the Gladeyes

Exploding Music Video

2011-06-23T02:21:00.000-07:00

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The Carrie Nations

2011-05-03T16:07:00.001-07:00

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Underwater at Red Bull Studios

2011-05-02T03:03:00.000-07:00

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Shadows Explode Album Release Wellington

2011-04-26T16:07:00.001-07:00

We are playing our final show this Friday the 29th of April with St. Rupertsberg at the Mighty Mighty in Wellington. Come Along!

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Honey Pie

2011-04-18T20:10:00.000-07:00

Have a listen to the first song from our new album Honey Pie.

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Shadows Explode by The Gladeyes

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Shadow Explode Album Release Party

2011-04-16T17:43:00.001-07:00

Our new Album Shadows Explode comes out this Thursday! And we are having an album release party at 5/1 Cross Street. It's going to be our last ever show in Auckland so everyone should come along......... $5 on the door and BYO!

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I HEART THURSTON............

2011-04-14T02:39:00.000-07:00

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Some serious Loren Mazzacane-Connors-esqe guitar going on in this song, who if you haven't checked out you should.

Shadows Explode Out April 21

2011-04-06T17:29:00.000-07:00

So, this week we got the masters back of our album and everything has gone in for pressing. Our new album Shadows Explode is all set to come out on the 21st of April so stay tuned.............

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Getting There

2011-03-30T17:16:00.000-07:00

So we finally finished mixing on Tuesday. I took our mixes out to Chris Chetland at Kog in Titirangi to master them yesterday. Chris has a beautiful studio with a very cool ATR-100 reel to reel tape machine for mastering and a mancoon cat. This is the view from Kog...........

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Also, listening to PJ Harvey non-stop at the moment............... Seamus Murphy has made a series of short films, one for each of the songs on her new latest album Let England Shake.

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And speaking of new albums, ours is coming soon...... we have an album release in Auckland on April 21 and one in Wellington on the 29th.

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Ready for the Softies

2011-03-21T19:53:00.000-07:00

This is re-blogged from Dum Dum Girls but it's too good to ignore......

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Blowing Minds

2011-03-21T17:35:00.000-07:00

IN THE BOOTH

2011-03-06T14:21:00.000-08:00

We recorded vocals for the album this weekend.........

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And the Continental Co-Ets. So Good.

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Guitar Parts FInished

2011-02-18T21:56:00.000-08:00

This week Jade and I finished tracking all the guitar parts for our next album. Here are some photos of us and my dog looking pretty pooped. No real studios for us just living rooms.

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Also, loving the Sweet Bulbs at the moment!

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and a cool video poster for them and the Beets

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Happy New Year!

2011-02-06T15:53:00.000-08:00

So it's been a while since I've posted on the blog. Happy New Year to everyone!

Jade is moving to Sweden in May so we will be on a hiatus from then..... the exciting news is though that before she leaves we are recording and releasing an album. It should be out in April and we will be playing a couple of final shows, one in Wellington and one in Auckland.

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Balcony TV

2011-01-06T14:13:00.000-08:00

Just before Christmas we played a song on balcony TV.
Here it is..............

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New Years Eve

2010-12-25T21:57:00.000-08:00

Come along to the Gunslingers Ball on New Years Eve. The Wildwood Lights are playing and Gwen is playing bass for them. The Situations, the Grifters and Heart Attack Alley are also playing. Should be very fun!

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Show with Fabulous Diamonds

2010-12-04T19:03:00.000-08:00

Hey,

We are playing a show with Fabulous Diamonds and Sam Hamilton this Friday the 10th at the Wine Cellar. Fabulous Diamonds are this great band from Australia, it's a girl (on drums) and a guy on keys, they both sing. Pitchfork describes it as "head spinny" maybe you can decide for yourself here. I heard their second CD in a record store when I was in Sydney and liked it so much I bought it on the spot. Also, it's a good opportunity to see us because from sometime mid next year we will probably be hiatising for a while.

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A Very Little Christmas

2010-11-30T15:03:00.000-08:00

We have a song on the A Very Little Christmas, a Christmas compilation album with a whole bunch of songs from lots of different artists including Bearcat, Bannerman, the Crawley Christmas Singers, Timothy Blackman, the Artisan Guns, Cool Rainbows and heaps more. You can download it for free here from the 6th of December.

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There is an album release party for this at the Wine Cellar on Wednesday the 15th of December. We are playing along with Dear Times Waste, Chelsea Jade and James Duncan and whole bunch of other great bands. Info here

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Sonny and the Sunsets

2010-11-09T20:11:00.000-08:00

I heard these guys on the radio today. Apparently they are supporting Best Coast on a tour, and I like them a lot.

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We also recorded a Christmas song with Dave Parker from Little Monster Studio - you can check out some photos of it here

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Coming Out of Hiding

2010-10-27T15:00:00.000-07:00

We are playing a show for the first time in about 4 months.
Lots of new songs and a bit of a different sound. This Friday the 5th of November at
the Wine Cellar. Come along!

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One Million Kisses music video

2010-10-11T03:31:00.000-07:00

Here is the video we made for "One Million Kisses". Directed by Jade and I, with sound design and mixing by James Hayday. Thanks to Mr Mikkelsen's year 10 Media Studies class from Selwyn college, Ben Anderson, Sarah Stuart,James Hayday and of course Lawrence Mikkelsen. It stars Jade as the fairy godmother, Ardit as Damien and Maddie as Page :)

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Warpaint

2010-10-07T14:18:00.001-07:00

These guys are ruling my world right now...........

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Christmas songs

2010-09-15T18:21:00.000-07:00

The best Christmas song has got to be Fairytale of New York by the Pogues. We are writing a Christmas song at the moment so this has been on my mind. Thoughts? I once gave away a Pogues album because I thought it was a bit crap - how stupid could I be?

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Somewhere

2010-08-29T20:24:00.000-07:00

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This has Elle Fanning, Dakota Fanning's sister in it! Can't wait!

1,000,000 Kisses Music Video Shoot

2010-08-13T22:53:00.000-07:00

On Thursday we went out to Selwyn College to shoot a music video for 1,000,000 Kisses with our friend Lawrence's year 10 media studies class. They were super awesome and we had so much fun. Thanks to Lawrence and his class for being involved especially Ardit and Maddy who stayed after school and were the stars of the show :) I've posted some pictures from the shoot below..........

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the Gladeyes on bandcamp

2010-08-01T01:56:00.000-07:00

So we have a bandcamp page now - http://thegladeyesband.bandcamp.com/ - It took ages but I've uploaded most of our old E.Ps here and now you can download them and make up your own if you like.

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Here's the intro from our album the Gladeyes are Shit <a href="http://thegladeyesband.bandcamp.com/track/intro">Intro by the Gladeyes</a>

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Chai Latte

2010-07-31T19:45:00.000-07:00

Jade and I have joined forces with Sarah and Candy from the Wildwood Lights to form a new band, Chai Latte - Watch this space............

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www.thegladeyes.com

2010-07-25T18:00:00.000-07:00

We are building a Gladeyes website at the moment and today I finally put our temporary one on-line. So now you can visit www.thegladeyes.com and be pointed to a whole bunch of Gladeyes stuff. If anyone out there who reads this has any website tips for me then please comment them on through, I'm a website newbie and last week I almost threw my computer out the window from frustration :)

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Hal Hartley

2010-07-09T22:17:00.000-07:00

This first music video was directed by Hal Hartley and the second is a clip for the NY band Kings of Wyoming whose music was used in HH's film Surviving Desire.

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Different coloured eyes

2010-07-08T02:57:00.001-07:00

Enmore Theatre and Hope Sandoval

2010-06-28T15:29:00.000-07:00

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Recently I went to see Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions play in Sydney. They played at the Enmore theatre, which is sort of like a grungier version of the civic. Anyways, it's very cool, go if you get a chance.

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Girl Awesomeness

2010-06-22T19:18:00.000-07:00

Coasting
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Grass Widow
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Sleigh Bells
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Dum Dum Girls
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The Making of Expervier

2010-06-17T16:28:00.000-07:00

I promised I'd put our movies on-line a few years ago and finally I've gotten around to it. This one, The Making of Expervier, is the third in a series of improvised movies that we made. It documents us and our friends, as we make a movie about the launch of our home-made raft Expervier. It's on youtube in 5 parts but you can watch them all below.

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Cute

2010-05-31T15:13:00.000-07:00

".....so I go ahead and say the worst possible thing. "Very Cute." This is why I should adhere to Rule 2.
In the ensuing silence, I have time to contemplate the word cute - how dismissive it is, how it's the equivalent of calling someone little, how it makes a person into a baby, how the word is a neon sign burning through the dark reading, "Feel Bad About Yourself."
And then finally she says, "Not my favourite adjective."

- Will Grayson, Will Grayson
By David Levithan and John Green

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Bad Town Blues Video

2010-05-16T02:31:00.000-07:00

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Here's a video for Bad Town Blues, made by the boys from Ladybird. It's been around for a while but today we put our new recording of Bad Town Blues to it and up-loaded it at a way nicer quality.

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Just Kids

2010-05-12T14:59:00.000-07:00

"I don't consider writing a quiet, closet act.
I consider it a real physical act.
When I'm home writing on the typewriter, I go crazy.
I move like a monkey.
I've wet myself, I've come in my pants writing."
--Patti Smith

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Patti Smith promised Robert Mapplethorpe that one day she would write the story of their life together, Just Kids is it. I've been wanting to blog about this for sometime because it's one of the best books I've read in a while. I always find Patti Smith's music confronting in the best kind of way, but her writing is different. There is a real humbleness to the way she tells this story. And a really beautiful humour and affection in the way that she talks about all the characters she and Robert were involved with in the art and music scene of New York during the 60's and 70's, when they lived their firstly as a couple and then as very best pals.

Patti Smith was a music journalist for the likes of Rolling Stone magazine and there is a really nice part in the book where she describes how she feels about music reviewing. She says that she was never really interested in critiquing bands but rather in making lesser known music known to a wider audience.

You can find more of Patti Smith's writing at http://www.oceanstar.com/patti/poetry.htm

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Wine Cellar Whammy Show - This Friday, May 14.

2010-05-10T03:54:00.001-07:00

Crazy Cow

2010-05-05T19:11:00.000-07:00

I have just started taking photos again, and this was the result of a low-light flash experiment.

Gladeyes Playing Saturday 8th of May

2010-05-05T19:09:00.000-07:00

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For the Proud Mary Club Night at 4:20 on K'rd. We're on around 10:30, so come along!

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Beer

2010-05-05T00:35:00.000-07:00

BEER

Charles Bukowski
from: Love is A Mad Dog From Hell

I don't know how many bottles of beer
I have consumed while waiting for things
to get better
I dont know how much wine and whisky
and beer
mostly beer
I have consumed after
splits with women-
waiting for the phone to ring
waiting for the sound of footsteps,
and the phone to ring
waiting for the sounds of footsteps,
and the phone never rings
until much later
and the footsteps never arrive
until much later
when my stomach is coming up
out of my mouth
they arrive as fresh as spring flowers:
"what the hell have you done to yourself?
it will be 3 days before you can fuck me!"

the female is durable
she lives seven and one half years longer
than the male, and she drinks very little beer
because she knows its bad for the figure.

while we are going mad
they are out
dancing and laughing
with horney cowboys.

well, there's beer
sacks and sacks of empty beer bottles
and when you pick one up
the bottle fall through the wet bottom
of the paper sack
rolling
clanking
spilling gray wet ash
and stale beer,
or the sacks fall over at 4 a.m.
in the morning
making the only sound in your life.

beer
rivers and seas of beer
the radio singing love songs
as the phone remains silent
and the walls stand
straight up and down
and beer is all there is.

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Kate Magazine Launch

2010-04-27T23:36:00.001-07:00

We are playing the launch party of Kate Magazine at the Whammy Bar this Monday the 3rd of May. It's just going to be Jade and I (our spunky band-mates have birthdays and things to attend). So come along and give us a chin up.

Antonioni's The Red Desert

2010-04-27T17:18:00.000-07:00

Feist on Sesame Street

2010-04-17T17:29:00.001-07:00

the Gladeyes - live

2010-04-11T16:45:00.000-07:00

Shop Windows

2010-04-05T15:40:00.000-07:00

Sonic Youth etc: Sensational Fix

2010-03-30T19:44:00.000-07:00

Chuckie's in Love

2010-03-27T21:34:00.000-07:00

I forgot how cool Rickie Lee Jones is. She wrote Chuckie's in Love
which is a song with a twist at the end.
She has done numerous albums, ranging from straight singer song writer like her self-titled debut, to more experimental like Ghosty Head.

Kim Gordon Dancing Let Go Perfect

2010-03-17T01:25:00.000-07:00

Bearcat

2010-03-14T18:31:00.000-07:00

This is a Bearcat.

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And below is the Auckland based band Bearcat. If you haven't seen them live already, then you should check them out. The lead singer - Dan is kind of like a modern day Jonathan Richman.

Chain and the Gang

2010-03-11T02:30:00.000-08:00

Chain and the Gang is Ian Svenonius'(of Weird War and the Make Up fame)new project.

They have a record out "Down with Liberty..... Up with Chains" Hot!

Babes

Gladeyes, Singsongs, Bearcat, Leigh Saw Mill, March 13

2010-03-06T14:42:00.000-08:00

Cloud Wanderer

2010-03-06T14:27:00.000-08:00

10 Rare cloud formations

Leilani Heather

2010-01-30T18:23:00.000-08:00

Leilani Heather is an Auckland based photographer who takes awesome photos. My friend Matthew showed me her website last year and then she contacted us to take some Gladeyes band photos.

Check out her website www.leilaniheather.com

Nobrainers

2010-01-30T17:32:00.000-08:00

*Patti Smith blog
- http://www.pattismith.net/news.html

* We played with Jens Lekman on Thursday night. One of the things I like about him is that he was in part responsible for letting people know about Arthur Russell.

Arthur Russell was one of the pioneers of the Downtown music scene in New York in the 1970s and 1980s. His music is some of the most idiosyncratic and soulful I've ever heard and it is vast in it's exploration and quantity. There is a documentary about Arthur Russell called "Wild combination" and it showcases much of his amazing music as well as having some lovely interviews with his family members and his long-time partner Tom Lee, who since Arthur's death has made it his life's mission to release and preserve Arthur's music.

Jens Lekman compiled an Arthur Russell tribute EP. "Four Songs By Arthur Russell" in 2007. It includes covers by Jens Lekman, Vera November, Taken by Trees and Joel Gibb.

Wild Combination is a good album to start with if you want to check out Arthur Russell. I think anyway.

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A Movie about the Photographer Diane Arbus. I found this on the Patti Smith blog. I hope it's good.

Getting Back Into Drawing

2009-12-29T18:32:00.001-08:00

this is going to look hideous on our pinky blog background.

- gwen

Sarah Gruiters

2009-12-28T18:14:00.000-08:00

Okay so I figured it was high time we did a post about our friend and long-time collaborator Sarah Gruiters. Sarah is an artist/designer/seamstress/maker extraordinaire. She did all the artwork for our recent album "Psychosis of Love" and all the tour posters as well. She makes lots of awesome things including jewellery and clothing and you can check it all out at www.sarahgruiters.com.

ANONYBOOK

anonymous book jackets so no-one can tell when you are reading pretentious books on the street :)

EYES AND EGGS PATCHES

BEADED NECKLACES

Anyways there is heaps of awesome stuff on her site presented way better than I have here so check it out!!!

Alison Bechdel

2009-12-19T14:56:00.000-08:00

Okay so I just wanted to start posting on this blog with stuff that I really love because otherwise it's just Gladeyes news and well......... you know.

Anyways, my flatmate introduced me to Alison Bechdel about a year ago when she recommended her book Fun Home and ever since then I have been completely hooked. Fun Home is a graphic novel/book about Bechdel's Dad and all his exploits and about how he could never really come out. It's also about their relationship and her coming out story. It's smart funny and Alison Bechdel's illustrations are just amazing.

She also wrote and illustrated a comic series which started in 1983 and chronicles the lives of a group of "crunchy lesbian friends" (thanks NY times) called Dykes to Watch Out For. The strip finished in 2008 and sees through break-ups, civil unions, protests, arguments amongst friends about a bunch of issues including trans-sexuality and the gay community. There is a compilation of the Dykes to Watch Out For strips called Essential Dykes to Watch Out For
, I picked this up and was totally hooked. Chances are they have a copy of Dykes to Watch Out For in some form at your local library, so there's no excuse not to check it out.

So I came across her blog the other day and it's also fun and informative and awesome. http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/blog

Gladeyes T-shirts

2009-12-08T17:58:00.000-08:00

We have done a small run of Gladeyes T-shirts in various sizes and colours. We are selling them for just $30. If you'd like one email us at thegladeyes@gmail.com. Get in fast before Jade's mum buys them all :)

Mighty Mighty Friday the 27th of November

2009-11-23T13:49:00.001-08:00

Hi Y'all,

We're playing the Mighty Mighty in Wellington this Friday the 27th of November for our album release!! We are joined by the amazing Hoopla! and Stefanimal :)
Come along, it's going to be awesome.

Road Trip Comic Strips

2009-11-23T13:38:00.001-08:00

The Gladeyes Play the South Island

2009-11-05T00:05:00.001-08:00

HEY EVERYONE,

WE ARE COMING DOWN TO THE SOUTH ISLAND TO PLAY OUR ALBUM RELEASE PARTIES!!!

FRIDAY THE 13TH OF NOVEMBER AT THE WUNDERBAR IN LYTTLETON/CHRISTCHURCH WITH THE DIALTONES AND ADAM WILLETTS!!!

SATURDAY THE 14TH OF NOVEMBER AT CHICKS HOTEL IN PORT CHALMERS WITH JOHN WHITE (OF MESTAR FAME)

BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!!! I MEAN IT!!!!

Monika is a Recovering Co-dependent

2009-09-19T01:45:00.001-07:00

We've got a new single out, it's from the forth coming album and it's called Monika! Our drummer made a joke that it's the story of someone recovering from a co-dependent relationship. I don't buy it! Have a listen -

the Gladeyes - Monika

Mixing finally finished!!

2009-08-30T20:55:00.000-07:00

We finally finished mixing our record tuesday of last week at around 11:30pm!
Two and a half years of work have come to an end. It's a really strange but wonderful feeling- we now have SPARE TIME!!Here is a picture of how we felt by the end of it all (in reality we weren't actually surrounded by records, but, you know...)

It's offical release date is 2nd November. We will be playing some shows in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin in November, please come and help us celebrate!
The record is called 'Pyschosis of Love.'It's out on Lil' Cheif records.

Psychosis of Love

2009-06-24T04:03:00.000-07:00

LISTEN!

The Gladeyes and Jimmy Payday - Psychosis of Love

Recording with the Wildwood Lights!

2009-04-26T18:00:00.000-07:00

On Sunday we spent the day with the Wildwood Lights who we recorded singing backing vocals on a few of our songs. They were Awesome! You can check them out at www.myspace.com/wildwoodlights or visit their blog http://wildwoodlights.tumblr.com/

Song for you!

2009-03-01T16:11:00.000-08:00

Gladeyes Sound-system and DJs Milk and Honey are djing at "Karen was a Carpenter". A Karen Carpenter tribute night at D.O.C this Thursday the 5th of March. Come along!

the Gladeyes - The Real Thing

Gladeyes V Geoff

2009-02-16T23:54:00.000-08:00

Gwen and Jade are in a band called the Gladeyes. They often practice and record at the home of Gwen’s parent’s, Trish and Geoff. Since these two people have possibly heard them play their songs more than anyone else on the planet, they could be considered experts on the subject of the Gladeyes. The Gladeyes thought, then, who better to interview them than Geoff, General Practitioner by day and Rolling Stone music critic by evening.

The interview started casually in Geoff and Trish’s living room, Geoff in his chair and Jade and Gwen cross-legged on the floor. As if waiting for this opportunity for his whole life, Geoff’s interview used up all four sides of two sixty-minute cassette tapes. Below is a small excerpt from the conversation.

nb. This was also recently published in the journal "Hue and Cry 'Stakeout.'"

Dad (Gwen’s Dad Geoff): So, am I going to be a fictitious interviewer?

Jade: No, you don't need to be fictitious, do you want to be fictitious?

D: Can I be from the Rolling Stone? Actually, who was it I was reading an interview with? Oh yeah that's right, I was reading a little bit about um… Now, you are known as the Gladeyes?

Gwen: Ha-ha, yes.

D: And how would you describe yourselves as a band?

G: Ah, you mean musically, what genre and stuff, or..?

D: Well, I wouldn't really use words like genre, just really, how would you describe yourselves as a band?…Which of you is the better musician?

G&J (laughter)

D: Which of you has got the greater..? I mean in some bands some people do more of the sort of musical side, and the others do the lyrical side. Is it sort of very mixed and shared, or does one of you have a greater interest in various aspects of it, like one of you is more interested in the lyrical side, or do you share that?

J: I think it's pretty even.

D: When you make up the words does one of you write it? Or you both kind of add in and change it, and...?

G: We have collaborated on words before but we don't so often as the music, even though it relates, the lyrics are generally written by one person.

J: Mmm, but when we started they were a bit more collaborative, it would be good to be more collaborative...

D: So does it tend to be that if you write a song, the lyrics are by one of you and another song might be lyrics by another person?

G: Yeah. But we have collaborated and we do, and even if we don't collaborate maybe on the actual writing, we might collaborate on the ideas of what the song would be about. And then the person who writes the lyrics is just the person who is more excited about it at the time.

J: Nothing's planned, like we don't say "Oh, you write three songs today," and nothing happens like that.

D: No, no, I know...No, no, I wasn't suggesting that but I was thinking, well...

G: But we would sit down and have times where we try and write lyrics together and stuff.

J: Yeah.

D: Like you have a piece of music that you've done, but you haven't got the lyrics?

J: Yeah.

G: …the chords or the structure, maybe one of us would bring that, and someone else would write more of a melody, and someone else might add the lyrics, and someone else might write little bits of lyrics. But it's really quite collaborative, but some songs are more or less collaborative.

D: Mmm.

G: …but as an overall kind of project and set of ideas I think it's really collaborative, because they all sit within that framework. And so those songs exist because of the other songs, even, you know... well, that structure’s there for them, or something.

J: Yeah.

D: Anyway, just getting on to a lighter topic, with your names - interesting names aren’t they? Gwendoline, quite a traditional female name, I’ve never heard of a guy called Gwendoline…

J&G: (laughter)

D: …and Jade is what I might call an intersexual name, because it can be a boy or a girl. So, Gwen represents the femininity and tradition of the female in your band and Jade, because there’s no males in the band, she can sort of flip over to the male side, is this right?

J&G: (laughter)

G: Yep. Definitely right.

J: Yeah, you’re spot on. On the money.

D: Because, I’m just going on from your music, you’ve got some really light and fun tracks, one of my favourites being Geek Boy, which, I don’t get to hear very often in fact, but, in terms of lightness and fun, and then you have…

J: It’s my Dad’s favourite song as well!

D: Oh is it? Okay.

J: Yeah.

G: Oh really? Maybe we have to do a tribute to the Dad’s?

D: Yeah. And then you have the more serious and kind-of deeper songs, and I understand that as part of your greater artistic concept you’ve developed these characters of Damien and Monika. Can you tell me about Damien and Monika?

G: Well, I don’t think they’re…

D: Do they represent anything, or are they characters?

J: Yeah, they represent…something. They’re like vessels, of people.

D: Vessels for different people?

G: They’re almost like…

J: Archetypes? Or…

G: Yeah like tropes.

D: What’s a trope?

G: It’s sort of like an archetype, but it’s actually more specific

J: Like cinema or something? Is it related to cinema?

G: It’s any kind of representation, just like something that’s reoccurring, like the idea of an innocent child that’s really perceptive. Like in Les Miserables, there’s a character called Mignon and she’s a trope, she represents a recurring archetype, within literature or…

D: So are you kind-of intending, as you produce more songs, developing a sort of narrative of these people? Like they become, um, cartoon characters is not the right word, but they become like real people that keep popping up in your songs, and become familiar to people and they become, kind of like real people?

J: Yeah, we’ll always probably write songs about people. Yeah, I think those names probably won’t keep going, I don’t know actually, but, it’s nice to bring in new characters.

G: Yeah.

D: Are there any other characters beside Damien and Monika?

J: Claudia.

D: Claudia, of course Claudia

G: Andy

D: Andy of course.

J: Geek boy, but that’s not really a name.

G: But that’s definitely like a specific character.

J: There’s gotta be more than that…

D: Where did Andy come from?

G: I think Andy was just a name.

D: Yeah, but what influenced that song? What influences do you have, do you recognise any influences in your music? Your early music is possibly a little bit influenced by the Velvet Underground.

J: Yeah, we were listening to quite specific music when we started.

D: Karen Carpenter?

G: Yeah.

D: I noticed in that book Veronica by Mary Gaitskill, that she slayed Karen Carpenter, there was a paragragh or short paragraph…

G: Where she brings her down sort of thing?

D: Well yeah sort of, she has a very good way of bringing big things down into little things and dismissing them almost. Like, a generation of women worshipping Karen Carpenter, and just saying, well, you know, she was a bit of a messed-up woman that ate, didn’t eat herself to death. The reverse. I thought it was a bit cruel, she has a cruelty…anyway, I’m digressing, and it’s not really to do with the interview. Not too much, but it’s possibly, if that’s a book that you read it might indicate something about the ways that you think.

G: I think it’s good to always have those counters anyway, you know…

D: Yeah, so do you think that your music is always a mixture of light to serious? You like to bring in all the different moods of how you feel, I mean, Andy’s quite a sad song? And Geek boy’s a kind of tongue-in-cheek happy song, isn’t it? I mean you obviously don’t think of geek boys as really being geek boys because again it’s like a stereotype, and people who get called geek boys often aren’t. You seldom are what people slot you into.

J: Yeah

D: It’s got a catchy tune, that’s what I like about it. Um, where you’ve got much more narrative types, like Bad Town Blues is more kind of narrative, isn’t it?

G: Yeah

D: So you’re quite eclectic in your style of songs, and even in your lyrics as well. Now, I’m interviewing you as an older person, and one of the things I’m noticing now is that it kind of almost bores me how novels and songs are all about the same thing, which is love. Which is obviously so pertinent to you, you know, like relationships, boy-girl relationships, and love and all the angst and intricacies of that. But as you get older, because that’s not so important to you, because you’ve kind of gone through all that, it kind of seems a bit boring in a way. I mean, recently I’ve been listening to a radio station that plays a lot of oldies stuff, and just about everything is a love tale. So, do you aim to write songs that aren’t about that, and still try to catch young people’s attention? I mean, obviously you relate to your own generation, you’re not kind of making music for different generations. Do you think you can kind of make music and lyrics that address other issues? But fun issues, and issues that are really close to people’s hearts?

G: I don’t know, I hope that we already do that to a certain extent, even within those kinds of narratives that might address things like love and relationships and stuff, you know?

D: Well you could write a song that’s about the boy-girl love thing, or about the mum-child love thing, or about the mum-dad, or the child-dad, or the child-grandad, or the child-grandmother, or what-have-you, those sorts of love things. Do you think people relate to that much?

J: Yeah I think there are a lot of songs with that kind of thing. There’s heaps!

D: One of the things I wanted to ask is the idea of doing interviews anyway. Why bother doing interviews? Why not, I mean, listen to the music?

G: I think they just inform what you do in a different kind of a way. And probably be more-or-less successful each time.

J: I like reading interviews with people.

G: Yeah, me too.

D: Interviews can be edited, especially if they’re TV and so on, so you have to be a bit guarded when you’re interviewing.

G: Yeah, it’s a real skill I guess.

D: I realise that you two, before you were interviewed by me, have had to discuss what you’re going to kind of say and not say, and I see you sort of tapping each other when you feel that one of you is revealing too much about…

J&G: (nervous laughter)

D: Um.

J: Um.

D: Have you ever thought of going brunette?

J&G: (laughter)

G: Jade’s the boy. So I think she should.

J: Why does the boy have to go brunette?

G: I don’t know, the girl gets to call the shots?

D: Okay, I think I have explored you quite well haven’t I? I think I’ve made you think a bit, haven’t I?

J: Yeah, there were some good questions.

G: Yeah, definitely.

J: The best interview we’ve had so far.

D: It was good for me too, I’m very proud of you I have to say. Very proud of you. I think you’ve done really, really great, kind of hard to hold it together because it’s kind of like a marriage really, it’s hard in this world to kind of maintain…

J&G: Partnerships.

The full interview is to be published as the book, So the Attainment of Perfection is Forever? Stay tuned.

Lost Souls Unite the Gladeyes are going to Make You Feel Alright

2009-02-16T23:51:00.000-08:00

Way back in 2003, we had our first show. We didn't play our instruments live, we just pretended and lip-synched along to backing tracks of our songs. We were very nervous and we projected black and white slides of our favourite stars behind us while we played, we figured if all else failed at least they would make us look good. Anyways, we spent a long time making posters for the show and this is a music video of us putting them up which we made with help from Tahi Moore - our friend and cinematographer extraordinaire. Here it is........

The Gladeyes Go Downtown from the gladeyes on Vimeo.

Movies - By the Gladeyes

2008-08-25T16:22:00.000-07:00

So we make movies as well as music............. So far there have been four and they have all been improvised and used a hand-held camera technique;)

Cigarette, Cigarette, Cigarette 2004

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On Holiday 2004

On Holiday is set in a motel in the Western Suburbs where we went for a day-long holiday.

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Welcome H 2005

"Following up on territory last explored in On Holiday, Jade and Gwen prepare for the arrival of their ill-defined acquaintance 'H' at the Auckland International airport sometime late at night...... using one handheld camera and the assistnce of Sarah their confidant, Gwen and Jade explore the airport space and review their relationships to 'H' and to each other. The result is a cinematic cameo of low budget filmmaking and improvised dialogue. As the night wears on, it becomes apparent that 'H' may be harder to find than they had first expected..........."

Welcome H is my favourite movie of all that we've done - so here are some more stills from it:

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The Making of Expervier 2006

The Making of Expervier documents the Gladeyes and their accomplices as they make a movie about the launch of their homemade raft Expervier.

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So that's it dudes, if anyone wants more info or would like to know how to get a hold of a copy of these movies then email us on thegladeyes@hotmail.com. We should have some excerpts from the movies posted on you-tube soon so stay tuned :)

MR HAYDAY EP.

2008-08-05T00:40:00.000-07:00

James Hayday aka Mr Hayday, who kindly mastered our Prospect Palace Practice Tapes, has just released his debut ep.

His bouncy, fractured electronic beats are awesome! So you should check them out - www.mrhayday.com

Prospect Palace Practice Tapes

2008-07-21T16:14:00.000-07:00

At the end of 2007 we put out a 3 inch CD-R on Cloudberry records of some songs we chose from a practice session we did at our moldy old house. The full length sessions are now available so email us if you'd like to find out how to get your hands on a copy :) thegladeyes@hotmail.com.

Hue and Cry Art and Literary Journal

2008-07-01T18:46:00.000-07:00

Last night was the launch of the second issue of Hue and Cry. This is a great art and literary journal put together by Chloe Lane. We contributed an excerpt from an interview Gwen's Dad did with us. We are going to publish the full interview as a book........!

http://texture.co.nz/blogs/reviews/archive/2008/07/01/hue-cry-journal-issue-2-stakeout.aspx