Atlas NZ Tour
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 1:31 pm

---

ATLAS
The Magic 8 Tour
With special guests Gasoline Cowboy

Atlas exploded onto the New Zealand music scene with a number one hit 'Crawl' which spent seventeen weeks in the charts - and owned the top position for nine weeks.

Now Atlas are hitting the road performing in centres throughout the country!

While the genesis is perhaps in Zed which had a nine year run as a leading New Zealand act up until 2004 and featured Ben Campbell and Andy Lynch, Atlas was conceived at the legendary Knitting Factory in Los Angeles. Ben and his sister, Beth were there with old friend, LA based producer, Hank Linderman (The Eagles, America, Chicago) discussing solo album concepts.
Hank introduced them to American performer, Sean Cunningham, who hails from Hank's home state of Kentucky, thinking that they may combine their talents to write songs for separate solo careers. Cunningham needed little persuasion to head half way around the planet to Christchurch where Atlas started to take shape through a number of development line ups while the inventory evolved. 'Is This Real', a mix of searing vocals over guitars charted, followed by the ground-breaking 'Crawl'.

'It was immediate.' says Ben. 'There's great music in us all and when we hung out, jammed and played we discovered songs, riffs, connections, melodies and ideas that were a lot stronger through the connection.'

Also in Los Angeles at the time, playing with the legendary Sting was Ben's former Zed bandmate and future ATLAS lead guitarist, Andy Lynch. When ATLAS re-located to Auckland, Andy Lynch settled into is edgy lead guitar slot and the line up was completed with the discovery of drummer, Joe McCallum who was extracted from Christchurch.

ATLAS are supported by alt rock trio Gasoline Cowboy, who are about to release their new single ‘Outta My Hands’ from their debut album – ‘Pave The Way’ due for release Feb 08.

ATLAS is one show not to be missed… it’s a helluva trip…a helluva show!

The Magic 8 Tour

October

- Thurs 25th @ Finn MacCuhals Irish Pub, Taupo
- Fri 26th @ Basement Bar, New Plymouth
- Sat 27th @ Bar Mode, Palmerston North

November

- Thurs 1st @ Colosseum, Tauranga
- Fri 2nd @ Boiler Room, Whakatane
- Sat 3rd @ Bar Bodega, Wellington
- Sat 10th @ Southern Amp Festival, Christchurch
- Thurs 15th @ Glue Pot, Invercargill
- Fri 16th @ Dux de Lux, Queenstown
- Sat 17th @ Backstage, Dunedin

Tickets on sale Wednesday 17th Oct from Ticketek and Venues

The latest Atlas single, 'Magic 8' is available 17th September 2007
The debut album, 'Reasons For Voyaging' will be released in November 2007.

www.myspace.com/atlastheband
www.myspace.com/gasolinecowboy

RE: Atlas NZ Tour
Posted: Fri Aug 1, 2008 9:26 am

---

This is an automatic reply stating that Muzic Bot has closed this thread due to inactivity.

This means that there have been no posts made to this thread for a period of 12 months and the thread has been locked.

Now that this thread is locked, you will not be able to make any further posts to it.