CLOUDBOY

Rip It Up, Issue 214, 1 June 1995, Page 6

CLOUDBOY

On the telephone, Dunedin musician Demarnia Lloyd speaks like she sings on her first solo record, softly and thoughtfully. Late

of Munky Kramp, and currently of Mink, Demarnia recorded the seven tunes on Cloudboy in November last year after she

New York's Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, who received rave reviews after supporting Beck in New Zealand last year, return to play a headlining show at the Powerstation on Tuesday June 27.

Wellington’s Southside Of Bombay tour extensively nationwide this month (see Gig Guide for dates) to promote the release of their new single ‘Umbadada’, out on Pagan Records. MA©©®?® A®fA©M M®\W©' . ‘ Smooth groovers and boundary pushers Massive Attack, have finalised details for their two New Zealand Sound System shows. Each performance will run for five hours and will boast a mixture of live music and DJs. Featured DJs will include Horace Andy, Nick Warren, DJ Gaffa, plus sets by Massive’s Daddy G and Mushroom, and the evening will culminate with a live performance by Massive Attack. . . - ' The Auckland show takes place on June 16 at The Pit Stop on Beach Road (beside Railway Station) from 9pm till 2am, while Shed 21 on Wellington’s waterfront hosts the experience the following night from 10pm until 3pm.

secured a SSOOO Arts Council New Recording Grant. Essentially a solo project with guests, Cloudboy is a collection of trippy, ethereal, sad sounding songs, all of an autobiographical nature. “It wanders along with different situations and different relationships, and each one sums up quite a specific time for me. Some I wrote three years ago, and the lyrics bug me now, but I’ve kept true to them because that’s how it was then, and I didn’t want to put today’s influence on yesterdays things.” Right now Demarnia is “working on getting the live thing happening”, having assembled a four-piece band for touring purposes, and continues to plot the direction of the project. “I’m not really sure how it’s going to develop, I haven’t got a set idea of how it’s going to go, but there’s definitely more promised in the future.”