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Day of the Meerkat

Take your shoes off!

About Me

This band is as cool as whipped cream, as mind bending as nitrous oxide and conveniently packaged like baby bottles of booze. You’ll want more after you taste, breathe and drink a little Day of the Meerkat. Simply put: they are unique-r than the rest.

A two guitar attack, bass, drums and a singer who croons or screams catastrophically while conjuring the 5th dimension from his kaos pad and theremin. Day of the Meerkat is the blood clot in the heart of conformity who will still have their songs marinating in your mind days after the aftermath. From epic journeys to short rowdy footstompers, they lead a bewildering and much needed sneak attack on the Australian music scene.

Day of the Meerkat were scabrous, spiky, schizoid and highly enjoyable. They took off on bizarre tangents all their own but informed by Mr Bungle, Tom Waits and even the scattershot rhythms of the Arctic Monkeys.
From: The Program By Nick Marland NSW | 05.01.2007

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/4/2007
Band Members:

VoX/FX: - Colonel Parkman

Guitar/Vox - Tyler

Lead Guitar - Brendan

Lead Bass - Viv

Skins - Professor B. Meerkat


Influences: Minutemen, The Shaggs, Custard, MC Hawking, QOTSA, Hedwig, Faith No More, WuTang, Señor Coconut.
Sounds Like: A crescendo of late night turtle chatter picked up on short wave radios by destitute ASIO agents
Record Label: Independent
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Lansdowne Part II: For The Undead

The CD release was like a firecracker and hairspray. Loud, stylish and hot hot hot.  Do it again? When the Pink Fits and the Unheard is what you got... why not?  This time we ...
Posted by Day of the Meerkat on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:08:00 PST

CD release party at the Lansdowne?!?! Shaka Kahn!!!!

Tired of your brain? The endless repetitionrepetition of the same synapses firing? Then get your brain to the Landsdowne on August 11 for our CD release party! Not only will your brain experience p...
Posted by Day of the Meerkat on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:44:00 PST

The Last Hoorah

So, one day left here in NYC!How will it be spent I wonder.  Heard word from a good man about a kick-ass restaurant down near the Bowery Ballroom, Sammy's Romanian - Hmmm.... I'm gonna check that...
Posted by Day of the Meerkat on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:02:00 PST

Meerkat in New York

Yo... Saw ol' Peeping Tom in Toronto last week.  I was backstage with Mike, Butterscotch and Dan after the show snorting lines of sugar masquerading as cocaine and thought to myself, does it get...
Posted by Day of the Meerkat on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:27:00 PST

Jiffy? An actual unit of time! Really?

Ladies and Gentlemen, Guess who just got his little hands on the final MP3 files for our EP!?  Ohhh baby! If only I wasn't on 56K internet over here. 83% downloaded. Sweet Jesus, I'm gonna run na...
Posted by Day of the Meerkat on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 11:31:00 PST

Why didn't I listen to Lou Reed?

Hey there! A lot of people have been asking us why we've been off the scene, why we haven't gigged for a while?  The straight answer is it's all my fault:I'm on a mission to New York City for Day...
Posted by Day of the Meerkat on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 04:46:00 PST

Where's there's a rumble there's a hunger

Hello Stranger,There's a rumble for some uploaded tunes, some gigs and a sneak attack on the Sydney scene.  Soon Day of the Meerkat will strike.  Soon they will see that we have only become ...
Posted by Day of the Meerkat on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 01:51:00 PST