Forty years ago today I had my first jam with a Dunedin band which became The Same which evolved, two years later, into The Chills. I decided not to be an archeologist after all. No regrets. eMPea.
Happy to announce we are underway on album pre-production with renowned record producer Greg Haver & things are going very well.
We already have a very strong album’s worth of material & I’m still writing more just in case. We’ll keep you in touch as things progress. X. Martin
Now asteroid 53109 is named Martinphillipps we have the pleasure and honour to announce that Dr
@iangriffin
has had asteroid 49291 named Thechills.
Yes - we are truly rock stars!
The band are 'over the moon'!
This is for ALL The Chills that have ever been - feel proud! M.P.
New Chills album all recording completed tonight at Port Chalmers Recording Service, Dunedin after Revolver Studios, Waiuku. Mixing starts in a week. Sounding wonderful already!
The album is out today as we begin our NZ tour and we are rapt to have received the white vinyl copies. Stream it on Spotify or Apple Music Do let us know your favourite tracks
I am hugely pleased to announce that we will be reissuing ‘Brave Words' (Expanded and Remastered)’ as well as ‘Kaleidoscope World' (Expanded Edition) with
@firerecordings
on the 13th October, each as Double LPs.
Order:
I'm holding a CD copy of our new album, 'Snow Bound', and it looks and sounds great! Vinyl arrives shortly and official release is next Friday 14th September.
It was a tough day with our van breaking down in Birmingham, but we made it on time and it ended up being one of the best shows of the tour. Thank you London
Ok, so not really our tour bus, but it is a bus, and we are on tour. We are to the train station, Primavera Madrid here we come. Full EU/U.K. tour dates & tickets :
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
Heavenly Pop Hit: Not a tongue in cheek song. I truly wanted to create something beautiful and too powerful to be written off as lightweight pop.
Wet Blanket written in 1981 recorded for the Brave Words album in 1987 This album has now been remixed/ remastered to be released in 2023 -It sounds fantastic! Wet Blanket is a live favourite and now we do it with the extra chorus it should always have had
A brilliant double page feature and interview with Martin in todays
@IrishTimes
ahead of our shows next week. Playing Dublin
@whelanslive
June 22nd and Galway
@roisindubhpub
June 23rd
U.K. we are on our way ! Tonight we play Manchester
@DeafInstitute
. Early show times: 7pm doors, 7.30pm
@RatsOnRafts
and 8.40pm The Chills (10pm curfew). Last remaining tickets available:
Have a happy and safe festive season from all at Chills HQ! And recharge your batteries - looks like we're going to need all our positive energy for 2018. Cheers! Martin Phillipps.
This has been very hard call to make, but we need to cancel our Toronto and Detroit shows. I’m feeling exhausted, can’t sing, and need time to recover. We really hate to disappoint our fans, but need to this for the sake of the rest of the tour. Wish me well. MP
Thanks to everyone who came to see us in Amsterdam last night, was a special show for us and we really felt the love! Tonight we play
@doornroosjenl
& then U.K. here we come
Very pleased to have our NZ tour supports announced today including
@theBatsNZ
and Purple Pilgrims at The Powerstation Akl 14 May helping celebrate the 40th
@FlyingNun
anniversary.
For the documentary film I was asked to produce a few pages of illustrated lyrics. This is the one I did for the song 'Soft Bomb' from 1991 and it is basically me mourning the passing of the early Dunedin-sound era, the wonderful bands & the fantastic times.
Its s red sky morning here in
#Dunedin
. Thanks
@firerecordings
&
@stereogum
for premiering our 2 new tracks Complex and Lord of all I survey. Nice to wake up to in NZ. Album and NZ tour SEPT XX Much Aroha to all.
It's less than two weeks until we leave NZ to tour UK (and some of Europe). It will be our first trip there in over 6 years. I hope to see many old friends, and some new ones on our journey. Tickets FYI are:
Thanks to our good friends at Fire Records & Spotify you can pre-save our first single from the new album by following this link. Please do share. Lots more goodness to come
This week the U.K. tour continues! Calling at Hebden Bridge, Norwich, Birmingham, London, Ramsgate, Portsmouth, Falmouth & then off to Dublin & Galway! Come along :
📷 Sergio Albert
@Primavera_Sound
AMERICA,
We are pleased to announce
@Cotillonflowers
will be joining us on the West Coast and
@BrionStarr
on the East to midwest leg of our upcoming tour. Ltd tix are still available depending on the city - check local venue website for availability. More news soon!
Hard to believe that this time next week we’ll be in Europe and in another week we’ll be starting our U.K. & Ireland tour. It’s been a good while & we can’t wait to see you all out there ! Tickets :
@firerecordings
|
@RatsOnRafts
Had fun last night performing 'Pink Frost' with Neil, Liam and Elroy Finn in Milton, South Otago (briefly family home when I was five/six years old) and big thanks to entire Finn touring team. Much love in the Hall!
Looking forward immensely to this
@LlSTENlNG_PARTY
with
@Tim_Burgess
as we explore my albums Submarine Bells and Soft Bomb. Early start here at the bottom of the world tho...
Wed 28 Sept 4pm (USA – ET)
Wed 28 Sept 1pm (USA – PT)
Wed 28 Sept 9pm (UK)
Thur 29 Sept 9am (NZ)
Tonight I broke a guitar string for the first time in ten years, but we rose to the occasion and had a great gig. Next stop Manchester
@DeafInstitute
UK on Saturday :
We will be doing a limited high-quality A2 run of this poster I designed in 1986 for the Kaleidoscope World compilation album. Iit will initially only be available on the upcoming UK/EU tour where I will be on hand to sign - MP. Tickets
Chills fans! Tickets for our U.S. shows are going fast and some dates have already sold out. Please don't miss out after all these years! Sadly there'll be nothing we can do to help. Hope to see you soon, Martin P.
'We are very proud of our Prime Minister,
@jacindaardern
, and her recent speech at the United Nations assembly.
Here is a photo of when fellow-Chill, Oli Wilson, and I got to meet her in Dunedin at the 2017 A.P.R.A. Silver Scroll Awards.'
Our newest single Destiny is out today thanks to the team
@firerecordings
- watch it here: the whole concert will be live-streamed here: more info here:
Our video for the single Complex is out later this week. Much of it shot here in
#dunedin
Thanks to Here is a peek at whats in store and you can also listen here: - 15 date NZ Tour begins this Friday.
#music
#love
XXX
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
Heavenly Pop Hit: A video was shot in Ireland as a stand-in for NZ. We were rehearsing there for the 1990 world tour. Note the goat.
It’s been real Portsmouth! Great on stage sound thanks to the lovely Ben The Wedgewood Rooms. See you at The Cornish Bank tonight in Falmouth for the last UK leg 🦵 🇬🇧
Worlds Within Worlds: The Chills Live From New Zealand - ON SALE NOW. We’re so excited to share this special live show with all our friends who can’t go and see live music right now. 31 March worldwide.
I'm giving a guided tour of the Chills Exhibition at Otago Museum today at 1 pm (24 June) with curator Michael Findlay. Only I know the truth! See you there.
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
Part Past Part Fiction: It would be great to have it in our live set but it's a real strain for my 59 year-old vocal chords.
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
Water Wolves: Beautiful arrangement by Van Dyke Parks. I had to sing to him down the phone to check where my vocal was meant to start.
Martin dusting off the old U.K. Tour diaries ahead of coming back next month. Let’s hope they’ve cleared the alleyways in Glasgow for our show
@Monoglasgow
11.06. Tickets for U.K./EU Tour :
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Soft Bomb: Good, honest ringing open chords in a paean to the early 'Dunedin Sound' and feeling its passing as we disappeared into the bowels of the Warners machine.