The Checks Album Release Tour
The Checks are back with a brand new album. Produced by multi-Grammy-winner Bassy Bob Brockman, The Checks' third studio album Deadly Summer Sway is set for release on the auspicious date of eleven-eleven-eleven.
In early 2011, The Checks took up residence in a semi-abandoned building in the neon guts of Auckland's CBD. Office space was converted to recording studio; dingy walls that look like they would taste of capers and grimy benches became pinup space for song forms and artwork. Treacle Toffee World (their pre-England practice/writing space) was born again.
A month out from zero hour, Bassy Bob flew in from New York City and became one with the band, engulfed every night in the hectic world of The Checks' creative process. After three intense weeks demoing the new tracks, the album took shape just in time to enter the analogue playground of Roundhead Studios. Deadly Summer Sway combines crisp warm tones of ribbon mics, The Who's 1974 Neve mixing console and twenty four track tape with a hip hop producer's digital swagger. The raw punk energy present in their early sound has evolved into a more colourful and intricate sonic weave.
Take your chance to see what this productive environment created, during The Checks' national tour.
TOUR DATES
Friday 11 November
Zeal, Wellington (all ages, 8pm)
Friday 11 November
Bodega, Wellington
Saturday 12 November
The Royal, Palmerston North
Thursday 17 November
Cabana, Napier
Friday 18 November
Butlers Reef, New Plymouth
Saturday 19 November
The Shed, Rotorua
Friday 25 November
Flow Bar, Hamilton
Saturday 26 November
The Powerstation, Auckland
Thursday 1 December
PBC, Gisborne
Friday 2 December
Illuminati, Tauranga
Saturday 3 December
Onewhero Rugby Club, Onewhero
Saturday 10 December
Yot Club, Raglan
