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Major website overhaul and other projectsI’m sorry I’ve been a bit slow on writing up new blog posts. Essentially, I’ve been really busy with the following:
Lastly, I’ve been meaning to give the blog more prominence in this website, so I’ve decided to move my Wordpress installation from theenrighthouse.com/blog to the root directory. I also want to take the opportunity to change the layout a little bit and modify some of the site’s pages, as well as getting the paypal store up and running. Meaning? This week you will see a lot of broken links, a lot of weird design changes happening in real time, errors, missing images, and non-loading mp3s. In other words, anything that can go wrong undoubtedly will. After this week is over, however, things should be quite swell. Will try to stay in touch more as soon as I get this website sussed out!
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Darkwave = MC Squared at the Arc Cafe in DunedinThank you Roger for shooting this video and sharing it with us! Prefer to watch the clip on youtube?
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The Enright House and HDU at Al’s Bar 04.30.2008
We’re stoked to be part of HDU’s album release tour, by bringing you the last-ever performance of our acoustic set! We religiously rehearsed the set for almost four months and then took it on a 10-day South Island tour, where we played these songs for hipsters, adults, children and grandparents. It will be hard to part with the wonderful experience of playing these tender renditions, so it will undoubtedly be an emotional farewell. Not only will it be the last-ever show in this format, but Thomas, our dear friend and former guitarist, will be down from Wellington to reunite us as the same 4-piece line-up that debuted the acoustic set at Camp A Low Hum earlier this year. If you missed us at camp and didn’t make it out during our tour, this is a show I think you won’t want to miss… I mean, for Pete’s sake, it’s a show with HDU, right? Don’t sit this one out if you like our music - you’ll be sorry you did, attract heaps of rancid Karma, and get smashed in the face by a crash-landing flying saucer. Don’t say I didn’t warn you…
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This Monday: EH at Real Groovy in ChCh [5 pm]
Real Groovy, one of our local record stores, is holding a series of instore performances this coming week to honor New Zealand’s music month (an annual “celebration” of New Zealand’s local music). Anyhow, Simon, our drummer, is away on a school trip this Monday, so Evan and I will be playing the upcoming instore performance as a duo. Evan will be on piano and brushed snare, and I’ll be playing guitar and some accordion. In contrast to the acoustic set we took on tour, I’m actually bringing my looping pedal with me. In addition to Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, which we’ve not played acoustically to date, we’ll also be debuting a new “song”. Aside from the HDU gig on the 30th, this will be your last chance to catch us playing acoustically, and almost certainly the last time you’ll catch me playing an accordion :). Be there or be triangular. -M.
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South Island Acoustic Tour
All dates with Shaun K Anderson!
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Friday 28th: Gig with So So Modern and O’Lovelys
Friday night at Christchurch’s the Jetset. We go on 10.30 sharp. We’re playing one 20 minute song that you will never have heard before and will, most likely, never hear us perform again. Instrumental rock meets overly self-indulgent reality TV. Don’t be late.
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Camp A Low Hum “Solitaire” live videoHere’s a clip of us playing “Solitaire” acoustically at Camp A Low Hum 2008 last month. Thank you, Dan, for capturing it!
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Planning our acoustic tour for April/March 2008
Yesterday birthed a rather gloomy post; all apologies to you for having been such a killjoy. Lo and behold, however: the sun did indeed rise again this very morning (much, I am sure, to David Hume’s annoyance). So, today I started work on organizing our next tour (yay tour!!! - ed.). The general idea is to play 10-13 shows, circumnavigating New Zealand’s South Island. If you happen to be reading this and live on the North Island: please don’t be cross with me or the boys for not being able to make it up this time around, but, unfortunately, we just don’t have enough time off between the three of us to make it happen (however, we will be touring up north at least once within the next 9 months: that’s a promise). I’ve wanted to play some rather more unlikely places for a while now, and when Evan mentioned to me that he had never been further south than central Otago, nor seen much of the South Island’s spectacular west coast, I just knew right then and there that we needed to put exploration ahead of exposure and go have ourselves a bit of an old-fashioned adventure! In fact, I am so rediculously exited about this tour it’s already bordering on mania! Haha.
Current plans include playing in Oamuru, Dunedin, Lyttelton, Invercargill, Nelson and Christchurch. In addition, I am researching possible stops in Timaru, Takaka and Motueka, as well as some more unlikely places like Okarito and Stewart Island (my favorite contender). Thus, most of this afternoon and night I’ve spent hunched over a map, googling countless towns I’ve never heard of, pillaging the various venue-directories for ideas, and calling and emailing a first handful of venues about availability. There are still plenty of wildcards left to sort out… Greymouth? Westport? Queenstown? In terms of venues, almost everything is wide open. And where, pray, does one play on a Sunday or Monday night? Is anyone even open? In fact, have I ever bothered to go to a show myself on a Monday night? Oh dear. Haha. I’m hoping that some of you might even consider inviting us to play in your home? Do you listen to our music and live somewhere where bands don’t play often? We are traveling with a tiny PA and are only using a small toy drumkit. Chances are if you have a livingroom, there will be enough space for us to play for you. Do you have ten friends who might want to come over for afternoon coffee or some late-night drinks and live music? Don’t be shy, don’t think I’m kidding… please get in touch with me (Mark) at “info AT theenrighthouse DOT com” or txt me at 0211028876. For serious! Also, I really need your help if you have any ideas about towns or venues to play. I’m looking up venues online, but many of the venues have no pictures and not a lot of bands have played Invercargill, for example, so it’s often hard to find people who can share their experiences. If you live in or around any of the places that I mentioned in this post and have an idea about where our music (remember, it’s an acoustic set) might fit, please let us know. Finally, if you have a place we could sleep at (we’re only three harmless boys), we would totally make you breakfast and play you a happy song over a glass of orange juice. Ok. I’ve never done this. I’m excited. Any advice or suggestions? I could really need some help with this…
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Camp A Low Hum 2008 photosSome of my favorite photos from camp:
More photos at photobucket.
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First impressions of Southern AmpFirst of all, a big thank you to all of you who came out to see us yesterday! Like I mentioned on stage, we were really happy to see so many people gathered around the local stage, when, of course, all of you could just as easily have chosen to spend your time watching far more well-known acts on the main stage.
So how did it go? Well, usually I have pretty mixed feelings about a gig on the day-after, but this morning, I have to admit, I find myself in a total state of post-ecstatic equilibrium. I think we all drew enormous amounts of confidence and joy from all the heartfelt audience support during songs, and I, too, just felt really connected to the lyrics and the music. In short, yesterday was awesome, and for that all four of us are just plain grateful and happy.
Our Southern Amp setlist:
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