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     Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 993 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Bats are touring Europe and the U.K. in May / June, 2017. https://thebats.co.nz/gigs/ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8204 Registered: 05-2005 |
I hope they bring the string players with them, but it might be a bit expensive to take them further than the Sydney and Melbourne shows. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 994 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, I would love it if they did but, like you, I am guessing it might be prohibitively expensive. The Glasgow venue only has a capacity of 160 ( a few tables but mainly standing ) which is about about twice / three times the number who attended their gig at the Halt Bar, Glasgow, in the 1980s. It was a wonderful show. I have no idea of the capacity of the Lexington, London, but I am delighted to see that it is almost 'Sold Out' already. I cannot believe I am going to see them again after almost 30 years. If I remember correctly, Kaye was expecting when they played the Halt Bar. It was such an intimate venue. I sat talking to Malcolm before they started and had a brief chat with Paul and Kaye as they were loading their van after the gig. All three were charming. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8205 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hugh, they are indeed, lovely people. I met them all in a Thai restaurant before the first gig I saw them play - almost exactly 14 years ago. I'd read on their website that they all liked Thai food and took a guess they might be in the Thai restaurant beside the venue before the show. They were, and autographed the best of CD I'd brought with me. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1351 Registered: 10-2006 |
I just wish a few more of these bands would notice that straggly boot-shaped bit that sticks out the bottom of Europe into the Med. There has been no Italexit yet as far as I know and Milan has some decent venues and could probably rustle up an audience as big as Sion, somewhere in France. Jees. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3738 Registered: 03-2005 |
Wow. I cannot justify a trip over this soon. All those places I've never been. Leipzig--an old Deutsche university town locked behind the Iron Curtain for 40 years! Just my sort of thing. I saw them here in Silverlake after "Free All the Monsters" which might be my favorite of all their albums. It was a great show. I'd estimate the venue they played here, Hugh, was about 3/4 the size of your Glasgow venue. I wondered how they can make it work financially. I love their great planning. They're saving Paris until they've gotten over jet lag. Milan does seem like a big rich place that could give them a good audience. Or Firenze at least, though I guess that's not much help to Stuart. I envy you who have talked to these artists. I'd have no clue what to say other than "thanks for traveling so far to give such a great show" which I'm sure is nice enough for them to hear but it's not much of a conversation maker. And yet the Bats are the absolute ultimate in personality stability. I should drink more I guess. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1352 Registered: 10-2006 |
I could make Florence or Milan... it would mean a hotel and so on, but I haven't been to a gig since Kozelek, who managed to fill a pretty big piazza in a small town in central Italy a couple of years back. A magical & funny evening. Even without a fan base - folk are so starved of music here they will happily go to see someone they perhaps don't know very well. And New Zealanders will be used to the odd earth movement now and then. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 404 Registered: 05-2005 |
King Georg seems good for me. Thanx Hugh. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1018 Registered: 03-2007 |
According to Robert, the band will be playing a number of gigs in Scotland in January, 2018. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1019 Registered: 03-2007 |
Correction to the above. Robert along with Shayne Carter ( Straitjacket Fits; Dimmer ) Lucy Hunter, David Eggleton ( Poet / Writer / Performance Musician ) and Steve Cournane ( Drummer ) will be playing a number of gigs in Scotland in January 2018 and not The Bats. Link to a David Eggleton YouTube video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAAn_6zD FJI | ||
| Thomas keitsch Unregistered guest |
Do you have any more news about the Robert Scott, Shayne Carter etc. Gigs in Scotland, Hugh? | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1030 Registered: 03-2007 |
Thomas, Not as yet. I will post as soon as I hear something. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1043 Registered: 03-2007 |
Thomas, There has been a problem with funding for the flights so not going ahead as planned. There is a possibility it will happen in the middle of the year. | ||
| Thomas keitsch Unregistered guest |
Thanks for Info, Hugh. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1050 Registered: 03-2007 |
New video by the band. Filmed in London in the summer of 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrsFnJ_G Kf8 | ||
| Fred Tadrowski Member Username: Ftadrowski Post Number: 119 Registered: 03-2015 |
A new album by The Bats has just been announced plus a new song. https://flyingout.co.nz/collections/all/ products/the-bats-foothills | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9487 Registered: 05-2005 |
You beat me to the punch, Fred! | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1314 Registered: 03-2007 |
Another track from the forthcoming album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eccQtKZ fwk | ||
| Andrewnz Unregistered guest |
Here's a live set played by the Bats on Radio NZ National last Saturday afternoon: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programme s/music101/audio/2018772708/the-bats-liv e | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1335 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Bats - Sanary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1gWVmHD 5Co Her little hot room looked over the bay Through a stiff palisade of glinting palms, And there she would lie in the heat of the day, Her dark head resting upon her arms, So quiet, so still, she did not seem To think, to feel, or even to dream. The shimmering, blinding web of sea Hung from the sky, and the spider sun With busy frightening cruelty Crawled over the sky and spun and spun. She could see it still when she shut her eyes, And the little boats caught in the web like flies. Down below at this idle hour Nobody walked in the dust street; A scent of a dying mimosa flower Lay on the air, but sweet--too sweet. A song from the “Mansfield” album project that Charlotte Yates pulled together. NZ musicians were given Katherine Mansfield poems to put to music. The Bats requested a French related poem and were given Sanary. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9911 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks for the links, Hugh and Andrew. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9912 Registered: 05-2005 |
Following Andrew’s link led me to this about Shayne Carter https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programme s/music101/audio/2018772791/the-mixtape- shayne-p-carter |