Okay, so you may have been wondering what the hell is going on here at Tree Tops (I've been thinking the same myself!) But rather that present a show that's half baked we have chosen to spend a little longer in the saddle to bring you the best entertainment peanuts can buy.
So it gives us great pleasure to introduce two acts who will be performing for us on Saturday April the 4th.
Fresh from there show-stopping performance at the Titirangi Music Festival local favourites The Magnets will be joining us to play a set of original tunes that will even impress the most 'buttock-clenching' music critics amongst you.
The Magnets are Ben Collier (GoldenHorse, The Nukes), brother Tom Collier and multi-instrumentalist Marcus Lawson (Lucid3, Dave Dobbyn). They deliver a fine set of self writen songs drawing on blues and alt-country styles, with vocals sometimes reminiscent of the Beach boys and CSNY, they are an audience favourite for sure.
Ask 10 people in the NZ music industry to tell you about Otis Mace and you'll probably get 10 very different responses, You see Otis Mace has been making music in this fair land and overseas for 20 plus years. Weather they tell you about his time in Rex Reason and The Rationalists or his band Otis Mace and The Psychic Pet Healers or indeed national tours in support of his Snot Vampire spoken word project, they may even tell you that Otis has writen music for numerous theatre productions all of which would be correct. There are many sides to this man and we hope to uncover more than two (at least) when Otis plays for us on the 4th of April.
I have included a small piece from a review "Music in New Zealand Magazine" - Article by David
Eggleton. for further information please go
http://www.otismace.com/ where there's more than enough info' to keep you happy.
Otis Mace continued as well his parallel career as a theatre composer, providing the music for Barbara Doherty's 1986 dance piece Rythmnopolis and contributing to the Auckland City Council 1987 multi-media spectacular, Down the Really Road, directed by Nansi Thompson. More recently he has composed the musical score for Vampire Tales, by Cornelius Stone (1992) and accompanied Fatal Jelly Space chanteuse Jacinda Clowens on her solo musical outings (1990-1993).
After the demise of The Psychic Pet Healers set-up at the end of the long and winding tour of 1987, Otis Mace, in his own words 'became a Westie', moving to Auckland's Western Suburbs to get a full-time job and consider his future. After a couple of years out West, he shifted to inner-city Auckland, where he remains based, touring as a solo performer ('have guitar, will travel') and occasionally playing in an Irish music covers band, Blarney Rubble, or as a Celtic music duo with violinist Helen Adams. A new development is improvisation - the audience suggests an idea for a song and Otis makes one up on the spot.
In 1992 he toured a series of songwriting workshops with Arthur Baysting, where the audience co-opted into producing songs using cut-up magazine headlines (e.g 'Meryl Streep Stole My Brain'). Performers of rock music come and go, but Otis plays on, a peripheral fringe figure-though he no longer inhabits the punk ghetto-a hardy perennial on the touring circuit, his trademark, edgy, semi-syncopated strum underlining his impassioned, slightly nasal, still-Canadian-accented delivery, his foot steadily tapping out a rhythmic accompaniment.
So as you can see we've not been idle (much) and are working hard to bring the best entertainment to West Auckland.
Please put this date in your diary and tell all your friends, it promises to be a great night.
More acts to be confirmed we will let you know about these as they happen.
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