Music News - Shayne P Carter Announces Offsider Album and Tour
22 July 2016 - 0 Comments
Shayne
P Carter is pleased to
announce the release of his album Offsider,
out on CD and digitally 9th of September via Flying Nun. This August Shayne P Carter and
band are on tour around New Zealand - the tour dates are below. Pre-release CDs
will be available to purchase at these shows. Offsider will be released internationally
and on vinyl early 2017.
No-one is better placed than Shayne to tell is own story - so he has written
the below bio and background on the album:
Shayne P Carter writes
his bio:
I was born in Dunedin ages
ago now, and wrote all the songs for my first band Bored Games on one string.
My flatmate Graeme Downes taught me the chords of D and E and G while we were
flatting together in a student hovel and I applied that information to six
strings in my successive bands the Doublehappys, Straitjacket Fits and Dimmer.
I guess I grew up around
the fabled Flying
Nun Dunedin scene but when my friend Roger Shepherd sent me a signed copy of his new book
recently, he'd signed it to David Kilgour. I thought maybe there was a metaphor
in that.
Rock n roll has taken me
everywhere from the Winz office in Dunedin to the Arista offices in New York
with both locations providing their own oppressive ambience.
I've never been into the
industry but I have an extraordinary love of music and I long ago learnt that
"music" does not equal "music industry" and how
important it is to keep those two concepts separate for reasons of sanity and
survival.
I've enjoyed varying
levels of success here and abroad. I've been given a few New Zealand Music Awards including the old school perspex
ones that bust in half when they get sent to you in the post. They inducted our
band Straitjacket
Fits into
the Hall
Of Fame which made my mum proud so there was always that.
I recently decided to
release my music and play my band shows under the name Shayne P Carter (and band) after using the name Dimmer for all of my post Straitjacket Fits
work. I felt Dimmer was associated with one period of my career - basically a
long extended exploration of grooves - and after a career where I
never played my old songs I feel like I'm at a point now where I can embrace
and pick and choose from my entire body of work. If a song's good - it's always
going to be good.
My band still includes two
of my longtime Dimmer cohorts - trusted lieutenant Gary Sullivan on drums and guitarist James Duncan who's moved over to bass in our new
three piece format.
I'm about to release a new
album of piano based songs called "Offsider". I like the title cos it
seems to suggest being out of step or out of kilter with the times which it
probably is. I decided to write the songs on piano - despite having never
played the instrument before in my life - because I liked the idea of naivety
and discovery and having a new angle on songwriting after so many years doing
it. I explored the classical music solo piano music canon before embarking on
the project because I wanted to see what had been done with the piano before I
sat my useless self in front of it. Schubert's lieder, Chopin's Nocturnes,
Debussy's neo psychedelia, Mozart's pristine classicism, Beethoven's cosmic
exploration - it was an amazing journey of discovery of a whole universe of
music I'd previously known nothing about. Like all influential music it was the
essence of this music rather than it's actual sound that inspired me. We'll be
playing stuff from this album as well as a selection from my back catalogue on
this tour. Cheers...Shayne
P Carter.
Shane P Carter and Band Tour
Thursday
18th August, The Tuning Fork, Auckland
Friday
19th August, Bar Bodega, Wellington
Friday
26th August, Blue Smoke, Christchurch
Saturday
27th August, The Cook, Dunedin
Listen to the
first single We Will Rise
Again here
Shayne P Carter on The
Internet
Shayne P
Carter Facebook
Shayne P
Carter Bandcamp
Straitjacket
Fits on Audioculture
Bored Games
on Audioculture
Shayne P
Carter on Audioculture
Doublehappys
on Audioculture
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