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Martin Phillipps of The Chills: 'There's common link between New Zealand and Ireland. We've both been done wrong' – The Irish Times

It’s a long time since Martin Phillipps and his band were the next best thing, but his story of survival is remarkable

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Our Stay in America's Most Haunted Hotel

Many years ago my wife and her family visited Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Recently we returned and stayed in the famously haunted 1886 Crescent Hotel. Here is my account of our stay in America’s most haunted hotel.

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Hidden Gems: Book fair lets readers meet the authors up close and personal

When notices started going up around Eureka Springs about the "Meet the Maker" events frequently held during the holiday season, Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow Executive Director Michelle Hannon had a flash of inspiration: Why couldn't WCDH emulate these cheery salons, where artists were available to chat with potential art buyers, by hosting an event where readers could meet the writers of some of their favorite books?

Arkansas , United-states , Berryville , Bella-vista , United-kingdom , White-oak , Fresno , California , Carroll-county , Indianapolis , Indiana , Vietnam

Hidden Gems: Book fair lets readers meet the authors up close and personal

When notices started going up around Eureka Springs about the "Meet the Maker" events frequently held during the holiday season, Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow Executive Director Michelle Hannon had a flash of inspiration: Why couldn't WCDH emulate these cheery salons, where artists were available to chat with potential art buyers, by hosting an event where readers could meet the writers of some of their favorite books?

Arkansas , United-states , Berryville , Bella-vista , United-kingdom , White-oak , Fresno , California , Carroll-county , Indianapolis , Indiana , Vietnam

From eerie folk lullabies to bouncy b-sides: Ten of the Chills' best songs

From eerie folk lullabies to bouncy b-sides: Ten of the Chills’ best songs
Kiran Dass
A singular band, the Chills are difficult to stylistically define because their diverse sound traverses lush psychedelia, whimsy and gloom, punk rock and bright jangly pop. Known for their revolving door policy on band members, perhaps rivalled only by the Fall (there have been at least 33 members of the Chills over their 41-year career), the one constant is Martin Phillipps. And they’re back with Scatterbrain, their first album since 2018.
10. Draft Morning (1989)
Phillipps goes to an early source of inspiration with this plaintive cover of the Vietnam protest song by the Byrds. Charting the inner world of a freshly recruited soldier on the morning he is to be drafted into the Vietnam war and the existential dilemma he faces, the song begins with the idealistic “sun warm on my face” and ends on the sombre line “today was the day for action. Leave my bed to kill instead. Why should it happen?” It has a slow, repetitive keyboard motif and does without the bombastic clatter of the original’s battlefield sound effects.

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The Chills Announce 'Scatterbrain' Album Release Tour

The Chills Announce 'Scatterbrain' Album Release Tour
Chris Cudby / Photo credit: Alex Lovell-Smith
/ Thursday 18th February, 2021 8:00AM

Martin Phillipps. The leader of
The Chills has his foot on the accelerator and is zooming into the future, with not only a brand new album entitled
Scatterbrain set to launch soon, but also a just-announced release tour happening all across Aotearoa this coming April and May. Unless you've been sealed in some kind of cave with no internet access for the past 40 years, you'll be well aware Phillipps' helped define the sound of independent music in NZ, from The Chills' key contributions to Flying Nun's seminal 1982

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