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About Me


Originally hailing from Christchurch, New Zealand.
As one of the longest serving bands for New Zealand independent record company Flying Nun, Bailterspace's first incarnation came in the form of the trio's group the gordons When the gordons were disbanded, Alister Parker and Hamish Kilgour (drummer for The Clean) commenced with a new project titled Nelsh BailterSpace.
After the release of the amazing Nelsh Bailterspace E.P., Bills and Humphries departed and ex-Skeptics guitarist John Halvorsen joined Hamish and Alister to play bass.
This initial Bailterspace lineup recorded the debut album Tanker. Kilgour went somewhere, and so Brent McLachlan was recalled to take on drumming like large. The album Thermos followed, recorded at Writhe studios in Wellington, and two years later The Aim e.p. was released on MATADOR (the title track a re-invented version of Nelsh's Our Aim), two of the songs being recorded in New York, thanks to Chris and Gerard from Matador who invited bailterspace to Manhattan.. Recording in New York, New Zealand, Germany and England, Bailterspace went on to produce Robot World , the B.E.I.P. e.p. , Vortura ,Wammo and Capsul
Aligning themselves with Turnbuckle Records, Bailterspace released the 8 song PHOTON E.P. which arrived on NZ shores and many other shores.. The Solar.3 album was released and was distributed through Wild Side Records/BMG in Australasia and Turnbuckle in the US.
Since then the band has been keeping a low profile as far as new recordings are concerned. Flying Nun (their original NZ label) put out a bailterspace compilation cd simply entitled 'bailterspace' which included a rare single track GlimmerDot (originally released on Amphetamine Reptile Records Dope Guns And Fucking) as well as an alternate version of At 5 We Drive.
Presently, Alister and Brent are working on new material which will be released really soon !
Watch this s p a c e as well :: www.bailterspace.net (unofficial fansite) for more news.
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Member Since: 2/22/2006
Band Website: bailterspace.com
Band Members: Brent McLachlan - drums, samples
Alister Parker - guitars, vocals, samples
John Halvorsen - bass, guitar, vocals
Todd Lindner - bass guitar
Ian Ljungquist - bass guitar

Influences:

Record Label: Flying Nun, Matador, Clawfist , Amrep, Turnbuckle
Type of Label: None

My Blog

[ BAILTERSPACE ] live @ the Bowery Ballroom, NYC

Yes folks, Bailterspace will indeed be back on stage at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City on Saturday the 23rd of August.The current lineup consists of Alister, Brent and new recruit Ian Ljungquist...
Posted by bailterspace on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:58:00 PST

New sounds from space!

As the bulletin suggests, there are brand new sounds in progress from the band.Alister and Brent have been constructing the new material over the past year or so and the uploaded samples are especiall...
Posted by bailterspace on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:54:00 PST

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For your audio-visual stimulation, Alister has uploaded some bailterspace videos from the archives. Available at the moment is the clip for Velo off the Capsul album and live jams of Shadow and DarkBl...
Posted by bailterspace on Thu, 03 May 2007 12:38:00 PST

Transmission 15.8.06

It's been a while since the first blog entry, but it's great to see the steady interest and support from all the visitors to this space.So, what are bailterspace up to right now? Well, having heard fr...
Posted by bailterspace on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:13:00 PST

Space 2006...

Greetings, to all the people who have discovered this little corner of cyberspace. As you can see and hear, a few songs have been uploaded recently for everyone to check out - so, turn your speakers u...
Posted by bailterspace on Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:06:00 PST