Opposite Sex "La Rat" Live at the Crown Hotel 2011

Opposite Sex are a trio, originally from Gisborne in the north east of New Zealand, recently relocated to Dunedin as a two-piece. Sometimes they play as a three-piece when their guitarist comes south but mostly as the two-piece here -- just bass, drums, vocals and a lot of "blood & guts". This song "La Rat" is one of the more straightforward post-punk pop-songs in their rapid-fire set of spooky waltzes and hyperactive weirdness.

The Crown Hotel is one of Dunedin's legendary (and grotty) live music venues and has long supported the underground music scene in the city.

Their sound is "some kind of absurdist-logico mix of Euro pop, Beat poetry, and subterranean lo-fi adventuring. Drawing musical inspiration from such disparate elements as The Velvet Underground, Half Japanese and The Beatles and marrying it to lyrical themes of animal kingdoms, love and loss, and master/slave dialectics, OPPOSITE SEX have something novel to express."

The trio recorded an album at Fishrider Studio in Dunedin in 2011 set for release on Fishrider records in November 2011. Find out more about the band here: http://fishriderrecords.wordpress.com/opposite_sex/

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• Dunedin
• alternative pop
• half japanese
• the pop group
• drums & bass
• fishrider indie new