Ghost Club - Ghost Clubbing (2001)

Amidst the millennial guitar rawk revival, when Detroit was the new Detroit, and groups like The White Stripes and The Datsuns were shooting up the charts and shuffling on your iPod, a cadre of New Zealanders settled in London and wielded a Ghost Club, and the hard rock sound got roundly clocked. For most dedicated New Zealand music fans, these fellows need no introduction. David Mitchell has been melting down guitar amps since the 80s in many seminal New Zealand bands from Plagal Grind to The Exploding Budgies, Goblin Mix and Chug to The 3Ds. Denise Roughan is also no stranger to live audiences, serving us wonderments in Look Blue Go Purple and The 3Ds. Flying Nun newcomer Jim Abbott has been grounded in local NZ bands joining the now-london based Ghost Club full time. The band first caught our attention when David and Denise recorded two quiet, acoustic songs in January 1996 that were released by Flying Nun as a 7" single. The band have played sporadic live shows in London, as well as a couple of stunning solo efforts by David Mitchell (playing Ghost Club tunes) at the 2000 Dunedin Sound Festival & in Auckland with The Clean.

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