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The Riff Rats are Dead. Long live the Riff Rats. Frank and Colin are now known as Tank Black. You can find out more at the appropriate myspace page in our top friends.
The Riff Rats played their first gig as a three piece on May 10 2005 at Arc cafe in Dunedin where they formed. That line up was Franko Eggleton (guitar), Colin Andrews (guitar) and Iso12 (synth & drum machine). Their second gig a month later featured the same lineup but Pete McCartney on drums, that pretty much set the bench mark for the next 2 and a half years, they have never done more than a handful of shows with exactly the same line up... Eggleton and Andrews still play guitars and now share the vocals, they are the only ones to have played all 40+ gigs which has seen them play with 6 different drummers 2 bass players, a trumpet player, a thearemin player and a synth/vocalist... In those gigs they have played with: Die! Die! Die! The Mint Chicks, So So Modern, Actor Slash Model, The Alps of New South Wales, Frase and Bri, Haunted Love, Operation Rolling Thunder, Onanon, The Lovehaters, The Situations, Knife Fight, Volcana, Zombie? Fuck, Collapsing Cities, Thought Creature, the Wind Ups, The Futurians, Anji Sami, Death Rattle and Soul Seller. They had a track selected for the 2006 Radio One sampler, played a live to air, been playlisted on Radio Active, made a video which was played on Alt TV, podcast on French radio, etc hopefully more showing off later..... or not. It doesn’t matter.
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The Riff Rats are Dead, Long live the Riff Rats!

We’ve called it a day. Frank and Colin have a new band called Tank Black. It’s in The Riff Rats friends list if you want to know more. Thanks to everyone who has given us support over the ...
Posted by The Riff Rats on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:14:00 PST

Our full videos finally up on youtube! Yay!

Yeah check it out out out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGAoOknqD6AIt was made in Dunedin late last year, so its been a while coming i guess!Cheers to Chris Tegg for makin it!Hopefully there will be...
Posted by The Riff Rats on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 08:38:00 PST

Ooh Yea... NEW SHIT!!!

We got newly recorded songs.  "Power of the Brain", "LSD"  and "ZombieOmbiOmbie". you can listen to them all on our page. Colin and Franko are preeeetty farkin' excited bout it because they ...
Posted by The Riff Rats on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:33:00 PST

Gigs anywhere in Wellington?

We've got a gig on 13/12/06 and 16/1/07,but we'd like some more gigs in Dec and Jan in Wellingtron. If anyone has any spots that would be awesome! Wellington is cool, but still getting used to the win...
Posted by The Riff Rats on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:18:00 PST

ok so we're doin another couple of gigs in Duntown!

Yeah! We is playing at the Jam jar on the 10th of Nov with Onanon, Haunted Love and Murderbike Woo hoo! Then on the 16th we is playing with the Mint chicks(Raaargh!) at Arc cafe. We are so looking fo...
Posted by The Riff Rats on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 01:45:00 PST

Yay! Thanks to Chris Teg and Peter Louis we have a video!

Yay! Last week Chris Teg finished making a video for us that we really love. The track we use was made with the help of Peter Louis(Sharkweek/Tom Bosley experience) who produced it in his studio in hi...
Posted by The Riff Rats on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:09:00 PST

Last gig on Friday, gonna be a kick ass show!

Yeah its our last Dunedin show on Friday! But its gonna be cool cool cool! We playing with Actor/model great band from Melbourne who sound like. well great you have to come to hear it! Thought Creatur...
Posted by The Riff Rats on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:57:00 PST

The Riff Rats are moving to Wellington

Come November, it's goodbye Dunedin. Bye bye!
Posted by The Riff Rats on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 03:18:00 PST

Cheers! Onanon and Haunted love!

Hey we played with Onanon and Haunted love last night and it was fun! fun! fun! We really enjoyed playing at the jam jar with those brilliant bands, Colin and i weren't even that drunk! Toki who is dr...
Posted by The Riff Rats on Sat, 02 Sep 2006 07:44:00 PST

Crazy madness

Crazy gig last night! We played scattered loose noise sometimes verging on brilliance sometimes verging on madness. I don't know what happened, but Colin gets the showmanship award, Eddi gets the keep...
Posted by The Riff Rats on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 07:59:00 PST