The Dark Beaks are playing this Friday at Arc in misty Dunedin. Opening up the show at 9 sharp so get in early, grab a seat by the fire and soak in some of their luscious psych-rock-prog-folk grooves. They have a stylee new bass-player too and the Guitar-Beak has some new noise-toys so they have radicalised the set a bit. But don't worry, you can still hear your Radio One Top 11 favourites "Seal was Unbroken" and "Black Skin".
Two other reasons for going are: Shakes (garage/ surf/swamp-a-billy rock), and The Tomahawks (classic retro HOT guitar-rock grooves). Only $5. See you all there.
The Dark Beaks appear on the Radio One 2005 sampler so if you are in Dunners and you have a One Card go git a copy. Also, if you are in Dunners and you don't have a One Card then skittle along to Radio One upstairs in the OUSA building at the Uni and get one for only $15 or something. The sampler CD also features live tracks from Die! Die! Die! and Straitjacket Fits from Sammy's earlier this year and new stuff from Onanon ("Bugged"!!!) and Gestalt Switch and The Gladeyes and even some dub/ electro shizzle for you coneheads out there.
Also if you want to hear some Dark Beaks we've finally managed to plop an early mix of Black Skin from the forthcoming album onto download.com (streaming only at this stage) and soon a downloadable MP3 of "Roll Along" from last week's Radio One live-to-air will appear there too. Other tracks from the live to air will make it out sometime as "Deserve It" is gorgeously slinky/ skanky and "Eyes to the Ground" features the most OTT guitar noise ever (true). In fact the whole LTA was outrageously noisy and punchy and sometimes downright bizarre.
The Dark Beaks have hatched again folks. Yup, playing live in Dunedin again. Just a two piece (guitar and drums). Caught them at the Crown and at Arc recently (July 04). Cool songs, neat sound. Check 'em out.
The Dark Beaks are leaving their nests for a few more appearances in Dunedin (Arc Cafe):
Thu 19 August with Tannicbrae
Wed 25 August with Slipstream
A couple of evenings of guitar-fuelled wonderment...
I was at the Tannicbrae/The Dark Beaks gig. The Dark Beaks are great; really interesting riffs and melodies. The Dry (who opened the gig) are really mint as well. But Tannicbrae!! Mate, they fucking rock!!! None of this same old "Dunedin sound" shit. These guys go off big time. Rock and roll with heart, soul and BALLS!!
Hi there. Caught U guys at that battle of da bands last night. Cool music. Weird shit but huge sound man! Hey I liked that bluesy groove you had at the soundcheck but y didn't play it in the set! Lyrics onna music stand probably didn't score with the judges but looks so uncool it be cool wid me. Gonna check yas next week.
Oh Jeez.... a fan (?). Thanks for those words. Yeah, it was a bit of a last minute thing and I'm glad we didn't trouble the judges score sheets... that wasn't the point of entering. Just good too play a big crowd of people who were there for other bands and get a good response. A good warm up for the next few weeks of playing! Soundguy Forbes Williams did an awesome job with the mix - for 5 bands! Respect! Andrew goes into a kind of a trance on stage so props like words are still necessary for the moment. He's absent-minded enough at the best of times.... whaddya expect from a guy who builds his own speaker cabinets, only uses vintage valve amps and takes his guitar to gigs in a back pack?
The blues thing was just a soundcheck jam but hey, we might add it to our set. See you next week then? Keep listening...
The Dark Beaks are playing again next week. Thursday 23rd September at Arc Cafe with a new band The Tomahawks. From 9 pm. $2 admission. Gonna be a good night. Maximum BeakFreakNess...
I was looking forward to that. U guys sure picked the wrong night - Arc going under and closing that day. I see they are up and running again now. Will U be playing agin soon????
Yes... playing this week. Twice. Arc. Its open again thankfully... that was bad timing a few weeks ago. Worse timing for people who worked there though.
We are playing on Thursday 7th with The Sweet Unknowns and Vicious Mandy's. I think we are on second... maybe 10-ish? Billed as Smallfish on posters but don't believe what you read.
Also playing on Saturday with someone beginning with the letter C and The Tomahawks. Second again. A Dark Beaks sandwich... This is the ill-fated gig re-scheduled. Unsure of prices for these - probably a silly $2 on the door but maybe a few $ more. Insanely good value whatever the $.
The Dark Beaks are gonna break with tradition and add a bass player to their usual "bass-free sonic explosion". Be assured of even more "interesting melodies and riffs" and a fair degree more melodic colouration from the guitarbeak. Hope to see you there... don't be shy CissyStrut, come and say hello.
The Dark Beaks are playing again. Arc in Dunedin this Saturday 12th February 2005, supporting The Puddle. Amazing to think the Puddle are still out there on a wobbly orbit around the mysterious gas-giant planet of alternative pop after 21 years. And getting better with age - check out their monumental dragon-slaying epic "Saturday Morning Valhalla" - highlight of a huge set.
The Dark Beaks will have a few new tunes to unveil. They've been recording over the summer hols and as well as the usual favourites they recorded some new (or maybe old) stuff that Andrew found in a crisp packet under his bed.
There's a couple of Dark Beaks album preview tunes with Radio 1 in Dunedin right now (May 05) and getting a bit of airtime so give 'em a vote on the R1 top 11 and make sure they get plenty more airplay: http://www.r1.co.nz/v2/r1.html
Tracks we've lent 'em are "Black Skin" (the Hawaiian slide guitar mix) and the scrummy "Seal Was Unbroken" (Lambchop meets Motorhead mix).
A slew of tracks recorded, just need to find the time to finish them. Who knows when it'll be out...
Also rehearsing with a bass player and 2nd guitarist so watch this space for live news in the next month or so for a new Live Beaks sonic experience.
They're back. Dunedin Radio One Top 11 favourites return to the scene of their first gig of the New Beaks Era last year. Yes, the Mighty Crown Hotel. The Lounge Bar. In the shadow of the Speights brewery. Dunedn's only fully retrogasmic venue. The carpet alone is worth the price of admission. Which will only be a $5/$3 waged/unwaged combo. Admission that is, not the carpet.
With The Beaks will be The Dry. The Beaks played with them last year, and caught the end of their set supporting Phoenix Foundation recently and thought they were mighty cool on both occasions. They describe thmselves as "art rock" which is both brave enough and exciting in the Beaks book.
The previous Arc gig (see below) went fine. People danced. At Arc. True. Addition of bass artist maestro Andrew Last has set off a grenade in the rhyhtm section and things are going off in all sorts of uncharted directions now.
If you knew the pedigree of Guitar Beak Andrew Jamieson you'd know that indie-rock dance grooves run in his blood. Munky Kramp (who also included Demarnia Lloyd of Mink and Cloudboy notoreity) started a musical counter-revolution in Dunedin in the 1990's the reverberations of which are still being felt to this day.
So come taste the aftershock - The Dark Beaks rock The Crown, Friday 26th August. Music starts 9 pm sharp. They hope and wish. So be there early to make sure it does.
The Dark Beaks first album "Spill Your Heart" is set for release on Fishrider Records in February 2006. The album features 11 songs ranging from just under 2 minutes to just over 5 minutes in length. The 3-minute pop song is safe in our hands and the melodic din will be put back in Dunedin. The album will be available through all the usual outlets who sell indie releases.
I have tried I don't know how many times to contact the dear folks who run nzmusic.com all to no avail to try and restore Artists Services. Even e-mailed them a "News from the Band" press-release. It's a void I tell you! Sure, there seem to have been problems with getting something spammed but it doesn't seem to stop other press releases and the such like. So This'll have to do for the meantime:
The Dark Beaks album "Spill Your Heart" is out. Eleven tracks of brilliantly original kiwi guitar pop (with psych/folk/country/soul etc. overtones) from the edge of the world. Available from Real Groovy Records and from Amplifier.co.nz which is where you'll have to go to listen to it and see pictures and read about it because ya can't do that here!
Hey there guys, Ash from Ghostplane here - just wanted to say we all really love the 'Spill Your Heart' album you gave us. We played it before our Lytletton gig and everyone was really getting into it. Good stuff.
Thanks Ash... I didn't get to talk to you but it was great to talk to Ricky the stand-in drummer and to Mike the Trombone too. Really enjoyed seeing Ghostplane finally after thrashing Panther Valley and Sleepy Lagoon on the home stereo and walkmanpodthings so much over the past year or so. Glad you enjoyed the quirky delights of Spill Your Heart - spread the word!
Cheers for that... yay for www.cdbaby.com too. it's great to know folks overseas are getting to hear Andrews songs. We've had tracks played on college radio in Seattle and in Berlin, Germany (that's the ones we know of anyway) and have sold a few in Germany now too, probably as a result of this album of the month review in the Guitars Galore fanzine there (see below). You can use the babelfish translator on www.altavista.com if you need. The results are pretty funny but you'll get the gist.
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The Dark Beaks are playing this Friday ...
The Dark Beaks are playing this Friday at Arc in misty Dunedin. Opening up the show at 9 sharp so get in early, grab a seat by the fire and soak in some of their luscious psych-rock-prog-folk grooves. They have a stylee new bass-player too and the Guitar-Beak has some new noise-toys so they have radicalised the set a bit. But don't worry, you can still hear your Radio One Top 11 favourites "Seal was Unbroken" and "Black Skin".
Two other reasons for going are: Shakes (garage/ surf/swamp-a-billy rock), and The Tomahawks (classic retro HOT guitar-rock grooves). Only $5. See you all there.
The Dark Beaks appear on the Radio One ...
The Dark Beaks appear on the Radio One 2005 sampler so if you are in Dunners and you have a One Card go git a copy. Also, if you are in Dunners and you don't have a One Card then skittle along to Radio One upstairs in the OUSA building at the Uni and get one for only $15 or something. The sampler CD also features live tracks from Die! Die! Die! and Straitjacket Fits from Sammy's earlier this year and new stuff from Onanon ("Bugged"!!!) and Gestalt Switch and The Gladeyes and even some dub/ electro shizzle for you coneheads out there.
Also if you want to hear some Dark Beaks we've finally managed to plop an early mix of Black Skin from the forthcoming album onto download.com (streaming only at this stage) and soon a downloadable MP3 of "Roll Along" from last week's Radio One live-to-air will appear there too. Other tracks from the live to air will make it out sometime as "Deserve It" is gorgeously slinky/ skanky and "Eyes to the Ground" features the most OTT guitar noise ever (true). In fact the whole LTA was outrageously noisy and punchy and sometimes downright bizarre.
The Dark Beaks have hatched again ...
The Dark Beaks have hatched again folks. Yup, playing live in Dunedin again. Just a two piece (guitar and drums). Caught them at the Crown and at Arc recently (July 04). Cool songs, neat sound. Check 'em out.
The Dark Beaks are leaving their nests ...
The Dark Beaks are leaving their nests for a few more appearances in Dunedin (Arc Cafe):
Thu 19 August with Tannicbrae
Wed 25 August with Slipstream
A couple of evenings of guitar-fuelled wonderment...
I was at the Tannicbrae/The Dark Beaks ...
I was at the Tannicbrae/The Dark Beaks gig. The Dark Beaks are great; really interesting riffs and melodies. The Dry (who opened the gig) are really mint as well. But Tannicbrae!! Mate, they fucking rock!!! None of this same old "Dunedin sound" shit. These guys go off big time. Rock and roll with heart, soul and BALLS!!
Hi there. Caught U guys at that battle ...
Hi there. Caught U guys at that battle of da bands last night. Cool music. Weird shit but huge sound man! Hey I liked that bluesy groove you had at the soundcheck but y didn't play it in the set! Lyrics onna music stand probably didn't score with the judges but looks so uncool it be cool wid me. Gonna check yas next week.
Oh Jeez.... a fan (?). Thanks for ...
Oh Jeez.... a fan (?). Thanks for those words. Yeah, it was a bit of a last minute thing and I'm glad we didn't trouble the judges score sheets... that wasn't the point of entering. Just good too play a big crowd of people who were there for other bands and get a good response. A good warm up for the next few weeks of playing! Soundguy Forbes Williams did an awesome job with the mix - for 5 bands! Respect! Andrew goes into a kind of a trance on stage so props like words are still necessary for the moment. He's absent-minded enough at the best of times.... whaddya expect from a guy who builds his own speaker cabinets, only uses vintage valve amps and takes his guitar to gigs in a back pack?
The blues thing was just a soundcheck jam but hey, we might add it to our set. See you next week then? Keep listening...
The Dark Beaks are playing again next ...
The Dark Beaks are playing again next week. Thursday 23rd September at Arc Cafe with a new band The Tomahawks. From 9 pm. $2 admission. Gonna be a good night. Maximum BeakFreakNess...
I was looking forward to that. U guys ...
I was looking forward to that. U guys sure picked the wrong night - Arc going under and closing that day. I see they are up and running again now. Will U be playing agin soon????
Yes... playing this week. Twice. Arc. ...
Yes... playing this week. Twice. Arc. Its open again thankfully... that was bad timing a few weeks ago. Worse timing for people who worked there though.
We are playing on Thursday 7th with The Sweet Unknowns and Vicious Mandy's. I think we are on second... maybe 10-ish? Billed as Smallfish on posters but don't believe what you read.
Also playing on Saturday with someone beginning with the letter C and The Tomahawks. Second again. A Dark Beaks sandwich... This is the ill-fated gig re-scheduled. Unsure of prices for these - probably a silly $2 on the door but maybe a few $ more. Insanely good value whatever the $.
The Dark Beaks are gonna break with tradition and add a bass player to their usual "bass-free sonic explosion". Be assured of even more "interesting melodies and riffs" and a fair degree more melodic colouration from the guitarbeak. Hope to see you there... don't be shy CissyStrut, come and say hello.
The Dark Beaks are playing again. Arc ...
The Dark Beaks are playing again. Arc in Dunedin this Saturday 12th February 2005, supporting The Puddle. Amazing to think the Puddle are still out there on a wobbly orbit around the mysterious gas-giant planet of alternative pop after 21 years. And getting better with age - check out their monumental dragon-slaying epic "Saturday Morning Valhalla" - highlight of a huge set.
The Dark Beaks will have a few new tunes to unveil. They've been recording over the summer hols and as well as the usual favourites they recorded some new (or maybe old) stuff that Andrew found in a crisp packet under his bed.
There's a couple of Dark Beaks album ...
There's a couple of Dark Beaks album preview tunes with Radio 1 in Dunedin right now (May 05) and getting a bit of airtime so give 'em a vote on the R1 top 11 and make sure they get plenty more airplay:
http://www.r1.co.nz/v2/r1.html
Tracks we've lent 'em are "Black Skin" (the Hawaiian slide guitar mix) and the scrummy "Seal Was Unbroken" (Lambchop meets Motorhead mix).
A slew of tracks recorded, just need to find the time to finish them. Who knows when it'll be out...
Also rehearsing with a bass player and 2nd guitarist so watch this space for live news in the next month or so for a new Live Beaks sonic experience.
The Dark Beaks Fri 26 August with The ...
The Dark Beaks Fri 26 August with The Dry
They're back. Dunedin Radio One Top 11 favourites return to the scene of their first gig of the New Beaks Era last year. Yes, the Mighty Crown Hotel. The Lounge Bar. In the shadow of the Speights brewery. Dunedn's only fully retrogasmic venue. The carpet alone is worth the price of admission. Which will only be a $5/$3 waged/unwaged combo. Admission that is, not the carpet.
With The Beaks will be The Dry. The Beaks played with them last year, and caught the end of their set supporting Phoenix Foundation recently and thought they were mighty cool on both occasions. They describe thmselves as "art rock" which is both brave enough and exciting in the Beaks book.
The previous Arc gig (see below) went fine. People danced. At Arc. True. Addition of bass artist maestro Andrew Last has set off a grenade in the rhyhtm section and things are going off in all sorts of uncharted directions now.
If you knew the pedigree of Guitar Beak Andrew Jamieson you'd know that indie-rock dance grooves run in his blood. Munky Kramp (who also included Demarnia Lloyd of Mink and Cloudboy notoreity) started a musical counter-revolution in Dunedin in the 1990's the reverberations of which are still being felt to this day.
So come taste the aftershock - The Dark Beaks rock The Crown, Friday 26th August. Music starts 9 pm sharp. They hope and wish. So be there early to make sure it does.
The Dark Beaks first album "Spill Your ...
The Dark Beaks first album "Spill Your Heart" is set for release on Fishrider Records in February 2006. The album features 11 songs ranging from just under 2 minutes to just over 5 minutes in length. The 3-minute pop song is safe in our hands and the melodic din will be put back in Dunedin. The album will be available through all the usual outlets who sell indie releases.
[ http://www.myspace.com/thedarkbeaks ]
I have tried I don't know how many ...
I have tried I don't know how many times to contact the dear folks who run nzmusic.com all to no avail to try and restore Artists Services. Even e-mailed them a "News from the Band" press-release. It's a void I tell you! Sure, there seem to have been problems with getting something spammed but it doesn't seem to stop other press releases and the such like. So This'll have to do for the meantime:
The Dark Beaks album "Spill Your Heart" is out. Eleven tracks of brilliantly original kiwi guitar pop (with psych/folk/country/soul etc. overtones) from the edge of the world. Available from Real Groovy Records and from Amplifier.co.nz which is where you'll have to go to listen to it and see pictures and read about it because ya can't do that here!
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Nice show last night, man: I'd never ...
Nice show last night, man: I'd never managed to come along before but was glad to do so.
Hey there guys, Ash from Ghostplane ...
Hey there guys, Ash from Ghostplane here - just wanted to say we all really love the 'Spill Your Heart' album you gave us. We played it before our Lytletton gig and everyone was really getting into it. Good stuff.
Thanks Ash... I didn't get to talk to ...
Thanks Ash... I didn't get to talk to you but it was great to talk to Ricky the stand-in drummer and to Mike the Trombone too. Really enjoyed seeing Ghostplane finally after thrashing Panther Valley and Sleepy Lagoon on the home stereo and walkmanpodthings so much over the past year or so. Glad you enjoyed the quirky delights of Spill Your Heart - spread the word!
We're enjoying Spill Your Heart here ...
We're enjoying Spill Your Heart here in California. Yeah for finding new gems!
Cheers for that... yay for ...
Cheers for that... yay for www.cdbaby.com too. it's great to know folks overseas are getting to hear Andrews songs. We've had tracks played on college radio in Seattle and in Berlin, Germany (that's the ones we know of anyway) and have sold a few in Germany now too, probably as a result of this album of the month review in the Guitars Galore fanzine there (see below). You can use the babelfish translator on www.altavista.com if you need. The results are pretty funny but you'll get the gist.
[ http://www.twang-tone.de/almonth.html ]