| L.P.’s |
Tracks |
Producers
& Studios |
The Bats at the National Grid
(CD, Vinyl )
|
Western Isles, Horizon, Hubert, Bells are Ringing, Single File, Pre War Blues, The Rays, Things I've Seen Before, Mir, Up To The Sky, We Do Not Kiss the Ones We Kill, Flowers and Trees, Crazy Crowd
top - USA, New Zealand, Australia cover of CD only release .
bottom - Germany and UK cover
of CD and Vinyl release. |
Rhythm tracks recorded to analogue at The National Grid studio, Christchurch with John Kelcher and Paul Kean. Digitised with overdubs and mixing by Paul Kean with input from the band. Mastered by Dale Cotton. Released in USA by Magic Marker, Germany by Little Teddy (with different artwork and also on vinyl), UK by Egg Records, NZ by Pocket Music with Rhythm Method distro, Australia by Reverberation.
Also available through iTunes Music Store |
Daddy’s
Highway
(CD,LP Cass.)
 |
Treason,
Sir Queen, Round & Down, Take It, North By North, Tragedy, Block Of
Wood, Miss These Things, Mid City Team, Some Peace Tonight, Had To Be
You, Daddy's Highway - (Calm Before the Storm, Candidate, Mad On You,
Trouble in This Town, Made Up In Blue were bonus tracks on re-release) |
1986,87 Paul Kean, The Bats, Arnie Van Bussel
recorded at Reel Time, Glasgow & Nightshift, Chch, NZ.
Alistair Galbraith plays violin. |
Law of
Things (CD, LP Cass.)
 |
Other Side Of You, Law Of
Things, Never Said Goodbye, Yawn Vibes, Time to Get Ready,Ten To One,
Mastery, I Fall Away, Cliff Edge, Nine Days, Bedlam, Smoking Her Wings |
1988 Brent McLaughlin, The Bats recoded and
mixed at Writhe, Wellington, NZ.
Alistair Galbraith plays violin. |
Fear
of God
(CD, Vinyl, Cass.)
 |
Boogey
Man, The Black & The Blue, Dancing as the Boat Goes Down, The Old
Ones, Hold All The Butter, Fear of God, Straight Image, Watch The
Walls, You Know We Shouldn't, Jetsam, The Looming Past |
1991 Nick Sansano
Recorded Mandrill, Ak .& Marmalade, Wgn.
Mixed, Green St. NYNY
Alan Starret plays violin |
Silverbeet
(CD, Cass.)
 |
Courage, Sighting The Sound, Too Much, Alight
From The Rear, Valley Floor, Love Floats Two, Green, No Time for Your
Kind, Straight On Home, Before The Day, Stay Away, Drive Me Some Boars,
Halfway To Nowhere |
1993 Lou Giordanno & The Bats. Recorded,
Outpost Stoughton, Mass.Mixed, Carriage House, Stamford, Connecticut |
Couchmaster
(CD, Cass, Vinyl LP)
 |
Outside,
Afternoon in Bed, Around You Like Snow, Work It Out, Train, Land o'
Lakes, Chain Home Low, Supernove, Shoeshine, Crow Song, Smorgasboard,
Knowledge, It's Happening to You, Lost Weekend, For The Ride, Out Of
Bounds & Down To Me |
1995 Paul Kean, The Bats, Arnie Van Bussell
at Nightshift
Crispin Vinnell plays French Horn |
1000's of Tiny Luminous Spheres
(CD)
|
Nth by Nth, Courage, Claudine, Afternoon in
Bed, Block of Wood, Mastery, Smoking Her Wings, Ride, You have the
Right, Seen It All Before, Too Much, Spill the Beans, Black & the
Blue, Boogey Man, Tragedy, Made up in Blue, Supernova |
various
- as above.
REVIEWS |
| CD
Singles |
| Black
and the Blue |
b/w Watch the Walls |
1991 (see Fear of God) |
| Boogey
man |
b/w Jetsam and Mama Come Watch (not on album) |
1991
(see Fear of God) |
Courage
 |
b/w Mind How You Run, Slow Alight, The Wind is Sad (None
found on album. |
1993
(see Silverbeet) The version of Slow Alight is incorrectly named on
Silverbeet and should read Alight From The Rear. It’s a much faster
rendition) |
| Afternoon
In Bed (radio edit) |
b/w Consider it Sold, Got The Answer, On Your
Side (none on albums) |
1995 Paul Kean, The Bats, Arnie Van Bussell |
| E.P.’s |
| By
Night |
I Go
Wild, Jewellers Heart, By Night, My Way, Man In The Moon, United Airways |
1984 Paul Kean, The Bats - Nightshift, Chch,
NZ |
| ‘and
here is.."Music for the Fireside".’ |
Earwig, Chicken Bird Run, Blindfold,Joes
Again, Offside, Claudine, Neighbours |
1985 Paul Kean, The Bats - Nightshift, Chch,
NZ |
| Four
Songs |
North by North, Straight Through My
Heart, Get Fat & Best Friends Brain |
1988 Paul Kean, The Bats - Nightshift, Chch,
NZ |
| Made
up in Blue |
1986 Johnny Milton |
Point Studios, London |
Spill
The Beans
Cow print by Pavel Filonov |
1993 The Bats & Jerry Kee
Spill The Beans
Empty Head
Make it Clear
Give in to the Sands
Under The Law |
Duckee, Nth Carolina also features Mac from
Superchunk playing dueling guitar on Empty Head.
Nightshift |
| 7
inch singles |
| Block
of Wood |
b/w, Calm
Before the Storm and Candidate |
1987
Paul Kean, Arnie Van Bussel, The Bats - Nightshift, Christchurch, NZ |
| Smoking
her wings |
b/w Mastery and Passed By |
1988 Brent McLaughlin, The Bats - Writhe,
Wellington, NZ. |
| Compiletely
Bats (CD, Cass.) |
1990
(see EP’s) |
|
|
Black and the Blue |
b/w
Watch the Walls |
1991 Nick Sansano (see Fear of God) |
|
Under The Law |
b/w
Spill the Beans & Sir Queen |
1994
The Bats - Duckee, Nth Carolina - Merge release |
| live
at WFMU |
-
includes Nth by Nth, Sir Queen, Block of Wood, Sighting the Sound |
1993
- recorded live to air @ WFMU |
Labels
All the above have been released by Flying Nun NZ
and the albums have been available through Mushroom in Australia &
UK and Mammoth Records in the USA (no longer with Mammoth). Virgin and
Rough Trade have at times distributed in Europe; Relativity and
Communion in USA and Festival in Australia and New Zealand. |
Compilations
Several tracks can be found on various
compilations released around the world including, Tuatara (FN), Let’s
Try Another Ideal Guesthouse, In Love With These Times (FN), Diamonds
and Porcupines (Beat all the Tambourines), Getting Older (FN), Let Them
Eat Pavlova (Les Inrockuptibles), Pink Flying Saucers Over the Southern
Alps (FN) Un Printemps 95 (Les Inrockuptibles) Mushroom Sampler.
Topless
Women Talk About Their Lives (FN) |
| MORE LINKS TO RELATED SITES |
All Music Guide very
informative website. Good user interaction. May
need to search. |
Flying Nun
nu
rock & roll acts
Flying Nun's old Bats site |
| Noisyland very
good info & quick load |
Artists Direct takes a
while to load on 56k. Feature 89 Bats songs with Real Audio and Windows
Media samples of most
|
Bands.co.nz
changing news
Angelfire
accurate description of the Bats
|
| If no navigator on left go to
Bats HOMEPAGE |
Trouser Press great site - good info and quick loading. May need to search.
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