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Ghostplane

Beneath The Sleepy Lagoon - out now!

About Me

Three years ago Ghostplane were formed on the winds of change as Wellington band, Dana Eclair, began reforming their identity. Ghostplane came to represent the fruits of pop/alt-country/indie-rock experiments. Achilles and Mark write lovely, quirky and somewhat dark indie pop gems. The rest of Ghostplane devote our time to making everything sound a bit weird. Mike especially. Ash brings a girl's considered touch to things.We have two releases out, 2004's "Panther Valley Country Club" mini record and 2005's long player "Beneath The Sleepy Lagoon". We will not be modest - they are rather cracking albums, so check them out...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/20/2006
Band Website: ghostplane.com
Band Members: Achilles Botes (Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Keyboards, Claps and Footstamps)------ Mark Dryburgh (Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Keyboards, Hoots and Hollers)---------- Ash Harmer (Bass Guitar, Vocals, Percussion, Keyboards, Accordion, Noise)---- Mike Scudder (Keyboards, Percussion, Trombone, Accordion, Bells and Whistles)-
Influences: Grandaddy, Silver Jews, Smog, Cat Power, Flaming Lips, Pajo, The Verlaines, Wilco, Sparklehorse, Arcade Fire, Bright Eyes, Will Oldham, Bob Dylan, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Calexico, Lambchop, M Ward, Radiohead, Doves, Gomez, Fugazi, Jim White, Neil Young, Air, Pixies, Iron and Wine, Belle and Sebastian, Sonic Youth, The Beta Band, Loose Fur, The Velvet Underground, The Band, Beck, The Black Heart Procession, Sufjan Stevens, The National, Radar Bros.... um, and lots lots more. This is probably just a list of bands we like, we probably don't sound anything like them...
Sounds Like: Ghostplane fall very approximately into the category of experimental indie rock/pop with a side of dark alt-country thrown in. With three vocalists, acoustic and electric guitars, miscellaneous semi-functioning electronic devices, lopsided rhythms, old drum machines and due respect to the random element, you could say, in musicological terms, they've got their own thing going...
Record Label: Check out our releases www.archhill.co.nz
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Drummer (or lack of)

Well, it is official. Strange wee British elves have kidnapped Andrew and are currently holding him hostage. He has to witness unbearable acts. He has had frightening encounters with Wayne Coyne's ass...
Posted by Ghostplane on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:19:00 PST

Finally got our A into G

Welcome to our new Myspace page, we promise to be good and keep track of it even though Ghostplane are notoriously not on the money when it comes to these things. Keep an eye out for some so...
Posted by Ghostplane on Tue, 04 Apr 2006 05:53:00 PST