News: Ringlets head to the UK and Europe for their first international tour this May. Ringlets have been gathering momentum since 2021, and now they’re taking that slow-burn ascent out of Aotearoa and into the wider world. This May, the quartet will set out on their debut UK and European tour, a run that trades familiarity for friction. It’s the kind of move that doesn’t guarantee anything, just a van, a handful of songs, and the quiet confidence that they might land somewhere new. If their trajectory so far is anything to go by, they’re not arriving untested. Backseat Mafia has already seen Ringlets in full flight on stage in Sydney.

Ringlets head to UK and Europe for tour their first international tour this May.
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News: The Legendary The Bats are alighting in Australia. Good news as the legendary The Bats are touring Australia - well, Sydney and Melbourne at this stage. Although do I note it's around the time of Dark Mofo in Hobart so hope springs eternal. Presented by the inimitable Mistletone, the tour follows on from their magnificent release last year of 'the album 'Corner Coming Up' through Flying Nun Records after a some seriously damned good singles ('Lucky Day', 'Loline' and 'The Gown'). Fresh from a triumphant, NZ tour, The Bats will deliver the live accompaniment to their much-loved 2025 album, 'Corner Coming Up', alongside treasured picks from their four-decades-deep knockout catalogue. 

News: The Legendary The Bats are alighting in Australia.
@mistletone @thebatsnz
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News: Aotearoa/New Zealand magical chanteuse Aldous Harding announces new album ‘Train On The Island’ and leads off with stunning single ‘One Stop’. Aldous Harding has just come off an amazing support slot with Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds in Australia where she shone with her intense, immersive delivery and soaring vocals (see my review here). Today, she announces a new album entitled 'Train On The Island' via Flying Nun Records and 4AD, and provides a very tasty amuse bouche by way of the single 'One Stop'. Delivered over an ambulatory rolling sparse riff that becomes transfixing and hypnotising, Harding's vocals are yearning and expressive, augmented by delicate harmonies. Acoustic guitars arise majestically as they jingle jangle in the background.

News: Aotearoa/New Zealand magical chanteuse Aldous Harding announces new album 'Train On The Island' and leads off with stunning single 'One Stop'.
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David Kilgour is a genius songwriter. Here's him leading the band Stephen.

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Track: Drape yourself in the exquisite folds of ‘The Gown’ as The Bats circle above, ready to land their new album in October. It's the prefect time for The Bats again as they release the single, 'The Gown', as we hit the home stretch to their forthcoming new album 'Corner Coming Up' on 17 October, through Flying Nun Records. 'The Gown' is the the third release off the new album which has to be one of the most hotly anticipated releases of the year, certainly in the antipodean outpost of Backseat Mafia. The track is a soft jangly reflective reverie, with Robert Scott's vocals yearning and melancholic and a bedrock of strings in the distance.

Track: Drape yourself in the exquisite folds of 'The Gown' as The Bats circle above, ready to land their new album in October.
@thebats @flyingnun
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Talking about a 10/10 album for me over here w @pitchfork.com
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Now playing The Bats - Daddy's Highway on Flying Nun Records. Excellent NZ melodic jangle pop.

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Point That Thing Somewhere Else - The Clean

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News: Aotearoa’s magnificent Ringlets announce intimate Australian East Coast tour Aotearoa/New Zealand’s fabulous  Ringlets have announced an Australian tour following the release of their second album, endearingly entitled ‘The Lord Is My German Shepherd (Time For Walkies)’ and recently reviewed by me here. I noted that the album is a blast of thoroughly commendable sonic joy. ‘The Lord Is My German Shepherd (Time For Walkies)’ is a stunning creative force: droll, wry and angry all the same time, laced with a sprightly delivery – angular and raw at times – and yet assured and swaggering with a thousand yard stare and a raised eyebrow.

News: Aotearoa's magnificent Ringlets announce intimate Australian East Coast tour
@_ringlets @flyingnun
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The Bats- KALX Acoustic in Studio, Berkeley 10/24/92 xfer f/KALX Archive tape Flying Nun New Zealand Here’s one from Rick Sylvain’s KALX archive. I don’t think this one is complete. Robert Scott from The Bats self-released some CDRs a while back, and there is one called “Li…

The Bats- KALX Acoustic in Studio, Berkeley 10/24/92 xfer f/KALX Archive tape Flying Nun New Zealand

One song, live acoustic. Hopefully the rest of the set will turn up.
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Point That Thing Somewhere Else by The Clean on Apple Music Song · 1981 · Duration 5:29

Point That Thing Somewhere Else – The Clean, from Boodle Boodle Boodle EP (1981)

“…up and down to that speed freak sound…”

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Book cover in red black and white, featuring the caricature sketch illustrated cover of the album by The Clean – Boodle Boodle Boodle by Geoff Stahl, 33 ⅓ Oceania

Now reading: Boodle Boodle Boodle by Geoff Stahl, on 33 ⅓ Oceania
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News: It’s our ‘Lucky Day’ as the legendary The Bats announce new album ‘Corner Coming Up’ through Flying Nun Records, with a glorious new single as a delectable amuse bouche. The Bats are still swinging from the glorious imperious belfry as the legendary band announce the release of their new album 'Corner Coming Up' on 17 October, preceded by the release of the shimmering single 'Luck Day'. Since the sad death of The Chills' Martin Phillipps, The Bats continue to stand tall as survivors of the influential Dunedin sound brought to us by Flying Nun in the eighties. The new single 'Luck Day' indicates this is a band that continues to glow with a blinding luminescence and exponentially grow in the process: their trademark fey and wistful pop sound augmented by glorious harmonies and a pure delicate and ethereal beauty in the melody.

News: It's our 'Lucky Day' as the legendary The Bats announce new album 'Corner Coming Up' through Flying Nun Records, with a glorious new single as a delectable amuse bouche.
@thebatsnz @flyingnun
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Track: Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Ringlets unveil second thundering single ‘Street Massage’ off their forthcoming album. New Zealand’s Ringlets  recently announced the release of their second album, endearingly entitled ‘The Lord Is My German Shepherd (Time For Walkies)’ for 27 June 2025, and have unveiled the second delicious tempting morsel, the single ‘Street Message. It follows the earlier single 'Heavenly Wheel' (reviewed by me here). Ringlets have that classic Dunedin sound and is kind of fitting they are on the legendary 

Track: Aotearoa/New Zealand's Ringlets unveil second thundering single 'Street Massage' off their forthcoming album.
@_ringlets @flyingnun
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Track: The legendary The Bats swoop in with the shimmering fuzzy new single ‘Loline’, as a new record shapes up. Surely the sun shines brighter the day we are blessed with another single from the living legends The Bats, one of the finest exports from Aotearoa, the land of the long white cloud. It's been five long years since their last album and The Bats have today released their new single 'Loline', while in the midst of recording a new album and the result is truly magnificent.

Track: The legendary The Bats swoop in with the shimmering fuzzy new single 'Loline' as a new record shapes up.
@thebatsnz @robertscottnz @flyingnun
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