Today, The Bats enjoy sudden profile spikes via a global circuit of scholarly rock festivals curated by bigger names, who fashioned themselves partly in the New Zealand veterans’ image.
The quartet’s eight album in thirty years and the band still sounds like a downbeat Byrds running on rusted Velvet Underground rhythms, but In The Subway is as driven and dense as the best of their back catalogue.
Front-man Robert Scott was wistful at twenty-one but balding, bearded, and beautifully bloomed, these older and wiser Bats wield their melancholy melodies as warmly as their more frantic former selves.
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Aaron, comedy.co.uk
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Joe, Independent.co.uk
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Robert Gavin, Twitter
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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Horatio Melvin, Twitter
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General Lurko 36, Guardian.co.uk
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98rosjon, Twitter
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Al Murray, Comedian
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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John Robins, Comedian
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Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
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Anonymous, The Northfield Patriot
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Yukio Mishima, dontstartmeoff.com
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Spanner, dontstartmeoff.com
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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Ishamayura Byrd, Twitter
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Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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DVDhth's grandparents, Twitter
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Microcuts 22, Twitter
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Zombie Hamster, Twitter
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Fowkes81, Twitter
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Maninabananasuit, Guardian.co.uk
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Kozzy06, Youtube
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian
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Pudabaya, beexcellenttoeachother.com
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Anon, westhamonline.com
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Brighton Argus
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Stokeylitfest, Twitter
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Henry Howard Fun, Twitter
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Anonymous, don'tstartmeoff.com