The Verlaines National Tour -Extra Date Added!

Hamilton date added - Saturday 20 March, Gravity Bar at Altitude

Seminal Dunedin band The Verlaines are pleased to announce they will be playing around the country in March this year.
1980: 30 years ago The Verlaines formed while at Logan Park High School. A young Graeme Downes gets together with some like-minded individuals having heard the Clean, the Same (Chills in Embryo) and began a writing career that now extends to nine studio albums and many other singles and EPs.
30 years later its 2010: Graeme is writing prodigiously (A new album has been penned over the summer for recording and release this year) and playing a combination of both old Verlaines material and brand-new songs from recent albums such as Potboiler (2007) and Corporate Moronic (2009).
Graeme comments:
It’s actually very difficult finding a balance between old and new (let alone middle period). Obviously we want to be out playing the most recent albums but I think we have got the balance about right.
 “One of this country’s most adventurous and accomplishedsongwriters…
…Potboiler is a very good record”
Nick Bollinger NZ Listener
It’s funny, it’s precise, and its very crafty…Corporate Moronic furthers the case for Downes as a top-tier songwriter.
Popmatters.com <http://Popmatters.com>

The Verlaines are touring with some of Graemes former students Anthonie “Tono” Tonnon and Simon Comber, who will be playing support at these gigs.
 Graeme comments:
I’m honoured to share the stage with these guys. They are songwriter/story tellers of the highest quality. Hopefully if some of the older Verlaines fans come out of the woodwork they will be turned on to their work as well.
 
The Verlaines National Tour 2010
with support from Simon Comber and Tono

Dunedin           Sat 13 March      Otago Uni Main Common Room
Auckland         Fri 19 March       Monte Cristo Room
Hamilton    Sat 20 March  Gravity Bar at Altitude
Wellington        Fri 26 March      Bodega
Christchurch  Sat 27 March     The Bedford