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· Bath St: Future Sound of Dunedin 4th Birthday
· Captain Cook Tavern: The Bats NZ September Spring Tour
· Di Lusso: Jimmy Fresh aka Mr J Reggae
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Wednesday July 22nd
Press Release: Sunley Band CD Release
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dunedinmusic.com and derivative audio are downright chuffed to invite you to our shindig. The brand new album from Sunley, Apologies will be released on Saturday the 25th of July and we’re having a good old fashioned party down here in Dunedin. Join us at Refuel for a beautiful night with some of Dunedin’s finest musicians. A specially fashioned, custom-crafted version of the Sunley Band is joined by the incomparable Julian Temple, the inimitable Tono and the Finance Company and the unstoppable Operation Rolling Thunder, and is champing at the bit to entertain.
SUNLEY APOLOGIES album release: 25/07/2009, Refuel, Cumberland Street, Dunedin
With: Sunley Band, Operation Rolling Thunder, Tono and the Finance Company and Julian Temple
Door price: $10 or $20 with a copy of the album. Doors: 9pm
There’s something mournful about Sunley’s music. Even when it jumps up on a table and kicks your drink over, you’re mesmerised by the odd gravity of it. Curdling beneath the harmonies is a sadness that won’t take itself too seriously, a passive aggressive humour that makes its deceptively simple folk-country rhythms hard to classify. Sure, they’re love songs, but there’s nothing trite there. Listening to ‘Song of Envelopes’ is like watching a bar fight between newlyweds – the song slips between confession and hootenanny with barely a breath. Upswelling are offers of ass-kickings and hearts slapped by ice cubes, as if the only thing that could ever really protect pleasure, is an equal quantity of pain. They’re weird, compelling, contradictory songs penned by Evan Sunley James, a musician long-schooled in the Dunedin tradition of dark, gently forceful music.
“... sounds like David Byrne fronting a country band, which is naturally a very good thing...” – Grant Smithies, Sunday Star Times
For further information, please contact sunley@derivative.co.nz
Telephone: +64 21 442 446
Website: http://www.sunley.co.nz
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