beetBITE (fleaBITE and Levity Beet) Spook Us with Their Halloween Song ‘Rattle My Bones’, and Release beetBITE EPs 3 and 4
beetBITE (fleaBITE and Levity Beet) Spook Us with Their Halloween Song ‘Rattle My Bones’, and Release beetBITE EPs 3 and 4
July 21st, 2025
Halloween has arrived early in the world of beetBITE (Levity Beet and fleaBITE). Are they playing the spoons…or are those bones?
‘Rattle My Bones’ is a quirky, syncopated skeleton dance. Kids can learn skeletal anatomy while having a hilarious Halloween dance party with this super fun song that gets every bone in your body moving with its catchy rhythms and quirky vocals. We expect to see lots of new TikTok dances to this come Halloween; kids who have heard it live love the catchy rhythms, surprising rhymes and bony jokes. The maniacal cackling and low manly vocals are courtesy of Jeff Henderson.
As well as a spooky new song, beetBITE are also thrilled to share some news. They’ve been treating us to a brand-new single every fortnight since April, and you can now find them – plus some unreleased songs – packaged into a neat double EP bundle: beetBITE EP 3 and beetBITE EP 4.
Levity Beet and Robin Nathan (fleaBITE) have a lot in common. Between them, they’ve taken the top spot at the Aotearoa New Zealand Children’s Music Awards nine times, for Best Children’s Album, Artist, Song and Video. They also share the same quirky sense of humour, and enjoy creating innovative and fun new kids’ songs.
In 2023, the EPs beetBITE 1 and beetBITE 2 landed: ten original songs for adventurous young listeners, which saw beetBITE nominated as Best NZ Children’s Artist in that year’s Aotearoa Children’s Music Awards | Ngā Manu Tīrairaka.
This year they were lucky enough to receive NZ On Air funding for another beetBITE project and are excited to present two more EPs in the beetBITE series.
Levity Beet lives at the top of NZ’s South Island in the remote Takaka Valley, while Robin Nathan resides in the sprawling metropolis of Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland. Over a few months they traded ideas back and forth, challenging and complementing each other’s musical and lyrical ideas, and often going in completely unexpected directions: something that began as a lullaby ended up as a rollicking Halloween track (‘Rattle My Bones’).
The beetBITE project is supported by NZ On Air in their first ever ‘New Music Kids’ Project’, which encourages experienced children’s artists to produce ambitious projects.
Check out all things beetBITE below:
beetBITE is the product of two highly creative brains (a father and an auntie) having a load of fun. They take inspiration from a wide range of musical genres from lullabies, thrash rock, hillbilly and mariachi bands to Punjabi folk music, ambient dance and Django Reinhardt.
The beetBITE project was supported by NZ on Air in their first ever ‘New Kids’ Project’, which encourages experienced children’s artists to produce more ambitious projects.
Robin Nathan has a background in comedy and radio, and has been making kids’ music since 2011.
“fleaBITE is a bright shaft of light blasting through the miasma of saccharine family music” – Double-Dip Recess kids’ radio show, WFMU, New York
Levity Beet is a three times APRA Children’s Song of the Year winner and two times Tui Children’s Musician of the Year.
As well as producing warm hearted and hilarious music for children and families, Beet works as a producer, recording engineer and mix engineer for many other artists including Suzy Cato, Loopy Tunes, Mr Roberelli, and Kath Bee.
Beet also spends time scouring recycling centres and thrift shops for curiosities to turn into new musical inventions like bar heater thumb pianos, pressurized fizz bottle xylophones, bamboo drums, carrot kazoos and cat powered midi virtual instruments.
He was inspired by his uncle David Hollis who made unique New Zealand children’s’ music in the early 80’s as well as being a prolific visual artist and sculptor.
“Levity Beet has played in many different bands over the years, but said his love was with children’s music. It was the most “interesting, challenging or curious”, he said”.