DateMonthYear

7Ghosts cover art

DateMonthYear describe themselves not as a band, but as "a flexible recording/performing unit". It exists as three entities; 1) as "DateMonthYear-lite", comprising solo or unplugged work, 2) as the "Blue Team", the more conventional ‘live’ band, and 3) as the "Black Team", combining experimental and electronic elements to their live sound.

DMY in 2003

Members have included Trevor Faville, Grant Blacker (guitar), Shaye Simpson (vocals), Bevan Galbraith (bass), Sehai Orgad (vocals), Brad Kerr (guitar), Jeremy Graham (bass), Simon Hirst and Mike Anker (bass).

Thegreatdatemonthyearguitaremixchallenge review in the Waikato Times

DateMonthYear have released one EP, Sampler (2003), and three albums - 7Ghosts (2004), Thegreatdatemonthyearguitaremixchallenge remix album (2007), and *Pot/Kettle/Black (2008). Five songs from the 7Ghosts album were used in a feature film, the New Zealand "erotic thriller" Luella Miller (2005). A song called Riverdragon was released in 2011, a song originally written by students of Fairfield College with Faville years earlier.

Releases

• Sampler EP, 2003
  
• 7Ghosts album, 2004
  
• Thegreatdatemonthyearguitaremixchallenge remix album, 2007
  
• Pot/Kettle/Black album, 2008
  

• Prelude appears on the 2009 compilation One
• Work appears on the 2009 compilation Two

External Sites

• Official DateMonthYear site
• DateMonthYear MySpace page
• "Luella Miller" page on the IMDB website
  

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