The Eastern - Oh Mystery!

It's about time I posted a song by our friends from Lyttelton and regular Taupo visitors 'The Eastern'.... "Oh Mystery" is the title track to an EP that they toured to promote last year and it is also on their latest album "Arrows" and they have made this song their first video.... well done! In fact, it's no real surprise it has taken them so long to make a video.... because they just get out there and play and go on endless tours.... perfecting their craft, one gig at a time. So making a video wouldn't have been a high priority. Actually The Eastern's Adam McGrath explains it best with a blog from their myspace page www.myspace.com/theeasternfamily I've pasted it below, but I encourage you to check out their myspace page anyway.

(Below is a Blog taken from The Eastern's myspace page)

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the general timeline of being in a rock'n'roll band nowaday's appears to be thus:
attend a course in popular music development at a college of higer learning
then
attend small business course
then
attend seminars geared to your development within the music industry
then
create a 'strategy' identifing target 'markets' and defining 'demographics' etc.
then
record album for no less then $20,000
then
apply for nzonair funding for video budget between $5/10,000
then
make video
then
partake in cross country tour of 'main' centres 4 shows should suffice, fly everywhere

as usual the eastern got it all ass backward and we made a video kids...500 shows,one album and two e.p.'s too late...for the princely sum of one $673 bar tab (four bottles of jamiesons, one of johnny walker not includeed), a bucket of good will and four homemade pizza's...

you can find it on the front page of this very myspace site...

all our friends came they dressed up real pretty and we thank them( but we did get them all drunk), apoligies to everyonewho was behind the cameraman, your dancing was perfect but being the eastern we demanded close ups...

it was a swell party makin' the thing...
cheers for sharing your bandwidth with us if you check it out
yours
mcgrath

( Blog taken from www,myspace.com/theeasternfamily )