Next week we're playing three shows in Melbourne. If you're in town come along, it will be fun!
Sep 8: Dance Motherfucker Dance - 161 High Street, Prahan, Melbourne AUST with Teenager and Actor Model.
Sep 9: Espy Lounge Bar, The Esplanade, Melbourne AUST with Dead Frenchman, Teenager and DJ Streetparty.
Sep 10: Ding Dong Lounge, Level 1, 18 Market Lane, Melbourne AUST with Teenager and The Amazing Phillips Sisters.
New videos should be up on the website over the next week too.
So we're doing some more shows with those funny bastards, The D4. This time we're heading to towns away from the main centres, dates as follows:
Aug 11: Brewers Bar, Tauranga.
Aug 12: Ward Lane, Hamilton.
Aug 18: The Mill Bar, New Plymouth.
Aug 19: Guv'nors, Palmerston North.
Aug 20: Hot Lava, Ohakune.
Tickets for each show are $20 from the venues and usual outlets, or $25 on the door. Come along and get out of your heads.
Tonight we have an interview on Homegrown Late (C4, 10.30pm) to talk some crap and to show off the new video for "Buddy" which you may or may not have seen by now. We'll also be giving away two packs containing CD and vinyl copies of the EP, some badges and also a couple of promo only copies of a DVD compilation featuring all four of our music videos. Check it.
The video for "Buddy" is premiering tonight on Homegrown Late (C4), so watch from 10:30pm onwards.
The video was shot in Tokyo and fucked up with these weird animations by our favourite weirdo and bona-fide genius Simon Ward. Simon also created the video for "Signal" and had a lot to do with the video for "TV". He is bloody good and we'd like to thank him and his mad friends (who are also bloody good) Gareth, Nick, Myles, Andy, Don, Lucie, Perraine, Dave, Liam, Lakshman, Matthew and Sean for their talent and hard work.
For those of you who don't know, "Buddy" is a cover of the classic song by the classic band Snapper. The song appears on their self-titled EP, which was released in 1988 and which you should really run out and grab a copy of. While you're at it you should also grab our self-titled EP, which was released in 2004 on CD and vinyl.
Righto, this week we're playing in Wellington (Thurs 23rd - Bodega) and Auckland (Fri 24th - KA) with awesome Melbourne two-piece Midnight Juggernauts and awesome Auckland two-piece Golden Axe. Joining us in Wellington is the legendary Cortina so you can be assured of a bloody good time. These will be our last two shows for a while (honest!) as we're concentrating on writing new songs for the album we plan to release later this year.
Over the next two weeks we're joining those golden ANZACs The D4 on their "Out Of My Head" nationwide tour:
May 13: Masonic Tavern, Auckland plus The Bleeders.
May 14: Kings Arms, Auckland plus The Bleeders.
May 19: Bar Bodega, Wellington.
May 20: Esplanade Tavern, Christchurch plus The Valves.
May 21: Sammy's, Dunedin.
May 22: The Penguin Club, Oamaru.
If you're planning on coming along (and you know we'd luuurrrve to see your smiling faces), tix for each show are $20 from Ticketek, Real Groovy and the usual outlets, or $25 on the door. Expect carnage!
Oh, and remember to vote for the b-Nets before they close this Friday! Click on the link below. . . thanks!
We saw and played with The Midnight Juggernauts at the St Kilda fest in Melbourne and they were fantastic, looking forward to playing with them here. Their EP rules!
Actually I think it was lame because we were all sober and stuff.
Cheers. Yeah didn't that interview suck!
Weirdest. Questions. Evs.
So tomorrow we leave for Melbourne to play a show at the Espy, followed by four shows in Tokyo. Check the "Shows" section of our website for details. If you live in either of these places you should come along and see us (and let us crash at your place)!
Ha ha. Yeah, I know I'm just showing off. . .
Our EP is now available on 12” vinyl. You can get it at all good record stores in NZ, or by clicking on the link below.
Yeeee haaaa!
Wouldn't ya believe it?! We have been nominated for the following b-Net awards:
Best Video - Models (Thanks a million to Mark, the Sticky Pictures crew, the lovely models, and everyone else who helped out!!)
Best Rock Release - The Fanatics EP
Best Song - Dead
Best Producer - Dale Cotton (for his genius work on The Fanatics EP)
YOU CAN HAVE YOUR SAY on who gets b-Net awards this year by voting at www.95bfm.com/musicawards
We'd like to thank you in advance for voting for us, as well as all your families and friends who you get to vote for us too . . . Of course, we'd also like to thank the b-Net stations for their awesome support and for nominating us!
OK, some upcoming showz and some newz:
Sat Mar 5: Indigo, Wellington with Avotor and Paselode. $10.
Tues Mar 29: Kings Arms, Auckland supporting MOVING UNITS (yee haaa!!!) with the Reduction Agents. Tickets are on sale from tomorrow at Ticketek and Real Groovy and cost $31.
After this we're gonna stop playing shows for a while so's we can concentrate on writing new material for our album (which will be released later this year).
In other news, we’re going to TOKYO in April! More about that later this month on our website . . .
Oh, and our EP is coming out on vinyl in the next two weeks. We’ll let you know.
Hey the gig on Saturday in Sydney hasn't been confirmed yet. The Annandale double booked us, but we're gonna tag along to something that night. If I can I'll post it.
No worries bro, we're working on some new tunes at the moment. Watch this space.
The Fanatics Aussie Tour!
So tomorrow we're off to Aussie to play shows in Sydney in Melbourne!
If you live in either of these towns come and see us! If you live in Melbourne, we need places to crash. . . Hook us up! These are gonna be crazy times.
Feb 4: Spectrum, Sydney AUST with The Presets and Expatriate.
Feb 5: tbc, Sydney AUST (but we're gonna tag along to something).
Feb 9: Dirty Denim Night - The Builders Arms, Melbourne AUST.
Feb 10: VICE DO’s & DON'Ts Book Launch/Bloc Party album launch at Shake Some Action – 161 High Street, Prahan, Melbourne AUST with The Emergency, Brain Bug, DJs - streetparty and Blingrid/Rubin plus Screenings of Live Book Readings by author Gavin McInnes @ say 8pm
Feb 11: The Tote, Melbourne AUST with The Exotics and 72 Blues.
Feb 12: The Old Colonial, Fitzroy, Melbourne AUST with Mandy Kane.
Feb 12: (3 am Feb 13) Late Night Show - Pony, Melbourne AUST with Snapp Crakk! (Main night - Deep Where All Drown, True Radical Miracle, Cry Baby Killers,
Flesh Vs Venom)
Feb 13: St Kilda Festival - Espy Front Bar, The Esplanade, Melbourne AUST with Nudist Funk Orchestra, Josh Owen Band, Vasco Era, The Suits, Midnight Juggernauts, The Specimens, Wild Idols and The Kits.
Fuck this is gonna be fun!
Make sure you come to the Big Day Out EARLY tomorrow. We’re playing the Essential Stage at 11:45 am and will be sure to dest(or)y the place.
For post BDO entertainment, on Saturday night we’re playing at the Kings Arms (59 France Street, Newton, Auckland) with THE COOLIES and DIE! DIE! DIE!. It’s a mean lineup so be sure to come along and drink away the evening with us – especially if you’re from out of town!
Next week (Sunday 30th) we’re playing the 95bFM Summer Series I at Albert Park. Lineup as follows:
1.00pm - 1.30pm Fang
1.50pm - 2.20pm The Unusuals
2.40pm - 3.10pm The Fanatics
3.30pm - 4.10pm Jakob
4.40pm - 5.20pm Batucada Sound System
5.30pm - 6.10pm SJD
6.30pm - 7.10pm Tha Feelstyle
DJ in between acts Aroha
AND IN OTHER NEWS: We’re off to Australia to play lots of shows between Feb 4 and Feb 13. Check our website for dates (will be confirmed in the next week or so with more dates added). We are very excited about this.
Have you got our EP yet?! If you haven’t, it’s available at most record stores around NZ or you can go to the NZMUSIC.COM STORE and purchase it online. . . You know you want to. . .
2 DJs, 1 band, 10 hours, 1 place to be on New Year’s Eve
DJ's Bill E & Cling have been playing records around Wellington under the nothingelseon moniker for over 10 years. The faces behind the long running new wave/synth pop/80s night ATOMIC (est.1996), and the Madchester/Britpop night 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE (2003), they have also given us numerous other one-offs and semi-regular gigs such as: BUMP! (Funk), Luxuria (Electroclash), 1977(Punk), and Indie Night.
This NYE the boys have rolled the best of all their nights into a “cure-all” they call ATOMIC PHARMACY. From 8pm, through to 6am, Indigo will be providing the best alternative for a New Year in Wellington.
Drawing from everything from the latest indie, to glam, new wave, Madchester, Britpop, 80s synth pop and more, ATOMIC PHARMACY will bring you music from the likes of: Franz Ferdinand, Stone Roses, Madonna, New Order, Pixies, Bowie, Libertines, Strokes, Datsuns, Beastie Boys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Happy Mondays, Duran Duran, Smiths, De La Soul and much much more.
Capitalrecordings artists THE FANATICS (Auckland) will also be there to ring in the New Year with their explosive live show. This two-piece has followed proudly in the footsteps of un-likeminded duos Simon & Garfunkel and Lee & Nancy, captivating listeners the length of the country over the past year. Playing skewed electro-rock, The Fanatics blend dark electronic beats and programmed bass lines with taut angular guitar, and a definite knack for bent pop lurking somewhere in the mix. The duo of David Green (vocals, programming) and Tom Clark (vocals, guitar) punch above their weight in numbers, proving there’s no need for a rhythm section when you have a laptop, a guitar and bouncing off the walls live energy.
(that was taken straight from our bio, obvs)
At only $15, this is surely one of the best bang-to-buck ratios around. If you’ve been to one of their gigs before, you’ll know the mayhem that ensues.
Coupled with an expanded lighting rig, and a bigger dance floor, Indigo will be truly rocking to bring in 2005.
nothingelseon: http://www.geocities.com/nothingelseon
mailing list: nothingelseon@yahoo.co.nz
Last week we had a crazy time in Wellington shooting the video for "Models", which is going to be the NZ music video equivalent (in epic-ness) to "Ben Hur" or something. A HUGE thanks to the eighty-odd people who slaved away for free over the three days of shooting, especially the lovely models who would have been freezing their asses off in the pool. The video, directed by Sticky Pictures' Mark Albiston, will be released to music TV in the coming weeks and is an absolute must-see.
We'd also like to thank Lady Luck, DJ Forge and Knave Knixx for playing at our wrap party, Nato, Georgie, James and Brendan for being legends and everyone else who helped out over the week. You rule.
Oh, and fuck the sound guy for TOTP - he's trying to make us pay for two mics!
If you're in Wellington tonight we're playing the Rock Cradle at Indigo with a band that (I think) is called Murder She Wrote. I don't know fuck-all about it but I'm pretty sure it's fuck-all to get in and drinks cost fuck-all too. We're on at 11:30pm.
btw - having lots of fun shooting our vid for 'Models' this week!
The Fanatics EP out today!
We are proud to announce the release of our first self-titled EP on Monday, November 22 through Capitalrecordings.
Tracklisting:
TV (3:22)
Dead (2:59)
Models (3:42)
Calling (4:05)
Buddy (2:52)
Girl (4:50)
Signal (1:56)
Sound recording and mixing for the EP by our good friend Dale Cotton at audioworkshop and Platform Studios between September 2003 and September 2004.
All songs written by T. Clark and D. Green, except the classic Snapper song, Buddy, written by Peter Gutteridge. You can find the original version on their self-titled 1988 release through Flying Nun (FN110). We thoroughly recommend this record!
The singles Girl, Models and Dead have been long standing favourites on the b-Net stations and between them have achieved eleven number ones on 95bFM in Auckland, Radio Active in Wellington, Radio One in Dunedin and Radio Control in Palmerston North.
- Models reached number 1 on the Radioscope Alternative charts and was in the top 10 for 8 weeks.
- Dead reached number 1 on the Alt charts and was in the top 10 for 8 weeks.
- Girl reached number 14 on the Alt Charts and was in the top 30 for 5 weeks.
Buddy has recently been released to radio and should be heard on the b-Net stations and Channel Z over the coming weeks.
The video for Signal (available for download on www.thefanatics.co.nz), was created by mad genius Simon Ward for the grand total of $40 and has had airplay on C4. Thanks to some financial help from NZ on Air, we are now in pre-production for the videos for Models and TV, which will be directed by Sticky Pictures' Mark Albiston.
The Fanatics EP is available at all good record stores from November 22, or you can click on the link below and purchase it online now!
Friday April 21 at the Schooner Tavern
The Fanatics
The Demi Whores
James Duncan
DJs Stiv & Jessica Franco
Doors 8pm, $10.
It's our first and last Auckland show for quite some time and we have an all-new set of all-new songs.
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