Mistletone

Poster design by Alex Fregon.

MISTLETONE PRESENTS THE BATS

MELBOURNE: FRIDAY 7 AUGUST @ Northcote Social Club w/- Crayon Fields + The Twerps. Tickets $25 +BF on sale now via the box office or phone 9486 1677.  SOLD OUT!
Doors 8.30pm
The Twerps 9.00-9.40
Crayon Fields 10.10-10.50
The Bats 11.20-

SYDNEY: SATURDAY 8 AUGUST @ Hopetoun Hotel w/- Crayon Fields + Songs (trio).
Tickets $25 +BF on sale now via Moshtix. * SELLING FAST!
Doors 7.30pm
Songs trio 8.30 – 9.10
Crayon Fields 9.30 – 10.10
The Bats 10:30 –

The Bats are set to release their wonderful new album The Guilty Office on Mistletone Records, and are coming to our shores for the first time in six years with the same brilliant line-up since the band’s conception in 1983:  Robert Scott, Kaye Woodward, Paul Kean and Malcolm Grant.

Let’s recap – it’s been well over 20 years so some might not know the background to The Bats ….

Often loosely referred to as an indie pop band, The Bats have amassed plenty of fans from their home base in Dunedin, New Zealand and offshore, notably in US where they  toured frequently from 1986 to 1993 with Radiohead and others, and won gushing reviews from every corner of the music press. From 1994 they were busy in New Zealand working on raising families, side projects of Minisnap (Kaye Woodward’s songs), The Clean and solo albums from Robert Scott. In 2000 they put together a Bats greatest almost hits CD, 1000’s of Tiny Luminous Spheres, followed by their 2005 studio album The Bats At The National Grid which was rapturously received by the critics and led to a US tour in 2006.

For The Guilty Office – their seventh studio album and their Mistletone debut – The Bats continue to refine and develop their own idiosyncratic path, whilst also adding fresh sparkle and new ideas. The strings and additional instruments come to the fore, such as on the first single Castle Lights, and Robert Scott’s songwriting has become particularly strong on tracks such as Countersign and Crimson Enemy. It could have been the pentagonal room they recorded in at  Christchurch music doyen John Kelcher’s studio, or the proximity to Christchurch’s beautiful Heathcote River, but either way, the band have come up with an album that shines among their best.

>>> Fun Bats fact: the music for the title sequence of the ABC-TV political-comedy series ‘The Hollowmen’ is The Bats’ North By North.