This is the most stable line-up of The Chills there’s ever been throughout the Dunedin band’s four-decades-plus history; permanently anchored around singer/songwriter Martin Phillipps, the current quintet have now been together since 2011, in the process gradually resuscitating one of New Zealand’s most revered musical institutions.
At least some of …
It’s been said before, but if anyone wanted a perfect example of a label signing a band it simply didn’t get, you needn’t look much further The Chills’ brief affair with Warner Brothers in the early 90s.
Led by the mercurial but complicated Martin Phillips, they suffered with a Fall-like …
It feels almost mandatory to begin any review of a new Chills record with a reference to their almost-breakthrough song Heavenly Pop Hit, a 1990 masterpiece so contagious is was probably classified by the Centre For Disease Control as an epidemic.
Such was its global impact that it pitched the …
The Chills live @ London Koko. June 2016. (Photo: Alberto Pezzali for Live4ever Media)
In the words of Freddie Mercury, ‘the show must go on’. And to paraphrase another old rogue, suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune is the life a band commits to, especially when outside of …The Chills have been out on tour in the UK after releasing their new album ‘Silver Bullets’ not long ago, an album recently supported by the ‘When The Poor Can Reach The Moon’ single – three minutes hidden away originally on the 8-minute track ‘Pyramid’.
Live4ever’s been there this week …
New single from The Chills’ album ‘Silver Bullets’, which was released at the end of last month
It’s been a long period of hibernation for The Chills – at times it looked like it might be a permanent hiatus – but the band who began life in Dunedin in 1979 now seem well on the way back to full productivity.
The journey might have been circuitous, but …