The Verlaines turn 30 years old this year, and they are doing a New Zealand tour. Please don’t leave this world without hearing their last record Corporate Moronic. It is a heavy heavy piece of work. Oh and I should add that Tono and myself are going along for the ride. I should also add that this makes me pretty darn happy.

Dunedin –  Sat March 13 Otago – University Main Common Room
Auckland – Friday March 19 – Monte Cristo Room
Wellington -Friday March 26 – Bar Bodega
Christchurch -Saturday March 27 – The Bedford

Limited pre-sale tickets will be available from Feb 6 at www.undertheradar.co.nz

Hope to see you there!

I started recording an e.p yesterday. Don’t really know what I should and shouldn’t say about it.  Seeing as my second album Endearance still isn’t even “out” yet  (if “out”= sent to the press for critique/consideration for year end lists & hard copies instores) because I couldn’t find a distributor to take it on .. like… anywhere … and was stubbornly holding out to find one, I guess I’ve got the order of the way things go all wrong, but that should finally hit shops in a couple of months if things go according to plan with some people down the bottom of the South Island. The E.P will be hot on its heels. Some show dates coming REAL SOON too. One last thing: please see the short films Lynne Ramsay made before Ratcatcher and Morvern Callar if you get a chance. They are as bleak as Kieślowski’s Dekalog, but as mesmerising too. She was already one hell of a director when she was fresh out of film school.