That’s right, Murder Burger is currently making Whitebait Fritters out of actual Whitebait and actual fritters and served old school on actual Tip Top white bread with garlic butter and lemon. I don’t know how long we’ll be making them for as I don’t know how long the Whitebait season lasts.  Actually I don’t even know what Whitebait is.  I used to think they were baby eels but I’m pretty sure that’s not the case. They taste good though.

That’s right, Murder Burger is currently making Whitebait Fritters out of actual Whitebait and actual fritters and served old school on actual Tip Top white bread with garlic butter and lemon. I don’t know how long we’ll be making them for as I don’t know how long the Whitebait season lasts.  Actually I don’t even know what Whitebait is.  I used to think they were baby eels but I’m pretty sure that’s not the case. They taste good though.

It turns out that this punk band from Chicago have organized a whole tour to come and eat at Murderburger. I’m not making this shit up,  and it’s not like they’re some crappy arsed band like I used to play in either – they’re the real deal and a regular fixture on Vans Tours and Fat Wreck Chord compilations. Weirdly they even once had a guest appearance on “Party of Five” in the 90’s ( boy, wasn’t that a crappy piece of telly).

We’re totally blown away that Murderburger is somehow famous in the American punk scene, so we’re doing everything we can to make sure as many people as possible go to the show at the Thirsty Dog on the 21^st of August because that’s the polite thing to do. Also no doubt the weather will be crap anyway.

Hopefully a bunch of you reading this flyer are media people looking for a good story and/or someone that has John Key’s new cellphone number.  We only have his old number which he doesn’t use anymore and he’s got really hard to get a hold of since he became Prime Minister.

PS. You can find out about where Horace Pinker are at by following their Murder Burger Or Bust blog at     http://murderburgerorbust.tumblr.com

PPS. According to the internet Horace Pinker aren’t dicks.

UPDATE: To anyone that didn’t go to the show… you should have totally gone to the show. Turns out that HP are a bunch of regular good dudes (apart from Scott who is an actual History Professor which isn’t that regular) and they played a blinding set. They whored themselves out in Murder Burger T-shirts too which was a nice touch despite offending all the vegans in attendance.  But best of all, I managed to wrangle places to stay in Chicago and Oklahoma next time i’m in Chicago or Oklahoma.

To be honest it was one of the most enjoyable nights I’d had in ages and met some good bastards.  Hats off to Ghost Echos, Suckafish and The Dead Heads who all played great sets and weirdly got me all positive about the NZ live music scene all over again.

Also the staff at The Thirsty Dog are nice people.

Also also, I was really crook the next day and was in bed for a week.

Here’s Scott eating.

Here’s Bryan eating.

Here’s Greg by a sign.

And here’s some shots from the show.  I took these myself on my iPhone.  It’s fair to say the iPhones photographic capabilities are a bit shit. No doubt Apple  will say that they deliberately designed the iPhone camera to take ‘unconventional and fresh’ photos, but I can’t see Nikon or Canon shaking in their boots just yet.  Also I’m actually a really crappy photographer which doesn’t help.

It’s the second celebrity we’ve served this week – (assuming you count the actress who currently has the largest breasts in porn as a celebrity).  He seems like a nice kid and ate the Beef mustard burger.  It’s times like this I wish I was a proper writer because then I could enthral you all with what he said and did and how he ate his burger and what was his ratio of bites of food to sips of drink was. But we didn’t even know who he was until someone from the radio station told us afterwards and didn’t pay that much attention. He gave us the fingers when he left – but I don’t think he meant to be offensive  - and interestingly, he happens to have the exact same haircut as me. I can safely say neither of us would think this was a good thing.

In other news, the porn star took one of our t-shirts which she said she loved and was going to wear next time she was on set.  So we may end up being the first New Zealand company to ever have product placement in an adult movie. I guess that counts as marketing.

We just won Best Burger in the Viva Takeout Awards today and they even put one of our burgers on the front of their magazine which was nice. They gave the Ostrich burger a rave review and secretly we’re “quite chuffed”- as my dad would say.  Of course my dad would also say “no one likes a skite”.

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