“The Blueness is John White, Lucinda King & Kristen Wineera. What’s happening? This & that. Playing at The Penguin Club!
Lucinda has been writing some dark & mysterious songs. I have been making some new techno poppy songs. We have a new drum machine, it’s a Casio RZ-1. L…ooking forward to playing lots and sturrf ”

http://www.theblueness.com/

“The Carpet Floor are a band formed in Oamaru consisting of Eden Bradfield (violin, vocals), Oliver Briggs (guitar) and Austen Mcmillan (drums). They play a form of music that sounds like what would happen if Leonard Cohen bred with Captain Beefheart who had just made out with a string quartet.”

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Carpet-Floor/184949481537221?sk=app_178091127385

Not to be confused with the emotion “feeling blue” or the musical genre “the blues”, the Blueness is a shoegazing, distorted pop band that smudges notes and chords together into an unrecognisable soup of sonic awesomeness. The group consists of a wash of Wellington & Dunedin nerd-rock enthusiasts: John White (Mestar, Zoo Polluters), Mark Williams (MarineVille, Idle Suite), Kristen Wineera (Timeless Sounds, Idle Suite), Kirsten Van Newtown (Newtown, Peneloping) and Greta Van Newtown (Newtown, billions of other bands).

During the Blueness’s shows will be a projection of John White’s animation: Shut the Squizwot Factories Down. This visual accompaniment somewhat explains how the Blueness, a microscopic civilization, appears in the larger world to be a creeping blue slime devouring all in its path.

The Carpet Floor return. Trodden. Trampled… Hoovered.

Maiden Records and Grabaseat are pleased to announce:

Flip Grater’s NEW ZEALAND BOOK TOUR (November 2011)

With special guest

Reuben Bonner (An Emerald City)

Flip Grater’s writing is sensuous, funny and wise as she eats, drinks, sings and parties her way around Europe. She has an adventurous and gracious eye for regional differences (and good-looking waiters) and the recipes are wonderful.
I finished each page grinning and hungry.
— DonMcGlashan

When Kiwi indie musician

Flip Grater

first took her guitar to Europe, she slept on couches, took in the sights and must-sees of Europe, performed her music in seven countries – and ate some great food. Now she captures her journey in an exciting new book, describing the places, people and experience of touring.

The Cookbook Tour Europe contains 34 recipes including delectable dishes such as Globe Artichoke Pie from Italy, Potatoes Provençale in France and Pepper cookies in Sweden. The book is also accompanied by a sampler CD of five songs from Flip Grater’s last two albums.

The Cookbook Tour – Europe by Flip Grater is available in stores now.

http://www.myspace.com/flipgrater

Photos from the gig…

Extraordinary Dutch trumpet player Eric Boeren with the Melancholy Babes

Eric Boeren was born in the South of the Netherlands, close to the Belgium border.

He moved to Amsterdam and attended workshops of Arnold Dooyeweerd at the BIMhouse. He switched back to his first love, the cornet.

He was member of bands with Sean Bergin, Michael Moore and is still member of Michiel Braams’ Bik Bent.

In 1995 he organized a series “Confronting…The Music Of Ornette Coleman”. His trio (with Michael Vatcher, drums and Wilbert de Joode, double bass) invited saxophone players to come over and play the early quartet music of Ornette Coleman.

Since then the Eric Boeren 4tet (Eric Boeren, Wilbert de Joode, Michael Moore, clarinet and saxophone and Han Bennink, drums) have featured Ornette Coleman’s compositions alongside Eric’s own pieces.

As a composer, Boeren has contributed to the repertoires of Available Jelly, Bik Bent Braam, Big Band Nieuwe Muziek, JC Tans and his Rockets, Sean Bergin’s MOB and Mobette and of course his own quartet. He is currently composing for his new project, a double quartet.

As Eric has a special interest in the music of Ornette Coleman you can hear a lot of influences in his composing and playing.

Eric belongs to the centre of the improvised jazz scene of Amsterdam now.

http://www.myspace.com/ashandthematadors