A Low Hum August Tour

Touring veteren Blink is back after a month break to bring us his latest and greatest vision on what it is to tour New Zealand, and tour new Zealand properly.

Hes enlisted his current favs, this time it's...

Jakob (Napier)
City City City (Melbourne)
Operation Rolling Thunder (Dunedin)


To perform shows nationwide in August.

From ALH Headquarters...

A LOW HUM is cold, so you will be too.

I decided to spend July tucked up in bed trying to get some sleep, hidden away from the nasty cold weather. I knew Id 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 doesnt 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 youre 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 smashing debut Subset of Sets or the so nic ally massive follow-up album Cale:Drew. Youve been waiting for that third installment and Jakob are currently putting the finishing touches on their third record Solace. Theyve toured the US , Europe , Australia and are now about to em bar k 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 easyhow can I complicate things for myself and have that heart attack that Im 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 journalists 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, dont call it Cinematic.

After the rave reviews following the release of City City City s awesome second album The Perimeter Motor Show in Australia , theyve secured a release for it here in NZ. Yup, its 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 its taken as granted that you wont 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 dont go swimming for at least an hour after youve eaten. Even though they dont have a bass player, Operation Rolling Thunder will still make all your empties fall off of the subs and smash on the floor.

An EPIC line-upso I needed an EPIC tour.

A LOW HUM + JACK DANIELS + CREATIVENZ present

Jakob (Napier)
City City City (Melbourne)
Operation Rolling Thunder (Dunedin)

AUGUST

11 th AUCKLAND - Kings Arms
12 th HAMILTON - Upsett Records (Matinee AA show from 2-5pm ) - The Castle (R18 Show)
13 th NORTH SHORE Takapuna War Memorial (AA show)
15 th NEW PLYMOUTH - Basement Bar. Early 8PM start!
16 th WANGANUI - ALC5's place
17 th NELSON The Phat Club
18 th CHRISTCHURCH The Civic (All ages show from 6-9pm ) - The Civic (R18 Show from 10pm )
19 th DUNEDIN - Refuel (All ages show from 6-9pm )
- Refuel (R18 show from 10pm )
20 th INVERCARGILL - Tillermans. Early 8PM start!
21 st OAMARU The Penguin Club. Early 8PM start!
23 rd BARRYTOWN - Barry Town Hall
25 th PALMERSTON NORTH The Stomach (All Ages show from 8pm ) - The Coliseum (R18 show from 10pm
26 th WELLINGTON San Fran cisco Bathhouse (All Ages show from 6pm )
San Fran cisco Bathhouse (R18 show 10pm )

Yikes.

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, Barnards 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 months 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 peoples 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.

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 youre 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