Bassist John Halvorsen isn't on board - so now it's the duo of Alister Parker (mumbled-shrieks and sheets-of-sound guitar) and Brent McLahlan (samples, snare-pulverising and he beats his floor-tom like it owes him money). It feels good - straight away, instantly - to have them back. The last thing released by the group was 2004's self-titled compilation . That did the trick in a lot of ways, a decent summary. Before that it was 1999's Solar.3 . Bailter Space (sometimes written as Bailterspace ) was (is?) one of the best bands in the world. It was a bonus, when I discovered them, to find that they came from my part of the world too. They lived off-shore for a while, but they returned - always - to play New Zealand. I saw Bailter Space a bunch of times throughout university - memorable shows always; even nabbed the set list ( see right ) from one gig. (I still have it - it was on my wall for years, now it hides in the back of a scrapbook ( along with a few others ). I was at the gig at Indigo (now San Francisco Bath House) where Noise-Control shut the band down; too loud. One of those mythical gigs that everyone was apparently at. A week or two later they played at the venue now (once again) called the Hole In The Wall. It was a "secret gig" and an apology of sorts for short-changing Wellington due to the written