Released on Monday, November 23, MUZAI Records presented two bands on one split CD. First is Auckland hardcore punk outfit God Bows To Math, with four tracks of spitting aggression and spiralling feedback. Then it’s TFF, the Dunedin teenagers who craft long, noisy jams using high pitched guitar screeches and crooked saxophone playing. I had a chat with both bands about putting the split together and about their future plans to tour the country together.
Mike and Hope formed Bad Sav late last year after spending a lot of time hanging out together at Dunedin’s Radio 1 (Hope hosts a show on Monday at 11pm). Originally the duo messed around a bit with just bass and drums, but when Hope’s long time friend and former band mate Lucinda moved back to Dunedin from Wellington things got a bit more serious. Hope says, “She joined the band and shit got louder and more song-like.”
Hope remembers the band’s first gig, “The first time we ever played together was at about 4 or 5 in the morning at a party in the middle of nowhere. I played surf rock beats for what seemed like half an hour and Mike pulled some gnarly shit out of one string really loudly and some guy yelled ‘play more than one note!’.”
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