Onanon

--- We got together, starved for decent rock/noise/pop/Dunedin music, in 2000, jammed a whole heap, and eventually put out a 7 song EP (’Quarterpack’) in 2001. ---

We couldn’t stop writing songs and playing and jamming, and soon had enough new tracks for an album, ’Hang On, I’m Still Mutating’, which we released in 2004. We changed drummers in this time - losing Al and gaining Ants - and ’Mutating’ has tracks from sessions we recorded with both band versions. (At some point we’d like to travel to Al’s overseas home and play a gig with both of them, AT THE SAME TIME!!!) ---

Still the songs kept coming, thick and very fast (many of them under 2 minutes), and we kept playing round town and jamming incessantly. We were basically playing every two weeks for eight months or more, and found that practising for gigs was getting in the way of the new material that desperately wanted to LIVE, so we took a bit of time off to learn new songs, and recorded some of the old songs for our second EP, ’Sneepy’, which we released in 2006. Other creative bits and pieces ended up on ’Sneepy’ in the form of music videos as well, some of which you can view below. ---

Basically we can’t stop writing songs, jamming together, and playing gigs. We fully expect this cycle of creation, madness and obsession to continue until arthritis sets in, and even then someone would’ve invented telepathic instruments or something . --- Next on the agenda is some post-touring recording for a new album or EP (we have so much beloved backlogged material we really ought to cut our losses and go straight for a boxset). We start mixing 14 tracks this week (mid Jan 08)!!!!



An extra special big thanks to Mr Chris Tegg for the great video for Bugged:



Watch this one too!



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