Stand By EP

Dear Softbombers
Well, the wait is over!!!
They are finally here. We have them in our chilled little hands right now. We are sorry this has taken so long, but it literally was beyond our control. It was smiles all round at the band meeting last night, as at last we got to see the fruit of our efforts.
We trust you will get as much enjoyment out of this as we have.

Martin

Stand By

Track listing:
Liberty or love
February
Bad dancer
Falling off your throne
Little boy
Torturing me
True romance

Stand By is available to order from dunedinmusic.com

New Chills Videos

Martin and The Chills have recently completed 2 videos of songs from the newly released “Stand By” CD.
February and True Romance were taped at the beautiful Temple Gallery, Dunedin over the weekend of 23-24 October.

The February video will debut on the “John Campbell with A Queens Tour” show, TV3, Thursday Nov 11 9.30pm NZ time.
For details on A Queens Tour Click here

The True Romance video will debut on the “Hum” music show, TV1, Saturday Nov 13 10.30pm NZ time.
For details on Hum Click here

Special thanks go out to Lisa, George, Michael, James, Peter and Tori, Graeme, Chris, John, Megan, Michael, Rudy, Strawberry Sound, Taylormade, TV3, and TV1 for making this happen.

Update: 25th June 2004

Well Hello My Dear Soft-Bombers!

It has been a while since I have made contact with y'all because I've been awaiting good news - and it's here, in truckloads!

Firstly - many of you are aware that The Chills have been recording new material (for nearly the first time in ten years sadly) and I am going up to Auckland early July to mix these ten tracks. Probably six or seven will end up on the new CDEP called, at this point "Stand By! (Something's Brewing)".

Read more....

6th March 2004:

The band have been recording in one of Dunedins more unusual buildings.

Click on the image to find out more!

28th August 2003:

For owners of Secret box, an exclusive DIY sleeve template. (please read the instructions below!)

The Secret Box sleeve is a self assembly box sleeve, housing three standard CD jewel cases. It features a full Secret box track listing and comes as a downloadable PDF file.

You should download the PDf (9.7mb) and take it to a print shop and get it printed at A3 on 250gsm card. Then follow the instructions on the template and cut out and glue the tabs where shown.

It takes a bit of effort, but it's well worth it and makes a loveley new home for your Secret Box CD's.

28th June 2003:

Just when you'd given up on me updating the website? Here's a new set of band photo's!

26th December 2002
Read Martins' letter to mail list subscribers.

29th July 2002
Read Martins' letter to mail list subscribers.

14th April 2002
Read Martins' letter to mail list subscribers.

14th April 2002
Couldn't make it to the Dunston trail Classic gig in the middle of nowhere? Me neither. By way of consulation, here are two photo albums.

Album 1 by Garry George
Album 2 by Pascal Sutherland & Terry Hannan

28th February 2002
Would you like to see some photos of the Otago University gig on 25th Feb? Click image below to see the photos.

Courtesy of Andrew Ellis

2nd February 2002
Back with a vengeance
2002 looks set to be a productive year for the Chills.

The current line-up consists of (left to right) Rodney Haworth: bass, Todd Knudson: drums, James Dickson: keyboards, Martin Phillipps: vocals/guitars, and Martin swears it's one of the best bands he's ever played with.

They have been an active unit for nearly three years although they have only played around a dozen shows in this time. The delay caused by Martin having to take time out to battle Hepatitus C and other health issues.

The new set consists of a few old faves and some new material as the band starts to finalise some of the thousand-plus "song-seeds" Martin has accumulated on tapes over the years (prior to recently getting the computer gear needed to move forward and find The Chills' style within the new technology.)

If you're familiar with The Chills and think it's all just history, then think again! This ain't no retro/nostalgia package - The Chills are very much a serious ongoing concern.

Stay tuned - it's going to be an exciting and extraordinarily productive year.

29th October 2001
The New Zealand APRA (Australasian Performing Rights Association) has compiled a list of the top 30 songs by New Zealand artists over the past 75 years. Pink Frost came in at number 14.
Click here for the full list.

Chills back catalogue
Flying Nun have ceased their direct mail order service. They are recommending Smoke CD's as a supplier for Flying Nun back catalogue.

Here is an up to date list of Chills back catalogue currently available.

Sunburnt, Soft Bomb, Heavenly Pop Hits, Kaleidoscope World, Submarine Bells, Sketch Book - CD

Click here to visit the Smoke CD's website for more info. By the way! Not all of the titles above appear on the Flying Nun website list, but we are assured that they are all available to order as of October 2001.

Saturday September 15th 2001
The Chills play at Jurassic Park III Premiere
On the evening of Thursday 23rd August, The Chills played at Dunedin Town Hall as part of the celebrations surrounding the premiere of Jurassic Park III in Dunedin, the event was hosted by Sam Neil.

(exerpt from Martin's latest message to the mail list August 2001)
To the very cool Softies
I hope to work on my all-round fitness (to give me the necessary energy to do things properly) over the next few months whilst the Chills begin more serious work on new material - although I first need to digitise, organise and select from the hundreds of riffs I've accumulated and then choose the best path to take with the material. I'll then present the band with audio blueprints (demo's!) of structures, atmospheres and intentions which will be then worked on as a group. Perhaps fifty new songs might be whittled down to still more than enough for the next album [working title remains 'Silver Bullets' which represents tangible, effective energy against dark forces!], extra tracks/B-sides and other new material for the gigs. We then hope to work hard developing the new material (and bringing a new selection of some old songs up to scatch) before going into the studio proper with our demo's in the middle of 2002.

Thanks again everyone. Stay cool and strong, love from the "Big Chill", Martin Phillipps