Update November 2009
We're now using Twitter for Bats news and updates.

* Slumberland release of 7" Vinyl 4 track Bats EP is available in USA and at gigs in NZ and Oz. New T-shirts too with a design by Bob.
* Bats are playing, 12th Nov. at The Bedford, Christchurch, NZ. BUZZCOCKS, The Veils and An Emerald City also on the bill!!
* Bats played Afternoon In Bed and joined Scribe for the finale at Silver Scrolls Awards, Christchurch Town Hall.
* Afternoon In Bed selected for upcoming Keira Knightly movie, "Last Night".
* The Guilty Office is now released in Australia on Mistletone. Check their great site for reviews and interviews. Bats are heading back to Oz next April. After sell out Melbourne and Sydney shows with last tour, Brisbane and an extra Melbourne ANZAC Day festival appearance will also be added to the tour.
* Check USA label, Hidden Agenda's site for lots of links to reviews for Guilty Office.
* 4 STAR REVIEW for The Guilty Office in June edition of MOJO
* Go look at PocketMusicNZ YouTube site. Includes links to live clips of the Bats UK/EU tour.

BATS PLAYING DUNEDIN November
7th, 8pm at Sammy's with David Kilgour and the Heavy 8's, The Puddle and Haunted Love.
8th, 3 to 6pm. Spend the Afternoon In Chicks, Port Chalmers.

* here's where we went on our BATS UK/ Europe album release Tour - May/June
21st May - London - Windmill Brixton (sold out!!) presented by Stolen Recordings
22nd - London ICA as special guest of Crystal Stilts
THEN Bats at aTwee As Fuck after ICA Party gig, The Victoria - Grove Rd near Mile End station
23rd - Nantes/France - The Spoutnik Bar
25th - Clermont-Ferrand - Le RatPack
27th - Madrid - La Pequeña Bety with Motel 3
28th - Barcelona - Primavera Sound festival
30th - Hamburg - Nachtasyl Theatre with Cats On Fire
1st June - Göterburg - Kning Disk CD Release Party
Sonic Magazine in Scandanavia - plug for The Bats
2nd - Malmö - 21 years late @ the Pickwick Pub
4th - Berlin - Bang Bang Club with Early Days support
5th - Dusseldorf - Pretty Vacant
6th - Amsterdam - Winston Kingdom with Charlie Ash support.
7th - Rouen - The Emporium Galorium
8th - Paris - La Mécanique Ondulatoire with The Chiltons
9th - Frankfurt - Dreikönigskeller
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"The Guilty Office" - out on Arch Hill in NZ, YesBoyIcecream in UK and Europe and Kning Disk in Scandinavia
also available NOW in USA through Hidden Adenda/Parasol (Click here for lots of links to reviews).
Artrocker's Jonathan Falcone reviews the Guilty Office as "twee as fuck" and "this year's Alternative Pop album" 2009.
TV3 John Campbell's chooses Guilty Office as one of his Top 5 CD's of 2008 see Best Albums
Album of the Week in both Feb 2009 NZ Groove Guide AND NZ Sunday Star Times (see below)
"The Bats' finest work" .. Under The Radar
METRO February 2009 Gary Steel “ ... profound joy and sadness and the richness of everyday experience hide behind ordinary lives everywhere and The Bats capture that resonance better than ever on The Guilty Office. A recording of 12 unpretentious miniatures beautifully captured ...”
The Orchard is, simply, one of the greatest pop songs Robert Scott has ever written. - Fire Escape Talking
The Bats - The Guilty Office - By Brock Thiessen, Exclaim, Canada
It's hard to go wrong with the Bats. For more than two decades, this New Zealand foursome have been a stunning model of consistency, with their albums serving as prime examples of that much-loved kiwi pop jangle. And The Guilty Office is no exception.
***** highlighted best in The Guilty Office's standout, put-on-repeat title track.

Check out recent interview with Robert Scott and Guilty Office CD review
lumiere.net.nz/reader/item/1980
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Bats at SXSW in Austin, Texas with Flight of The Conchords


Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie massage Peaches feet
at SXSW. She gives the band a big "WOW!! Go The Bats!" .. yes!
Flight of The Conchords interview Peaches at SXSW just
before it's The Bats turn (The doco was great .. beautifully filmed,
captured the feel of SxSW .. but unfortunately we didn't make it to the
screen - editing room floor tagedy !!)Breaking News - We've
scored the footage of The Bats interview
- keep your eyes out on YouTube for installments.
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Bats now shared for a very small price on iTunes
Minisnap also for sale on iTunes
Please don't pinch our music. It doesn't cost much.
Support the musicians you like so they can afford to
record and tour in the future.

The Bats - Heathcote Valley sunshine break during recording

Colin Hogg selects "Mastery" as his pick on National Radio for Best Song Ever Written.

GIGS (retrospective)
8th May - Goodbye Blue Monday farewell gig - it was a doozer!
the BATS New Zealand CD Release 2008 Tour
Thur 11th Dec - Al's Bar, Dundas Street, Christchurch + Pine
Fri 12th Dec - Cassette#9, Vulcan Lane, Auckland + Nudie Suits & Pine
Sat 13th Dec - the Adelaide, Newtown, Wellington + Marineville

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Go to our Merch pageto buy, Vinyl and CD's & we're now
stocking Minisnap's Bounce Around CD.
NB. Bats T-Shirts are out of stock. New design coming soon.

The Bats at the National Grid T's.
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Above pic taken in Austin, Texas with Gearwire Guy,
Robert Scott, Kaye Woodward, Malcolm Grant, Paul Kean
during The Bats video interview with Gearwire recorded
at SXSW.

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