Ink Mathematics & Cult Disney are touring in May. Both bands are based in Dunedin and for three years or so they have been in the foreground of ‘heavy alternative’ music. Both bands have released e.ps over the last year
and are more than ready to tour them. Here’s a few tasty links so
you can see for yourself.

http://www.facebook.com/inkmathematicsband
http://soundcloud.com/ink-mathematics/04-joys
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cult-Disney/177048659163
http://itunes.apple.com/nz/album/cults/id499736705?i=49

The executive committee is:

• Dave Snow (President)
• Doug Carson (Vice President)
• Steve Ormandy (Secretary)
• Alice Hore (Treasurer)
• Gareth Mitchell
• Chris Meech
• Andy Galaxy
• Watts Davies

AGM

Motions passed:

• increase of membership subscription
• introduce a 5 year membership
• change the rules so as to use email, newspaper ads and notice at the club rather than via NZ Post for notifications
• entry and drinks increase for non-members

The-Shifting-Sands—Feel http://www.undertheradar.co.nz/utr/more/NID/3486/Download-The-Shifting-Sands—Feel.utr

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Shifting-Sands/111071148953974?sk=wall

Due to the logistics of organising our excellent VOLUNTEERS that give their time so freely to help keep running the club JAM NIGHTS are now being held the LAST FRIDAY OF EVERY MONTH until further notice, or committee resolution… All offers to help with the smooth running of the club please contact us. Better yet, why not COME TO OUR AGM 7pm Wednesday2nd May at the club! Your chance to have your say. Elect a committee. Support the club!

NOTE Sleeping Dogs were on the bill but now, due to overseas commitments, will not be performing at this gig. However, Hera, House of Mountain and Happiness Stan are! Awesome…

Intensely unique night of acoustically ambient flavoured pop and overdriven, angsty guitar fuelled rock! It’s an opportunity (of epic proportions) not to be missed!

Hera’s new album ‘Rattle my bones’ is out at herasings.bandcamp.com! go and check it out you can listen to the whole thing online. Also available on iTunes and Amazon.com.

“House of Mountain possess a brooding, psychedelic urgency which they barely manage to contain behind a strong foundation of pop sensibility. Sexy & fucked up, these guys rock!” Amber Ray – 69 Music Contributor

Hera | House of Mountain | Happiness-Stan

Stomping Nick Jackman rewrites the rule book on how much ass one person can kick single-handed. Stomping Nick is a stylist from New Zealand who has created his own version of the one-man blues band, a tradition that dates back to the shadowy beginnings of the blues itself. Raw, primitive and dirty are words often used to describe Stomping Nick’s music as he travels the common ground between punk, country and the classic Chicago and Memphis boogie of the 1950s. Taking as his inspiration the blues legends and one-man-bands of yesteryear, as well as a large dose of primitive rock & roll and garage band fury, Jackman unleashes a powder keg of distorted guitar, wailing harmonica and pounding drums. It’s all played the oldschool way: live and unaided with nothing but his hands, feet and mouth. At no time does he resort to backing tracks, loop pedals, or any of those other fancy tricks.

Harmonica is Stomping Nick’s weapon of choice and he wields it like a blues ninja. A number of influences shape his harmonica style. As well as harp masters like Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson and Sonny Terry, other influences as diverse as Jimi Hendrix and Appalachian fiddle music can be heard when he gets his jaw swinging. Underpinning the harmonica, Jackman’s feet and hands provide a solid rumble of drums and growling guitar to get the people in the groove, while he sings, amongst other things, songs of trains, loose parties, wild women, mythical alcoholic beverages, crimes executed badly, and bastards he has met.

Stomping Nick is an experienced, battle-hardened performer, having played hundreds of shows in diverse places including bars, festivals, house parties, country halls, flatdeck trucks, beer tents, sheds, shacks and street corners. Over the years he has worked as a drummer, a guitar picker, a bassman, a harmonica player, a banjo plucker, a washboard scrubber, a tambourine jangler and a spoon rattler. Somewhere along the line he learned how to ditch the band and do it all himself.

Forged of the sheer passion for heavy, grooving riffs with laced with melodic vocals and bone crushing drums Osmium have been performing all over the country since mid 2005.

Comprising of Cameron Leslie on guitar & vocals, Doug Heath on bass & William Powell on drums the Invercargill/Dunedin based band have just returned from their third NZ tour in support of their eagerly anticipated second album ‘The Misery Harvest’.

Two years in the making the new album consists of ten tracks of heavy rock & grooving metal with impressive album artwork by Texas artist Vance Kelly [Down, The Sword, Trivium]
In 2011 Osmium were named Southland band of the year at the Southland entertainer awards in Invercargill

Proving the bands diversity they have recently played support to NZ rock gods Shihad & often play alongside NZ death thrash juggernauts Sinate.

The Blue Valentines

Genre : Americana / indie folk

Sound inspired by: Gillian welch, Feist, Tom waits, Local natives, Bon iver, Iron and wine and Bob Dylan.

The Blue Valentines are an indie folk duo from New Zealand.

These rock’n'rollabillies turned acoustic are both members of New Zealand’s
Rock ‘n’ Surfabilly band, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill. They have swapped
their electric gear for a ukulele and a dime and have been hitting venues
with a swag bag of their original, beautiful melodies and clever turns of
phrase.

Pioneering their own sound across Europe for the last 8 months they have
toured extensively in Greece, Spain, Italy, Holland and Germany.

In the quiet moments you will feel the despair, in the loud you will live
the energy, and after its over you will wonder where the hell you have
been.. shoes in one hand, wallet and keys missing, walking down the road
the wrong way home.

The sound is compared with such as Gillian Welch and Iron and wine, they
are often bought a drink by a fan after a show accompanied with ‘Thanks for
singing so pretty’.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOHEs_Vbt4k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb1rYHc1wxA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgtYa6kGDDM&feature=related