyor?
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!
Ever wondered what to do in the event of a nuclear threat?
A while ago I found stuff that inspired me to make this film:
Living Under the Shadow of the Nuclear Umbrella
Both artistic (ensure you get the background music!) and educational, it primarily comprises official British government civil defence advice.
Though source materials are quite aged, much remains relevant today.
I encourage all to visit the YouTube page to learn more (Show support! Rate! Comment!) and responsibly circulate as widely as possible, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaIim3Rj7L4
No worries, this probably makes me sound like an obsessive fan but David from MK records has just sent me your entire back catalogue for less than my hourly wage! Not quite got an album out yet, I wanna have something released by the end of the year tho, more likely to be an EP. I'm aiming for next month, will send you a copy!
Thanks for the feedback just checked out yr site...g8.Lisa singer/guitar in England she be back late September..then consider playing Dunedin. Let us know uf ya coming to swamp city, in near future. Loliners
Shit yeah, sounds like you guys have a lot on then aye? sweet will be looking much forward to seeing you guys in chch again. will let you know when we'e heading down south. chers, joe.
Hey thanks. Really enjoyed you guys at the Dux last month, fucken cool. Yep we're on the way to Dunedin via Queenstown later on in the year. You keen for a show together?
