COLD WAR BABIES
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Discography Yas Tal EP The New Originals Dr Maplewood Recordings 2004 Jump on the Wagon (single) The New Originals Dr Maplewood Recordings 2005 … in miracle world Cold War Babies Powertool Records 2006 Dance Like This b/w The Greatest Chill Out Album in the World Ever (Volume 17) Ben Frank and the Post Apocalyptic Cowboys Doctor Maplewood Recordings 2006 |
Born and raised in Christchurch, Tim Moore is 21. He recently graduated from the University of Canterbury with a BA. Tim plays all the instruments on …in miracle world. He says he can play a million instruments, which is not true. Tim’s main musical influences include Neutral Milk Hotel, Sonic Youth, New Order and The Beatles. The New Originals, Tim’s previous band, played live from 1999-2005. They were twice Finalists in RDU’s Roundup competition and won the regional Rockquest while at high school. The single from the Yas Tal EP, And Today, was included on RDU’s 2005 compilation Some New Zealand Music is Shit, and the Series 3, issue 1 edition of A LOW HUM. Featured as the music on National Radio’s Homegrown show’s advert for a period, Liz Barry raved “These psychedelic popsters are very original indeed!” Tim is currently involved with a number of musical projects including Ben Frank and the Post Apocalyptic Cowboys. The Post Apocalyptic Cowboys are shit but claim they create their music by combining Major Organ and the Adding Machine with Ciccone Youth and multiplying the result by New Order. Don’t listen to Ben Frank unless you like screaming waves of white noise and enjoy stuff like Dinosaur Jr. In fact, we’d like to recommend that people give it a miss anyway. But for now enjoy …in miracle world, the latest offering from Cold War Babies. Band Tim’s collection of asession musicians play guitar, bass, violin, blues harp and sing during the live performance which lasts almost an hour and involves all the musicians taking turns at the different instruments (except the drums, because Mike is weird with letting other people play them). Mike plays in RDU Roundup 2005 Winners The Undercurrents when he is not practicing with Cold War Babies, while Tyrone is allegedly the brains behind Ben Frank and the Post Apocalyptic Cowboys – a side project the band have been recording with. “Ben Frank is much more about discordant noise than pretty pop songs”, muses Tyrone. The band sometimes perform Ben Frank pieces at live shows which involve epic Karaoke, conga lines and funeral processions. Johnny Moore played in very-low-level famous Edinburgh band the Beards. While they like to call themselves a supergroup, when they say it, it’s more like super group. |
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Latest News Tim Moore's latest musical projects are Cowboy Machine and The Klap. Here is a video of The Klap performing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkRLpMYAAic |
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PT057: Cold War Babies - ..... In Miricle World (EP) 2006 1.Those who survived 2.Sing to your mothers 3.Flowers 4.All night long 5.Again 6.That's it (well there we go) |
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PRESS RELEASE: Cold War Babies Release Debut EP Friday July 14, will see the release of Tim Moore’s first solo album …in miracle world on Powertool Records. Released under the band name Cold War Babies, the six track EP is the first time Tim has played all the instruments on a record. Having been active on the Christchurch music scene for a number of years with his band The New Originals, Tim has decided it is time to do it alone. “Bands are great for the social element but there is really something to be said for the type of music you can produce when you just lock yourself away and see what you can come up with”, says Tim. “Sometimes I have a sound or a riff in my head and the only way to make that sound is for me to do it myself.” 12 months in the making ...in miracle world is a step away from the psychedelic pop style that won The New Originals a legion of fans with its Yas Tal EP, Jump on the Wagon single and inclusion of And Today on the 2005 RDU Some New Zealand Music is Shit compilation and Series 3, Issue 1 of A Low Hum. Cold War Babies … in miracle world is a much more introspective, stripped back EP, relying on the melodies and composition to carry the song instead of filling the track with walls of sound. “The New Originals are over for now, but we may well do something again in future”, says Tim. “This is just a way for me to get my other music out there, and it’s what I want to be doing at the moment.” “This is much more personal”, says Tim. “There is a lot of me in these tunes. Recording this was a lot more fun than recording has been for me in the past. It is great to just hole up in a studio with a few drinks and work my way through the parts. Now that …in miracle world is finished, I am dying to get working on the first full-length album as Cold War Babies.” Tim says a full length album will be recorded early in 2007. For now he is concentrating on promoting the EP and getting back into playing live. “I have been away from the scene for a while, just writing and recording. Now I am dying to get these tunes in front of a crowd to prove to people what killer tracks they are.” Tim has recruited a band from the local music scene and will be taking …in miracle world to the stage in July. “I just want to get people to listen to the album and I think getting out there and gigging is the best way to do this”, says Tim. [ENDS] … in miracle world is out July14 on Powertool Records. Cold War Babies will be playing an EP release party at the Dux De Lux in Christchurch on 14 July . For more information contact: Tim Moore coldwarbabies@gmail.com Johnny Moore 021 353 759 johnny@goodbyebluemonday.co.nz Andrew Matai andrew@powertoolrecords.co.nz Powertool Records |
| CHRISTCHURCH PRESS 6-7-2006: "Freed from the stifling and occasionally opposing forces that shaped the New Originals, there is a sense of artistic liberation on Tim Moore's new musical being, the Cold War Babies. This is reflected most obviously in Moore's handling of all the playing himself on his new EP, regardless of his familiarity with the instrument or the foreign nature of its sound. Although the desire to do it alone produces, at times, the same shambolic state of existance which graced his former band, nevertheless, In Miracle World dermonstrates a far more expansive range of songwriting. The shifting moods and unexpected arrangements - where drone noise fuses with bright organ melodies on That's it, for example - might bring comparisons to VU-inspired bands such as The Clean, while the changes of pace and fragmented structures of Again draw to mind the schizoid tunes of Beck. This EP contains six very different songs, all with the rough edges left on. " |
