Dunedin band returns
The Verlaines are considering releasing two EPs this year, according to the Dunedin band’s guitarist, Graeme Downes.
The band’s single, “Death And The Maiden, was consistently the pick of critics among the records released by New Zealand groups last year, but just when the Verlaines looked like growing on this popularity, the drummer, Caroline Easther, had to leave for Wellington. And so the band now has its fourth drummer, Robert Yates.
The band auditioned between three and four drummers, and Robert Yates was considered the best, Downes said. The new drummer had taken away a tape of the band’s music and chose the track “Burlesque” as the auditioning song, which was the most difficult composition the Verlaines performed.
The band plan to go to Auckland next month and hope to record an EP, “probably on an eighttrack,” with Doug Hood producing. The Verlaines play at the Gladstone Tavern this evening and tomorrow evening;, They will also be at the same venue on Saturday night with another band, possibly the Bats.
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