JAKOB NZ TOUR! 18 shows (including 7 AA shows)! EVERYWHERE
Posted: Tue Aug 1, 2006 10:16 pm

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A LOW HUM + JACK DANIELS + CREATIVENZ present
Jakob (Napier) + City City City (Melbourne) + Operation Rolling Thunder (Dunedin)

AUGUST

11th AUCKLAND - Kings Arms
12th HAMILTON - Upsett Records (Matinee AA show from 2-5pm)
- The Castle (R18 Show)
13 th NORTH SHORE – Takapuna War Memorial (AA show)
15th NEW PLYMOUTH - Basement Bar. Early 8PM start!
16th WANGANUI - ALC5's place - 160 Victoria Street

17th NELSON – The Phat Club
18th CHRISTCHURCH – The Civic (All ages show from 6-9pm)
- The Civic (R18 Show from 10pm)
19th DUNEDIN - Refuel (All ages show from 6-9pm)
- Refuel (R18 show from 10pm)
20th INVERCARGILL - Tillermans. Early 8PM start!
21st OAMARU – The Penguin Club. Early 8PM start!
23rd BARRYTOWN - Barry Town Hall
25th WELLINGTON – San Francisco Bathhouse (All Ages show from 6pm)
– San Francisco Bathhouse (R18 show 10pm)
26th PALMERSTON NORTH – The Stomach (All Ages show from 8pm)
- The Coliseum (R18 show from 10pm)

PRESS RELEASE:

A LOW HUM is gonna turn that winter frown upside down!

I decided to spend July tucked up in bed trying to get some sleep, hidden away from the nasty cold weather. I knew I’d have to get some sleep, because I did something silly. I booked an absolute behemoth of a tour for August. 18 shows in 15 days! If my winter flu doesn’t kill me, this sure will

From silence to violence, the swelling, lush soundscapes of Jakob from the Hawkes Bay have been responsible for creating some of the most magical and memorable shows in New Zealand over the past decade. Whether you’re a lip biter, a shoe gazer or a hippie arm swinger, odds are you fell in love with one of their first two albums, the amazing power of debut “Subset of Sets” or the sonically massive follow-up album “Cale : Drew”. You’ve been waiting for that third installment and Jakob are currently putting the finishing touches on their third record “Solace”. They’ve toured the US, Europe, Australia and are now about to embark on their biggest ever New Zealand tour, including their first EVER All Ages shows (seven of em!).

I thought to myself….. This is too sweet! Taking a three piece instrumental band on tour like Jakob, its all just going to be too easy…how can I complicate things for myself and have that heart attack that I’m overdue?

Hmmm...Maybe I could bring over a multi-instrumentalist five piece band from Australia that has two drummers and four vocalists? City City City are from the fine city of Melbourne and have been confusing reviewers and making journalist’s lives hell ever since they formed. Perhaps the only way to describe their sound is to take 60's film scores add New York post-punk add free jazz add kraut-rock, a smattering of post-rock; finally add some bleeps and chaos. Whatever you do, don’t call it “Cinematic”.

After the rave reviews following the release of City City City’s awesome album “The Perimeter Motor Show” in Australia, they’ve secured a release for it here in NZ. Yup, it’s out now. Buy it. Listen to it and then party as City City City take that bag of snakes that I straightened out and get them all twisted up again.

According to Die! Die! Die! they are the “Best Band in the World”, and even though it’s taken as granted that you won’t see Operation Rolling Thunder entered in the “World Battle of the Bands”, take it as fact, if they were a metal band, they would have won. Like an ebbing wave of noise washing in over a windswept peninsula… a sound that only a band from Dunedin could emulate, Operation Rolling Thunder are gonna make sure that you don’t go swimming for at least an hour after you’ve eaten. Even though they don’t have a bass player, Operation Rolling Thunder will still make all your empties fall off of the subs and smash on the floor.

To accompany such a mammoth tour, it would only be fair to offer a spectacular compilation and album this month. So, as usual, entry to all the shows is $10, but if you pay $15 you will get the new August issue of A LOW HUM magazine and the new compilation featuring: Jakob, Barnard’s Star, Explosions in the Sky, Operation Rolling Thunder, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, The Deadly Deaths, Three Month Sunset, The American Dollar, City City City and more…!

Oh boy. If you pay $15, as well as they magazine and the compilation, you also get this month’s feature record and I am SOOOOO excited about it! The best thing about being a record label is when you can make available an album so good that you know it will totally change people’s musical inspirations and influences. The last album by this Napier threesome “Continuum” totally altered my life and I am as proud as punch that I am releasing Looma’s third album “III”, just a few weeks after they played their final ever show in Napier. This album is amazing. Simply spectacular. I get butterflies in my stomach whenever I listen to this record… and I am going to share the butterflies all round. Songs like “Jetsetters”, “What kept You” and “Everything is Level” are destined to be underground classics. This album is genius.

A deafening roar of a thanks goes to Jack Daniels for making this all possible, a quiet lull then massive storm of appreciation to CreativeNZ for making it a party. If you are not listening to R1, RDU, Active89FM, 95BFM, Contact, Control, MostFM or FleetFm, then you’re simply not listening.

YEHAAAAA!

You can hear the bands here:
www.myspace.com/jakobmusic or www.jakob.co.nz
www.myspace.com/citycitycity
www.myspace.com/operationrollingthunder
www.myspace.com/alowhum or www.alowhum.com





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RE: JAKOB NZ TOUR! 18 shows (including 7 AA shows)! EVERYWHERE
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