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About Me

Yes we are back.We've been busy, check out our day job at www.plan9music.co.nz

A while ago the urge came upon us again to write some Thrashing Marlin type songs (one of our many side projects that now has 3 albums and a 10 year history) and play and record them with our favorite musicians. "Wits End" is the result.

You can check out our previous 2 albums and other albums by us and our friends at the BRAILLE RECORDSs site connected to www.plan9music.co.nz

We are based in Wellington New Zealand Aotearoa and as well as working as screen composers we still play in various bands such as "The Labcoats", "The village idiots" and more recently perform the show "the songs of Kurt Weill" in a six piece band featuring many of the "Wits end" musicians and fronted by the vocal talent that is Janet Roddick.

We aren't planning any immediate gigs with Thrashing Marlin as our extended band is spread far and wide ( Wellington,South Island sheep station manager, Rome, Wanaka, Australia Indonesia Oh year and Jonny has gone to pursue his love of throat singing in Mongolia) but check out our blog to see what we are up to with our other projects which we will update here.

Some of the talent featured on "Wits End" is Janet Roddick(Six Volts) David Long(Muttonbirds) Chris O'connor(Don McGlashan)Jonny Marks and Anthony Donaldson(The Village idiots) Riki Gooch(Trinity Roots, Neil Finn, Bic Runga etc etc) Jeff Henderson(Happy bar host and multi mentalist)British blues and avant guard legend Mike Cooper(Howling Wolf, Sun House) TimPrebble(sound designer extroadinaire) and some great post humus vocal samples from Len Lye.

To make up for our lack of a live presence with Thrashing Marlin we are adding some video to give you a bit of visual stimulation ( and bacause it's fun) We will be uploading more as we finish them.

You can purchase our albums from www.smokecds.com (they ship internationally) or www.realgroovy.co.nz if you are NZ resident. You can also buy downloads from www.amplifier.co.nz if that is your preference.

Well enough about us. Feel free to leave a comment. or contact us we would love to hear from you.

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Member Since: 8/28/2006
Band Website: plan9music.co.nz
Band Members: David Donaldson Steve Roche
Influences: New Zealand, The Books, the Beatles,Can, Gamelan, Latin Playboys,Six Volts, Kurt Weill Gillian Welch, David Rawlings,Leon Theremin, Primitive Art Group,Len Lye, Ali Farka Toure,Trinity Roots, Tchad Blake, Sun Ra, Los Lobos, Asa Chang John Cale, Labcoats, Mingus, Larry Taylor, Ronnie Boykins, Bjork, Talking Heads,Bernard Herrmann, CaptainBeefheart, Oumou Sangare,Thelonius Monk, Tom Waits, Len Lye, Beta Band,Jimi Hendrix, Velvet underground, Noodles, Califone, Flamming Lips, Eno, Neil Young, Sparklehorse The Attractions,Os Mutantes, Lucinda Williams, Beck, Nick Cave, Blam Blam Blam, Gary Peacock, David Thomas, Moondog, Iron and Wine, Marc Ribot, Carter Burwell, Michel Gondry,Guy Maddin, Bonny Prince Billy, Spike Jonze, Peter Jackson, Charlie Kaufman, Ennio Morricone John cale,Don hertzfeldt, Syd Barrett, Duke Ellington, Ornette Coleman, Ronald Hugh Morrison, Wilco, Bob Dylan, Tom Ze, Zappa,Surfing, Whiterock ,Otago peninsula, The tides the sun the moon the Southcoast CURRENT MOON moon info:
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My Blog

RED BEAR’S HEADTRIP

We have finally finished the Trailer for the upcoming Red Bear film Head Trip.Sometime when we get a chance we will upload it onto myspace.In the meantime you can view it here. ...
Posted by Thrashing Marlin on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:16:00 PST

ANTARCTICA

One of the more interesting projects we have coming up is to score a film covering a year in Antarctica.The film is mostly timelapse shot by Anthony Powell.Anthony and his wife Christine have wintered...
Posted by Thrashing Marlin on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:11:00 PST

30 ARTHUR STREET

Here is a link to the doco "30 Arthur Street"It follows the last couple of years in the life of a Wellington musical institution.30 Arthur Street operated for nearly 18 years as a practice room and re...
Posted by Thrashing Marlin on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:39:00 PST

FOR THOSE WHO GIVE A RATS ARSE WHAT WE GET UP TO

Well not many blogs of late as we have been full on.A tv series that we do the music for called ORANGUTAN ISLAND has now started on the Animal Planet channel.It follows a group of young Orangutan as t...
Posted by Thrashing Marlin on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 10:23:00 PST

STORY TOLD TO ME BY A SEVEN YEAR OLD YESTERDAY

In a very thick Scottish accent."We thought someone had broken into our house because Mum made 20 fairy cakes and left them on a plate and when we came home they were all gone.Then our new puppy Sacha...
Posted by Thrashing Marlin on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 04:31:00 PST

LEN LYE LEN LIVE ZIG ZAG

As a result of us sampling the voice of the great kinetic sculptor Len Lye for the track "All You've got Someday" ( which can be heard with our DIY video in our video section) we have now been commiss...
Posted by Thrashing Marlin on Thu, 10 May 2007 06:30:00 PST

THE WOP WOPS

David and Steve have teamed up with Banjoist and Bagpipe chanter player Bing Cros Be and the human sewing machine that is Ant Donaldson in a crackin g new band THE WOP WOPS.Banjo Flailer Manimanima ha...
Posted by Thrashing Marlin on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:06:00 PST

SONGS OF KURT WEILL ALBUM RELEASED

One of our other side projects The Songs of Kurt Weill has released an album of their touring show.To find out more about The Songs Of Kurt Weill go tohttp://www.plan9music.co.nz/ and click the link t...
Posted by Thrashing Marlin on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:00:00 PST

THIS JUST IN FROM OUR MONGOLIAN CORRESPONDENT

Yo Mofo's howsit goI don't have a myspace account but i saw you are on line and it made me think to get in touch.Spring has sprung in good ol hohhot and all the ice is melting leaving dirty great big ...
Posted by Thrashing Marlin on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:59:00 PST

THE VILLAGE IDIOTS PHOTOS

Here is a link to a few photo's of a recent Village Idiots gig that we were part of.http://www.jazzfestival.co.nz/photo-gallery/the-village-i diots?PHPSESSID=9707541e4ec547bc476758170fb29c24
Posted by Thrashing Marlin on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:03:00 PST