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The Bats

The Bats - N Z - part of the whole

About Me

The Bats - with the same line-up since conception in 1983, have been playing their distinctive style of melodic infused pop folk/rock for long enough to have drifted in and out of fashion several times without even trying. They top the Best Unknown Band list of many music officianados around the world .. and still spark for savvy initiates into the music world of now. Here’s a recent email message from a young fan to Bats, Kaye and Paul’s daughter Rose ---------
"hey darl thought ud be interested in this... i was searching the nzmusic.com site coz a girl here is doing a study on nz music and im helping her, lol, and found this written about the bats in a message board, under the final bdo (BIG DAY OUT) line up’//////haven’t seen yet: ... The Bats.you are in for a treat. they are like the bestest live dance boogie Git-Down! live act in the history of kiwi music. they have one of the finest rhythm sections ever. i’m lucky enough to have seen them around half a dozen times in the last decade - they really kick out the jams more than 90% of the bands half their age......lol cool or wat! and ive listed them on the ’famous nz bands’ list that ive got here lol. neways, hope ur being gud in nz, miss ya xox" --------
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/9/2006
Band Website: thebats.co.nz
Band Members: Robert Scott, Kaye Woodward, Paul Kean, Malcolm Grant .. ....
Influences: love contemporary 2006 psychadaelic folk pop and still drawing from wide influences way back 50's Roy Orbison to Desmond Deker, 60's Velvet Underground to Troggs, 70's CAN to Neil Young to Gram Parsons, .. in the 80's we loved Cure, Smiths, New Order etc. 90's Stereolab to the 3D's. Now we like all sorts - Ladybird, Sambasadeurs, Daft Punk ... hard to pin point what makes us sound the way we do. Some people say we're like REM (but more bent funk punk folk pop!?) - we were developing around the same time - probably with a similar broad pelette of tastes to create from. Go check out http://www.myspace.com/sambassadeurtheband They've recorded a great version of Claudine and have some excellent songs of their own.
Sounds Like: sounds like? The Bats ... kind-of a stupid obvious answer - people say other bands sound like us more than we sound like other bands. Maybe you could help us out! Who do we sound like? Send us a message or post a comment. There are a couple of old vids below - and a brand new animated one by Christian Carruthers Flowers and Trees

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Record Label: Magic Marker, Pocket Music, Little Teddy, Egg, FN
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Bats acoustic Live To Air with Wammo

Acoustic LIVE TO AIR ON KIWI FM - 4th April 2008Up to the Sky, Castle Lights, Blindfold

shining review - let someone else tell you

Firescape reviewhttp://fireescapetalking.blogspot.com/2008/03/minisnap .htmllinksthis album review for Minisnap's Bounce Around is shining so brightly that Kaye's had to put her sunglasses on.AND"... T...
Posted by The Bats on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:01:00 PST

MINISNAP Lazy Sunday afternoon Tea Party

Minisnap are playing a free outdoor concert in the Christchurch Botanic Gardens at 3.30pm on Sunday afternoon as part of the Lazy Sunday series..We'll be playing songs from our new Bounce Around album...
Posted by The Bats on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:27:00 PST

Great song from Minisnap - NEW BROOM

Check out this video: NEW BROOM Add to My Profile | More Videos...
Posted by The Bats on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 09:09:00 PST

HEAVE MEDIA BATS interview

go here for an INTERVIEW with Bob and Kaye from The BATS on HEAVE MEDIA.http://www.heavemedia.com/interview.php?id=12
Posted by The Bats on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:52:00 PST

BATS animated video on C4music TV

For those of you living in New Zealand, our animated video for Flowers and Trees is being played on C4's Homegrown show - starts at 10.30pm tonight (Tues 19th Dec)
Posted by The Bats on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:44:00 PST

Check out this video: Flowers and Trees

Posted By:minisnapGet this video and more at MySpace.com...
Posted by The Bats on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 05:36:00 PST

BATS IMMORTALISED

Ever think that the Bats have survived way longer than your average band. Well they may live on for many more years yet - more than anyone could've imagined - without ageing!! A new animated video of...
Posted by The Bats on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 01:51:00 PST

Bats covers

We've been featuring a fine cover of an old Bats song, Claudine by Swedish band Sambassedeurs on our MySpace site. As they've now offered it on their site we're replacing it with a version of a Bats s...
Posted by The Bats on Wed, 24 May 2006 02:25:00 PST

I want a trillion friends. How to do it.

How do you add a colour to the background? How do you ask to be a friend of someone? Can someone help me .. please. Paul
Posted by The Bats on Mon, 03 Apr 2006 02:15:00 PST