A Low Hum Tours
(Follows on from From Zine to Magazine Selling Out)
There is no point me talking indepth about this touring right now, one day I’ll have the time to tell all the storys. For now, here is a simple record of th order of the tours, who was on them and tour poster. In future I’ll slowly add more info like the tourdates, the press releases, photos/video from each tour will be up, that is a long term project, for now… the posters:
Degrees K & Ejector, Sept 2003The first A Low Hum tour wsa a bit of a failure in that I didn’t actually have the magazine and CD ready in time as I was still dealing with a zine format. You can read about the failure in “from Zine to Magazine”. The tour though was a hell of a lot of fun.
Footage from the Wellington show of Ejector here
Series 2 Tours
Batrider (April 2004)
The Batrider tour was the start of the A Low Hum Series 2 tours. Each tour was accompanied by an A5 magazine and 8 track CD, except the December/Gerling tour which featured a DVD with 25 NZ music videos and the last tour of series two (connan and the mockasins) where the CD had 17 tracks on it. Check the Shop to see what was on each CD.
Ghostplane (May 2004)
The Fanatics and Disasteradio (June 2004)
Degrees K (July 2004)
The Accelerants (August 2004)
The Phoenix Foundation, Cassette, Phelps and Munro (Oct 2004)
Cortina, Coolies, Disasteradio, Golden Axe (Nov 2004)
Gerling (Dec 2004)
Shocking Pinks, The Inkling (Mar 2005)
Connan and the Mockasins, The Chandeliers, Hot Swiss Mistress (April 2005)
Special Tours
Ghostplane, Mestar (August 2005)Unofficial A Low Hum tour… I didn’t use the name A Low Hum on it as there was no magazine/CD and it was Ghostplanes album release tour, but essentially in every other way it was an A Low Hum tour.
So So Modern, Teen Wolf (November 2005)Series two of A Low Hum was wrapped up at this stage, instead on this tour I released a followup to the DVD I had released the previous Xmas. DVD2 which featured a whole ton of NZ music videos and also the first edition of Local Knowledge.
Series 3 Tours
Die! Die! Die!, French Horns, Yokel Ono, The Vacants (Feb 2006)
Connan and the Mockasins, Whipping Cats, Gran Prix (Mar 2006)
The Reduction Agents, Over the Atlantic, The Undercurrents (April 2006)
Diasteradio, Surf City, Voom (May 2006)
The Sneaks, The Shaky Hands, Thought Creature (June 2006)
Jakob, Operation Rolling Thunder, City City City (August 2006)
So So Modern, Collapsing Cities, Alps, Frase+Bri (Sept 2006)
The Ruby Suns, Odessa, The Bengal Lights (Oct 2006)
Rock and Roll Machine, The Mysterious Tapeman, Bloody Souls, Don Julio and the Hispanic Mechanic (Nov 2006)
Ghostplane, Signer, Phelps and Munro, Diasasteradio, Frase+Bri (Dec 2006)The Final A Low Hum tour with Magazine/CD
Post Magazine/CD A Low Hum Tours
So So Modern, My Disco, Disasteradio, Frase+Bri (Feb 2007)The Evens (Feb 2007)
Double tour. No magazine or CD. Those tours were over. This was a post camp celebration and simply an excuse to tour My Disco and The Evens.
So So Modern, Cut Off Your Hands (July 2007)This was the first “JD Set” tour. When Jack Daniels found out I was ending the A Low Hum tours, they were still really keen to keep up some sort of tour format, so offered me money that I just couldn’t say no to, so I’d actually make money touring after all these years! They wanted me to help them establish this new brand “JD Set” in NZ. Essentially though this was an A Low Hum tour, and really the most succesful one I ever did. This tour really was the culmination of the experience from all the years of touring, it was basically perfect. Every show was great, the turnouts were awesome and I’m pretty sure both bands will agree that this would have been one of the best tours they ever went on.
I checked out of doing the tours shortly after this one, I discovered that actually I could say no to the money and that doing tours with bands I wasn’t that interested in wasn’t worth gettting paid for it.
Yacht, Panther (August 2007)I’d been a fan of Yacht for AGES and when I found out he was coming to aussie I got excited. Galesburg did the Auckland show, and I did Wellington, two Christchurch shows and Dunedin. The CHCH and Dunedin shows also doubled as special screenings of the footage from Camp A Low Hum 2007
CRAFTWERK TOUR feat: The Enright House, Thought Creature, Little Pictures & Get Set Play (Sept 2007).I was a huge fan of Heather Barnes’ Craftwerk project and we decided to combine the two events and for A Low Hum to tour the craft fair. We only did four events, AK, Welly, Chch and Dunedin. Taking four bands and four-five touring crafters as well as having lots of local acts and a ton of local crafters join at each event. The tour was curated by both me and Heather and it was a really nice tour, totally different to any I’d done before. I think the first time I ever went and saw a movie while on tour.