some FANS Emails

Some Bats and Minisnap Fans EMAIL (addresses have not been included for privasy reasons)

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August /04
Hi there,

we were at Bodega on Saturday - especially to hear you & we weren't disapointed - it was great.

We have two little kids & don't get out much so we put a fair amount of effort & planning into getting to see you, so it was a big deal for us.

Anyway - thanks for playing our favourite songs and for your part in our excellent evening out.

Our 5 year old daughter wanted to know why she couldn't go - especially when she heard you had played 'North-by-North'.

We're looking forward to the new album.

Cheers, Dianne (& Geoff)

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I've been trying to track down copies of "Daddy's Highway" and "Compiletely
Bats" for a few years now with no luck - is there any chance you all would
be willing to sell me CD-R copies? Both seem very difficult to come by in
the U.S. 

Thanks,
Ryan Shepard

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I can't beleive i missed your show at the corner hotel. Nothing turns me on more than the Bats live,

Come back and play again, i haven't seen you since the gigs at the club in collingwood 10 years ago.

please come again, now that i've found your site i wont miss it this time.

Julian N

Hello nice people !

Do i have a chance to get a copy of the limited edition of march hare ? I live on the other side, in France and i can pay with paypal. I hope to see you playing live in France or listen your show on national radio (i remember the bats in 199?)
A big kiss to you and to all these great nz musicians.
Cheers.
Laurent.

Hi!
First of all, it's wonderful that there is now a website!!!
I'm not sure who checks the e-mail for the bats, but anyhow, just wanted to
pass along compliments for all of the wonderful albums produced. Quite
honestly, The Bats have been my favorite band for at least 4-5 years, and
I'm only 22. Here in the U.S., particularly in Minneapolis, MN, it is
difficult to come across truly fine gigs. My older brothers, when asked of
the time The Bats came to First Avenue in Minneapolis quite a few years
ago, tell of the great performance that night. Having been probably 13 or
whatever age at the time, however, I was unable to attend. Are any tours
outside of NZ planned any time in the future? I would certainly travel for
such an event! Though my collection of CD's wouldn't be the same without
the likes of The Law of Things and Daddy's Highway, a live performance
would probably be the event of a lifetime, even if I needed to travel to NZ
to experience it.
Again, I can't tell you how happy I am to see there is now an official Bats
website, and best of luck to you all in creating and performing music that
is unmatched!
Sincerely,
Matt Falkner
Minneapolis, Minnesota
United States

Hi,
Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the Minisnap concert at Bodega the
other night - beautiful songs, so cool to hear Kaye's voice and I'm a fan
- put me on the mailing list!

PAINFUL RADIO 10/8/02
Greetings;
It's probably the middle of the bloody night down there but it's bright and
shiny here. Anyway, I need some music, your music. When will you be putting
some down on plastic? My Bats discs are about shot, in and out of the cd
player day after day, but I keep playing them. It's funny, even after 15
years, when I pick out something to listen to it's always the Bats. I'm not
a loser drooling fan with nothing to do but email bands, but there's very
little music on this continent that's worth a damn, so I thought I'd ask you
directly. I'll keep watching your website for news.
You should here the crap they play here.
T.J.
High mileage fan from the middle of the wretched North American continent.
(Illinois).

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re: Bats website feedback - 15/8/02
Ummm.. hullo.
Hey, u don't know me ( 'tho we actually met one night at a gig in
Auckland... I don't expect u to remember, but it was last year sum time, I
think, at The Kings Arms... I was the guy up front with the old Compiletly
Bats T-Shirt, I think I interviewed u guys after for a local fanzine.. I
THINK I did anyways, I was a little drunk :) ), but I just kinda stumbled
across the Bats website: http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/thebats/Anyways,
was just reading thru the "Stories" section, and found it very
informative, very good. I notice u ask for feedback at the bottom of the
page, so, anyways, this is just to let ya know that I'm a HUGE Bats fan ( u
guys are my favourite band ever, of all time ), and I find little stories
and anecdotes like u have written on ya site a very good read. Plse keep
writing a few more of 'em, I kinda want to let ya know that u got at least
ONE person reading 'em. :)
Anyways, I'm sure you're very bored right now and you're a few seconds away
from hitting the "DELETE" button on ya mailbox. :) So, thanks for
listening to me, i notice u guys have a new side project in the works,
"Minisnap"? I'll be looking forward to picking up a single or album if
one becomes available, i heard the "Nova" snippet u have on ya site, its
sounds frikken' cool.
Cheers,
Res Rapid.PS: U folks gonna be playing up here in Auckland any time soon?

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Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:49:42 -0400

Subject: Love Nova!!!
Hi Guys. Big Bats fan here and I was surfing the Bats site and came across
the Nova MP3. Great song!!!! I would love to get some Minisnap material.
Can't find anything via the internet (checked Amazon and CDNow). Do you
know how I can find some of your material?
Keep up the good work and good luck to you and the rest of your projects!!!
Mike

Greetings from Brazil
Believe or not The Bats has a little Brazilian fan club.
My name is Ulisses and I would like to thank for your beatiful music.
cheers

Dear Bats,
Do you know if the lyrics and guitar tablature for "North By North" are posted
on the web? If so, could you send me the URL?
Thanks,
Brad Arnold (a fan)

Hello,
I was very pleased to come across the web-site for the band when I was
looking at the Flying nun pages recently. It's great!
It was interesting for me to read your recollections of touring and B+B
facilities in the Scottish Highlands in the late '80s. I saw you when you
played in Inverness that time (the Phoenix Bar I think it was - now closed
down). I loved that gig. I was brought up in a town about 25 miles away. It
was very rare to see international bands - or even most Scottish bands.
Still is. But it was particularly amazing to see you since I'd bought the
'Made up in Blue' single just before that and 'Daddy's Highway' I think (on
the strength of 'I go wild' from the 'Tuatara' compilation)
I'm a big fan of all the stuff you've done since. Without wanting to
over-analyse, I find your songs have a great depth and intensity to them
that has lasted very well and repays a lot of listens. Hmm, wouldn't it be
great if the Bats made it over to Britain again soon (or Ireland). I sent an
email to Robert recently (I'm not sure which of you will get this one!)
having got in touch with him through FN and he mentioned the band were
working on some new recordings.
Well, that's it really. Just wanted to let you know that I think you're
music is very special and look forward to hearing more in the future.
Cheers,
David
Maynooth, Ireland

Hi, Just wanted to say that I've only recently gotten into the Bats' music
but I do find the music to be fantastic. Fear of God is one of my all time
favorite albums.
Is there any possibility of a new album in the near future?
Thanks
Tony
NM, USA

Markus and I are now fans of the bats for years on end, Markus started to collect your records on vinyl in the mid eighties and still can´t get enough -spent a fortune on your music, the bloke, he hopes he made you rich.... ;-)
He saw you all in the rose club in köln, germany in 1986. Kaye even talked to him and he is still raving about that...
;-)
I (Udo) saw your album "daddys highway" in the record shop by chance and got hooked on the cover - and then hooked on the music forever. I play piano, guitar and write songs in a rotten unknown Düsseldorf band... ;-)
Both of us are big flying nun fans. The label is fantastic (The Clean, Great Unwashed, Verlaines, Chills, Look Blue Go Purple and so on - You name´em, we love em), but very hard to get in Germany as contact with normal records must have ended, sad to say.
We are thrilled to see that Robert is coming over to Germany to promote his new project and we´ll be there in Köln and maybe Dortmund too to kiss the earth he´s walked upon... ;-)
We hope that he´ll bring cd´s and posters for us to buy or maybe a songbook with bats or minisnap or clean or magick heads material to play chords and get to know the lyrics of your art (Markus does not play an instrument but dashes paint on canvas, check out under www.m-kottmann.de). You can take a look at my website under http://hometown.aol.de/mainzudo1969/homepage.html or my band: www.sex-on-the-roof.im-web.net
Kaye´s lead-vocals on the minisnap song "nova" out of the web sounds absolutely brilliant and we hope to get more - you can call us kiwibeat junkies if you like. Hopefully nova and other songs will be available soon! Will your website give notice then?
A dream of mine is to travel around in new zealand, get to know the country which must be wonderful and see the bats live in Christchurch or Dunedin or elsewhere and get to feel the spirit that must be with you all. This spirit comes through in your music and would do the rest of the world some good, especially since the 11th september. Your website hints that Hamish Kilgour lives in NY, we hope he is fine!
Love to you,
all the best,
Markus and Udo.
(PS: My english is bad, so Markus helped me to write this email).

...what a NICE website..i was looking for a bats-homepage for years..and today..i have found it! Is it a new website?
GREAT work!!
by the way..i´m thomas from hamburg/germany..and love kiwimusic for many many years..
Also the minisnap song sounds great!..will the cdep be released in germany? or is it available via internet ( smokecds etc. )??
AND..do you have any information about the film..robert made the music for..?
questions, quetions...:-)
Bye for now
Thomas

dear Bats:
do you have an email list one can join to get periodic informational emails? i'm a huge fan in the midwest
usa, and i just want to make sure if you ever play here that i'll know about it.
looking forward to more NZ releases.
Nathan Meltz
Madison, Wisconsin, usa