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
______________________________________________ "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 ______________________________________________ Bats
at SXSW in Austin, Texas
withFlight
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. ______________________________________________ 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
__________________________________
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. You
can now buy
TheBats on iTunes worldwide
Check
out our MySpaces for songs, videos, fans, gigs etc
For The Bats click here For
Minisnap click here For Pocket Music click here
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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via a search and
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then ..CLICK
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Arch Hill released the new Bats album, " The Guilty Office" on December
1st 2008 in NZ. It's got strings! Well some of it has - and
a harp. And the cover art is painted by Robert Scott.
It's now available in USA, UK, Europe, Scandinavia and in July
in Australia
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MINISNAP's
Bounce Around climbed the 2008 CMJ Radio Charts in USA -
Top Ten action!!
Album review excerpt by Tim Sendra for
Minisnap's "BounceAround". Bounce
Around is a thoroughly charming record that captures everything good about the
Bats and adds to it... Woodward is made up of 100-percent sunshine, and Bounce
Around is one chiming, bouncy NZ rocker after another.... "New Broom" is
the heavenly pop hit of the bunch, but every other tune is graced with a singalong
chorus and bright melody.... From start to finish Bounce Around is classic New
Zealand pop.
REPORT: USA - CMJ RADIO STATIONS - top 10 positions to date
MINISNAP:BOUNCE AROUND - UPDATED:26/10/08 (26th November 2008)
Station Location Position
Bagel Radio San Francisco CA Chart #3
WCWM 90.7 fm Williamsburg VA Chart #3
SCAD-Atlanta Atlanta GA Chart #4
KRLX 88.1 fm Northfield MN Chart #5
WKNC 88.1 fm Raleigh NC Chart #6
WRNC 97.7fm Ashland WI Chart #6
WRUW 91.1 fm Cleveland OH Chart #9
WUMM 90.5 fm Machias ME Chart #10
Below is the Minisnap video for New Broom off Bounce Around album which
is out in shops, physically through Magic Marker and digitally through iTunesStores
Worldwide.
Christian
Carruthers crafted an animated
video for Flowers and Trees.
38,000 views on MySpace!! Above is a cell from it - Guess who's who. the
above Bats video plus others
are now on our Videography page
We're still missing a few - if anyone can help
us to locate copies that would be fantastic
The
Bats at the National Grid postcard from cd cover
AUDIO AGRICULTURE IN THE 21st CENTURY
above is Jody Lloyd's fine album of remixes and remakes including The Bats Up To The Sky.
He's also been working on a remix of Minisnap's Crooked Mile. ______________________________________________
Article and interview atthreeimaginarygirls
The Bats At
The National Grid is available through USA Magic
Marker Germany Little Teddy UK Egg Records
NZPocket MusicLtd through
Rhythm Method
NZ label for the Bats, Minisnap, The Archers.