#tall dwarfs

[bandcampsnoop]

10/6/23.

I'm still incredibly sad about the passing of Hamish Kilgour. It was nearly a year ago that I found out. He meant so much to me musically - his solo albums, The Clean, The Great Unwashed, The Mad Scene and The Sundae Painters.

I'm so grateful that Leather Jacket Records (Christchurch, New Zealand) is releasing a full LP of material from the collaborative band The Sundae Painters. The band is made up of Kaye Woodward and Paul Kean (The Bats, and Minisnap), Alec Bathgate (Tall Dwarfs and solo) and Hamish Kilgour (above bands plus a ton more). Not only are we getting an eight-song LP, but the artwork is clearly the work of Hamish as well.

Only "Sweet Dreams" is available, but what a bittersweet song. It sounds like Hamish is singing, and I really pray that he is enjoying some sweet sweet dreams wherever he is.

#The Sundae Painters #Christchurch #New Zealand #Hamish Kilgour #Kaye Woodward #Paul Kean #The Bats #Minisnap #The Clean #The Great Unwashed #The Mad Scene #Tall Dwarfs #Alec Bathgate #Leather Jacket Records #Bandcamp

[heidismagblog]

#spin #spin magazine #carleen anderson #doo rag #die toten hosen #tall dwarfs #don walser

[baby-prophet]

#all my hollowness to you #tall dwarfs #hello cruel world #music

[unknowncreature19]

This is my character Ink and his inner demon/sort of brother, InkHart! He has a brother named Life Star ((Which I need to work on him but I have a hard time-)) If you can see the pictures. They both have the same body but they’re so different from each other for example ink loves To make new friends from different places or even different type of species while in court that’s preferable he wants to be alone and someone really bothers him-…. Yeah what you say hospital time especially if he’s very very angry. But Inkheart really enjoys if someone has the same interest. These characters are very special to me. I tried different species with them but only thing can fit them it is mostly goat. If you see the picture, ink has of ability that Can suck colors out of objects into gray and use the color as a treatment, something to snack on or fighting reasons.  He can suck any color from objects, buildings or even from enemies but he will not do it from any type of species of human, if so which will make the person weak and probably cannot move much. Don’t worry the colors will return in like an hour or two hours!! Of course he does have colored potions in their bags But when ink her text control all those colors faded to black or gray ink which he will use down to create monsters of worst nightmares and worst fears.

I’ll tell you their species they don’t have a name yet  But they mostly have goat ears or sometimes goat horns Or even both. Some do have tails but some don’t. especially women will have goat ears and a tail while men have goat ears and goat horns. But for Inc. he was different he has no horns, no tail, just have goat ears While Inkheart has goat ears and horns. Their kind enjoy music, Love stories or other stories and love making sweets and of course love making new friends from different type of species! There’s actually some love to explore the world plus they’re very smart with weapons of choice and the safety. They are somewhat taller than normal size of dwarfs But enjoys to help others.So if you see one of these species of half goat half human like.. Say hello to them and make a new friend!

I had some doodles of these guys but I also made some little gifts. The creators who made these characters I hope you love these and hope enjoyed my character

Ink/Inkheart and their Species belongs to me! @unknowncreature19

Nightmare/fate belongs to @from-one-to-seven / @vederlicht ((Which I hope I typed that correctly))

Sneaky belongs to @ask-the-dwarfies

💕💕 Please like and favorite my art and Comment But please do not re-post this Without my permission! Please ask permission! Thank you and I hope you have a wonderful day! 💕💕

#dwarf #dwarfs #tall dwarfs #snow white and the seven dwarfs #snow white and the 7 dwarfs #ink #Inkheart #doodles #gifts #fanart

[jacobwren]

Tall Dwarfs - Nothings Going To Happen

#tall dwarfs

[aquariumdrunkard]

Tall Dwarfs :: Unravelled: 1981-2002

Spanning two decades and four LPs, Unravelled cherry picks 55 highlights from the dynamic DIY duo of Chris Knox and Alec Bathgate, showcasing a vast galaxy of anything-goes musical creativity.

#tall dwarfs

[dustedmagazine]

Listening Post: The Tall Dwarfs

The Tall Dwarfs emerged out of Toy Love in the early 1980s.  It had two members. In the beginning, Alec Bathgate set up the basic instrumental foundation for duo’s pop-slanted, fuzz-crusted oddities, while Chris Knox wrote the lyrics. Later, their roles overlapped, as Bathgate sang the lyrics he wrote, and Knox began playing instruments beyond the loops around the second or third EP.

The two of them had a knack for compressed, transporting lyricism, hitched to eccentric, roughly recorded production, in line with the fuzzy tunefulness of the rest of the Flying Nun roster, but quirkier and more eccentric.  The duo never had a drummer or a bass player and were known for MacGyvering a rhythm section out of whatever was at hand, banging on boxes and stomping on floors to improvise a beat.  They were also early experimenters with tape loops, often splicing recorded fragments together with scotch tape, playing them back and recording to two- or four-track recorders.  The pair of them lived in different cities, Bathgate in Christchurch and Knox in Auckland.  As a result, they saw each other infrequently and often arrived at one or the other’s house to with only the vaguest framework, writing and recording their songs at the same time. 

Their very first EP, the 3 Song EP, was meant to be a one-off.  Instead, it initiated a 30-some year collaboration that ended only when Knox had a debilitating stroke in 2009. Alongside, their friends and fellow Flying Nun artists the Clean, the Chills, the Bats and others, the Tall Dwarfs defined the outer edges of New Zealand lo-fi.  Douglas Wolk, in his Trouser Press entry on Chris Knox summed up their influence, stating, “Chris Knox is the godfather of the New Zealand alternative-music scene — if Iggy Pop, Joan Jett, Robyn Hitchcock and Lou Reed were all the same person, that’s how important he is to Kiwi pop.”

For Unravelled: 1981 – 2002, Bathgate compiled a roughly chronological sampling of 55 Tall Dwarfs songs, from this giddy, serrated-edged glory of 1981’s “Nothing’s Going to Happen” to the jaunty garage stomp of “Gluey, Gluey” from 1998.  It was too much of a joy to assign to a single writer, so we decided to all listen to it together and share our thoughts with you.

Intro by Jennifer Kelly (with some help from Bill Meyer)

Unravelled: 1981–2002 by Tall Dwarfs

Jennifer Kelly: How are you all getting along with the Tall Dwarfs compilation?   I've just listened to "Life Is Strange" four times in a row, marveling at the way it balances scrappy raw-ness and lyricism, oddity and a universal hook.  What are you guys liking the best?     

Jonathan Shaw: I listened to Tall Dwarfs a ton through the late 1980s to late 1990s (my wife loves Knox's music, the solo stuff as much as Tall Dwarfs, and I like the band a lot, too). What's really knocking me out is the early stuff, which I felt like I knew very well. I suppose some time away from those records is giving me fresher ears, but holy shit, songs like "Paul's Place" and "Turning Brown and Torn in Two" are just as confounding as they ever were, even with so many, many bands working out of similar bags of tricks. I didn't expect to be so floored again by those early tunes. It's really fun.

Bill Meyer: Like you, Jon, my acquaintance with the Tall Dwarfs goes back to the 1980s. I started with the Hello Cruel World LP and the Dogma EP. Those songs you picked are ones that also stay with me, because they are simultaneously as pop-catchy as a good Beatles tune, and constructed with pop-music-rules-disregarding Kiwi ingenuity. The MacGyvering that Jen refers to, I think connects to that ingenuity. There’s a certain cultural pride in the ability of a typical New Zealander to make things work using fencing wire and the contents of your toolbox. 

However, when it came to music, people in the 1970s were expected to pay a lot of dues and do things a certain way. Tall Dwarfs arose from Bathgate and Knox deciding they would never do that shit after the miserable experiences their previous band, Toy Love, had while making an album and playing to hostile, uncreative audiences in Australia. They did it there was, with the gear they had, and put the songs together in ways that sounded right to them.  

Christian Carey: The Tall Dwarfs operated at the periphery of my listening in the 1990s and 2000s. This boxed set is a great opportunity to acquaint oneself with their earliest, most experimental work. It is clear that their colleagues in New Zealand, as well as the US and UK, listened closely, using Tall Dwarfs’ approach as a template for, successively, college rock, indie rock, and experimental music. It would be interesting to know if Robert Pollard heard the Tall Dwarfs and when. One can also surmise that, if They Might Giants, Yo La Tengo, and Stephen Malkmus weren’t listening to Tall Dwarfs, they truly were missing out on a possible wellspring for their own work. Hard to pick favorites, but “Turning Brown and Torn in Two,” “All My Hollowness to You,” and “Sign the Dotted Line” were on frequent repeat at our house.  

Jonathan Shaw: Bill might be able to tell us which American bands were early, enthusiastic listeners of Tall Dwarfs. If Pollard and Malkmus were tuned in, I wish they had picked up on the approach to lyrics. So many Tall Dwarfs songs are disarmingly direct (see "Luck or Loveliness," "Beauty," or in a different way "Crush," a song I love). Don't get me wrong: I really like some of Pollard's early writing ("Marchers in Orange," "Blimps Go 90"), and Malkmus has a way with rhyme. But they were so very, very much of their postmodern moment, bathed in endless layers of ironizing. 

Bathgate and Knox could get ironical, too. The mock-heroic guitar of "Nothing's Going to Happen" is comically undone by the lyric's fixation on banality. But the songs that just say it lay me out. So many of the songs from the 1980s do. Check out "The Slide," which is harrowing stuff. 

Jennifer Kelly: I am nowhere near as long or as deep a fan as some of you (ahem, BIll), but I had Stumpy on my phone for about a decade (it feel off in one of those data wipes native to the digital listening experience) and it seems to me that the selection in this box, while great in a lot of ways, irons out some of the oddity of the Tall Dwarfs.  Am I just imagining it or is it a lot more accessible and pop than the total catalogue?   

Bill Meyer: The Tall Dwarfs could be playful and weird, or they could apply spontaneous means to rapidly conceived songs that were as ruthlessly formal as anything by the Beatles. Sometimes the catchy stuff and the goofiness coincided, but I think that as time went on those elements tended to manifest on different songs. Some of the weirder stuff just didn’t make the cut. Also, the gradual accumulation of gear meant that in later years, it was easy to make a pro sounding rhythm track as it was to make a loop out of a spoon whacking a pot, and they’d already hit the pot, so it was probably more interesting to make the pro-sounding track.  

I think that Bathgate compiled what he thought were the strongest tunes, and since he did it during COVID and Knox has ongoing communication challenges, he did a lot of the compiling alone, on a deadline, during COVID time. So, I think the perspective of a guy in his 60s looking back on his wild times with his wacky old friend may shape the way this box was compiled. 

Jonathan Shaw: Stumpy is a strange one, given the collaborative nature of the record. I like it. "Up" is epic and moving, but it's an outlier. 

I think Jen and Bill both have sharp takes on the collection. I wish more of the noisy stuff from Up the Down Staircase had made it onto Unravelled, and more of the quietly freaked out songs like "This Room Is Wrong." There's a fondness to the selection, skewing things toward the charming end of the band's spectrum. As a result, the collection feels quite coherent. It listens well. 

Bill Meyer: A month ago, Jon opined, “Bill might be able to tell us what American bands were early, enthusiastic listeners of Tall Dwarfs. If Pollard and Malkmus were tuned in, I wish they had picked up on the approach to lyrics. So many Tall Dwarfs songs are disarmingly direct (see "Luck or Loveliness," "Beauty," or in a different way "Crush," a song I love). Don't get me wrong: I really like some of Pollard's early writing ("Marchers in Orange," "Blimps Go 90"), and Malkmus has a way with rhyme. But they were so very, very much of their postmodern moment, bathed in endless layers of ironizing.” 

I do not know how tuned in Pollard and Malkmus were, but I suspect that each of them were set on their own paths as lyricists before  they might have heard Tall Dwarfs. The lyrical thrust of the Tall Dwarfs, I suspect, comes more from the extent to which Chris Knox backed up his in your face attitude with a big, bleeding heart, whose sentiments spoke directly through him and onto whatever notebooks he was keeping during the time leading up to a Tall Dwarfs session/whatever microphone he improvised into as he knocked out words while the hours counted down until one of them had to take a plane back home. 

#dusted magazine #listeningpost #tall dwarfs #chris knox #alec bathgate #toy love #new zealand #lofi

[kiwiintheear]

MENŐ MANÓZÓ CONTENT 10.

Chris Knox - Croaker

#chris knox #croaker #vinyl #records #tall dwarfs #flying nun records #rock #pop #indie pop #indie rock #dunedin sound #dunedin #new zealand #music #video #1990

[gimmefrisson]

#tall dwarfs #Spotify

[gummyartstradingcards]

#tall dwarfs #chris knox #alec bathgate #flying nun records #indie pop #new zealand #baseball cards #card art

[ryllen]

do u know that even the size of the different size of vegetables at another country amazed me because from where i came from they are all smaller and scrawnier

#to remind u guys if u're thinking about something naughty stop right there; the different size of the food served is also surprising #twisted wonderland #twst #sebek zigvolt #ace trappola #deuce spade #twst yuu #twst mc #fanart #do westerners go to asian country feels like they are served dwarf's portion #because as an asian; it always feel like we are served giant's portion; not exaggerating bcs we can never finish it #understandable because westerners can grow so tall so they must need more energy to burn #it's like if we order food; we asians always have to have a tupperware to take leftover home #but the price of the food in all the food places is so expensive it's reasonable the portion is big #i might ignite if paying so much we only get rabbit portion #anyhow i am just thinking of this because of the briar valley's big horse post #i do love to think everything is bigger in briar valley #the trees are all so lushfull and majestic like they all have lived a thousand years already #and the vegetables all just grow happily and absorb so much nutrient from the soil they are so big also #i was thinking of drawing e pel too but the space #while to people who born in this country feels things like these are normal #the thought of being able to be born in such a country where the produce all looking so big and healthy is such a blessing to me #it almost feels like they take it for granted; but it's just what they are born to #i have a nephew who is SUPER picky & waste food so much #i am crying everytime #yes y'all have a lot of food and good life here but h e l p #i'm sure the climate also makes vegetables bigger #i think i heard in winter plants stock more nutrients in their produce as stock for spring & summer #that's why winter veggies are better & sweeter and all #my country's vegetables are scrawny because the heat evaporates everything

[bandcampsnoop]

1/21/23.

Cowboy Machine are a Christchurch, New Zealand band. "U Up?" is their album released in 2020 on the venerable Melted Ice Cream label. How did I miss this? I only learned about it because about the cool new video for "Morning Glory". Check it out (at the top of the Bandcamp page)...it's a poor man's Prince Achmed.

The Bandcamp page states John Cale, Neutral Milk Hotel and Tall Dwarfs as inspirations. I would add Terror of the Deep, Wireheads and Scott & Charlene's Wedding (those vocals!).

Members have played in other Christchurch bands...most notably (to me at least) Minisnap.

#Cowboy Machine #Christchurch #New Zealand #Melted Ice Cream #Prince Achmed #John Cale #Neutral Milk Hotel #Tall Dwarfs #Terror of the Deep #Wireheads #Scott & Charlene's Wedding #Minisnap #Bandcamp

[alexc-draws]

"Who did this to you?"

I didn't really get the perspective right, Sorrel is on her tippiest of toes to reach him, but eh that's not the piece is about.

I'm always beating myself up about not drawing these two more. I think I got Rolan's face figured out a bit more. He is the main star of this piece after all.

#myart #rolan #sorrel #bg3 #dwarf tav #she is tall for a dwarf but still #that is a high counter

[baby-prophet]

#dare to tread #tall dwarfs #fork songs #music #SoundCloud

[jacobwren]

Tall Dwarfs - Turning Brown and Torn in Two

#tall dwarfs

[thehappiestgolucky]

I am once again requesting for peeps versions of a specific scug (regular, anthro, humanised/gijinka, iterator) so reblog this with your Spearmaster! I’ll draw them like I did with the Rivulet Run!

This time I’ll leave the window open longer because spears is my blorbo and I wanna hoard all the versions of it

Edit: Beep boop I think that’s gonna be submissions closed! That’s a lotta Spearmasters!

Again - if you’ve already mentioned via reply or reblog you’re making a ref to submit - you guys can still do so! (i see you two replies and i think a few reblogs) Since I’ve still got some hella planning to do for how many I’ve gotten - you’ve all got a good few days to get your things in

But no more new submissions! Thanks everyone!

#rain world #rain world downpour #rw spearmaster #the addictive feeling of ‘god that’s so many’ and ‘oh my god that was so fun’ #anyway pspspspspsps you know you want to reblog this with grape scug pspspspspsps #i also wanna see how much my poor gijinka spearmaster dwarfs the others it’s so tall #i’m shoving them all to the wall for the scene