As Tom details here, The Stumps are playing on Saturday night at Happy with Elise&Jem (from Melbourne) and Black Boned Angel.


I don't know Jem, but Elise (originally from Palmerston North) is from such notable Melburnian acts as On, and BadCopBadCop.

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Ok so it turns out that The Stumps are doing a late-notice show tomorrow afternoon. It's at Spacething, a cool little venue/store/library place in Newtown, Wellington. We're playing at 3pm.

Also, if you're in Auckland next weekend, we're playing at the Whammy Bar on Saturday night, 26 April. More details here.....


The Stumps and White Saucer
Saturday, 26 April 2008
at Whammy Bar, 183 Karangahape Road (St. Kevins Arcade), Newton

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The Stumps are playing tonight with a couple of bands from Dunedin -- Khomet and Psychic Sidekick -- as well as the Mr. Sterile Assembly.



This is a lo-fi-ish compression of a song from The Stumps' recent Palindrone LP, Split Fleet Dodge (page):

The Stumps - That with the greatest mass (Will be indicated) (7.90 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download; play using the handy little embedded player below)

There is, however, no guarantee whatsoever that we will sound anything like that tonight.

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In case anyone's interested, here's an excerpt from my live show the other night, at Happy.

The gig went really well; I did a sorta minimal dub-remix -- using a laptop, mixer, and a whole slew of guitar effects boxes -- of some tracks I have been working on for an album that is hopefully gonna come out on Digitalis late late this year, or early the next.

Well at least, most of the show went well. Near the end, I totally overloaded the PA with some serious subsonic low-end, and the sound turned to shit but hey -- whatever.

Jason Kahn was really great, too.

(That pic is not from the other night, it's of me playing a couple of years ago in Sydney.)

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I'm doing a solo gig as Seht on Sunday night. I'm playing in support of Jason Kahn, from Switzerland.

Jason Kahn is a sound and visual artist based in Zürich whose work includes drawing, sound installation, performance and composition. He was born in New York, grew up in Los Angeles and relocated to Europe in 1990. Kahn has been exhibiting his sound and visual works since the late 1990's, and has had solo and group exhibitions in museums, galleries and arts spaces pretty much everywhere in the damn world.

Originally a percussionist, Kahn later began integrating live electronics into his playing. He currently performs with different combinations of percussion, analogue synthesizer or computer. As a composer, Kahn's work addresses the entity of sound as both a physical and psychological factor shaping our consciousness; his sound installations seek to enhance spatial awareness through sonic intervention, focusing on expanding our perception to other dimensions of seeing, hearing and feeling a space.

(For more information about Jason and his work, see his site.)

JASON KAHN
with SEHT and JEFF HENDERSON
HAPPY SUNDAY SEPT 23


PLUS

The Stumps are playing at the White Fungus issue #8 launch on Wednesday night. This is also at Happy. Also appearing are FERTILITY FESTIVAL. Keep an eye on the White Fungus News blog for more information.

Gwan, yknow ya wanna.

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(posted on the Wellingtonista)...

Ted Brown and Dukes of Leisure and Marineville gigs tonight, Friday 31 August 2007.

more here...

Also The Stumps are playing at Happy with the Windups and others on Saturday night.

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Me band The Stumps is playing this Saturday at Happy.

Also appearing is Fertility Festival, Jeff Henderson's new "Sublime Frequencies-style" weirdo-'pop' band, and Sign of the Hag (a.k.a. Daniel Beban).

Here's another page about Jeff Henderson.


Bring the noise.



THE STUMPS, FERTILITY FESTIVAL AND SIGN OF THE HAG
9PM HAPPY 18th AUGUST 2007
$5

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Post-rock is a done-to-death description but as a semaphore of intent it still serves a certain purpose. First coined by music-journo Simon Reynolds as a term to describe progressive music "using rock instrumentation for non-rock purposes, using guitars as facilitators of timbre and textures rather than riffs and power chords", it's use was rapidly spread during the 90s by breathless writers suddenly overwhelmed by seemingly-infinite possible music-futures. Reynolds further expounded:

perhaps the really provocative area for future development lies... in cyborg rock; not the wholehearted embrace of Techno's methodology, but some kind of interface between real time, hands-on playing and the use of digital effects and enhancement.

... which in itself has turned out to be suitably ambitious, as in general attempts at an amalgam of real-time instrumentation and digital frippery have turned out to be a big horrible mess (with notable exceptions, of course).

However some have managed to find a kinda cautious way-forward through this experimental minefield, and on Saturday night four progressive musical groups take four individual post-rockin' approaches to deconstructing sound within the codified meta-language of rock music:

...some of Wellington's greatest rock explorers...

The Postures will have you shakin' yer booty and shaking in your boots with their disco/doom rhythms combined with piercing tones and a punk delivery. The Stumps are quite possibly the Grateful Dead for the 21st century... noxious jazz-fusion is administered a good spanking to within an inch of the (current) law. Join The Dukes of Leisure on an idler's stroll through huge spaces of gentle melodies surrounded by walls of violent and engulfing noise. And Black Boned Angel is uber-ambient doom-metal created from massively overdriven instruments... the aural equivalent of a tequila and opiates-bender followed by a five-day crying jag.

SATURDAY APRIL 14th
SAN FRANCISCO BATH-HOUSE
10$

The last Black Boned Angel performance:

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Over on the Wellingtonista, I wrote about Negroni cocktails, free gigs at the City Gallery, and Aro Community Fair.

Now. On also on this Friday night March 23th, The Stumps are playing at Happy with our friends Zombie Fuck! and Public Toilet Ltd.



There's plenty happening, yes there is...

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Black Boned Angel::1/3 Octave Band::The Stumps::Spiers/Weeks Band

8.30 PM, Thursday 8th March, Valve bar and grill, Vivian St. Wgtn NZ...

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Party Like It's 1971 presents: Motorik
progressive German music from the 60s, 70s, and 80s... ich bin der Kapitaen und Sie sind meine Weibchen...



This event is part of the Berlin Bonanza at The Mighty Mighty in March.

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Global itinerant, national treasure and one-man-band extrordanaire Pumice is in town this weekend. Fresh from an extended tour of the US, he is playing two shows this weekend. Pumice (aka Stefan Neville) has been involved with the local underground avant-music scene for many, many years now. He has recently released a series of acclaimed albums such as "White" (on Stabbies), "Raft", and "YeahNahVienna" (on US labels Last Visible Dog and Soft Abuse respectively). He has played in Ohm (with Campbell Kneale and James Kirk), Chris Knox's band The Nothing, and is RUMOURED to have played in Thee Ideal Gus (with Clayton "CJA/Armpit" Noone among others). He currently also drums in The Coolies.

I was once talking to someone - a Pumice initiate, if you will - who asked me what it was that Pumice 'did'. I had to think about it for a moment and then came up with drifting, shuddering gospel-folk-music. Upon reflection, that kinda nails it perfectly. It's very interactive; you have to engage with it and when you do, you'll have a hard job to disengage again. Pumice hangs out a big analogue carrot which you follow, transfixed, teetering on the edge of something that you have a vague feeling might be going to be really important.. you're transcending.. pay attention; Pumice is goan take your head a-rambling over those hills over there in his little wheezing broke-ass tape-loop and concertina-powered flying machine.


Friday 9th Feb, San Francisco Bath House
The Cake Kitchen / MarineVille / Pumice
Pumice supports ex-patriate legend Graeme Jefferies' band The Cake Kitchen. Over the last 25 or so years, Graeme has been involved in some of New Zealand's most loved groups such as Nocturnal Projections, and This Kind of Punishment. His first solo album "Messages from the Cake Kitchen" stands as a highlight in the mid-late-80s Flying Nun catalogue. Graeme has been based in Europe the last 12 years, where The Cake Kitchen has won strong and lasting support. He still visits home regularly but infrequently; don't miss this chance to see him in action. Local Wellington indie-rocksters MarineVille also support.

Saturday 10th Feb, The Mighty Mighty
Pumice / The Livids / The Stumps
The Livids are entertaining pop-cock-rock who - weirdly enough - remind me of Thin Lizzy and Kiss. They are always a good time. The Stumps will probably be playfully playing their playful psych set.


Linkage:
Pumice: www.myspace.com/pumarse
The Stumps: www.myspace.com/stumpsthe
The Cake Kitchen: www.thecakekitchen.net
The Livids: www.myspace.com/thelivids
MarineVille: www.marineville.co.nz

We would love to see you there.

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Nevermind the cricket... here's the Australia vs New Zealand NOISE|ROCK showdown

from Sydney, Australia*:
xNoBBQx
::mindnumbing minimalist comatose urban-blues::

-with-

UnAustralians
::insane outsider weirdo what-the-fuck grind-metal::

go head-to-head in street-style no-holds-barred mind-buggering AURAL BLUDGEON DEATH MATCH

versus

THE STUMPS
::estatic improvised psychedelic noise-doom-groan-rock::

Some sample tunage:

xNoBBQx - Blues 2 (3.30 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download)

xNoBBQx - Sunshine of Your Love part 3 (3.27 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download)

xNoBBQx - Sunshine of Your Love part 9 (2.53 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download)

UnAustralians - 13654 (1.45 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download)

UnAustralians - 33602 (501 KB mp3: right-click and Save As to download)

UnAustralians - 33640 (2.05 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download)

All the usual merchandising will be in effect, including *NEW* Stumps LPs, and t-shirts.

*This event is brought to you as part of the Sun of the Seventh Sister Summer 2007 tour of New Zealand. Some spontaneous SSS action may occur on the night, as it is wont to do. Also look out for this band of merry Australians as they trip around the country late-January / early-February, 2007.

...

Merry xmas and a happy new year to y'all. Forgive the continued quietness here, busy-ness prevails.

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