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Dats the Crux

About Me

Dats The Crux is fresh alternative pop, fronted by Joy and performed live with Cara and Buffy. We choose a different themes for the shows, sing and dance about and have fun.
DATS THE CRUX siren singers wrap beautiful melodies around the audience and pull them in.
The DTC girls create their own costumes, props and set. Past shows have been Sangria, Nautical, Whack Stuff, Street Stripes, venetian b, and the latest show is ‘robots'.
DATS THE CRUX

DATS THE CRUX- Sangria Show

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 25/11/2006
Band Website: www.myspace.com/datsthecrux
Band Members: Vocals, instruments and beats by joy, with some help from michael on a few of the songs.
DATS THE CRUX live show:
Joy- vocals & percussion
Cara- backing vocals & percussion
Buffy- backing vocals & percussion

Influences: The Presets, M.I.A, Prince, Basement Jaxx, The Temptations, 1973 David Bowie, The Postal Service, Common, Gotye, The Smiths, Michael Ramirez, The Pixies, Sa-ra, Interpol, Bressa Creeting Cake, Jay-Z, Bjork, Sister Sledge and Jem & the Hollograms. Thank you to the many more musicians and artists who've been inspirational.
Sounds Like: DATS THE CRUX' alternative pop molten madness erupted out of one of 50 volcanoes in the Auckland region- sound showering red glowing rubies all over your ear-holes & eye sockets. You may jitter and twitch as noxious dancefloor gases from middle earth take over your body and kill all your inhibitions.

BOOKINGS:
Please email [email protected] or send a message via MySpace.
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Help me make a playlist for moving house.

Bust a moveI just moved house this weekend.The thing is I was just moving litterally to a flat across the road so I could hardly justify hiring a hubby to help me lift all my hoarded material goods.My...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:08:00 GMT

MTV 42 Unheard- help us win a record deal & trip to play in New York

Hey everyone,MTV & 42 Below have put on a competition. They're helping one NZ band get world famouzzz.Want to give us a hand please?Vote, vote, vote!1. Please copy this link into your web browser: htt...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:04:00 GMT

Real Groove : The Groove Guide | Blog: November Issue Preview: First Look / Dats the Crux + MP3

http://www.realgroove.co.nz/Blog.aspx?id=196Real Groove : The Groove Guide | Blog: November Issue Preview: First Look / Dats the Crux + MP3 Shared via AddThis Check out the review of Dats The Crux o...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:58:00 GMT

Robo-photoshoot

I had a deadline of Monday to rustle up a band photo.On Saturday we made lots of phone calls to everybody hunting for a good photographer.Through an excellent recommendation we found Hans E Hammonds w...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:54:00 GMT

band trip to Welly

It's 3.17am in the morning and I'm still up! I've been watching telethon which - a New Zealand institution. We had a super fun band trip away in Wellington. Cara and I arrived to the airport spot...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Aug 2009 09:19:00 GMT

robots

My index finger is silver.I had my first go at spray painting in the weekend. Spray painting our robot bodies. I started the day rummaging for cardboard boxes through a skip behind Noel Lemmings. Clas...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:52:00 GMT

bees

It's a rainy Sunday in Auckland. I'm inside my bedroom writing tunes.Several things have struck me lately:1. beesbees are cool. Someone told me when they find a big flowery plant full of pollen they r...
Posted by on Sat, 09 May 2009 20:26:00 GMT

Whack stuff at Shadows

Whack stuff.We had a real fun show at Shadows tonight- massive thank you to Adam & Sarin at 95bFM for hooking up the opportunity to play & cheers Lane at Nokia- love that you guys are supporting bands...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:19:00 GMT

what is dats the crux?

what's your crux?the crux is the most important, crucial thing. So if you think about it and find what your crux is, then I'm into that, cos part of what makes my crux is other ppl finding their own c...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:21:00 GMT

recording... ka ka ka!

Hello, I've just been recording the first song off my soon to be EP!It's been fun. There's a studio in Onehunga where a kind man Janek has let us record. My friend Ben is producing the song with me....
Posted by on Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:28:00 GMT