Stumps vs. Stomps

Thanks to everyone who ventured out in the cold and wet last Wednesday night to see The Stumps playing with Birchville Cat Motel and The Dukes of Leisure at Valve. It was a great show and a fantastic turnout.

On Thursday The Stumps and B.C.M. head down to Dunedin to play in the Lines of Flight festival. The Stumps are up on the first night, at Arc Cafe, with Rory Storm and the Invaders, Crude, and Dave Black; the show kicks off at 7.30pm sharp. Birchville Cat Motel is playing the next night at Dunedin Public Art Gallery, again from 7.30pm sharp, with Sam Hamilton, Gate, and Greg Malcolm.

It's gonna be great to be playing L.o.F. again; the last time I was there was in 2000 and funnily-enough I was playing in Birchville Cat Motel at the time. It was freezing cold and Dunedin was far more grimy than I would have ever expected, but the beer was good and I had a really fantastic time.

Hopefully I'll see some of yuz there!

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Speaking of Birchville Cat Motel, more specifically, my contribution to the band: Last Visible Dog, a record label operating out of Providence, Rhode Island in the U.S.A., has recently released a 3CD set of live B.C.M. performances called Curved Surface Destroyer. It spans 1998 - 2006 and includes recordings of shows in New Zealand, Japan, Denmark and Scotland. Anyway, one of the concerts was recorded when I was playing in the band - in 2000 at The Space, in Newtown - and it was a really good one, too.

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Apparently there's a Stumps-tribute band called The Stomps kicking around in here in Wellington. Ok so I'm lying about the Stumps-tribute bit. Cool.


NP: Ike Yard - Cherish (20JazzFunkGreats blog)