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Amy Racecar

Blonk! Werk! Doof! Zangy!

About Me

Amy Racecar have been making friends and music with the New Zealand public since early 2002. Picking up, dropping and firing many members through various line-ups over the years, Amy Racecar are now down to a core trio of fellas that outplayed and outlasted all the rest.Comprised of young go-getters, Karl Smith – Bass, Ben Thomson – Drums, Matthew Emery – Voice and Keys, Amy Racecar have now refined their sound from their heady days of chewing through 52 genres in 52 seconds into a new exciting positive form of inspirational song.With the release of their debut album ‘Conclusions’ in early 2007 Amy Racecar promptly moved over the ditch to lovely Melbourne in Australia and are having a swell time making love and performing music in that great big water forsaken country.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/2/2005
Band Website: amyracecar.com
Band Members: Karl - Bass Bass
Ben - Drums Drums
Matthew - Voice Voice
Sounds Like: Pop music with other bits.

'Acerbic modern rock seen on current stages as well as unparalleled oddities.' - Real Groove Magazine

'The peculiar beast that is Amy Racecar is sure to root the listener to the spot, whether it is from the ecstasy of musical carnage or horror at the toppling of pop idols.' - Rip It Up Magazine

'Perfect music for that slumber party with 50 year old men having pillow fights!' - muzic.net.nz

'...sounds like putting Head Like a Hole and The Brunettes in a blender and coming up with a completely new band that sometimes flirts with the current rock fascination for new wave and sometimes sounds like a cocktail of hallucinogens via the pop medium.' - Adrian Osman - Real Groove Magazine

Type of Label: None

My Blog

Part of Romance

After writing a dozen or so songs in Australia, Part of the Romance, was the first song where we felt we had started to find our feet and create a consolidation of elements from our past incorporated ...
Posted by Amy Racecar on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:29:00 PST

Yes! Complete Life Benefit Factor In One!

Some olde tunes posted for your pleasure!Exciting gig coming up with Horse Competition for their EP Release at the Evelyn in Fitzroy!This will be our first show with our new olde line up!We'll be play...
Posted by Amy Racecar on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:34:00 PST

Yup

we have a show coming up in melbourneo and a few back in NZ a bit later this year. recording a couple fresh tunes next month. Karoshi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...
Posted by Amy Racecar on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:42:00 PST

Time

woke up bald, in a car accident, evaded police, caught wrong bus home and its only 12.26pm...
Posted by Amy Racecar on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:28:00 PST

Rest

Sleep for 16 hours. Wake up, set fire to oven making coffee. Go back to bed....
Posted by Amy Racecar on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 07:40:00 PST

Food

Woke up at 1 and ate biscuits and chips. Lay on Couch, stared at ceiling.
Posted by Amy Racecar on Mon, 28 May 2007 01:42:00 PST

Excitement

Bought some staples and paper today.26/8 standard staples and 100 gsm white.
Posted by Amy Racecar on Thu, 24 May 2007 03:20:00 PST

Lovely

Put down some new music at Sing Sing yesterday.Make sure you have adequate blankets for the Winter....
Posted by Amy Racecar on Wed, 23 May 2007 08:46:00 PST

Happy Place

Yay Us!Conclusions is finished and in the can! Special thanks go out for the sterling efforts of Mike Tayler during recording and Captain Hook for the mastering sessions. We are really stoked with the...
Posted by Amy Racecar on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 01:59:00 PST

The Evens

We went and saw The Evens tonight, was a fab show, great performers and cool songs. A really inspirational evening. We have a new tune up on the quiet right now but will have some new stuff up for dow...
Posted by Amy Racecar on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 03:00:00 PST