Biography
Gestalt Switch was a New Zealand band formed in Dunedin in 2003 by Ashley Hinton (guitar, vocals), Blair McPhee (guitar), Rachael Botur (bass, vocals), and Sam Brookland (drums). The band released two EPs: 2003's Low and 2005's Nothing. "Nothing Has Changed", the first track on Nothing received a NZ On Air Video Grant.
The band played with acts like The Violent Femmes, Straitjacket Fits, Goodshirt, Die! Die! Die!, Operation Rolling Thunder and Pan Am. They played at the Big Day Out 2006, appeared on NZ TV2's National Anthem music marathon, and served as the house band when Sports Cafe came to Dunedin.
They did two national tours of NZ, several mini-tours of the South Island, and hundreds of Dunedin very-mini-tours. The band was invited to SXSW 2006 in Austin, Texas, but forgot to have enough money to go.
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