The definitive (as of today) list of places to get or listen to our new album follows below. We recommend that you do so!

Digital download and physical CD from Bandcamp:
https://sunleyband.bandcamp.com/album/days-to-come

It’s a bit weird putting a press release on your own website. Nonetheless, here we go:

Long time between updates for us, and we’re sorry. The hangover of of our good friend and bassmaster Andy leaving us for a rural teaching position was long and bitter, and we wandered bleak emotional wastelands as we came to terms with our new world.

Soon enough though, two things became apparent. Firstly we needed a new bass player. Secondly, we needed to release this album we’ve been sitting on.

Finding new members for bands is never an easy process, so we’ll use that as the excuse for us taking so long about it. The deed, however, is done, and we’re happy to introduce our new low-end provider, Ayumu Kobayashi. You may remember Ayumu from his groups Owls and The Maine Coons, and we’re excited that he’s joining us!

And yes, that album. It’s ready and waiting, we’re just clearing up a few details and we hope to have to have an announcement about a release show in days to come.

Until then, welcome Ayumu!

Hola devotees, welcome back.
6months have expired since last updating this page, and truth be told we haven’t done an awful lot of gigs in that time. Behind the scenes of course it’s a little different, with the album dragging it’s heels along nicely…tentatively looking at a release before the year is out.

Anyway, come say gidday at the following…

Friday 20th June at PLATO w/Hana Fahy and Matt Langley ( https://www.facebook.com/events/496263613807447/ )

Saturday 28th June at SAMMYS as part of Circle Jerk – we’re on at 11:20pm

July 19th at INCH BAR as an acoustic 5some, from around 9pm

July 26th at HILLS Restaurant for the Mad Hatters Tea Party w/Iron Mammoth (call the venue for tickets)

August 1st at a Science party? Yeah, it’s a science ball for the Otago Uni sci’ers. We did it last year, it was a blast so we’re back again.

More soon! xox

We’ve moved to ye olde WordPress system, and all going well there will be more content coming up for you. We may have deleted all the comments on old posts though, sorry. Also some stuff may be bung. But that’s all good, if you need something, you’ll just ask, right?

Since we last talked here, we’ve released this EP: http://sunleyband.bandcamp.com/album/poise

It’s pretty nice, eh. Also, some live stuff was posted: https://soundcloud.com/live-sound-engineering/sunley-band-refuel-dunedin

Big thanks to Iain Sweetman for that last one. Bonza.

Time for another preview from the upcoming album. It features almost T-Pain-esque abuse of auto-tune, a solo made with Bebot and Aidan singing falsetto. And Penelope rapping.

Evan:

“Something is deeply broken in New Zealand. I don’t know, maybe you should just get off my lawn, but I reckon there’s blame to be apportioned and a lot of it goes to these guys. This number was partially inspired by this whole story over here, and partially by a general ill feeling towards the general ill feeling we’re surrounded with. It’s pretty explicit, you can work it out.”

Iain:

“I’m not sure how well my bit fits with the rest of the track, but I felt like moan-rock needed to be parodied at least once on the album, so there it is.”

You can get it over here at our Soundcloud page. Not the Sunley Band will be out sometime very soon!