The Deceivers - Featured Artist June 2008

Electro-Funk
www.myspace.com/thedeceiversnz
Contact: David Klein (Manager)

Young electro-funksters The Deceivers are the UCSA Battle Of The Bands champion and CHART's Featured Artist for the month of June 2008. The Deceivers are four boys with instruments, a hunger, a stunning live show and more energy than the Niagara Falls in monsoon season.

Their sound has evoked descriptions of "dirty and dubby" to "like bathing with a toaster on 10". In recent months they have enjoyed success on the radio front, with their first single 'Basement Funk' spending 7 weeks in the RDU Top Ten. The boys cite Daft Punk, Foals, LCD Soundsystem and RHCP as the reason they play music.

The band formed in 2005, initially flirting with distortion pedals and leather shoes before settling in to the world of band-costume arts and crafts. Having performed shows dressed as caterpillars, Mexicans, the Bain family and in head to toe L.E.D body suits, The Deceivers have spent as much time bonding over tea and knitting as they have on stage. The release of a new 7 track E.P, at Al's Bar on June 20 with a 'choose your own cover' option, and the addition of a new manager (David Klein) has ensured an upward trajectory for future endeavours.

The Deceivers are booked to play Southern Amp 2008 on Sunday 9 November.

EP Release - 'As Of Lately'
The Deceivers new EP will be available for purchase from shows, their fancy new website - www.thedeceivers.co.nz, Real Groovy, and the other usual online suspects.

Listen to The Deceivers's CHART interview on MySpace.

Track Listing
1. Basement Funk
2. Skins and Slaps
3. PP
4. Boing
5. How to sell
6. Monkey
7. Reebah

Visit the band at www.myspace.com/thedeceiversnz.

Review
"Just when we thought the University talent simply couldn't get better, The Deceivers stepped up and produced an epic show, featuring a monkey, an epileptic fit, a Siamese-like bass and saxophone combo jam and a stunned crowd pretty much masturbating over their on-stage antics." - UCSA Battle of the Bands 2007 Judge

(UCSA Winners The Decievers drop the funk at CHARTFEST 08)

www.myspace.com/thedeceiversnz
www.christchurchmusic.org.nz/artists

Links: EP Release Party (Al's Bar Fri 20June08)