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About Me

Lawrence Arabia's career thus far has been hamstrung by the tragedy that was the destruction of the famous Pink and White Terraces in 1886, by the cataclysmic volcanic eruption of Mount Tarawera.
With the proceeds of his self-released debut album in May 2006, he intends to begin a massive campaign to turn the terraces into a world class freshwater diving attraction by using underwater digging apparatus to remove the metres of ash and other volcanic debris currently covering the terraces.
BOOKING
UK: Carl Gosling at CELESTIAL SOUP KITCHEN
Tel: 020 7434 0620 or e-mail:carl(at)heavenlyrecordings.com
PRESS
UK: Dan Miller at Scruffy Bird email: [email protected]
ALL OTHER BUSINESS PROPOSALS, BOOKINGS IN OTHER LOCALES, DIRECT TO: lawrencescricketdays(at)gmail.com, or just message this page...
Warming up backstage in Newcastle, June 2007.
In the roaring forties latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere, Lawrence fronts The Reduction Agents, here miming to "The Pool," filmed by Stephen Ballantyne at Point Erin YMCA Pool, just south of the Auckland Harbour Bridge.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/9/2005
Band Members:
Lawrence Arabia and The Erotic Threads, The Imminent Sexual Danger, The Neasden Ikea, The Week of Excellents, The Dagger of Intrigue, The Powerful Three, The Five Testicles, Cockerpoo who are: Chris Garland (The Smoking Rook), Dave Fraser (The Yorkshire Clam), EJ Barnes, Matt Eccles and Rodney Fisher.

Other Honorary Bedouins include but not limited to: Seamus Ebbs, Warner Emery, Rob Collins, Marcus Winstanley, Ryan McPhun, William Cotton, Harry Cundy, The Reduction Agents, Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra, Luke Buda, Guy Blackman, Isobel Knowles, Benjamin Luke Eldridge, Samuel Flynn Scott, Craig Terris, Tom Callwood, Liam Finn.
Influences:

T-Rex, Tall Dwarfs, stomping bands in 2/4 time, Beatles, friendly cats that approach me in the street, Beach Boys, Dolly Parton, Olivia Tremor Control, Lil' Chief Records, Neil Young, Bonzo Dog Band, Brango the Synthesist, honey bees, David Kilgour, all the solo projects of members of The Phoenix Foundation, fashionable krautrock-type things, Os Mutantes, Johnny Cash, glow worms, the Pink and White Terraces currently buried under metres of volcanic debris and located 30m beneath the surface of Lake Rotomahana.
Sounds Like: Lawrence Arabia - Bloody Shins

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Record Label: Honorary Bedouin Records (NZ)
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Beds needed in Europe!

Hello all,Just a call out if anyone is, or knows any generous people with a bit of floor or couch space in these places, please message us! We're quite clean, and we're good at making up jokes.And ...
Posted by Lawrence Arabia on Fri, 23 May 2008 06:38:00 PST

My buddies and me are gettin real well known

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertai nment/music/article3889768.ece
Posted by Lawrence Arabia on Sun, 11 May 2008 10:02:00 PST

Artrocker interview

Here's a link to an interview with yours truly on artrocker.com, instigated and executed by the very lovely Dave Taylor.Click this wee buggerPip pip.Lawrence.P.S. Not sure where the old currently list...
Posted by Lawrence Arabia on Fri, 02 May 2008 04:51:00 PST

2007/2008, an update

Bonsoir.Brief dispatch about recent events.Firstly. Happy New Year to all and sundry.Secondly.The wonderful band that had been with me, rocking literally dozens of Londoners to their very cores in 200...
Posted by Lawrence Arabia on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:22:00 PST

bNet award nominations, vote opportunity.

The Reduction Agents nominated for best video, for this one, directed by Stephen Ballantyne of Jensen Downes Ltd. James Milne nominated for best vocalist, for his excellent work as Lawrence A...
Posted by Lawrence Arabia on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:21:00 PST

Ray Columbus inducted into NZ Music Hall of Fame! Again!

For the seventh year running, Beatle-mop shakin', "She's A Mod" ravin, hip-swivelling R & B sensation from the 1960s, Ray Columbus has been inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame, in recogni...
Posted by Lawrence Arabia on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:18:00 PST

Little videos wanted.

If anyone out there is at a loose end and has a digital camera at their disposal, I would love people to make internet worthy videos for some or all of the songs on the Lawrence album.Even the slighte...
Posted by Lawrence Arabia on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 06:22:00 PST

two current loves and a couple of current dislikes

Perhaps these little outpourings are fairly futile, but it just feels good to have somewhere to enthuse about things sometimes, especially when you're at home alone and you just want to tell somebody,...
Posted by Lawrence Arabia on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:55:00 PST

New Reduction Agents video - "The Pool"

Hi. Here's the new Reduction Agents video for our song "The Pool." It is directed by Stephen Ballantyne from the production company Jensen Downes Ltd, and was executed with invaluable help from such...
Posted by Lawrence Arabia on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 08:52:00 PST

Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No!

I know this is not news to a lot of New Zealanders perhaps, but this album is really, really good. We listened to it maybe 8-10 times on tour and it's so bloody catchy, adventurous, relentless, brill...
Posted by Lawrence Arabia on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 06:35:00 PST