Check the new Live Pics for the new Puddle line-up: George & Ian Henderson, Gavin Shaw (bass)
George D. Henderson - vocals, guitars, pianos, keyboards, songwriting
Heath Te Au - drums
Ross Jackson - bass
Gavin Shaw - bass, guitar
Matt Middleton - drums
Martin Henderson - snare drum, recording engineer (I've Lost my Way in this World)
Ian Henderson - drums, recording engineer (No Sequels, Hudibras)
Richard Steele - saxophones, keyboards, recording engineer (Monogamy)
Influences
The Beatles, Bob Dylan, David Crosby, Microdisney, Billie Holiday, The Chills, T. Rex, Watchdog, Slapp Happy, The Shirelles, Rufus Wainright, The Velvet Underground, Toy Love, Burt Bacharach, Serge Gainsbourg, Neil Young, Big Star, Thelonious Monk, Can, The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones...
Psychedelia, Krautrock, The Blues, New Wave, Jazz...
Rimbaud, Phillip K. Dick, Algernon Swinburne, Robert Graves, Graham Greene.
Sounds Like
Nothing but The Puddle, or so they say.
Delmore Schawrtz (aka In Your Dreams) from upcoming Puddle Album
The first new Puddle release in 15 or so years, No Love - No Hate, is AVAILABLE NOW
More details are on Fishrider Records MySpace page, which also features A GREAT NEW SONG "Naked" and an MP3 of Someone To Love by George and Celia, an alt.twee version of the last song on Emily Valentine that was a 1 hit on Radio one in 1993.
New Puddle online: Dave Local has written a lovely review of the Album Launch at Dunedinmusic.com I mean, really that guy should be writing for the NME circa 1980, and there's a new Puddle video on YouTube
Seminal Dunedin band the Puddle were formed in 1983 by leader-singer-writer-guitarist George D Henderson and Bass player Ross Jackson- in their time many of the luminaries of the Dunedin music scene (including Shayne Carter, Peter Gutteridge, Leslie Paris, Norma O'Malley, Richard Steele, Alan Starett, and Martin Phillipps) have played in the ranks of the Puddle: the Puddle's drummer is Heath Te Au, who played with George in Mink in the 1990's. The Puddle have released the following recordings; Pop. Lib., Into The Moon, Live at the Teddy Bear Club (all on Flying Nun) and singles Thursday/Too Hot to be Cool (FN) and The Power of Love/Mamelons d'Amadou (acetone); they also had a hit with Southern Man which appeared on 3 compilations. The Puddle's latest CD "Songs for Emily Valentine" is out now on Powertool Records, and the Puddle are now recording new songs in Wellington. The Puddle's catholic mix of pop, blues, psychedelia, jazz, minimalism, rock'n'roll and god-knows-what-else appeals to humans of all ages who are not too proud to dance and the lyrics of love, sex, drugs, bewilderment and space travel are clearly audible at all times. Once known as psych-pop, the Puddle's style has since become hugely influential and many of today's musicians owe what cool they have to ill-acknowledged liftings from the Puddle songbook. Once-cult-now-people's favourites, and widely considered one of New Zealand's most inspiring live acts, today the Puddle are hotter than ever.
Check out George's regular blogs on his myspace site.
http://www.myspace.com/georgedhenderson
What I Believe - a track from The Puddle's forthcoming studio album, Playboys In The Bush. Filmed live at Refuel, August 2006, by Ian Henderson.
No Love - No Hate
A song recorded by GDH while recording the overdubs for the upcoming Puddle album.
Cheers for gracing our show George & Ian. The bad news is the minidisc battery ran out halfway through, so we only got the first haplf of the show. If we're lucky a friend of mine may have recorded it though...I'll keep you up to date.
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George- I checked you out before I got started, you are in a different league from me. Rich is getting really into that album and spends quite a bit of time on it. He's really enjoying it! So well done.Its gorgeous up here today- or are you up in Auckland? so down here. Anyway Happy New Year I feel excited. Love Shelley
Hi! We just thought we'd let you know that we have uploaded a new masterpiece on our myspace called Voodoo Drums. It has that typical eerie EM sound and cointains the most beautiful spanish trumpet since Forever Changes. Check it out!!!
Hey! The new Powertool-Records-Compilation "Bulletholes 3- The Best is yet to come" will be out soon (Feb./March 08).
That..s what you will get:
1. Mark Airlie- Song for Lynn 2. Sparrow- The Quiet Revelation 3. Venture Electric- Leave alone 4. Mixture- You want an answer 5. Dead Pan Rangers- 10..Speed 6. Rough Church- Book Junkies 7. The Puddle- No Love No Hate 8. The Dark Beaks- Away you go 9. Bill Direen- Song of the Bloodsucker 10. The Sproutts- I want to be a Sproutt 11. The Shrugs- Your criminal past 12. Cabbage Bomber (=Mark Petersen/St.Fits)- Retrograde 13. Gina Rocco & Robert Scott- Picnics 14. Feyodor- Claws 15. Joed Out- Replacement Car 16. Robert Scott- Project Aqua..s gotta go 17. Vorn- Black Forest Clocks 18. Sandra Bell- Fatal Shore 19. Ward 4- Mile 20. The Weather(feat.Matthew Bannister )- All your dreams
"If the audio evidence was stacked for the Barrett argument on Pop Lib and Into The Moon – stumbling performances, drenched in tape hiss, that slowly yield pop masterpieces – then No Love No Hate is Henderson’s great leap forward. This shockingly confident album retains The Puddle’s idiosyncratic character without Henderson trading in a jot of his mastery of pop form." http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/3953
Gavin Shaw - bass, guitar
