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LATEST NEWS, FROM MOST RECENT DOWN:

UPCOMING GIGS:

JUST FINALISED!

APPEARING SOLO & WITH 'THE LOVE TRACTORS' AT 'CITY OF CYCLES' MOTORCYCLE SHOW

MANUKAU TELSTRA CLEAR STADIUM SAT OCT 27TH!! FROM 4PM ON..

Appearing with Micheal Young & Martha Louise as 'MMP' at the 'South of the Divide' concert, Wellington, Sept 30th!!

 Appearing at Papakura Hot Rod Club's "Blues Brews & BBQs" on Saturday 13th 7pm.. See NZ Hot Rod magazine or NZ Petrolhead Magazine for details!!

Just back from Wellington's Braeburn Studio, first recording sessions for new album project!! YAY!!

Spaceman' is also now available (track by track or whole album) at great NZ music site www.Amplifier.co.nz You can click here to go straight to my page on their site: http://www.amplifier.co.nz/artist/21364/paul_symons.html ALRIGHT!

"SPACEMAN' is also available Stateside from the amazing CD BABY site in the USA.. If you haven't seen it, check it at www.cdbaby.com for the biggest record store of original UNSIGNED artists in the world!! You can listen to tracks, see the cover, read reviews.. you name it! It must be one big ol' warehouse they have, as you could spend days just in the website!

ARCHIVED NEWS...

Hi Folks, Just got my ol' Dobro back from minor surgery (thanks Dr Phill! www.stringworkshop.co.nz ) Having had an amazing US made 'Highlander' pickup installed.. She's a wicked thing now, & sounds huge.. Will now be fully featured in upcoming gigs over the summer.. Yayy!!

Paul & Dobro at Parihaka Jan 7th..  Camera man filming audience participation! (Penny Photo)

The Spaceman will be appearing in Taranaki  Jan 5-7th at the amazing 'Parihaka Peace Festival '07'.. I'll be playing at the 'visionaries stage' on Saturday 6th at 2:30..Come along, its an amazing festival! See the website www.parihaka.com for details..

January Friday 19th 2007 I'll be in Wellington to play at the great institution; the 'Wellington Bluegrass Society', at Petone! Start time is 8:30pm, venue is at 54 Richmond Street Petone. Anyone wanting more info can phone Andrew on (04)477-0069. The evening starts with a few floor-spots that are arranged on the night! It will be an 'all acoustic' set in a spectacular acoustic space, featuring songs from Spaceman album & some newbies too..

I got to meet & Jam with NZ guitar Legend Peter Posa at a party recently! It was such an honour to meet a great gentleman of NZ music..& let me tell you, Peter played some wicked guitar too!

We jammed on a bunch of tunes, ate plenty of Barbeque, & talked guitars & music.. It was great! Thanks Peter!!

Th' Spaceman got a fantastic write up/feature in the Summer 05 edition of "Jammin' Gears" Magazine ("Hot Rods and Music Kiwi Style") available for just $5 at a few high Quality automotive distributors (email me for your closest agent!) Thanks guys!! They gave a brief & very positive review & a good 'history to date' kinda' story with some good photos. Cool eh!? Incidentally, if any readers from 'Jammin Gears' have struggled thru for a look, check out the 'photos' section  on the homepage for some petrol therapy!

'Spaceman' got a GOOD review on a NZ Blues website by respected bluesman Mike Garner recently! I only just found it myself by chance: Imagine the feeling when I saw my review, right below 'Otis Rush review' on the page.. CHILL! To have a nosey click in this link: http://www.blues.co.nz/features/article.php?id=203 Thanks to Mike & NZ Blues News & Archives: Respec!

RELEASE PARTY!!Thursday May 12th.. What a night!! Thanks to all who turned out, feels great to have given it a proppa 'send-off!'   We had the wicked sound too.. There's some cool photo's by Adam Buckley you can peruse by clickin' here on : http://www.adambuckley.net/photos/spaceman/ Thanks Adam!!

The Spaceman will be supplying the soundtrack to 'The Motorcycle Show', tomorrow night (Friday 20th May) at 8:30pm on Triangle TV!! Sorry theres not much notice, but the show's Director & Producer John Faithfull just phoned me last night to tell me!! At least three songs will be in tomorrow's show, plus a big ol plug at the credits end!! Cool eh?? Cheers John!! John got dragged along to the album launch by friends (thanks Jos'!!), had a good night, liked the album & the rest as they say was history!!! "GET YOUR MOTOR RUNNING... GET OUT ON THE HIGHWAY!.."

WHOA!! NEWS FLASH: 'THE MOTORCYCLE SHOW' HAS INCLUDED THE SPACEMAN ON ANOTHER EPISODE!! ALRIGHT! JOHN IS TALKING ABOUT USING THE TITLE TRACK OF THE ALBUM FOR HIS OUTRO THEME MUSIC/CREDITS!! WILL KEEP YOU POSTED:  ITS AT 8:30 FRIDAY NIGHTS ON TRIANGLE TV, REPEATED SATURDAY MORNING...

Our band 'The Dusters' appear in the New (issue 30) NZ Rodder Magazine (pg 36!) in their photo coverage of the famed 'HOTROD BLOWOUT!' (Speed!, Danger!, Death!).. Check it out!! We also appear in 'Jammin Gears' Magazine: same event, different photo angle!! (& spelling..) Jammin Gears is a great wee mag dedicated to nostalgia NZ music & Hot Rods.

The album got very interesting reviews in NZ Musician Magazine & Bay of Plenty News this month..Both Very positive, but a lot was made of my 'Westie' Background..HEY! Im from Taranaki! Its just that when I first came up here I  took the 'westie 101' class at nightschool. Passed with distinction...(OR WAS THAT 'DISTORTION'?) To see review by MZ Musician's Bruce Morley Cick here: http://www.nzmusician.co.nz/index.php/ps_pagename/albumdetail/pi_albumid/474

I will be the guest at April's meeting of "GANZ"! (Guitar Assn of NZ) on Wed the 20th at the upstairs bar of 'Ponsonby Cruising Club' at the foot of the harbour bridge, Westhaven! I supported Graham Wardrop there a month ago, & they invited me back on my own!! Yayy! They want to hear lots of different guitars & esp solo Electric playing, so Im gonna take a truckload of guitars!! Should be good fun.. See www.nzguitar.com for more details!!

MONSTER FREAKOUT NEWS is that 'Advance publishing', the wonderful folks behind NZ RODDER MAGAZINE and NZ PETROLHEAD MAGAZINE have given the Spaceman a BIG OL' PLUG in both their fine publications (FEB 05)!! The Petrolhead magazine even includes a givaway competion, so you can win a copy for free!! The catch is that the magazine is FREE too, (available at good workshops & parts dealers NZ wide) & is packed with good stuff for anyone into any kind of motorsport or car hobby!! If you're like me & have gasoline on your cornies in the morning, you'll need to get a copy.. These are NZ's two finest  motor publications, & the Spaceman is mighty proud to be included & allowed to tag along!! Thanks Alistair & Co.. The Eagle eyed Spaceman aficionados out there will have spotted that Alistair Davidson (Editor) actually took all the cover images for the album, including the cover on the homepage!! Thanks again Al!!