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--- Rumpus Room
Rumpus Room continue to work hard on various ideas not directly related to the band. This hiatus from Rumpus Rooming has resulted in a number of other projects and events taking place that we at Rumpus MySpace, will endeavour to keep you up to date with as information comes to hand.
In the meantime take a seat and watch the award winning Greg Page directed music clip for Rumpus Room single ”JBS”. Hand drawn and shot on a budget of nothing in Greg’s Room over the course of one or two long and lonely nights, the clip features 100’s of sketches from Greg’s personal journals, spanning years of scribbling, ranting, and occasional bouts of madness.


JBS by Rumpus Room



---- Rumpus Room Song Codes
You can now add Rumpus Room songs to your own profile. Just copy all the code from the text boxes below each song and add it to your profile.
Rumpus Room – Step Around
Rumpus Room – Step Around
Rumpus Room – Any Way You Want
Rumpus Room – Any Way You Want
Rumpus Room – JBS
Rumpus Room – JBS


--- artbythepage
Greg continues to work long into the night producing the bizarre little personalities he likes to call art. Often locked away for hours on end, surrounded by the smell of paint, wild cats, weird sudden flashes of light and the odd paint throwing compulsion, Mr page has produced some of the most sort-after works in New Zealand.
paki
You can find a wider selection of his works, many for sale, on his personal website artbythepage . There you can trace some of the history of Greg’s works, see his latest creations, and even bid on something you might like to take home for the kids.
andy
While many would prefer the comfort of a reclining lounge sweet and the soft scrapping of the physiatrists’ pencil to exorcise their demons, Greg prefers to let the darkest reaches of his imagination, his bizarre childhood memories, and his offbeat sense of humour, run wild across the boards.
scott
Have a look further down the page to see more of Greg's work.
--- Airwigg Records
Scott spends a certain amount of his spare time (and cash) driving himself mad, releasing compilation CD’s from his home town of Hamilton, in New Zealand. The cities Indie music scene has always produced an eclectic array of brilliant tunes from some very stunning independent bands. Of the four he has put together, three are still available including the latest release Area 07.
Area 07
Featuring:
The Deadly Deaths , Amy Racecar , The Shrugs , Dynamo Go , DEAN , The Gills , The Hollow Grinders , 4 Second Fuse , Rumpus Room , Gadget Goose , This Night Creeps , The Beautiful Burn , aether , Radiator , Badd Antix , Final Chance , Fideleo , St Lucy , Venomous Mic Technicians , 4 Corners , EvL J , luna spark , Chanelle Davis .
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Area 07
Featuring:
The Deadly Deaths , Amy Racecar , The Shrugs , Dynamo Go , DEAN , The Gills , The Hollow Grinders , 4 Second Fuse , Rumpus Room , Gadget Goose , This Night Creeps , The Beautiful Burn , aether , Radiator , Badd Antix , Final Chance , Fideleo , St Lucy , Venomous Mic Technicians , 4 Corners , EvL J , luna spark , Chanelle Davis .
zeropointone
Featuring:
Rumpus Room , Southern Tribe , Mobile Stud Unit , The Datsuns , luna spark , The Shrugs , One Man Riot , Stadium , Stardrunk , Daisy Chain Halo , Dead Pan Rangers , eightyeight , Cornerstone Roots , Wonderbug , DEAN , Dogs On Prozac , Tweeter , The Hollow Grinders , Semi-Detached Unit .
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zeropointone
Featuring:
Rumpus Room , Southern Tribe , Mobile Stud Unit , The Datsuns , luna spark , The Shrugs , One Man Riot , Stadium , Stardrunk , Daisy Chain Halo , Dead Pan Rangers , eightyeight , Cornerstone Roots , Wonderbug , DEAN , Dogs On Prozac , Tweeter , The Hollow Grinders , Semi-Detached Unit .
Year Zero
Featuring:
Inspector Moog , Tweeter , Rumpus Room , Pugface , Scooter , The Crimson Scene , Schrödinger’s Cat , Fade , The Datsuns , Inchworm , Handsome Geoffery , Southern Tribe , The Slit Family , One Man Riot , Death Valley 69 , Mobile Stud Unit , Trucker , eighteight , 4 Corners , The Hollow Grinders , Dead Pan Rangers , The Clampers .
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Year Zero
Featuring:
Inspector Moog , Tweeter , Rumpus Room , Pugface , Scooter , The Crimson Scene , Schrödinger’s Cat , Fade , The Datsuns , Inchworm , Handsome Geoffery , Southern Tribe , The Slit Family , One Man Riot , Death Valley 69 , Mobile Stud Unit , Trucker , eighteight , 4 Corners , The Hollow Grinders , Dead Pan Rangers , The Clampers .
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Area 07
Featuring:
The Deadly Deaths , Amy Racecar , The Shrugs , Dynamo Go , DEAN , The Gills , The Hollow Grinders , 4 Second Fuse , Rumpus Room , Gadget Goose , This Night Creeps , The Beautiful Burn , aether , Radiator , Badd Antix , Final Chance , Fideleo , St Lucy , Venomous Mic Technicians , 4 Corners , EvL J , luna spark , Chanelle Davis .
zeropointone
Featuring:
Rumpus Room , Southern Tribe , Mobile Stud Unit , The Datsuns , luna spark , The Shrugs , One Man Riot , Stadium , Stardrunk , Daisy Chain Halo , Dead Pan Rangers , eightyeight , Cornerstone Roots , Wonderbug , DEAN , Dogs On Prozac , Tweeter , The Hollow Grinders , Semi-Detached Unit .
Year Zero
Featuring:
Inspector Moog , Tweeter , Rumpus Room , Pugface , Scooter , The Crimson Scene , Schrödinger’s Cat , Fade , The Datsuns , Inchworm , Handsome Geoffery , Southern Tribe , The Slit Family , One Man Riot , Death Valley 69 , Mobile Stud Unit , Trucker , eighteight , 4 Corners , The Hollow Grinders , Dead Pan Rangers , The Clampers .


--- Duotone
Andrew’s love of machines has gone beyond music and into the big wide world of the world wide web. His media design company Duotone Design & Communication has grown somewhat uncontrollably as Andrew continues to develop his unique take on web design.
While the rest of Rumpus Room has often wondered if Andrew's obsession with codes, computers, and sequencing, is the result of a slight case of autism or perhaps a bump on the head, Andrew suggests that it is merely an escape from the inaccurate and unscientific art of playing guitar for Rumpus Room, and that after a good session of Rumpusing he needs the calm and seclusion of his ever-friendly machinery.
Of course Andrew deals with a number of corporate clients and handles everything from web design to company logos, print media, and on site display material. His first love is the arts and music however, and he is very approachable if you are looking for a web design for your band or company. Contact him through the Duotone website .


--- The Locals
In 2003 Greg wrote and directed his first feature film. The Locals is a b-grade style horror set in the backwaters of the Waikato region in New Zealand. An area Greg spent many nights in driving to and from Rumpus Room practices.
The Locals DVD
The Waikato is prone to sudden mists and fogs and is kind of spooky late at night on the back roads around Huntly and Gordonton. An area also often littered with deserted burnt out wrecks of stolen cars.


This setting inspired Greg to pen the script that would later become his first feature film. The Locals stars John Barker, Dwayne Cameron, Kate Elliott, Aidee Walker, Paul Glover, Peter McCauley and features a soundtrack that includes tracks from The D4, The Datsuns, Mobile Stud Unit and of course, Rumpus Room.
The Locals Soundtrack
Greg is currently working on new scripts for future features. Keep visiting Rumpus MySpace for more details.


--- Greg's Gallery
Here you will find a selection of Greg's artworks. Please feel free to peruse the selection, however no photography, food, dogs or art-wank double speak allowed.
Ok. Maybe dogs are ok. But none of that other stuff!
furious fool
school camp
cass
instant coffee headache
2 foot of head

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/19/2006
Band Members:



--- The Rumpus Crew

Chris Paki - Guitar and Vocals

Andrew Newth - Guitar

Scott Newth - Bass and Vocals

Greg Page - Drums



Plus past and life members:

Jane Pierard - Guitar, Cello, and Vocals

Kent Newth - Guitar

Scott Brodie - Guitar and Vocals

Influences:

--- Radio Rumpus

Tune in and check out our ever-changing radio station generated for Rumpus Room by Last.fm Rumpus Room listeners.



--- Sonic

Scott ‘sonic’ Newth is one of New Zealand’s most experienced free-lance live sound engineers and still spends much of his time touring the world trying to find that perfect eq. Which with the right microphone placements is usually no eq at all.

He has mixed The Datsuns live since 1999 and has worked with them extensively in over 20 countries since their debut record appeared in 2002. Working in the tiniest clubs, most elaborate concert halls, and biggest of stadiums.



Scott’s live mixes have been heard at most of the worlds biggest festivals, including Summer Sonic (Japan), Southside, Hurricane, Rock am Ring, and Rock im Park (Germany), T In The Park (Scotland), Reading and Leads (England), Pinkelpop (Netherlands), Ozfest and SXSW (USA) and the Big Day Out (Australasia) to name just a few. He has also mixed support acts on tours with The White Stripes, Metalica, Pixes, Velvet Revolver, and The Hellacopters.

Following is a list of bands Scott has mixed on at least one occasion:

The Datsuns, Cornerstone Roots, The Mint Chicks, Olmecha Supreme, The Dirtbombs, Cut Off Your Hands, Sahara Hotnights, Frankenbok, The Casanovas, So So Modern, Die! Die! Die!, This Night Creeps, Flatline, The Shrugs, Subtract, Loves Ugly Children, Deerhoof, Stereo Bus, Chuganaut, Mobile Stud Unit, Trucker, The Gills, Agent, The Twitch, Jaggerdy Ann, Slipping Tongue, World War 4, Illdisposed, Dead Pan Rangers, Grande Cobra, Jakob, Dynamo Go, Inchworm, Grok, Teenwolf, Magnum Opus, Rook, The Vacants, The New Caledonia, The Whipping Cats, The Deadly Deaths, Sora Shima, Bearcat, White Birds and Lemons, Kitty Hawk, Lapser, MC Stormtroopa, Charlie ASH and many more…..

Click on the pics to hear more from the bands Scott has worked with:

--- The Datsuns

Rumpus Room’s Scott ‘sonic’ Newth has been travelling the world mixing The Datsuns live shows. His travels have taken him to far off and exotic places, and not so far off less exotic places.

The Datsuns

Scott has also been seen in the studio and has recorded a number of b-sides and singles with the band. He also recorded and mixed the live sound for The Datsuns limited edition DVD available with third album Smoke and Mirrors.

Outa Sight / Outa Mind

Scott and The Datsuns have been in Sweden recording the band's as yet untitled fourth studio album. Five weeks and 19 songs were recorded using a Neve console, a Studer 24 track 2 inch tape machine, and a healthy collection of vintage microphones, pre-amps and compressors.

The album should be completed very soon, with a release date sometime in 2008.

Smoke & Mirrors

Scott’s recent travels have been documented on camera. These shots were taken in various European cities. More will be added once they come to hand.

Greg Page has also been involved with The Datsuns . He recently painted up 3000 frames for a music clip for the single ‘Waiting For Your Time To Come’. Greg’s highly sort after works have been given a life of their own in this amazing little story of a man who dreams in colour but lives his days in a dreary world of black and white.


Waiting For Your Time To Come




Waiting For Your Time To Come - The Datsuns





--- Southern Tribe

Andrew’s Southern Tribe is not just a whimsical Rumpus Room side project. For Andrew it could be the other way around as Southern Tribe was around long before Rumpus Room came into existence. The distraction of Rumpus Room has meant that Southern Tribe has been put on the back burner for a time. But Rumpus MySpace can now reveal that Andrew has planes anew for the ambient dub based instrumentals that gave him some MTV success a few years back with the track ‘Closer’.



As a child Andrew spent way to many years soldering up home made radio sets and making machines that go ping. After discovering the awesome power of the Atari computer, and the abilities of MIDI, Andrew’s life was changed forever. Armed with the power to process, sample, reconstruct, deconstruct, loop, and layer all at the same time, Southern Tribe was born. Half machine, half organics you really need to hear for yourself the long held Southern Tribe philosophy of taking it easy.

Visit the Southern Tribe MySpace page to see and hear more.



--- Mobile Stud Unit

Some time ago Chris Paki joined in with the crass punk rock ensemble they call Mobile Stud Unit . At this time, Chris had already been playing with Fallen (also featuring fellow future Rumpus Room members, Andrew and Scott).

MSU’s controversial sound was changed forever with the arrival of Chris on guitar. Former members of MSU had played everything from the acoustic guitar, to the Kazoo, giving the band an almost hippy punk rock feel, if that is possible. Chris however plugged in his giant Marshal and away the band went, sliming down to a four piece and playing proper punk versions of the back catalogue, as well as continuing on to write some of MSU’s catchiest material.



Three albums later, MSU is still playing the occasional gig, although not as prolific as they once were. Only indefinable comedic front man Rowan ‘Marxi’ Marx remains from the original line up. MSU started as a student prank. A joke band, that became so popular, it outlived its own tenancy and has gone on to become a living legend of the Hamilton music scene. Surviving the joke, due to the uncanny ability to write the catchiest sing-a-longs the city has ever witnessed.

--- World War Four

What with Greg’s obsession with painting things black, his love of fast cars and big trucks, and a penchant for tights and blonde wigs, it was only a matter of time before he sort therapy as the drummer in a Heavy Metal band.

So when the opportunity came along to drum for World War Four , he could not say no. (If you have seen the other members of WW4, you wouldn’t dare say no either). Greg had already hit it off with front man and New Zealand Heavy Metal / Hard Rock legend Paul ‘The Axeman’ Martin, during a trip they made to the modern day Mecca of all things metal, Ozzfest.

The Axeman’s legendary radio show The Axe Attack has become one of the most iconic radio shows in New Zealand and has led many a young teen straying towards the dark side of the tee-shirt store since the mid 1980’s.

So now, when the moon is full, and Greg has had a tough day working on his many other projects. He often finds himself driving once more into the nether regions of the misty Waikato to bash the drums for World War Four, along with Paul Martin on guitar and Cass Wilson, owner of very large dogs, on the bass.

The Axe Attack – New Zealand Metal Vol 1

--- Blane Confrontation

This would be Rumpus Room’s sister band, if it weren’t for the fact that Blane Confrontation is an only child.

Type of Label: None

My Blog

Big Thanks to MySpace!

Rumpus MySpace would like to thank the official MySpace people for the new and incredibly ugly nav bar that we now have on our page. Its truly awful! We would also like to thank them for sending us ...
Posted by Rumpus Room on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:05:00 PST

Dog

As promised, and in celebration of Rumpus MySpace reaching a whopping 6000 profile views, Rumpus Room has given us their first ever-recorded work to put up on the site.Dog was first released in 1997 o...
Posted by Rumpus Room on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:37:00 PST

What Rumpus Room did today... (part 39) Rumpus 6000

Some of you may have noticed that Rumpus Myspace is closing in on 6000 profile views. The four members of Rumpus Room have assured as here at Rumpus MySpace that they will be working around the clock...
Posted by Rumpus Room on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:31:00 PST

technical hitch

Rumpus Myspace would like to apologise if you are visiting our site and can see a picture of 'The Spice Girls". We are working hard to rectify this problem, but in the mean time, we are really really...
Posted by Rumpus Room on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 02:58:00 PST

What Rumpus Room did today... (part 38) - Re-rumpus

Greg has returned to his roots. That being, late night scary drives through the misty Waikato after playing drums for hours on end in some back-road mushroom farmers disused implement shed, while sur...
Posted by Rumpus Room on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:40:00 PST

What Rumpus Room did today... (part 37) - long lost blog

It's been a long time since our last post. We here at Rumpus Myspace were not even sure if we were still even employed!But eventually we caught up with at least three of the four Rumpus members to fi...
Posted by Rumpus Room on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:54:00 PST

Get Area 07

Area 07http://www.smokecds.com/cd/42294">Featuring:The Deadly Deaths, Amy Racecar, The Shrugs, Dynamo Go, DEAN, The Gills, The Hollow Grinders, 4 Second Fuse, Rumpus Room, Gadget Goose, This Night Cre...
Posted by Rumpus Room on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:32:00 PST

Yellow Submarine Benefit Show - Friday 13th

Rumpus Room are venturing onto the stage for the first time in a long time to play the Yellow Submarine Benefit show in Hamilton This Friday the 13th of July. 9 bands will perform on two stages in the...
Posted by Rumpus Room on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:51:00 PST

What Rumpus Room did today... (part 36) - Breakages.

Today Rumpus Room got ready for their next show (on Friday the 13th of July) by rehearsing inside the Yellow Submarine, Hamilton cities awesome new music venue. There were some breakages.Andrew buste...
Posted by Rumpus Room on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 05:47:00 PST

What Rumpus Room did today... (part 35) - For Sale.

Those of you wanting a piece of the Rumpus action will now find certain items for sale from Rumpus MySpace. You can now click on the icon to purchase various items from Rumpus Room or The Datsuns, o...
Posted by Rumpus Room on Mon, 21 May 2007 04:00:00 PST