Artist description NEWS ************ In July 1998 Ben Lovelace and myself (derek) did a show at Penrith's Evan Theatre (housed in the Panther's Club). Although the only record of the show (or indeed anything 'live' from this time) is a handycam video taken by Ben's brother Matt (hi Matt!) So I touched it up et voila ! 1998 AD - LIVE. Its available NOW from our sales page, $5.99 US.MAY NEWS *********** The videos of all 5 songs are also available to watch- just click to our video page.*****Rehearsals have begun with new drummer Roger, Andy, Mark and myself. I'm looking to get my old partner in crime Ben Lovelace back on board (on key-board , fact ... ok, ok ,that was just a little gratuitous, i know...) and another fulltime guitar player (his name's Ben too - no, not Ben2 - more to follow...) We're looking to do some dates around Sydney in August this year, so stay posted to the tour page.*****Production Future Echoes 1 & 2 has been discontinued. Both will be repackaged,renamed, and re-emerge sooner or later.*****I'll get those pics of Mark, Andy and Roger on here soon I promise, its just that i've been soooooooo busy ...*****catch you soon DM 5/00***APRIL nEWS***** VIDEO RELEASED Have you see the NUMB VIDEO yet ?*** Its at :www.downloadmusic.com.au/smallgods/ the cd single will follow this month (check our site www.smallgods.com.au) initially it will only be available online but we're looking towards a retail Australian release...*** *** NEW RECRUITS Welcome aboard to Mark Shadbolt (guitar) and Andrew O'Connor (bass) the two newest gODS. There'll be some more info on those two later in the month. Again, stay posted to www.smallgods.com.au for the juicy details and plenty of pictures of them in compromising positions !!! (no! down Ben!) LOL Derek ***MARCH 2000 *****FUTURE ECHOES 2 ...Future Echoes 2 - The Crimes of Passion demo's ... is out now.As always you can rely on us for a reasonable price - US$5.99 plus postage, and you can get it here !Check it out NOW ***CHARTING THE SINGLE ...Just a quick note on our best performers here on the soundpage (stats provided by mp3.com)*CATATONIA - peaked at #52 in its genre (drum&bass techno) and around #3200 in the overall charts *HIGH - peaked at #92 *THE LIVING LEGEND AND MOONFLOWER - peaked at #82 ; both this and High made it to around #10000. I know it doesn't sound like anything to write home about, but the competition is abundant and mp3.com is a BIG site.Due to their relative popularity, the songs mentioned above will be added to the 'downloadable's shortly. ***SITE REDESIGN We've changed the site layout a little, please let us know what you think....***RECRUITING We hope to introduce two new 'gods in early April, and a mid-year Aussie tour ! ***As always, take care and of course, COME AGAIN !Cheers DM 3/00****************FEBUARY 2000 CD RELEASE @ MP3.COM Its the 29th of Feb (i'm a little late this month,I know) - a day that I didn't even think wouldbe on the calender(it seems every 4th centurion year ie every 400 years we do have a leap year to eventhings up again).So it seems momentous that SMALLgODS's first CD should become available on this day. Yes, finally. And its not what we said it would be either. ODYSSEY SUITE is a 35 minute long trance-techno work, split into 10 tracks (all instrunental). Coupled with it are two bonus tracks:Close Your Eyes (new) and Outland (from MASQUE- not yet available).All songs are available in full hi-fi streaming audio right here,and this is also where you can buy ODYSSEY SUITE.Within the next few daysa second CD will be available: FUTURE ECHOES 1- My Jerusalem & the Id demo's.As the name suggest, the material is in a demo state; and as it also suggests, there will be a follow-up shortly.FUTUREECHOES 1 will be officially available from MP3.COMon March 3.The good news is that its available RIGHT NOW to listen to.Masque, and Numb, and anything else that I said we would be releasing first up, well they're coming.. NEW DOWNLOAD / STREAMING AUDIO LOCATIONS Following the recent server crash at Downloadmusic.com.au ,we moved our stuff over to mp3.com, (a US site). Hopefully this should give us a more globalised exposure. Streaming Audio is now the favoured format, but there will be at least one song from every CD available as mp3 to download (everything is available in hi-fi streaming audio to listen to).For Australian cybernauts, the site at www.downloadmusic.com.au/smallgods/ is available again, but it will only house the downloadable mp3's (the same as are available at www.mp3.com/small_gods/ )These files can also be found at mp3.com.au/smallgods/ ************ JANUARY 2000 Happy New Year to one and all. Mmmm... in case you're wondering where the MASQUE video is,well... its coming. We still have a couple of shots to do, then some editing, but SOON...hold on !We've decided not to release the Masque EP just yet, opting to hold back until we've organised some distribution deals in the "real-world" (as opposed to purely online sales). Never fear... to keep you all going in the meantime there will be some online releases (probably thru ChaosMusic).First of all a cd-single, NUMB (plus 6-7 other tracks all from different SMALLgODS works to come). The good news is there's already a video for Numb,we're just finishing off one or two of the 'b-sides'.Sometime shortly after that there will be a full-length cd named TO SLEEP ... PERCHANCE to DREAM. Stay tuned for release dates.(Yes the MP3's will be available for you to preview ... expect them in the next 14 days.)DM 01/26/00 (Australia Day) ************ DECEMBER 99 The sie is finally up ..... The Masque EP is finally available for all to download... After much hard work I'm happy to say that we've finally settled in to our new web-home and look forward to bringing you the best new sounds we can create.We plan to follow up the EP release with a short tour of parts of Australia. Check here regularly for tour dates, they will be postedas soon as they're available.Hopefully, with enough support from you guys (ie by downloading the songs and visiting the site regularly)we can convince some company to distribute our debut fulllength release, DIS, which is almost ready to ship. DIS will also be avilable on video/DVD format (hopefully) featuring clips of all 12 tracks (this is what we're furiously working on now!).See you soon- Derek. HAVE A SAFE AND HAPPY XMAS AND Y2K. AND OF COURSE, DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE. WE WANT YOU ALIVE SO YOU CAN COME AND VISIT US AGAIN. Season's Greetings 1999 SMALL gODS.

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Artist History SMALL gODS formed in late 1995 and are still not dead.Although they haven't really surfaced to play a show since mid-98,plans are afoot to manifest once more.A series of full-length cd's and singles will soon be available.Keep posted for the details...

Group Members Derek Mason - voice, programming, guitars *** Daniel Mason - guitars *** Ben Lovelace - Synth *** Mark Shadbolt - (guitars) *** Andrew O'Connor - (bass) ***

Instruments PC, guitars, bass, Alesis DM5 drum machine, Roland UA100 Audio Canvas & D20 synth.

Albums *** Odyssey Suite *** Future Echoes *** 1998AD-LIVE ***

Press Reviews The Darkness (Demo) has a lot of cool elements--I like your fusion of dance/industrial/goth/and general weirdness :Graycie:The Living Legend and Moonflower totally rocks. 'nuff said. :Paul:

Additional Info *** www.downloadmusic.com.au/smallgods/ *** MP3.com.au/smallgods/ *** mail@smallgods.com.au ***

Location Sydney, NSW - Australia

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