situations, heartbreak, fistfights, tears, the family glass, junkshop guitar, dusty shelves, cold irons bound, woody & bobby, Son & Skip, Townes & Guy, Mick & Joe, R.A.K. Mason, chuck D. & Chuck B., rollins and ginn, the scriptures: Nebraska, London Calling, and the sun sessions, hope, fear, heart and guts, seeing the light, waiting on the dark, that long lonesome sound, YOU...
Sounds Like
a broke down engine...
a foot stomping...
a heart beating...
a wound bleeding...
a record skipping...
a page turning...
a smile cracking...
They bring…
Backpacks full of road songs, battered acoustics and no name electrics, banjo and glockenspiel, mandolin, harmonica, foot stomps and old time singing, straight from the gut, the fist and the heart…
They believe in…
kicks and sadness, heartbreak and hope, 12 bar blues and 12 round rock’n’roll, fistfights and dust, road songs and trains, justice and freedom, holding it up and putting it down, that long lonesome sound, the river rise, the gospel plow, scratches and skips, static and hum, bleeding fingers and beating hearts, pages and type, ink and lead, rain on tin, iron and wood, 33 and a third, 45, 78, boots on the floor, dirt in the cracks, guts, harmony melody and soul, thinking and walking, the road and the lines between, closed signs and flickering lights, nightfall and sunrise, Kerouac, Guthrie, the end of the golden weather and the night of the riots, sheds, collections and dreams, Strummer/Jones, Morrissey/Marr, the Hanks Chinaski and Williams, Eddie Cochran, Johnny Devlin, Memphis and myth, the south from gore to the Cargill and back…
They’ve played everywhere man…
From Nashville to Timaru and a few stops in between, C-City’s home but Lyttelton’s where the hearts is, they drink with the sailors as house band at the wunderbar, and remember songs shouted across the booth at sun studios, stages in London, rebel pubs in Baltimore, street corners and union meetings in Sydney, sweatin’ out in Clarksdale, they dream of their lost homes in Shirley, Philadelphia, Portland and Brighton and hold every mile between as a place to plug in and play…book stores, record stores, theatre stages, lounge rooms, back rooms, listening rooms, dead rooms, to no people and to lots, they’ve played everywhere and anywhere ticking off show after show offering no sign of tagging out and quitting.
They play ‘cause they have too, not because they wanna see their faces in a magazine or in a video or on a chart, or to soak it up in a showcase. They’ll play because they care, about the songs about the show about the folks they meet and the hands they shake. They play like it matters, like it’s all they know how to do, ‘cause it does and it is.
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Hey cobs, We're coming up to Christchurch next weekend to play a couple of shows with Intergracia from Wellington. On Friday 10th of July we'll be playing at Zebedees with Intergracia & Awakened Inferno then on Saturday we'll be playing at Al's Bar with Intergracia & Dissolution. Hope to see you there! Cheers Osmium
Hi hearing you guys at Aunt Daisy's was so great! I look forward to the mighty mighty gig- I'll write it on my calendar so I don't miss it- you guys sure get around! Sorry I missed your gig at Paekak. Is Hannah coming to Wellington gig?
hey there, nice to meet you guys lastnight at Pomeroys. You sounded sweet, you were sweet. totally sweet. what was the name of that distributing company you mentioned?
So that CD I gave you on Thurs night? I found it this morning in my computer. Heh. I will give it to you next time i see you guys, maybe Thursday. Hope you liked the cover.
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