North By North - The Bats

[@33oo33oo33]

I played this song on repeat for 90 minutes on a bus journey through South West Ireland. Bliss.

[@digitalshrub]

This is one of my all-time favorite songs. The atmosphere it conjures up is haunting and gothic...beautiful stuff. Everyone in the band is so talented. Kaye's guitar tone is the stuff of legend, and Paul is probably my favorite bass player in rock. And Robert Scott? He ain't no cross-eyed geek. He's a songwriter extraordinaire. Thank you, Bats, for giving us so many fantastic songs. And The Guilty Office is great!

[@Secretlyanothername]

The Hollowmen is an Aussie TV show. This is in the intro of the show.

[@northeastkiwi]

Good to see this great Christchurch band and music vid by talented Christchurch filmmaker John Chrisstoffels

[@drowner1]

Paul Kean is a bass guitar god.

[@mcdonalds452]

a great song. Brings back many memories

[@hookywooky]

Fantastic song. Thanks to the makers of The Hollowmen for introducing me to the Bats. Shame on the ABC for telling me it was something completely different when I asked them about the music!

[@shelleycampbell-best3785]

Love this. Spent a lot of time with these guys back in the 1980's when married to Alister. Fond memories.

[@avantsweater]

Man where have The Bats been all my life???

[@mikeparker1006]

In Aotearoa m8

[@glickle]

Never heard of them before discovering them on KZbin, but they are great.

[@hookywooky]

When I first visited the Hollowmen website, the music was exactly as it is at the beginning of this youtube video (and on the promo on TV). The arrangement appears to have since changed a bit. The incidental music in the first episode seems to be a variation of the same song. The ABC told me it was called "Fallen Angels" by Olivier Foubert, but I couldn't find anything specifically about this (apart from Foubert being a French actor/composer). Who knows where the ABC got their information.

[@StephenArnoldnz]

i just saw the bats again the other day. still brilliant! i remember seeing them at uni and the dux years ago - there were sad old guys you used to see at gigs standing at the back dancing with their hands in their pockets. now i am that sad old guy.

[@dianelowery725]

Have always loved this band-played them a lot in my college radio days.

[@Wazulon]

I love the bass in this song. A sort of rolling thing that's all over the place. Lovely :)

[@craigbutler9200]

Classic track, this is a song I first heard many years ago, always loved it and always a fan of the 'Bats' ever since ...

[@kiwirob67]

Saw them at the Oriental pub in Dunedin.. awesome

[@puppeteers420]

wow what a great song, by a great group

[@mikepetitti]

Awesome song

[@MarcoVenosta]

love this band!

[@BiffScooter1]

The pic quality also is superb. Thanks to whomever put this up. Amazing!

[@cameronwood2332]

saw them live once...awesome!!

[@PocketMusicNZ]

Bats offshoot, Minisnap, are making a video with John Chrisstofells this weekend. Kind-of summery psychadaelic vid for a bouncey song called New Broom

[@iandalziel7405]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4PCZK2Em6qWitE

[@muzik58]

FAB !!!!

[@1234yoyoma1]

the perfect driving song i wake up in the morning like really early and drive with this song blasting godly

[@bayrockwhk]

thanks for posting this it's great to re-discover tunes you loved great music!

[@mr200mg]

After the BNZ stole my land and after my father died of a broken heart and after my mother died of cancer and after I drove in my Dodge on those Canterbury roads and after I smoked dope and after I smoked my cigarettes and after I loved my dog and after my aunt died too , I'm desperate to escape my horrors and I smoke another cigarette ... there's no escape . I know that now .

[@mattkk]

mr200mg i feel your pain. or your reality. I don''t know which!

[@Asaconstant]

Absolute slayer

[@jmh2277]

The inherent catchiness...So great;...

[@mirkthirteen]

Mna was desperate for this song thanks to alot of searching lol i finally found it. Bloody good song

[@charlotte955]

still love it

[@jemimz]

gold!!

[@charlotte955]

love it soooooo much!

[@joannefisher3281]

I love this song.

[@uzzle65]

Yep the state of Kiwi commercial radio playing Kiwi music was pretty dire in the 1980s. It was until the mid-1990s that things started to change. This song soooo reminds me of my days at Otago University!

[@stattonz1]

The Bats - when you think of all the dross we've been exposed to for the last 25 years- and these guys have been making fantastic music all the time. They deserve a place among NZ (and Australasia's) best bands). Period.

[@daniellandeosalazar6309]

I love NZ bands! 🙌

[@Blackscorpion1963]

I love the Duners Sound - stuff legends are made of: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunedin_Sound

[@glamnesia]

Best electric bass guitar line ever commited to record, bar none.

[@mikeparker1006]

it's a beauty A

[@blairomatic]

Remember the state of the NZ radio back then? There was no way that this great song would even get close to being played on commercial radio. Student radio yes, anywhere else - they wouldn't touch it.

[@_Junkers]

Thought those roads looked familiar, just read the description ha!

[@goldminetrash]

One of the best bands in the hemisphere. the Grant McLennan reference is apt.

[@dingdongdallywally]

@thesoftwhite3way - the bats just played at the Great Scott in Boston june 2nd '13, hope you got to see them.

[@solomonster747]

great song the first song i ever learnt on guitar

[@MsMiguel70]

Boring comment alert: Almost 30 years ago studying abroad in Scotland I had my discman and 40 CDs. Think two were from The Bats. That collection made some long cold nights good for me, and maybe a few others. So, music helps make memories and memories are helped by music. maybe : )

[@Secretlyanothername]

This song will always bring back Dunedin for me, but now there's a little part of Canberra stuck to it too, which is fine by me. A brilliant song!

[@iandalziel7405]

Psychogeography is a burgeoning field... kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZovMZXiZZ6ulaKc

[@ChrisEdsall]

You want Rotor+ vs. The Bats "North by South" or Epsilon Blue (the same guy as Rotor+) "Bye Bye North". Both tracks on the compilation "On The Beat N Track Vol.2"

[@meh54]

I know this is the theme for the Hollowmen, but the first time I heard it, I thought it was some BBC police drama. Just had that particular sound.

[@tlm315]

good song cool vid

[@locogore]

daddy´s highway de los bats es lo mejor que he oido en mi jodida vida!

[@tracyclements3053]

Timeless. gets better with age

[@MichaelDelbeecke]

WHEN THE FEELING'S RIGHT, I'M GONNA STAY ALL NIGHT, I'M GONNA RUN TO YOU

[@kennerguy66]

Shit, I would've gone to that!

[@WorldwidewelcomE]

Cool Bag Of Rhythm - Right On - WorldwidewelcomE - Viking -

[@willyj51]

The Bats are an unstoppable force and the world is a better place for it. "Chicken Bird Run" would be great.

[@thesoftwhite3way]

Please tour the states and play Boston or Cape Cod?

[@tommywm24]

Yeah his name is Lachy Hulme!

[@wdamian]

I loves me my Bats

[@Mynhassty]

Morrissey, is that you?

[@FELLA274]

Hello all.....looking for ROTA VS THE BATS version of this............can anyone HELP??

[@eruption257]

Is it me or does the lead singer here look just like Steve Albini?

[@cockatoomagnet583]

I agree.

[@ten10strips85]

Rapeman, NZ. 8DD! I thought the same, kept expecting the firecrackers. There are flames though, flames are good....

[@iandalziel7405]

Excuse me - Steve Albini looks like Robert Scott! It was ever thus...

[@chrisrosser8789]

I found it on wikipedia in less then 2 minutes :-p

[@jsn883]

generally i like new alternative music... but this is in another league altogether!

[@thesound-chameleonman3580]

NOW I KNOW where Supergrass got the inspiration for Cheapskate!

[@david_post_punk]

Sorry but the riff is clearly influenced by The Cure's In Your House

[@TheDeadlyDelilah]

I love "The Hollowmen" - such off-beat satire that only the intelligent can find funny - for everyone else it goes right over their head. The bassy beat of this song in their intro is a great introduction to this classic Australian band.

[@user-wr4uz8pg7m]

I presume you've also seen "Yes Minister"?

[@iandalziel7405]

_"Australian Band"_ ? *New Zealand Band!* South Island Band, Chchch/Dn Band - never an _"Australian Band"_ - ptui! They did gigs with The Go-Betweens though.

[@KERRYBARTRABER]

I think she has bluish hair just now- she's 23- I think 1991- you too would get along

[@TheDeadlyDelilah]

@krispian Hardly amatuer - classic more like - don't you know that simplest is often best?

[@KERRYBARTRABER]

it's hard- people are are very picky-- go to the High Horse Pub- maybe she'll be there

[@KERRYBARTRABER]

Amherst or Northamptom

[@iandalziel7405]

@@KERRYBARTRABER - what a psychogeographic mix - Emily Dickinson and Alan Moore!

[@FionnKirwan]

sorry to say it but it's Bryan Adams run with you

[@TheNotahorse]

Apology accepted. We'll pretend you never said that.

[@KERRYBARTRABER]

No- you sound so Eno

[@razorblade530]

I was going to like this, but the counter is set at '666' and I don't want that to change.

[@PocketMusicNZ]

amateur!!?

[@krispian]

Gotta love that bass line! Enthusiastically amateur, nice n'meaty,

[@54spiritedwill54]

I love the bass in this song. A sort of rolling thing that's all over the place. Lovely :)

[@iandalziel7405]

Great in Stereo too!

[@iandalziel7405]

Great in Stereo too! :- )