We've been busy-beavering of late, playing the Apropos of Nothing CD release last Friday and also our regular night last night.

Malty Media went on tour to sunny Auckland* last weekend to promote the CD launch of Angry Rabbit's electronica compilation album, "...Apropos of Nothing" (we are two thirds of Angry Rabbit, and our track 'Mescaline Man' is on the CD).

Another relaxed gig. We seemed to have found some bona fide regulars, which is really nice.

Michael did some astonishing stuff with the RTR theme from 1983, and a Rowan Atkinson ad for appletizer ("fish heads!"), while I took the riposte with a dub out of Mike Oldfield's soft-cock hippy classic Moonlight Shadow and Taco's immortal cover of Irving Berlin's 'Putting on the Ritz'.

May's gig was the best we've done so far. We had a good turnout, and plenty of response (and occasionally abuse) from the audience, which was gratifying.

(We should give props to Billy and Janet for staying loyal to us during the dark days during the bloody arts festival when Katipo was empty.)

Musically it was a kind of back-to-basics affair. I reworked some more sprawly ambient stuff I did for the first gig, and Michael played a selection of odd stuff plus a dubout of the theme to the hit 1970s sitcom Taxi.

We've turned up on a net comp on the blocsonic label. The comp is called 'The Raw and the Cooked', and features our track 'Bracken Bed', the one that was a dubby/foolish update of the Country Calendar Theme*.

Big thanks to blocsonic for asking for inclusion on their comp!

* With all due credit to Dark Tower to beating us to it by, um, 12 years.