I’m some three months behind the news, but it seems that my current favourite Kiwi band, TrinityRoots, is no more. Damn shame, their albums are great (especially the first, True) but the live show was something else. Check it out, I recommend Egos in its True incarnation (track 14 on their streaming player), for the best triangle/double bass combo you’ll ever hear anywhere.

So I started looking around a bit more, in case anything else momentous has happened (like Auckland disappearing, or a bridge over Cook Strait popping up overnight). No such luck, but it seems that two other pretty cool Kiwi bands are planning appearances here in the not-too-distant future.

Fat Freddy’s Drop will be in Paradiso on August 18th, then Lowlands the day after. The site is a godawful Flash monster, but I did manage to find some audio: the “Radio Fitchie” link in the bottom right hand corner plays one of their tracks. I don’t know whether it’s any good, ‘cos I’m on a machine without speakers. (Update: it appears the “Mad Feats” section has some audio too. It appears I’m far too uncool to listen to this stuff, or even to find it.)

The Black Seeds are advertising a European tour, apparently coming through Amsterdam. They don’t say when, but their latest booked gig is August 18th in Bristol, so sometime after that I guess. (Btw, some of the links to the gig page are broken, but it’s a pretty braindead error, read the URL and take a wild stab in the dark…) The site has audio. I presume it works. See above comment about speakers.