After an intense drinking session one weekend in late 2000 at the Morris st flat, Kris, Murray and Markham awoke to discover they had formed a Rock n' roll band.
After some more drinking Turbostill started playing shows all around the North Island with many appearances at Wednesday night Harvester's shows. Somewhere along the way we recorded the songs which became the 'Ohakune Carrot' album in 2001 with Craig Black engineering it at The Stomach. A couple more years of drunken roll followed and is now lost in an alchohol induced blur. In 2003 the followup to 'Ohakune Carrot', 'Distilled' was recorded and released at The stomach in Palmerston North with Hayden Sin doing the recording. another year of drunken gigging was followed with a final gig being performed at Guv'nor's Tavern in Palmerston North in May 2004. Due to the continued drinking of the band members it was decided that Turbostill would get together for an annual piss up and show. This has continued each year until 2008 where Turbostill was invited to play at the Maifarm festival in the Pohangina Valley on Nov 29th. This resulted in new songs being written and more gigs being played. Turbostill performed and then released A Live to air recording in May 2009. These songs and more are being recorded in early September for Turbostill’s third album. That's right! Turbostill are back and we've been drinking!
Roll up roll up, Vultures of Venus are back in town you funky disco cats. And guess what? ... their self-titled debut LP is finally here! Ten tracks of unadulterated Glampunk Electro madness! It’s unleashed on Thursday 29th of October at Bar Open on Brunswick St. It’s Bowie on steroids; it’s Marquis de Sade and Andy Warhol screaming at the moon through a home-made vocoder. The Lollyshop is open for business ! It’s going to be a huge night filled with bubble machines, strobes, psychedelic video projections and cautionary tales to tell your grandchildren. It will also feature live performances from those vixens of burlesque “the Venus Man Traps”. Support on the night comes from psych-popsters Go-Go Sapien serving up synth-infected garage with lashings of ravenous big sexy guitars. Make sure you get down early to catch the debut performance by newcomers Tusk. And most importantly we have kept the entry fee down to a very affordable – FREE ! Copies of Vultures of Venus’s LP can be scoped up for a low $10 on the night. Yee-Har space cadets !
