Dion - guitar, vocals
Vaughan - bass
Jimmy - guitar, vocals
Beaver - drums

The D4 Book of Rules

•  Get a shit-kicking, lowdown, filthy rock n roll group together consisting of 2 members from riotous local bands, a stranger from the South Island and a maniacal drummer from the darkest depths of the Hauraki Plains.

•  Call the band The D4 and never tell the truth as to why.

•  Write some damn good songs, become the wildest, dirtiest and most exciting live band the country has seen. Hone your skills until women swoon and brave men tremble at your name.

•  Release an E.P through local legend label Flying Nun, the quality and sheer excitement of which forces them to stump up funds for an album.

•  Make the album and call it ‘6TWENTY' . Secure releases in every major territory in the known world while touring heavily anywhere and everywhere, building on your reputation as a sonic explosion of fire and noise.

•  Tour the record for 2 years solid through Europe, the USA , Japan and Australasia , playing major festivals (Glastonbury/PukkelPop/Reading/Leeds/Fuji Rock/Little Stevens Underground Garage Festival/Livid/Big Day Out/Homebake etc) and as many club dates as is physically possible. Find time to also appear on only the finest and widely aired TV shows known to mankind (Letterman is a good choice). Do a million interviews and lie in all of them (see rule 2.)

•  Come home and sleep for 2 weeks.

•  Leave home and head to England under pressure from all sides to make a second record faster, and much better, than the first.

•  Rent a complete shit-hole of a flat in South London and move the band all in together, get on each other's nerves and use the tension and complete wasteland around you for inspiration to write a whole bunch of great new songs.

•  Ride the dirty old Northern Tube line day after day to a secret studio location to demo the new material with a couple of guys known only as ‘the Dirty Geezers'.

•  Get wasted and wreck the flat.

•  Repeat

•  Give the new songs titles like ‘Too Stupid To Live' , ‘Trust Nobody' , ‘Sake Bomb' , ‘What I Want' and ‘Stops Me Cold' .

•  Find a studio outside of London , making sure that it lies within the flight path of any surviving WWII aircraft in the area, thus ensuring the excitement levels of the drummer only ever increase, and never decline.

•  Set the band up together and spend the 10 days catching the perfect takes needed for the album. Record live onto tape, and go back to the songs only to perfect the vocals. Bring in Hammond organ players & Harmonica players, record live with them then realize they weren't necessary and fire them. Track the album swiftly and furiously, pausing only to fit in the odd game of fuss-ball or a kick about on the lawn.

•  Head back to London to mix the thing, but also find time to have a quick fling with one Alan Moulder (producer of acts such as N.I.N. & Smashing Pumpkins) and record two additional tracks with him for kicks. Put them on the album.

•  Reluctantly (ha!) leave South London abode and return to New Zealand to find small gifted children to assemble the artwork, make the videos, and prepare to launch the glory of the newborn album on the eagerly waiting world…

 
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