“Nothing Has Changed” is available for download from http://www.gestaltswitch.co.nz/. It debuted at number one on Radio One’s Arc Café Top 11, where it has stayed for seven weeks. Gestalt Switch’s “This Home” stayed at number one for six weeks when it was released in 2004.
Gestalt Switch has opened for the Violent Femmes and Straitjacket Fits this year, as well as playing with Goodshirt and appearing on TV2’s National Anthem in 2004. Later this year Gestalt Switch will play with Die! Die! Die! As part of Otago University’s Re-Orientation.
“Nothing Has Changed” and four other tracks, inc;uding “Sick Man,” were recorded and mixed with Tom Bell in Dunedin at Tin Shack studio, between December 2004 and February 2005.
“Sick Man” will be released on the website and as a radio single in September. A video for “Sick Man” was shot in Dunedin by local filmmakers John Ong and Chris Taine for the modest budget of the price of digital tape and two boxes of beer.