Postcard for The Bats’ 1993 album, Silverbeet, and U.S. tour with Straitjacket Fits and JPS Experience.
The Bats had spent November of 1992 in the Boston area recording what would be their Silverbeet album. They also played some shows in the U.S. around that time, including this one at T.T. the Bear’s I recorded after interviewing frontman Robert Scott for my zine.
So news of a return U.S. visit? Hurrah! And with fellow Flying Nun label-mates Straitjacket Fits and JPS Experience? Double hurrah! While I’d been lucky enough to catch Straitjacket Fits when they swung through town the summer of 1991, JPS Experience hadn’t ever played in the U.S. This triple-threat bill was dubbed the “Noisyland” tour, which perhaps didn’t quite fit the amped-up folk-pop of The Bats, but was more than suitable for the Fits and even JPS Experience at that time. All three bands played to a very respectable crowd in the newly-opened Middle East Downstairs room. I was of course in Kiwi pop heaven.
Note that this postcard is postmarked from Carrboro, NC, also listed as the U.S. address for Flying Nun. Yes, the label had a small U.S. office there for a time in the nineties, though I don’t believe it lasted long enough to see the new millennium.
