The Far Now tops IMNZ March Chart

IMNZ Independent Album Chart
March 2007

Rank Artist Title Label/Distributor

1 David Kilgour - The Far Now - Arch Hill/Rhythmethod
2 Little Bushma - The Onus Of Sand - Rhythmethod
3 Fat Freddy's Drop - Based On A True Story - Rhythmethod
4 Kora - EP Volume - Border
5 Shapeshifter – Soulstice - Truetone/Rhythmethod
6 Various - OE: Brazil - LOOP/Border
7 Grayson Gilmour - You Sleep, We Creep - Rhythmethod
8 The Recloose Live Band - Backwards And Sideways - Rhythmethod
9 Don McGlashan - Warm Hand - Arch Hill/Rhythmethod
10 Hollie Smith - Hollie Smith EP - Rhythmethod
11 State Of Mind - Take Control - Uprising
12 dDub - Awake At Dawn - Vunderchick/Border
13 Fly My Pretties - Live At Bats - LOOP/Border
14 Katchafire – Revival - Mai Music
15 Motocade - Into The Fall - Border
16 Opensouls – Kaleidoscope - Rhythmethod
17 Shapeshifter - Riddim Wise LP - Truetone/Rhythmethod
18 Fly My Pretties - The Return Of… - LOOP/Border
19 Jakob – Solace - Midium
20 TrinityRoots - Home Land And Sea - Border

Shows sales from 1 – 28 February 2007.
Compiled from outbound sales registered at selected music retailers by Media Sauce Ltd. for IMNZ.
Eligibility requires IMNZ membership or by registration fee.
For further information on IMNZ releases, labels or membership contact IMNZ Operations Manager Renee Jones.

March News

Jakob’s ‘Solace’ is to be released April 2 throughout Europe via Forte Records, and will be available in North America on CD and vinyl from May 7. The album has been picking up international reviews such as in the UK’s Sunday Times and on the Twisted Ear website.

Arch Hill tell us that David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights have recently returned from a sold out Australian tour with Yo La Tengo, playing a number of their own side shows along the way. The album ‘The Far Now’ was released with an Australasian bonus disc on Arch Hill/Remote Control. Every Night during the Yo La Tengo encore set David joined them on stage to play a different Clean song. Don McGlashan and the Seven Sisters played to an estimated 60,000 people at the launch of AK07, which was quite a crowd packed into the Auckland Domain. Also the track Harbour Bridge from Don’s album ‘Warm Hand’ was selected to go with a CD on the cover of UK music magazine The Word in their February edition. The Tutts, Grand Prix and Pine were supporting the legendary Lemonheads on their NZ tour.

dDub are touring Australia in April, to coincide their with their debut album ‘Awake at Dawn’ being released there through Shock Records. Antix are currently on a 10 date tour of Brazil, and are in high demand worldwide as the 2 brothers are booked for plenty of gigs on the European festival circuit starting late June. This will also double up as a release tour for their new LP titled ‘Wanderers’ which is due for release in Europe in late June and in NZ in September.

The Ruby Suns completed a successful tour of the UK, doing two support tours - one with the Holloways (with most venues sold out - around 350-400 people per gig) and one with Field Music. They are currently touring Europe and have received a warm reception, especially in Sweden, the home of ‘indie pop musik’.

Intergalactic have announced that entries are now open for the New Zealand division of the World Battle of the Bands. 2006 saw around 400 bands, performing in 30 venues, almost 200 shows, in eight countries. More countries added for the 2007 competition are to be announced soon.

Richie Campbell of Kahu Records recently visited Kahu Records International Director Dave Graham in Tokyo and he reports that the label have some exciting developments ahead. They now have distribution through Tower Records and HMV for the South Pacific; deals with retails outlets such as the New Zealand Travel Café in Roppongi, thanks to the assistance of Tourism New Zealand; live venues in Tokyo are being secured; radio and TV access is happening; digital relationships are being forged.

Chistchurch’s Dukes have won the NZ leg of the Australasian MTV ‘Kickstart’ competition, and they came second in the overall Australasian competition against five of Australia's top unsigned bands, which was decided by Internet vote. The band will also perform in an MTV Mile High Gig on a sold-out plane en route to the MTV Australian Video Awards. Pig Out, also from Christchurch, are releasing a new EP, 'Bak 2 Xtacy Hed Ru5h', in Australia on April 21 on Bhang Records, and will be are supporting it with a 6-date Australian tour. Before they leave for Oz, the band play 5 national shows to celebrate the EP’s New Zealand release. 4 Corners’ album ‘Foundations’ was released in Australia on February 24 on Grindin’ Records, and to mark this the crew have been tearing up a few Australian clubs on their release tour.

Pacific Curls release their second album ‘Pacific Swing’ on Mai Music in the next month or so. The 3-piece all-woman band are currently on tour in Australia, where they are performing and doing workshops on the outdoor festival circuit. Pacific Curls combine the ukulele, taonga puoro of various types, percussion, drums and vocal harmonies. Their first album ‘Mothersline’ has sold over 2000 units over the past 2 years, not least because of the band’s rigorous tour schedule.

one million dollars (Tardus) are playing in Sydney from the 26th to the 29th of April; and upon their return to Auckland they’ll be going into The Lab to begin recording album number three, tentatively titled ‘Stand Up to the Shakedown’.

Justin ‘Jackhammer’ Niessen has joined Tainted to take over frontman/vocal duties, with former vocalist Nick King focusing on guitar. Jackhammer hails formally from 8 Foot Sativa and performed guest vocals on Tainted's debut album, ‘The Awakening’. Tainted’s new lineup performed live for the first time at the 15th birthday celebrations for Christchurch death metal legends Human.

Kora have reached platinum status, having sold over 10,000 copies of their debut EP 'Volume'. Produced and independently released by Kora, and distributed in New Zealand by Border Music, ‘EP Volume’ was recorded at the infamous 'Surgery' by Dr Lee Prebble (Trinity Roots, Black Seeds, Phoenix Foundation) and mastered at the 'Drop' by Mu from Fat Freddy's Drop.

Big Note Productions NZ are currently recording New Zealand Idol runner-up Nik Carlson’s second single Inside Out. Voom and the Sneaks are on tour; Voom are presenting their new single Beautiful Day to the world. Bulletproof have an album out on Concord Dawn’s Uprising label, and you can catch both acts on a nationwide tour.

Flip Grater is releasing her third single from ‘Cage For a Song’, Everybody Else Is Busy Mess. Logan McMillan of Christchurch production company Gorilla Pictures shot the video; the last time Grater teamed up with him was for the video to Grater's previous single, This Road Leads Home, which got into the finals of Radio Active's Handle the Jandal music video competition in 2006. Turning down the opportunity to travel to the 2007 SXSW music festival in Austin, Texas, Flip is currently putting together a band to take on tour around New Zealand in May.

Luke Hurley's 'Best of' came out March 21 and contains 18 tracks from his 25 year recording career. Luke will be playing 45 gigs between now and the end of June. Káren Hunter's 'Rubble' release tour is also in full swing. Monkey Records have also just signed Tim Guy for his next album to be released later in the year, which he is currently recording with Anika Moa and Anna Coddington.

The Tweeks began life as The Gladeyes back in 2002, but changed their name to The Tweeks to avoid confusion with Auckland’s Gladeyes. Their debut album ‘You Can Listen Too’ is out now on Borderline Recordings. Mastered in the USA by Roger Seibel (Pavement, Death Cab for Cutie, Cat Power), the first single, London Street, was a finalist in the Radio Active Handle the Jandal Video awards in 2006. The band will tour New Zealand starting late March and going through to late April.

Dirty Records have a couple of in-demand re-issues lined up: PNC 'Ooooooh...On The PNC Tip' [Mixtape], and Frontline’s 'What You Expect' [Street Album]. Joining PNC on his throwback trip are local heroes Mareko, Con Psy, Louie Knuxx, Chong Nee, Usual Suspects, P-Money and Scribe. The Frontline debut mixtape album includes the tracks Come and Get Me, How It Is and Do Or Die. On the Dirty horizon is a compilation of P-Money's best remix work and unreleased productions; Scribe’s long awaited follow up to ‘The Crusader’, and a new PNC album. Frontline have also been selected to receive a Phase 4 album recording grant from NZ On Air for their second longplayer.

Powertool have two new releases out this month. ‘Tascam Hits’, by Bats frontman and Clean bass player Robert Scott, features home recordings using Tascam cassette compression from the mid-90’s. He has also teamed up with Gina Rocco again for an EP called ‘The Other Island’, due May-ish, and there is also a collaboration with Hector Hazard for a German movie by Arne Papenhagen in the wings. Brother Love began in 1993, initially as a solo project of songwriter Martin Henderson (also of Space Dust and The Axel Grinders); out this month is their fifth album ‘The Man is Just a Boy’.

February saw the release of ‘Audio Agriculture In the 21st Century’, an album of remixes and instrumental music produced by Trillion aka Jody Lloyd. The album features remixes of a decent swag of respected local artists: The Bats, Flip Grater, Billy Wilson, Onelung, Mea (Amiria Grenell), Trillion & Wayne Lotek, SJD, Moscati, John White, The Undercurrents and Vorn.

New and Forthcoming Releases

Brother Love ‘The Man Is Just a Boy’, the Cakekitchen 'Everything's Driving You Crazy Cos You Just Can't Get What You Want’, Charlie Ash ‘Can Can’, David Kilgour ‘The Far Now’, Fast Crew Whatever Happened to Yesterday? Single, Frontline 'What You Expect' re-issue, Karen Hunter ‘Rubble’, Luke Hurley ‘Best Of’, Jefferson Belt ‘Table Manners’, Kezia and The Seven Year Itch self-titled EP, David Kilgour ‘The Far Now’, Motocade ‘Into the Fall’ EP, Mr Sicc ‘Cannibal Music’, My Life Story ‘The Night Is Young’ EP, OdESSA Motel Machine single, OMC 4 All of Us single, Pacific Curls ‘Pacific Swing’, P-Money 'Unreleased Joints & Remixes', Pig Out 'Bak 2 Xtacy Hed Ru5h', PNC 'Ooooooh...On The PNC Tip' re-issue, Robert Scott ‘Tascam Hits’, SJD Beautiful Haze single, Slipping Tongue Bitter single, SonicAltar Kneel at the Altar single, Tommy ‘Tomorrow I Might Go’, Trillion ‘Audio Agriculture in the 21st Century’, The Tweeks ‘You Can Listen Too’, Tyree ‘Now or Never’, Adam Paaka Whauwhau ‘Tukuna Mai’, Various ‘Gifted and Maori 3’, Various ‘Reo’, Various ‘Urban Tribute Album’, Various ‘Wahine Volume 1’

Tours

Bulletproof and Concord Dawn: Bulletproof album release tour: April: 6 Sandwiches, Wellington

Karen Hunter: April: 4 The Bath House, Palmerston North: 5 Café Strada, Masterton: 7 Cuckoo, Greytown; 8 Bodega, Wellington; 10 Le Café, Picton; 11 Mussel Inn, Takaka; 12 Marahau Park Café; 13 Yaza, Nelson; 14 Rongo Backpackers, Karamea; 15 Drifters Café, Granity; 17 DP1, Greymouth; 18 Crooked Mile Theatre, Hokitika; 19 Blue Ice Café, Franz Josef; 20 The River House, Wanaka; 21 The Victoria Arms Hotel, Cromwell; 22 Dux De Lux, Queenstown; 24 Black Dog (Fiordland Cinema), Te Anau; 25 Cabbage Tree, Invercargill; 26 Penguin Club, Oamaru; 27 Circadian Rhythm, Dunedin; 28 Harbour Light, Lyttleton; May: 6 Latitude Live, Napier; 19 Shanghai Lils, Auckland; 20 Leigh Sawmill

Luke Hurley: April: 4th Reva’s, Whangarei; 6th Kaitaia Hotel; 7th The Venue, Kerikeri; 9th: (2pm) The Pub, Russell; 13th Aquavelvet, Raglan; 15th Coliseum, Tauranga; 19th Matinee, New Plymouth; 20 The Bath House, Palmerston North; 26th Café Strada, Masterton; 27th Lembas Café, Raumati; 28th Cuckoo, Greytown; 29th: Bodega, Wellington; May: 3rd Hot Mamas, Motueka; 4th Yaza, Nelson; 5th Rongo, Karamea; 6th Drifters Café, Granity; 9th DP1, Greymouth; 10th Crooked Mile Theatre, Hokitika; 11th Blue Ice Café, Franz Josef; 12th The River House, Wanaka; 13th Dux De Lux Queenstown; 14th The Victoria Arms Hotel, Cromwell; 16th: Black Dog, Te Anau; 18th Circadian Rhythm, Dunedin; 19th Penguin Club, Oamaru; 24th:Easyway Café, Geraldine; 25th Harbourlight, Lyttleton; 27th Le Café, Picton; 31st Latitude Live, Napier; June: 2nd Out in the Styx Café, Pukeatua; 6th Café One 2 One, Auckland; 9th Leigh Sawmill

Pig Out ‘ Bak 2 Xtacy Ru5H’ tour: April: 6 SPECIAL MIDNIGHT OPENING Coherent, Auckland w/ Dick 'Magic' Johnson and Acid On Toast

Sinate: April: 4 Alexandra, The Stadium; 5 Queenstown, Dux De Lux; 6 Invercargill, The Gluepot; 7 Dunedin, The Crown; 12 Ashburton, The Somerset Bar; 13 Christchurch, The Jet Set Lounge; 14 Nelson, The Phat Club; 19 Auckland, Hysteria Bar (with Agnostic Front); 21 St James, Auckland (with Slayer and Mastodon)

Tourist: April: 13 Dogs Bollix, Auckland

The Tweeks ‘You Can Listen Too’ Tour: April: 6th The Dux De Lux, Queenstown; 12th Hot Mamas, Motueka; 13th Happy, Wellington w Cryptkicker III and Ginger Brown; 14th Bar Mode, Palmerston North; 19th The Schooner Tavern, Auckland w Shaft and Phony Bone; 21st Harbour View Hotel, Raglan

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