**CRUDE IS PLAYING SUPPORT FOR US-BASED CZECH PUNK-JAZZ OUT-FIT SABOT
ON MARCH THE 18TH AT ARC CAFE, HIGH STREET, DUNEDIN. shows
$8waged/$6low/unwaged 9.30pM

THE AESTHETICS ARE PLAYING SUPPORT FOR MELBOURNE BASED EX KIWI BAND
BATRIDER ON MARCH THE 25TH AT ARC CAFE**

Howard Love : "I'm up on stage again, giving it out, feeding the
masses, prostration and bent knees, nails into joints and water
torture, computer wives and hornrims all analysis and carefully drunk,
insence clouds and hippie farts, heads all vacuum and social social,
plutocracy and security , living and breathing, electric clicks and
hick, Crude Cds all soiled and creased left in booth-cracks , flecks
of hummus and beer stain soak that lil' gloss card flap, black and
white cover more black and green/brown, they assure me 'they look nice
man' and give me a beer, settles me into slurring and that stupid
little southland leprechaun accent - silly little drongo with futuro
wallpaper, set bleeds onwards, gnosis acheived, tinkle of dollar coins
in national bank plastic and a nice walk home, did it even happen"

Recording process slower in these 'post 64' (P64)(crude's 'AD') title
days. And why not. First few tracks of Dopamine 20 coming together -
'nice' electronic atmos, Crude beat, twin attack surrealist filmic
synth melody, non-melody, kitch glitch (i know, 1999 i know..) dum-tek
,shit noise -- first few tracks of The Wretched Five together - new
ambient shit done at lot 24 studio - it'll rule - and Sax Serpentine
3, first sax quartets made - Albert Ayler in 1890s opium den...so at
least...they're underway..THE AESTHETICS - well, we are in a bad
rut.My beloved amplifier, the machine behind the aesthetics guitar
sound has died. It still spews out the odd magnetoid click, which i've
documented for the wretched five, but the volume's gone - the drive's
gone. Is it suburban bliss?
Dopamine endomorphin saturation, I've done it all, said it all, thirty
something existential malaise? Also, I have no guitar. Am looking into
options. We have no Bass Amp. We are poor as Shit. But we have
options. This is a free country apparently.Yeah, a neo-liberal furnace
of freedom and oppurtunity. Looking at funding drive options. Feel
free to donate to the cause. Jason Barrett : "If we had good gear we
would be FORMIDABLE."
ITS TRUE. Gear heads, come to our rescue. I have quit the aesthetics
at least 4 times. It refuses to die. I guess it's bigger than me. So
we have to come up with new material. Need an acoustic. They used to
call us 'The Pathetics'. Oh yeah, here i go ago, o woe is me, moan
moan moan. Where the pro-active spirit , the kiwi ingenuity? The get
up and eat weet-bix and join the fricken All Blacks?
So, we haven't come up with new material...YET..I've been loading up
on The Fall and Islamic Music. Good ole' SoulSeek. The industries
wrrrrrst enemyyy.
The Bats are playing The Knitting Factory NY on march the 15th.
bye for now
matt