Wilberforces

Hi, We're Wilberforces...

We are fucking sick of random strangers at shows telling us how much they enjoyed the set we just played and then fucking off back to their nondescript existences without so much as buying us a beer.
 
We released an album called Haunted last year. It made the Best of 2009 List at Einstein Music Journal (#11), thekitchensink.co.nz (#3), Tally Ho Magazine (#3) and a couple of other places as well. People said such complimentary things as "tracks like (the obvious) Tidal Waves and the b-Net station favourite My Mind Is In My Paws are simply incredible pop-rock-fuzz-bop tracks", "Haunted is a very impressive, well-rounded, and brilliantly produced masterpiece of a debut album", "Haunted is a recording triumph. It snatches one of the top acts around town out of the various dingy live dives and crams them into your headphones – admittedly at bursting point". Of our live show, critics have been equally as forthcoming in their appreciation! Apparently, "this is new and exciting stuff", and "it's only a matter of time before [we] come a-knockin' at Die! Die! Die!'s door."
 
Unfortunately, none of this means shit to us. All we want is for a shiny looking man in a brand new suit to sit us down, take out a briefcase full of American dollar bills, lay the briefcase on the table and hand us a contract saying "sign here... and here... aaaand initial here... don't worry about the legal mumbo-jumbo, it's all just industry standard stuff". We want to get paid by government agencies to plaster our faces all over your televisions. We want to be put up in swanky hotels and call the dicks who stuck us in rubbish bins in Year 10 from our plush suite. You know, just to see what they're up to and maybe rub it in their faces that the very dreams they told us to give up on in high school have manifested themselves into the very CDs their kids spend their pocket money on at The Warehouse and blast from the stereo in their bedrooms as mummy and daddy tell the landlord that the rent might be a little late in coming this week. What with the economy being the way it isl....
 
We're tired of the underground. We're tired of being "indie". We're tired of being underrated and we're tired or all your bullshit.
 
We just want to sell out.
 
And we aren't just being ironic here.
 
Seriously, EMI? Sony? If any of you majors are reading this, scouting the web for what could be the next big thing, just email us. We are more than willing to co-operate.

What sort of album influences Wilberforces?

Liars - Drums Not Dead
An album that has influenced Wilberforces is "Drum's Not Dead" by Liars. It's unsettling and creepy. It's insistent and unforgiving. It will drive you in the boot, through the crooked past to your resting place. It will leave you in the woods and tell your friends you slipped down the Lumen tree.

Check out their song "My Mind Is In My Paws"

Wilberforces - My Mind Is In My Paws by musichype

Wilberforces on the interweb

The NZ indie label Etch Recordings

We are an Auckland, NZ based  label, releasing experimental/noise/post punk. Artists include White On White, Name:Uglyman, Test Erratic, Wilberforces [insert your band here].

» Etch Recordings' Website