The Bats - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

[@albertolh5392]

The Bats one of most underrated bands ever.🦇

[@johnpabloguild9293]

Agreed

[@cristobaljoannon6829]

The Clean, The Bats, Heavy Eights, The Mad Scene… something really great. Tks tks

[@retisonic]

The Bats are one of the most beautiful bands ever created. Ther music is gorgeous and I miss them touring in the states.

[@garyhicks1473]

when I was 13 years old I painted my skateboard. I wanted it to like by the back drop from north by north bats song I watched on radio with pictures. I'm nearly 50 now.... still love the Bats!

[@christopherlake2869]

Have always concidered myself to know a lot of music, but just discovered this band! What a perfect find for my ADHD hyberbored quarantine self. I have 40 yrs of music to catch up on! I realize how narrow my music knowledge is! ...& just when I was getting frustrated with current music and bands a magic musical miracle happens. Digging for gems is yielding much more crop than waiting for new growth!

[@johnpabloguild9293]

Lucky one, you! This is a stellar band who have released a modest amount of records that are all stone cold classics if you ask me. Down the rabbit hole, you!

[@davidray8337]

I've just heard them for the first time a few weeks ago. Wonderful.

[@xiancode3682]

If you're still looking, a certain period in New Zealand produced some simply amazing music - The Bats, The Chills, The Verlaines, The Clean are a place to start.

[@johnpabloguild9293]

The Clean, The Church, The Chills, The Bats...why do so many of my faves come from that part of the world?? I saw their concert at Neumos on this visit. Sparsely attended but it was lovely.

[@jeffg1524]

The Bats are one of my all-time favorite bands, period. They are one of those rare bands that whenever they release something I automatically want to hear it.

[@etamommy]

I also automatically buy it when I hear about a new Bats album. Have them all and really not a weak link in the bunch!

[@joydivisionboy1]

Kudos to a band that can keep the same line up for 40 years, even The Stones can't do that one. North By North from one of their earlier albums is a classic.

[@flowers321]

I only discovered The Bats just last year for the first time. I absolutely love their songs. Such a great, underrated band and I love their New Zealand accents! Cheers to The Bats!

[@Lawbish96]

KEXP is so lucky to have had these guys in their studio. Gold dust.

[@samelworthy2430]

can't wait to see you all live again. sitting here working out the songs on the acoustic. so beautiful

[@lordfarquad5878]

Prolly one of the best bands ever. Pretty sure

[@stephenroche5107]

Prolly.

[@Trampas8]

A great little set of songs by The Bats. Beautifully played.

[@martinhmh7]

Still brilliant all these years later.

[@andrewpirie7973]

Hell yeah guys! Great kiwi band. Just gave me nostalgic goose bumps.

[@fattony638]

The bats rocks so much, and so does KEXP!

[@kexp]

This band "jumped on the train" 30 years ago!

[@hellovanite]

People just don't understand the influence that Flying Nun had on alternative music in the beginning of the 80s

[@arnonyhm4804]

Unfortunately only so few people in Europe knew all the good stuft from down under back then... only a handfull of record stores in the 3-4 biggest cities had the releases...until they were also in the rural areas, it was already the 90s

[@GiorgosDimitriadisArtist]

Lovely band and so many other acts from this great Flying Nun period!

[@tonyevans9999]

true that! God bless the Clean, The Verlaines, Straightjacket Fits, Chris Knox, JPS Experience... and many more!!

[@DenEz_TV]

Great band!

[@briarb2156]

One of my all time favourite

[@jdplatt7120]

Up to the sky. What a fantastic song. I'm surprised that song has not been picked up for a main stream cover.

[@dingdongdallywally]

Yay! Was wondering when this would be up on youtube. I tuned into KEXP (from Makarora, New Zealand) to hear The Bats play. Loved it!

[@popolbruh8263]

unbelievable how they sound practically the exactly the same 30 years later.

[@weswally1]

What a treat!

[@gretayeoman5697]

Yeah man. This is a band from way back. Like the 80's. So don't diss, they are original. From the original Flying Nun days.

[@nadasurfelectric5029]

So talented band

[@exliontamer]

beautiful 🥰

[@EndOfEntertainment]

really great stuff :)

[@МихаилАшиков]

WOW, grate to see Slavoj Zizek on drums

[@KhannahSTR]

Dédicace à mon professeur d'histoire qui m'a fait découvrir ce groupe énormeee !

[@GazeMeShoes]

Slavoj thumping those drums aye!

[@sickboyduke]

you just successfully annihilated my troll attack. nothing more to do here. big fan of the channel in any case ;)

[@richardjacques8239]

wow,so cool bandin the 80s

[@aheckideus]

Mes amis... génial 😊☺😍😘

[@TheFlamingBridges]

yes.

[@felicitydiyqueen116]

Robert Scott is at my school I am I have met Robert Scott

[@ihrstinkt100]

❤️💕❤️

[@peterhand9149]

iPads weren’t around back then 😮 please explain

[@leonmorgan1158]

Robert Scott on vocals?

[@jansowa751]

nature

[@LONEEAGLE_space_rock]

They can tour America with three chords

[@chucklopresti7262]

Brilliant - go buy 500 copies of Daddy's Highway and give them to everyone you like.

[@andresv355]

Whats the problem of using a fucking ipad?

[@tykosay]

WHAT

[@GDdeKock]

This group is not the Bats that I know.

[@lordfarquad5878]

Garath de Kock y?

[@RafaelDivoz]

God bless the man, but I don't like him. =/

[@geoffmisplon7651]

If I'm correct and it's the same group, It's a Durban group which I saw at a club in Durban in the 60's and in the then Rhodesia in the early 70's. Does anybody know if this is correct.

[@jdplatt7120]

@@geoffmisplon7651 No Geoff, different band.

[@wasy35]

Like a bad R.E.M.

[@monsieurbotibol]

wasy35 in my ears it is actually the other way around ;) but also actually REM themselves recognised it was their sound they copied when they started :D

[@ramindadmanesh3863]

wasy35 Absolutely positively NOPE! You have no idea what you're talking about. Whereas R.E.M. started sucking at about a decade in, these guys have remained superb and true to themselves even after 36 (and counting) years!

[@lordfarquad5878]

I have the opposite opinion. Sure R.E.M is good and all, but this is on the next level. They’ve had better days sure, but this is still an amazing band.

[@dereksmith9473]

No. This is what New Zealand sounds like. Not every band has an American or British voice. Paul Kean is brilliant. Check out Toy Love

[@sickboyduke]

this sucks - everyone jumpin on the goddam hipster hippie train

[@lordfarquad5878]

Ya I was gonna point out that the band is older than that fad, but I see someone already did that