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The Dry

About Me

The Dry is a band from Dunedin, New Zealand, consisting (most recently) of Matthew, Patrick and Andrew. With Andrew now living in Japan, The Dry is now only an occasional band (playing shows when ever the band is all in one place) thedry[.]50webs[.]org

other projects:
TonalFlux
The Bradley Initiative
The Local Hoons

Building on the Construct available to download

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 16/06/2006
Band Website: thedry.50webs.org
Band Members: Matthew Thompson, Patrick Copeland, Andrew Robinson
Influences: hdu, the clean, sigur-ros, joy electric, eight, the mars volta, debussy, radiohead, mew, john cage, starflyer 59
Sounds Like: mew, sigur-ros, radiohead probably others
Record Label: none

My Blog

reunion gig

the dry is playing a gig at refuel on 13/10/09. it's free, so unless you have a family crisis, i expect you to be there.we may have a couple of guests play some tapes/noise, but we'll see how it goes
Posted by on Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:20:00 GMT

here's what's happening

I was going to use the name The Dry for future 'rockish' type music releases, and Matthew, for other stuff.  I've decided to leave The Dry for if we ever do anything as a group again, and just release...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:53:00 GMT

he traveled to the stars link fixed

fixed up the archive.org link for he traveled to the stars, so it actually works now :)
Posted by on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:32:00 GMT

updated album download

updated download link for he traveled to the stars (on the recordings entry, and on the website).mostly because the vocals in the last track were a little on the annoying side :) - oh well, hopefully ...
Posted by on Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:08:00 GMT

busy

well, i've been busy lately, 2 new releases for you (check out the recordings page or the website for a download link). enjoy
Posted by on Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:56:00 GMT

recordings

all releases are now available an tonalflux.bandcamp.com a list of The Dry / recordings: (see myspace.com/tonalflux for other releases)The Dry - He traveled to the starsrelease using mostly acoustic ...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Dec 2008 23:48:00 GMT

week off

i'm having a week off at the moment, before i go to my new day job on monday.i'm at one of those places in the creative process, that i don't feel particularly excited about the music i'm composing. i...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:38:00 GMT

progress update

hey, here's a progress update:so far i've been working on 2 very different ideas. the first could be classed as 'electro-acoustic', where i took a tape recording of an arrangement i made for my high ...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:41:00 GMT

more tapes

so far, i've got a recording of an arrangment for piano, cello and violin i composed in highschool.i also have about 10 minutes of radio cancelations (on a snow day).it'll be interesting to see what h...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:41:00 GMT

the dry on virb

just a note, you can also find the dry on virb.comhttp://virb.com/thedrythankyou.
Posted by on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:46:00 GMT