well hi there, i am back after saying never again. everybody changes a bit now, don't they? by the way the "dead man" thing was cute, especially knowing who wrote it. if someone is THAT obsessed they must be THE ultimate fan. anyway, i didn't come here to bitch about aimless shit (although i already have!), just letting some recent news get out there to anyone who may care. my new album "infinity land" is completely finished (after 9(!)versions) and is to be released on flying nun around september. dfa may have some involvement in the future as far as liscensing/production goes. MAYBE. the album took SO many mastering sessions to get right as mark (who engineered and played on two tracks) and i became too fussy in "perfecting" it. it is finally all done now and everyone who has heard it believes it to be the best (certainly most produced) SPs CD yet. i won't comment as i will get in trouble for it. it contains 14 tracks and kit lawrence (ex SP and current House of Dolls member/writer (who are amazing by the way!)) came initially from London as a Painter and i am VERY lucky for him him to be doing the sleeve design. it looks great and is pretty much done. definately the cover that goes alongside the SPs sound the best, i believe. we are playing a few shows soon. july 29th at disorientation in wellington with cassette. august 12th in chch with the great charlie ash! a dux-chch-gig with old friends Die!Die!Die! when they return from london town, and when doing an album release tour we will most likely play with house of dolls. i can't wait! our live line-up now is exactly as before but herbert is travelling across europe havin fun, so we now have nick-vox/drums, tom-bass, mark (yes, as in engineer. he knows the tracks SO well!)-synth w-delay and distortion, gareth-synth, percussion, vox. we can't wait to get this group out there but don't expect to see any guitar strings cause there ain't none! Mark somehow gets his antique synths to sound like the CD's guitar parts, with various effects. our set consists mainly of tracks from the next album and three or four from mathematical warfare. maybe even translation. victims sounds fucking INSANE live. please prepare your ear-drums! richard bell will probably be doing the video for "how am i not myself?" (originally "what to do?" but changed due to another nz band just releasing a song/vid w- that title, darn it!) and ed lust (local film heart-throb-genius-icon) will probably be doing the video for "end of the world". thankyou for reading this far. love nick

you are right, i don't NEED to explain myself, but when you read (which I shouldn't do in the first place, but it is very tempting!) all of these opinions of you and your music (which to me are the same thing), written by people you do not know, you (I) get a bit defensive... sorry, i'll shut up (for good)

Thanks heaps Foaf. Man, I don't know where all this negative feedback is coming from ? It saddens me, because I only play music because it is my only way to "communicate" properly. I don't know why Simon (Rusty-James) has such a chip on his shoulder. I have never been rude and have always really respected him. He a fucking beautiful drummer. The band changing lie-ups so much is that we become such great personal friends that we feel the music will get in th eway. The new album is totally solo to avoid any confusion... Sorry if Iever upset you Simon, I promise I never meant to.
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Nick Harte

miserablism refers only to the lyrics, which I have been personally told ARE miserable by people like my mother who i trust more than some geek who spends half of their life sitting at a computer about which era of A Certain Ratio we are talking about. i am sorry i ever became invovled in this. i won't ever again. i consider this a "fan" page, so please, continue to fight over scraps - "fans"...