Editing Negative Eh

[[image:Negative_Eh_Cafe_Oto_Performance.jpg|right|thumb|500px|Cafe Oto gig flyer (London, 2008)]]
Band from the late 1990s, featuring [[Richard Whyte]] (guitar), [[Rick Jensen]] (guitar/vocals) and [[Dean Brown]] (drums). They competed in the [[Contact 89FM]] [[Battle of the Bands 1997|Battle of the Bands]] in 1997. While in Hamilton they self-released the albums ''[[What the Fuck is Fahrenheit?]]'' (1997) and ''[[Hotel/Motel]]'' (1998) and a number of EPs. Between 1999 and 2000 all three members moved to Wellington, and since 2002 have released four albums under the name [[Nova Scotia]]. Brown and Jensen later relocated to England, meaning that the band seldom had opportunities to play together. Despite this, in 2008 they played a show at Cafe Oto in London (with Ben Spiers and Alex Mein Smith) and had a split-12" with Dunedin band Eye released by Tipped Bowler Tapes in 2011.

All three members also have numerous solo projects: Dean Brown plays solo as [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Little+Skull Little Skull], Rick Jensen formed [http://www.myspace.com/therickjensentrio The Rick Jensen Trio/Quartet] and [http://www.myspace.com/theinsectexplosion The Insect Explosion] (among other projects), while Richard Whyte also performs with [http://bentfolk.bandcamp.com/ The Bent Folk] and as [http://dickwhyte.bandcamp.com/album/george-bush-doesnt-care-about-black-people Dick Whyte: Supercomposer].

==Reviews==
[[image:Negative_Eh_-_Oceanography.jpg|right|thumb|"Oceanography" cover art]]
*''Where Ghosts Go To Die'' review on the [http://www.unearthing.net/insample/insample_others.html Insample] website; "Latest installment from this trio sees them evolving into free-psyche territory on this limited lathe-cut release. Newest in a continuous line of NZ bands who may be the best in the world?"

*''Oceanography'' review by Paul Hirst from the [http://www.unearthing.net/headshy/ Headshy] website; "Wellington trio Negative Eh embark on a voyage over gentle waves of feedback, sailing on a fair easterly drumbeat, encountering remote islands of fuzz."

*''Tangiwai'' review by Bruce Russell, from a 2002 [http://noise.as/hermescorp/ Corpus Hermeticum] print catalogue; "Proof that there is a genuine groundswell of this abstract music, these youngsters from Nowhere NZ take on all comers and come out of their corner sluggin'. This has a great sound, murk used cleverly to differentiate certain passages, then the sound leaps to the foreground in a genuinely scarey way. I have no idea how or really why this was all done, and to me that's the highest praise I can bestow. There are new things in heaven and earth, Horatio. Foreigners note - Tangiwai was a terrible NZ rail disaster in 1953, when the main trunk express was washed out by a lahar with the loss of 153 lives. Relevance uncertain."

*''Ramses II'' review by David Keenan, on the [http://www.volcanictongue.com/artists/browse_all/541 Volcanic Tongue] website; "New live working from the free NZ trio who levitated a whole bunch of beards with their last release on Metonymic. This one features Richard Whyte, Rick Jensen and Dean Brown live on 04/12/04 in Wellington, New Zealand and works blasted skeleton forms from low-level percussive shuffle, slow hurricanes of malformed tone, pitched wine glasses and saxophone squawk. Parts of this sound like a huge abandoned galleon being slowly blown to pieces by slow-motion tides. Fans of AMM, NNCK and even later Shadow Ring might well wanna smoke on these bones."

==Releases (as Negative Eh)==
* [[What the Fuck is Fahrenheit?]] (LP, Self-Released, 1997)
* [[Hotel/Motel]] (LP, Self-Released, 1998)
* [[Where Ghosts go to Die]] (7", Blue/Silver Records, 1998)
* [[Oceanography]] (8", Headshy, 1999)
* ''As One Breathes Ones Last'' appears on the [[Mailorder]] compilation (10", Crawlspace Records, 1999)

==Releases (as [[Nova Scotia]])==
* [[Tangiwai]] (CD, Metonymic, 2002)
* [[Ramses II]] (CD, Pseudo Arcana, 2005)
* [[Memphis]] (CD, Ikuisuus, 2008)
* [[Revolt of Capricorn]] (CD, Nezvanova, 2009)
* [[Nova Scotia/Eye Split 12"]] (LP, Tipped Bowler Tapes, 2011)

==External Links==

*[http://nova-scotia.bandcamp.com Negative Eh/Nova Scotia on Bandcamp]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ikQTjbw9_w Better Swimmers on YouTube]<br>
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