Hi Folks, this is the last blog from NZ so far.
We had a good gig on the coromandel peninsula in colville, a little town with about 3 Houses.
I don’t know where all the people came from, but there were some, we had a smoke machine
some lights and we even got recorded. It was a byo drinks party and they made delicious hot dogs there.
There was a sign: NO GUMBOOTS OR STILETTOS ALLOWED, so we got in to our gumstilettos and started the show.

HeyHo Folks!The Mighty Mighty in Wellington is a pretty good Club,

get drunk and get layed, one of the main venues in NZ,

we played there two nights in a row and we even got the Bargirls dancing.

Back to Lyttleton for some solo shows and busking, I went to Christchurch and did some Catastrophy tourism
We set up for our gig in the famous El Santo and had a good night of party there.

Yeah Folks!

I arrived save and sound in Newzealand the 31. of December, met Delaney, and went to a party fornew years eve. It was just great, cool little hippie house near Lyttleton, near Christchurch. I met a bunch of nice people there and we danced to Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, all night long.

Then we got to work, Mr Jack Shit hits the Drums and Mr John Deere plays the Telecaster Guitar,within three sessions we set up a 50Min. Set.

Tired but happy I’m back from Italy: Five shows in small, but great Clubs in the Northern Italy where it snows all 7 Years, and guess what, It did.
But the beer stayed cold, you gotta take it from the good side man.

Heehaw Folks!
Zeno Tornado is going for a short time to Italy for some solo Shows in December 2010!
See the Concerts for more Details.

Yeah Folks, Mr. Tornado goes to New Zealand and rocks together with DELANEY DAVIDSON and The Mysterious TAPE MAN.
I will meet New Zealands Musicians, we’ll make a Band and then we’ll do all the dirty Tornado Songs for our delighted Audience.
The Tour happens in January 2011, we’re going to do about 3000km and if everything works out we make a new Video and Recordings.

Hier das dritte Album der Schweizer Power-Country-Combo ZENO TORNADO &THE BONEY GOOGLE BROTHERS auf Voodoo Rhythm Records. Im Juli 2007 pilgerten sie einträchtig in die Pyrenäen, um in der berühmt-berüchtigten Drake’s Farm (Dead Brothers “Wunderkammer”, Stinky Lou and the Goon Mat) mit Bob Drake 14 neue Songs für die Scheibe “Rambling Man” aufzunehmen.

RAMBLIN’ MAN – Zeno Tornado & The Boney Google Brothers (Voodoo Rhythm)
Somewhere around here, I still have the CD booklet for this album. Amidst the empty wine and beer bottles, the discs that’ve lost their boxes, the crime fiction paperbacks and motorbike magazines, that cd booklet is around here somewhere.

I’d really like to find it, this record is great! At the moment, I don’t even know the band name or album title, ‘cos that info is on the disc, which is locked inside the disc machine, and I’m enjoying listening to it far too much. Every 40 minutes, or whatever, it ends and I hit “play” again. Then I think, “shit, should’ve checked the disc for the band name, ah, what the fuck, I’ll check it next time”.

Yet I don’t. I just keep digging it. It’s a bluegrass country and western record, fuck, you might even say it’s a “concept album”. I’ve never heard an album that is so brilliantly focussed on drinking. Oh sure, you get yr dumbarse hardcore punk records with their “drinking is so cool” bullschtick, but this record really does capture that beautiful ambiguity.

I love to drink. I hate drunkenness. And all those hazy thoughts that drift in and out of that ill-defined space between those two poles, you find it all on this record. I’d love to quote some of the lyrics on this record, they’re truly fucking great. But the lyric sheet is… no, it aint under the plastic bag of cutlery – and why the fuck do I have a plastic bag of cutlery beneath my chipboard puta desk? – it ain’t nowhere to be found on the coffee table covered in CDs and press releases – wow, I got that CD to review? And that one too? Fuck, no wonder the Barman doesn’t reply to my emails.

Trust me on this one folks, if you dig great songs, great singing and playing, if you got an open mind, you’ll dig this record. It’s a true classic. Of course, if you’re one of those narrow minded fuckwits that just sits back and says “Ooohh, I don’t like fiddles and mandolins, they don’t rock” then you better hope you never meet me. Yeah, there was a time when I didn’t get horns and string sections, but that was a long fucking time ago. It ain’t about electric guitars versus banjos, it’s all attitude and this record has attitude. It has a depth and intelligence I’ve rarely heard and it hits this hard drinking heart with a platinum bullet of truth and honesty. - Earl O’Neill