We're going on anoher tour. Come say hi...

Gestalt Switch Spring tour '06
Nov
14: Wellington, San Fransisco Bath House
15: Wellington, Bar Bodega
16: Hamilton, Sohl Bar
17: Auckland: PR Bar
18: Auckland: Schooner Tavern
22: Lyttleton: Wunderbar
23: Dunedin: Arc Cafe
24: Port Chalmers, The Tunnel
Dec
1: Invercargill, Gluepot
7: Timaru, Excel Bar
8: Dunedin, Crown Hotel
9: Oamaru, Penguin Club

We're going on anotehr tour. Come say hi...

Gestalt Switch Spring tour '06
Nov
14: Wellington, San Fransisco Bath House
15: Wellington, Bar Bodega
16: Hamilton, Sohl Bar
17: Auckland: PR Bar
18: Auckland: Schooner Tavern
22: Lyttleton: Wunderbar
23: Dunedin: Arc Cafe
24: Port Chalmers, The Tunnel
Dec
1: Invercargill, Gluepot
7: Timaru, Excel Bar
8: Dunedin, Crown Hotel
9: Oamaru, Penguin Club

So anyway, holy crap!

Yes. Good. Wicked. I like.

Kia Ora. Gestalt Switch are playing with Soulseller and The Dry and Re:Fuel, on Otago Uni campus, Wed Aug 16th. Free entry, cheap booze, all that.
Cool!

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I like this band.

Gestalt Switch are playing at The Dux De Lux in Christchurch with Hollwed, Saturday June 10. 9:30, free. Totally maximum!

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Jessica Something Jewish, Alps, Gestalt Switch and Bachelorette (TBC) will be playing at Arc Cafe, May 31st and Dux De Lux, Queenstown, June 1st. Joining us in Queenstown will be The Lovehaters.
These guys are travelling a long way to entertain you, Dunedin. They'd love to see you.

Alps: After four years of playing guitar, bass, drums, synths and electronics in some of Sydney and Newcastle NSWs most unique underground bands, including the noise infused post-punk trio Bene Gesserit, the jazz infused hardcore trio Organ Doner Kebab, and the purely improvised duo In Not Too Long, Well All Be Dead, Chris Hearn packed up and moved out to the country. Tired of most everything and in need of a change, Hearn started fresh as a soloist, performing music under the name Alps, which would begin as the antithesis of every band he had previously been in: pure three chord, 4/4, verse/chorus pop songs on sweet analogue keyboards and organs.
September 2005 saw the release of a self titled Alps EP, which drew influences from the lo-fi synth pop of The Magnetic Fields, The Notwist and indie sensibilities of The Microphones and Architecture in Helsinki. After its release, hopes of resting in the country disappeared, with Alps being pulled back and forth between Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne every weekend, playing nearly 30 gigs in the first four months of the project. The EP was followed up in March 2006 with a limited-edition single sided 8 record.
Weekdays were spent in a rural NSW bedroom, recording new material onto tape machines. Perfectionism and the need for constant re-invention drove the later Alps recordings into a mixture of atmosphere and noise with the original concept of barebones pop songs, with the introduction of new instruments and new recording techniques, making apparent Chris Hearns background in the experimental and punk music scenes.
As Alps, Hearn has already shared the stage with artists as interesting and diverse as Xiu Xiu (USA), Die! Die! Die! (NZ), My Disco, Kiosk and Castings, and is booked in for upcoming supports with Wolf Eyes (USA) and a 50+ date tour with Jessica Something Jewish (USA), hitting the Australian East and South Coasts, both islands of New Zealand and the American West Coast.
May 2006 will see the release of a split tour EP with Jessica Something Jewish (USA) and Alps debut album Alps of New South Wales. The album will be released on CD on the Shrieksounds label and on 12 vinyl on Sydney label Sound and Fury Records.

Jessica Something Jewish:"Early in 2003 James Glines slowly made his way onto the Salt Lake City music scene by way of open-mics and lightly attended bar shows. After a year or so of mediocre guitar and vocal emotional ballads, people started taking notice. Although his music was gaining speed, he still longed for something else.
Always driven by the synth infused sound of bands such as Depeche Mode, The Faint, The Human League, and Ladytron, Glines decided it was time to take his sound in a different direction. Once he had aquired his first sequencer, the sound that would become Jessica Something Jewish began to take shape. The music came together very quickly and plans for the first e.p. "Few Strings Attatched," were in motion. As Glines began playing his electronic dance shows in Salt Lake City, the people were starting to catch on. The shows grew and grew over time, on occasion selling out local venues. Glines has shared the stage with bands such as Tegan and Sara, Ash, Rocky Votolato, Viva Voce, The Ditty Bops, The Kohl Heart, Alaska!, The 89' Cubs, Shiny Toy Guns, Decibully and many more. He is now taking his show on the road and overseas. The first tour starts with Australia and New Zealand in May of 2006. He will be accompanied by their local electronic sensation Alps. Soon after will be an exstensive U.S. tour. Glines currently calls Portland, Oregon home."

Gestalt Switch:"The city of Dunedin was settled by Scots, so the streets are laid out almost identically to those in Edinburgh.
It was also settled by the separated-at-birth siblings of the Killers. If you can't get enough of them, get to Dunedin and you can get Gestalt Switch. It's not that blatant, as someone in the band clearly listened to Bob Stinson as much as Television, but there's a neo New Wave via post-punk vibe in this one that might just be irreducible to its parts." - Austin Chronicle
Fighting the good fight, battling the demons of short attention spans and chronic indifference, Gestalt Switch is a rock band with heart, equipped with a sword rated Ogre +8.
Formed in 2003, Gestalt Switch has released two EPs on their very own: 2003's Low and 2005's Nothing. "Nothing Has Changed", the first track on Nothing has received ridiculous amounts of bNet airplay, has featured on the weather on Nightline, and has received a NZ On Air Video Grant.
All this from a song that never grew up.
Gestalt Switch has played with acts like The Violent Femmes, Straitjacket Fits, Goodshirt, Die! Die! Die!, Operation Rolling Thunder and Pan Am. They played at the Big Day Out 2006, appeared on TV2's National Anthem music marathon, and have even served as the house band when Sports Cafe came to Dunedin (NB: the Sports Cafe dancers didn't like us very much).
This from a band who couldn't get a support slot for Prehensile Foot.
They've undergone two national tours, several South Island mini-tours, hundreds of Dunedin very-mini-tours, and have played in Invercargill twice. Gestalt Switch was invited to SXSW 2006 in Austin, Texas, but forgot to have enough money to go.
This from a band that finally got their own practice room in February 2006.
Ashley, Blair, Rachael and Sam take their influences from the Dunedin winter smell, fingerless gloves, bands like No Idea Monkey Monkey and Isaac and the Freebies, and Playstation RPGs.
All this from a band that just wants a hug.
Critic Te Arohi Local Band of the Year '04.
Critic Te Arohi Local Band of the Year '05.
"Gestalt Switch ... made John Campbell cry" - Critic Te Arohi.
"The band drank Tasman Bitter and played loud" - Gyro Magazine.
"[forking] good" - cheeseontoast.co.nz
"A good band. A very good band" - Roi Colbert, Records Records.

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I liked that place. I'm from Dunedin, and it reminded me of The Crown. Though The Crown never had toilets which looked onto high-rise inner city aprtment verandas.

Gestalt Switch playing at The Dux De Lux, Queenstown, Thursday 9 March. Free entry.

Jan 17 Arc Cafe, Dunedin
Jan 18 Radiant Records, Timaru
Jan 20 BDO, Auckland
Jan 21 Bar Bodega, Wellington

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No Arcade Fire.
That shits me.

Upcoming Gestalt Switch shows:
31/12/05, Crown Hotel, Dunedin
17/1/06, Arc Cafe Dunedin
20/1/06, Big Day Out, Auckland

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