YEAH!!!!(say it like a bad ass gansta rapper) NZ music ,what can I say,Im down with the sickness,Ok well to introduce myself I am the singer of a six piece alternative rock band from little TIMARU,our style of music covers many genres -punk,country,progressive rock,funk,ska,roots reggae and metal,originally started as a 4 piece close to ten years ago now,We are about to release our debut album this may 2007 and gotta say im fizzing out the bum about it,we have had a lot of hiccups along the way,and have learnt valuble lessons about the recording process,probably the biggest lesson learnt is that it dosent have to be painfull,well it was for us,so a word of wisdom makesure ya eat ya weet-bix and do ya home work especially homework on the recording process,HARM have come a long way,with all the procrastination put aside and some of the boys venturing overseas we have stuck together and kept the harm life raft a float,with a bucket load of south Is. gigs under our belt its time to get out and say HELLO to the rest of NZ,it has been hard trying to get gigs in the north Is.,but we are persistant sheep shaggers and we dont give up that easily,like fred dagg ill keep my gummys on,Bands that we have played with over the years include,cripple mr onion,new damage,foamy ed,sterio gram,but to name a few,we have been recently playing at the dux d lux in christchurch,and for us being lucky enough we have been able to structure our sound to sneak in to any gig weather it was playing our dark heavy shit at the jet set lounge with Human,beltaine,with out constraint and resurgence to poking our noses into Greymouth and playing with young local band the thrills,Its always so difficult (unless your a felching psychic vampire ) to get ya bloody sound out there its a funny pattern that I have observed over the last ten years and we all know that opinions are like bung holes,everyone has got one but ill throw my 10 cents worth in, funny that a lot of bands make good music and they play some pub gigs and people are a little scared to acknowledge ya cos ya don thave a single on the radio or a video on C4 so until you have, or you go over seas and then come back ,people are like"yeah bro I saw them on the tele or I heard them on the radio" so that makes them (scene)and gives them status so its ok to like them now,failing that ,maybe we are just shit!!! HA HA HA LOL I dont know man its an opinion and like I said opinions are like bung holes we all gots them Aye!!! :-) But none the less I havnt perservered 10 years worth of bollocks and to many spliffs and beers at practice to have not come this far,and for as long as i got me wellies on I will keep singing stuff, We have got 2 gigs lined up in Queenstown for june, 1st gig is for the Queenstown winter festival Mardi Gra on the 26th of june and then Bar revolver Queenstown 28th of june and we all know how much queenstown kicks ass!!! not to mention the lovely english and brazil ladies GRRRRR!!!(down boy get in behind!!!) Yeah so I thought Id just pop on in here and say some stuff which I have managed to successfully do,If anyone actually reads this guff and ya wanna have a listen to our music feel free to drop by on MYSPACE we are under harm/rock harm/music check out our profile or alternatlly check out www.muzic.net.nz and you will find us under the letter H for Harm that is ,Ya know we always thought that comming from a south canterbury district where there is so much rural community that we could change our band name to FARM ,yeah I do talk some bollocks especially when its like 2:55am Shite time to get some shuteye nice one cheers an all.
Kia kaha
Russ the singer from HARM not FARM over an out till next time (yawn/stretch) time for sleep.