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Cambridge, New Zealand (1995 – present)

The Datsuns are a band from Cambridge, New Zealand. In 1995, while still at school, Dolf de Borst, Phil Buscke Somervell, and Matt Osment formed a band under the name Trinket. Christian Livingstone joined the band in 1997. They entered and won the 1999 89FM Battle of the Bands competition; by 2000 the band had renamed themselves ‘The Datsuns’. In August 2000 they released their first single, “Super Gyration!” on 7 inch vinyl only. In July 2002, after featuring several times on John Peel’ programme on the UK’s BBC Radio 1 and being hailed as “the future of rock” by the British music press, the band signed with the V2 record label. Ever since this hyper-kinetic quartet first landed among us, circa 2002, direct from semi-rural New Zealand, they have been one of rock’s great live attractions. At any given summer festival, thrill-seekers of every colour will flock together from new band tent, or metal stage, or their skate arena, or indeed their own private drunken chaos, to witness Dolf, Christian, Phil and Ben putting their collective boot to the jams, generating their own riff-mangling, speaker-stack-toppling electricity.
The band took their name, rather self-deprecatingly, from the car which is emblematic of the “Jap crap” which floods the Antipodean market. As four kids from Cambridge, New Zealand (population: 12,000), they didn’t feel like their prospects warranted a name like The Cadillacs or The Rolls Royces. Jack White, inspired by a chaotic live show he saw them perform during a White Stripes tour of NZ, duly hired them as a support act in the US in early 2002.
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have released an extra 20 tickets for the Powers Bar show on Thursday June 28th...

6 May 2012 | from www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150251615141245&set=a.425702016244.207236.10248336244&type=1&comments

have released an extra 20 tickets for the Powers Bar show on Thursday June 28th in London. Get in quick before these go as well !!

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