Final A Low Hum Tour Ever!
Posted: Sat Dec 9, 2006 11:09 am

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A LOW HUM Tour#10: What was I thinking?

22 National tours in two and a half years with 59 bands. Releasing 27 CDs and 3 DVDs in a 32 month period, publishing 25 issues of a magazine, putting on over 250 shows including 50+ All Ages show all throughout the country.

Seems kinda idiotic now that I think about it.

Hell its been fun though and I have amassed more then ones fair share of drunken tour anecdotes, but I've got a head full of crazy ideas and I need to get out from behind the wheel of the crappest most un-reliable van known to man to start doing some even radder stuff. If you think this is the last you've seen of A LOW HUM , don't count yourself so lucky. Even though I won't be turning up on your doorstep any longer with 12 scraggy looking mongrel musicians, I'm still gonna be just as annoying as ever.

To celebrate the end of a crazy couple of years and 100's of hours of lost sleep I have pulled together some of my favourite bands from past tours and twisted the arms of one low hum virgin band to come along.

Seriously… It just wouldn't have been right to do this tour without him. I don't know if its just that I love listen to him talk about computers all day or that he could make even a squirrel who doesn't like dancing dance, but this final ever tour was never gonna happen if he wasn't going to come along for the party. He's toured with me in June 2004, November 2004 and May 2006, and now, for one last ride, it's the king of pixel swing; Disasteradio!

Rip It Up magazine named their 2005 album 'Beneath The Sleepy Lagoon' the 6th best local release of the year. Up against some pretty big names like Fat Freddys, Shihad, Bic Runga, Dave Dobbyn etc.. Since the album release they've gone into hibernation. A couple of stripped-back non full-band shows with Bonnie Prince Billy, David Pajo and Lou Barlow earlier in the year bought them out of their self imposed song writing hiatus, but they're finally ready to road test some of their new material. For their first full band shows in 10 months, they're back… Ghostplane! (Originally toured May 2004)

Watching people try to dance to his spastic and elastic broken and cut up treats and beats is like watching white try to work its way off of rice and shows from this mad genius are rarer then a decent breakfast cereal but I prodded and I pleaded to take the MPC touting Phelps and Munro on tour one more time and he's on it. He last toured with me in October 2004 with The Phoenix Foundation and Cassette, he ripped it up then and he's gonna confuse your feet once more. Oh boy.

I've only just managed to shake their dancetastic tunes out of my head after touring with them in September of this year, but I've gone and booked Christchurchs' dance saviours Frase+Bri for another ride around the block. If I don't see you dancing to Frase+Bri I'm gonna go back in time to when you were being conceived and then sit your parents down and ask them if they really need to bring such an evil child into a sweet and loving World. Its time to go back to school, get out your commodore 64s and try to keep up, Frase+Bri gonna teach you a leason you'll never forget.

So many low hum tour veterans in one place can't be a good thing, so I thought it wise to get in some fresh blood. Tours from this next band are the very definition of rare, that's because we'll… they've never toured. Overseas Bevan Smith sells a whole bunch of records all around the world under the alias of Signer. His last World tour saw him hook up with Ariel Pink and Panda Bear of The Animal Collective, together they took in many countries and several continents, but still NZ hasn't been lucky enough to get a national tour out of him. Finally now things are looking up! Not only are we gonna see Signer live, but Bevan has put together a band together featuring long time co-conspirator Dino Karl is (HDU, Dimmer)

Holy Crap. This is one serious doozy of a tour. Please come and celebrate the end of many crazy shows and many disturbing nights. I'll make it worth your while!

Yup. For December I'm releasing the third and final A LOW HUM Xmas DVD. It's a sweet DVD packed full of the raddest videos around. Bands like HDU, Shaky Hands, Over the Atlantic, North Shore Pony Club, Connan and the Mockasins , The Reduction Agents etc..etc… it's a awesome collection of 20+ videos and only an extra fiver on the door charge.

A LOW HUM + JACK DANIELS + CREATIVENZ presents:
The FINAL EVER tour

Disasteradio
Ghostplane
Frase+Bri
Phelps and Munro
Signer

TWO SHOWS LEFT

Fri 15 th Dec – Auckland – The Kings Arms
R18 from 9:30pm (sharp) with guests Teen Wolf

Sat 16 th December – Wellington – San Fran Bath House
R18 from 9:30pm (sharp!) with special guests

Entry to all shows is $10 or $15 including the third A LOW HUM DVD

A VERY VERY special thanks to Jack Daniels and CreativeNZ for saving my ass and making this all possible. Big shout outs the countless number of folk who go out of their way to help, sorry I can't list you all, it would be insane…. And please turn your dial right now to 95BFM, FleetFM, Active89FM, R1, RDU or AltTV. Thank you, you guys rule.

CAMP A LOW HUM tickets are selling fast. You can buy them direct from me on this tour: $140 for regular tickets or $275 for “South Island Special” tickets. (I have negotiated one more deal for all travel/ticket inclusive…and since the last ones sold out in a few weeks…get in quick!)
www.alowhum.com (click on camp)

RE: Final A Low Hum Tour Ever!
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