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Pine are a three piece band from Christchurch, New Zealand.

History

Formed in 1998 by Stephen McCarthy (vocals and snare drum) and Aaron Beehre (bass and guitar), Pine's first emergence included a couple of four track EPs and gigs in the upper South Island. Their main centre debut was in 1998 as support for Parka Brown at the Globe café in Christchurch. It saw them snapped up by local b-Net station, RDU, for a live-to-air gig on the breakfast show the very next week.

Aaron's wife Hannah came into the band a year later, bringing her keyboard and melodica skills to the band's already popular sound. Make Way For The King and Speeding became high-rotate b-Net tracks, which the band included on their Speeding EP released in 2001 on new Auckland label Arch Hill Records. They were one of the first bands to be picked up by the label.

2001 saw Pine head into the studio to record their debut LP LongPlayer. The album was recorded by Aaron's brother, Ryan Beehre (one third of Nelson's Minuit) at his Nelson studio, Edgesound and mixed by Nick Abbott (who is also responsible for records by Pluto, Goldenhorse and Meterman) in Auckland. LongPlayer was released in 2002 and yielded the singles (and some videos) for Make Way for the King, Beaten Again, Cried All Night and Days on End, all of which received considerable airing on B-net and ChannelZ radio, as well as C4 and Juice TV.

In the northern summer of 2003 Pine headed to London and New York to play five shows – including Summerstage in Central Park and the infamous CBGBs.

Pine then set to recording album number two. Akira Sunrise was self-recorded by the band in a space they found in down-town Christchurch. Much of the album had to be recorded between 6am and 9am as they were aurally invaded by a death metal band two doors down, a tone-deaf trumpet beginner next door and the 9 - 5ers of the city businesses below. The recording was mixed and mastered by Dale Cotton (HDU, Conray, Sleepers Union, Mestar and others) Platform Studios in Auckland and finally released in the summer of 2004.

In 2006 Pine embarked on a Backyard and Lounge Rooms tour where they played mostly in peoples living rooms all the way from from Kumeu to Oamaru. They took their friend John Chrisstoffels along who filmed it all on 16mm film. Some of this footage, along with a few live tracks recorded on the tour, were included on Pines next release - the EP Twelve Hour Collision. The studio tracks were recorded in a friends basement in Lyttleton by Brendon Davies-Patrick. The EP was mixed and mastered once more by Dale Cotton at his Audioworkshop studio in Dunedin and released in May 2007.


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Jan 1998