The New Zealander writer and musician  Bill Direen‘s situationist exposé of current world political events:

The Utopians R Just Out Of Boozin’

The utopians are just out boozing
Mercy killing their sense of losing
Another century of Europa facing
Another gangland of mephistos embracing
Hardened enemies are friends this year
Designing bombs & announcing clear
Resolutions, shaking hands,
Aiming drones over African lands.

All interventions have a second motive
The food is free, but the aid is loaded.
War medallions, better blow the dust off
Tools of torture, better scrape the rust off.
Every country has its Kremlin
Every religion has its Vatican
Be your boss, but bring your boffin
Visit the moon in your cryo-coffin.

A little bribery is always convenient
Wherever justice might be lenient.
A new breed is making gold from dirt
The writer vomits down his last tee shirt.
The new geneticists o! they cut and suture
The free market guarantees their future
As antique lands are blown to splinters
A spring uprising keep us warm next winter.

The madhouses have rainy eyes.
The sane willingly tranquilised.
Psychiatrists are sporting their i-phones
Individualists are carving up their headstones,
All the goddesses are in Hades,
All the gentlemen are in the Ladies,
Beadles gleam as years in jail
Are meted out to kids who fail.

The poem will be released on his bands’ brand new record. Thank Bill for the words.

The author plays on his guitar and sings his another song on the seaside here.

He has begun his career in the mid-70s as folk singer and stepped in the New Zealander punk, indie-rock scene with electronic music. His most known groups are the Bilders.

About his music works          About his literary works

YOU. is the name of a band in New York. Just try to search it on the net… Their music is better. Cold but danceable synth punk a la Digital Leather and New Order

Sunchaser LP + digital on Dais Records (US)

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The BILDERS are groups of various musicians and friends from New Zealand, Australia, United States, Germany, Austria and France. In 2013 there were 3 different line-ups, one in Australia, one in New Zealand and one in Germany. The New Zealander musician and writer Bill Direen stands in the centre of these groups. Their melodic minimal art pop is just like the Blurt.
Now here is a special 7″ vinyl with 3 tracks from 3 different line-ups. It consists a situationist exposé of current damn fool world political events: „The utopians R just out of boozin”; an appealing ballad plus a simmering live extract from a recent European tour. The ballad is like a song by Mick Harvey

SmartGuy Records (US)

In the NZ-er band the drummer is Stu Kawovski (Stuart Page), who also in the best alternative pop band of New Zealand, The Axemen.

The BILDERS are groups of various musicians and friends from New Zealand, Australia, United States, Germany, Austria and France. It had/have various line-ups. The New Zealander writer and musician, Bill Direen stands in the centre of the groups. Their alternative melodic minimal pop is like the Blurt.

TOO MUCH MUCH

A 7″ vinyl with 3 songs will be released late summer/early fall on Smart Guy Records (US). One of his drummers is Stu Kawovski (Stuart Page), who also in the best alternative pop band of New Zealand, The Axemen

At first there was an unlucky name: Pangea. It has changed to a stupid one: together Pangea. Bay area garage hard rock’n’roll.

7” by Harvest Records

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The Bilders are groups of various musicians and friends. The New Zealander writer and musician, Bill Direen stands in the centre of the groups. The new album has released under the name of Bill Direen & the Hat. The performers are: Hamish Kilgoure (The Clean, NZ), David Watson (musician & experimental music scene organizer, NZ), Miggy Littleton (Blood On The Wall, US). The tracks range from garage pop to acoustic-electric assault. You can find among those 1-1 poems by W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound.

from The Flavour Of The Meat LP by Grapefruit