Mind How You Run

Mind how you run – The Bats Today’s song! I wrote some time ago that the Bats have never written a bad song, citing the songs they left as b-sides – how fantastic they are – as proof. The songs the Bats reject… This song is my favourite Bats song, and lo and behold it [...]

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Block Of Wood

Block of wood – The Bats Well maybe not. This wonderful song has a video! It’s a video with now added poignancy (and archival significance) as it shows a now largely ruined part of the Bats’ city of Christchurch. This is the building they are hanging out the windows of towards the end. The Old [...]

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The Calm Before The Storm

The calm before the storm – The Bats The b-side to the Block of Wood 7″, demonstrating further that the Bats never wrote a bad song. Well it is one of the b-sides – the other is the nearly as excellent Candidate. That they never wrote a bad song is not a confidence i’ve yet [...]

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Block Of Wood

Block of wood – The Bats I could have seen this relic of a band live twice in this year alone. Either i don’t realise what an incredible opportunity that is, or am too steadfastly biased in my opinion of reunions to celebrate such an event, because it felt far too easy a decision to [...]

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