!!!!NEW CD by THE PUDDLE OUT NOW!!!!
The Shakespeare Monkey
Available from Fishrider Records @ http://www.myspace.com/fishriderrecords
Downloads available from CD baby (Below - but ordered from Fishrider it comes in a nice cardboard fold-out case with lyric booklet and cool inspirational portrait)
A full-length follow up to last year's smash hit No Love - No Hate
17 new songs
Real Groove magazine hails it as an album of "shimmering, shambling pop songs which could have come from nowhere else but New Zealand. For anyone lusting after the Flying Nun glory days, this album makes a perfect soundtrack to summer."
The primitive 1990 Puddle album Into The Moon, recorded in glorious lo-fi by Alistair Galbraith, is available free as a downloadable zip file from http://iamahotdog.blogspot.com/2008/09/puddle-into-moon.html
Radio New Zealand featured an interview with George on Music 101 in November 08. This was their promo for the interview:
"George Henderson has been a cult figure flying beneath New Zealand music's radar since he formed The Puddle in 1984 in Dunedin.
Despite releases on Flying Nun and a French label, George Henderson's been less than prolific, and the classic ‘Songs for Emily Valentine’ album from 1993 only saw the light of day this century.
A drug habit and jail time didn't help, but a sideline as vocalist and guitarist in Dunedin band Mink revived him somewhat.
Now Auckland-based, Henderson released an album last year and has two more slated for release in 2008.
Fan Graeme Humphreys (Abel Tasmans, Humphreys & Keen aka legendary broadcaster Graeme Hill) interviews one of New Zealand's sharpest lyricists and musical thinkers."
The first of the new Puddle releases in 15 or so years, 2008's No Love - No Hate, is also available:
More details are on Fishrider Records MySpace page , which also features some other tunes from the recent Puddle albums.
No Love - No Hate album launch review: Dave Local has written a lovely review of the Album Launch at Dunedinmusic.com I mean, really that guy should be writing for the NME circa 1980.
There's a new Puddle video on YouTube
Seminal Dunedin band the Puddle were formed in 1983 by leader-singer-writer-guitarist George D Henderson and Bass player Ross Jackson- in their time many of the luminaries of the Dunedin music scene (including Shayne Carter, Peter Gutteridge, Leslie Paris, Norma O'Malley, Richard Steele, Alan Starett, and Martin Phillipps) have played in the ranks of the Puddle: the Puddle's drummer is Heath Te Au, who played with George in Mink in the 1990's. The Puddle have released the following recordings; Pop. Lib., Into The Moon, Live at the Teddy Bear Club (all on Flying Nun) and singles Thursday/Too Hot to be Cool (FN) and The Power of Love/Mamelons d'Amadou (acetone); they also had a hit with Southern Man which appeared on 3 compilations. The Puddle's latest CD "Songs for Emily Valentine" is out now on Powertool Records, and the Puddle are now recording new songs in Wellington. The Puddle's catholic mix of pop, blues, psychedelia, jazz, minimalism, rock'n'roll and god-knows-what-else appeals to humans of all ages who are not too proud to dance and the lyrics of love, sex, drugs, bewilderment and space travel are clearly audible at all times. Once known as psych-pop, the Puddle's style has since become hugely influential and many of today's musicians owe what cool they have to ill-acknowledged liftings from the Puddle songbook. Once-cult-now-people's favourites, and widely considered one of New Zealand's most inspiring live acts, today the Puddle are hotter than ever.Check out George's regular blogs on his myspace site.http://www.myspace.com/georgedhenderson
What I Believe - a track from The Puddle's forthcoming studio album, Playboys In The Bush. Filmed live at Refuel, August 2006, by Ian Henderson.
No Love - No Hate
A song recorded by GDH while recording the overdubs for the upcoming Puddle album.
