Alphabethead Unleashes Single 'I'm Lucy Lawless'

Reportedly setting a birthday party in Pātea aflame over the weekend, 'I'm Lucy Lawless' is the battle-igniting new war cry from supremely skilled Whanganui-based producer / turntablist Alphabethead aka David Morrison, also of Bad Taste and The All Seeing Hand fame. A speaker-bashing, brain cell-reassembling big beat celebration of Aotearoa's Xena: Warrior Princess action hero (currently starring in My Life Is Murder), 'I'm Lucy Lawless' is Alphabethead's debut release via Sunreturn, with brand new album My Name Is David waiting in the wings to be revealed in full soon.

Alphabethead on-stage is always a high energy, life-affirming occasion. Go catch him with fellow electronic mavericks Diesel Jenny and Synthetic Children at Porridge Watson on 19th July, and playing a duo with master drummer Anthony Donaldson at Pōneke's Pyramid Club on 26th July...

“I'm constantly on the search for sounds with an 'otherness'. I’m looking for something with a quality that carries an emotional weight, a fascinating texture, or an intangible that makes it a portal to a bygone era or imaginary land. I know I've found something when my mind starts racing to build a new musical world for that sample to inhabit.

Like many children growing up in Aotearoa in the '90s Xena Warrior Princess (TV3, Friday nights) was huge for me! It was the one weekly show my sister and I were allowed to watch and we were obsessed! We'd fashion Chakrams from cardboard and scream battlecries of our own as we'd zip them across the garden aiming to take the heads of Grandma's roses. It’s such an empowering show and I always hoped to have a friend like Gabreille one day. So capturing some of that giddy action adventure was one of the intentions.

For me, to proclaim ‘I'm Lucy Lawless’ means; I feel alive and powerful and primed to face the world with the spirit of Warrior Princess!"

Diesel Jenny and Synthetic Children with Alphabethead, Club Tremaine
Saturday 19th July – Whanganui, Porridge Watson
Tickets on sale HERE via UTR

Anthony Donaldson - Master Drummer - Night 2
Duo with Riki Gooch (percussion/taonga pūoro/electronics)
Duo with Alphabethead (turntables)
Quartet with Bridget Kelly (reeds) / Toby Laing (trumpet/keys) / Tom Callwood (bass)
Saturday 26th July - Pyramid Club, Wellington
Tickets on sale HERE via UTR

 'I'm Lucy Lawless' is out today on major streaming platforms via Sunreturn.