Releases
the Cakekitchen / Dairy High split 7 inch (RUB-001)
Limited edition: 520 copies
Side one: Honeypod in My Head by the Cakekitchen
Side two: Evil Lullaby by Dairy High
The single is available at shows or via mail order. You can also grab it at indie music retailers in Auckland (New Zealand), Barcelona (Spain) or Amsterdam (Netherlands) if you're lucky.
Graeme Jefferies of the Cakekitchen has been writing and recording his own music for over 20 years. He has toured all over the world and released his material on such notable labels as Homestead, Merge, Flying Nun, Hausmusik and even Warner Brothers and RCA. Starting young, Graeme was part of the early 80s home recording boom championed by Flying Nun Records and enjoyed considerable success with his bands “The Cakekitchen“ and “This Kind of Punishment“. A lot of larger American Indie bands (such as Pavement or Yo La Tengo) acknowledged their appreciation of the early 80’s New Zealand scene and this had a direct effect upon the more hugely successful late 80s, early 90s American Indie Scene.
For those of you looking for band info in Russian, you can find it at our other page here. Sorry, folks but MySpace does not seem to support cyrillic characters at profile pages for some reason. Cheers!
Band Bio
Dairy High are often hailed as being one of the first Russian indie bands. Even though its not exactly true, they were possibly the first Russians to inherit traditions of American alternative rock music scene of mid 80s early 90s and the Britpop invasion.
The Russian group formed in 1999. Dairy High took the unusual step of rehearsing and gigging for well over a year before recording even a demo tape. They mostly played small venues and never performed outside of Moscow. While not generally classified as a shoegazing band, Dairy High did share a tendency to blend poppy melody with loud guitars.
The first song which they released was called Zralok (the Czech for shark). Zralok appeared to muted reaction on three compilations in 2001-2002. Dairy High split in 2002 when band members went to pursue different musical directions giving birth to several other acts. The year 2003 was marked by a release of Radio the Boat compilation which featured Most Expensive Crash, a new song by Dairy High. However, the studio sessions came to a halt and there were no live shows.
In the late 2005 the band was revived. Four new songs were recorded in Riga (Latvia) to coincide with Dairy High' first ever festival appearance at Zaljumballe, a local festival of alternative music. The new songs were produced by Vladimir Komarov of Hot Zex and Punk TV .
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