Artist description A mobile nucleonic core surrounded by a orbiting spectrum of associated particles

Music Style Modern

Musical Influences Dating Godot, Too Many Daves, Lapdog, Mark Chong

Similar Artists Wire, Can, Guided By Voices, Husker Du, Gang of Four, Verlaines, Chills, Clean, The Jam, Swingers, Bailter Space, Folk Implosion, Joy Division, Nocturnal Projections, Fugazi, Sugar, Nova Mob

Artist History Formed in 1995 in a Cargill Street kitchen, Dunedin, New Zealand, from the rubble of the instigators careers and egoes. Status of members as economic refugees meant a flight to Auckland, New Zealand, by 1996. Initial recordings and live appearances made, followed by a release of first album.

Group Members Victor Billot, John Howell and Mark Orbell, with a supporting cast of thousands

Instruments Guitar, Roland Space Echo, DD2, Bass, Drums, Symbols, Korg Monophonic

Albums City of Bastards (1997), Uno Projecto EP (1998), Stratford Workshop (2000)

Press Reviews "City of Bastards certainly has the markings of its NZ predecessors, but more so it stands on its own as a disc that is both brutal and unsettlingly gentle."(Popwatch, Winter 1999) "I'm a big fan of dark, spacious rock and this Alpha Plan band fits rather coolly along such bands like Amp, Joy Division, and Crescent . . . Their sound is raw, most of the record sounds like a live performance. The whole album is pretty dark and the combination of words and music give off brilliant imagery."(Kickbright, November 1999) " . . . it's a rare review when I don't think I've done the album justice, and this is one of them. Whether you view it as nostalgia for a time lost or an album executed with regards to its content rather than its timeframe, City of Bastards is commanding listen after listen, and I find myself becoming more enraptured with the idea of the album with each listen."(Signal Drench, April 2000)

Additional Info Tracks on Dollar Mixture (Wrong Records, 1997) and Valve 9 (Yellow Bike, 1997)

Location Dunedin, Otago - New Zealand

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