Pumice, Greg Malcom and Jenny Ward

the BORDERLINE BALLROOM #2
Thursday 28 June 2007
7:30pm - $5, doorsales only

collaborative fervour including a double one-man-band extravaganza

with:

PUMICE (Auck)
"The struggle between sinking and swimming, swallowing water either
way since 1991"

Pumice is the open ended solo vehicle of Stefan Neville. Stefan
performs one man band compositions and improvisations for small silver
guitar, drums, voice, buzz-box, intercoms, endless cassette, and
spring reverb. Pumice triumphantly touredthe USA in 2006 playing 26
gigs and culminating in a month-long artist residency at multi-faceted
arts centre AS220 in Providence, Rhode Island where Stefan performed,
recorded and collaborated with local artists. Similarly in 2005 Stefan
was artist in residence for two months at the Museumsquartier in
Vienna, Austria, which was followed by a European tour in 2006. This
is the first comprehensive NZ tour for for PUMICE since 2004 when the
RAFT CD was launched. PUMICE Recordings have been released on small
labels the world over from NZ to Belgium, to USA and Finland.
This performance is part of the PEBBLES CD release tour, on Soft Abuse
records, and is the first PUMICE gig in Christchurch since 1998!
http://www.myspace.com/pumarse
http://www.softabuse.com

GREG MALCOM and JENNY WARD (Chch)

Greg Malcolm has been around for ages performing unusual music in a
variety of contexts and combinations. His current obsession is solo
simultaneously played multiple guitar performances. The result of this
is releases such as Homesick for Nowhere (Corpus Hermeticum 2002),
Swimming In It (Kraak 2005) and Hung (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon 2006).
Greg Malcolm has toured regularly and participated in numerous
festivals including Belgium's Pauze Festival 2005, 'Densites Festival
in France 2005, Full Pull festival in Sweden, Safe as Milk in Norway
2006.

Jenny Ward is a vocalist with a theatre background; she uses toys,
walkie-talkies and extended vocal techniques in her performance and
has been working with Malcolm for many years.

http://www.myspace.com/gregmalcolm
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~malcolmg/

and aural eclecticism from your resident DJs, CEGESTE and STANIER BLACK-FIVE