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Cameron McCurdy at North Head, Devonport in 2017.

**Cameron Leigh Mason McCurdy** is a singer, guitarist, drummer, and trumpet player from West Auckland.

## History

### Musical start (2012-2017)

Title Pending played their first gig at UFO on the 10th of October 2014 alongside Courtney Hate, The Big Gus and Death By Butterflies. The band released several singles, "February", "Blink", "Yesterday's Bread", "15" and "Faith Coat" while playing regular gigs as part of the Auckland all-ages scene.

Mason McCurdy played trumpet on Polyester's single, "Lucky Me", and played live trumpet with the band alongside Liz Stokes of The Beths at the single release gig at Fuzzy Vibes, where The Beths, milk and April's Fool also played.

In March 2017, Mason McCurdy was a member of Adele's choir for "Skyfall" at her three Mt. Smart Stadium shows, alongside Keegan Tunks and Harry Thompson-Cook.

### Blu Fish & *Sapathy* (2018-Present)

Mason McCurdy and Rundle formed Blu Fish with Mitchell Baber from The Big Gus at Shadows Bar on the 26th of February 2018. The band won the 2018 National Battle of the Bands and have released one EP, *Shments.* The five members of Blu Fish and Ripship formed the experimental supergroup Fish & Ships in late 2018.

## Discography

### Solo

#### Albums

* *Sapathy: Roof City Staring* (2019) - Self-released
* Transience (2020) - Self-released
* *Mixtumq (Graphic Novel Soundtrack)* (2024) - Rat World & Selcouthbird Press

#### EPs

* *Boredom Beloved* (2014) - Self-released
* *Sounds* (2015) - Self-released
* *Spins* (2017) - Self-released

#### Featured albums

* Think On Your Feet (by S P E R B 3 R, 2020)
* *With Love, K M T P* (by K M T P, 2023)

### Title Pending

#### Albums

* *In-Sync Hallucinations* (2014) - Self-released
* *Murder in the Modern Day* (2015) - Self-released

#### Singles

* *Blink* (2015)
* *Yesterday's Bread* (2015)
* *"15"* (2015)
* *Faith Coat* (2016)

### Crab Chunk and The Persistent Wafer

#### Albums

* *Bible Camp* (2016) - Self-released
* *Chef's Best: Hot Mess (2016) - Self-released*
* *Crustacean Nation* (2016) - Self-released

#### EPs

* *The 24-Hour Club* (2016) - Self-released

### Dog Fork

#### Albums

* *Villains Suck and Goats Suck* (2017) - Self-released
* Let's All Make Eggs (2017) - Self-released
* *Dog Eat Dog Eat God* (2017) - Self-released
* Wash the Chips*, A New Dog Fork Album* (2018) - Self-released
* *Good Vibes Only 2020* (2020) - Self-released
* *Nipple of the Crab Moon* (2020) - Self-released
* *Glitter! Glitter! Glitter!* (2020) - Self-released
* *Godspoon* (2021) - Self-released
* *And Other Small Mammals* (2021) - Self-released
* *Why is Dog Fork?* (2021) - Self-released
* *Everybody's Stackin'!* (2022) - Self-released
* *I Go First, Because I Lost, Because I'm Scum* (2022) - Self-released
* *Dog Ends: The Very Best of Dog Fork* (2024) - Self-released

### Long Boy

#### EPs

* *Stan the New Turtle* (2016) - Self-released

## Links

* Facebook
* Instagram
* Bandcamp
* Spotify
* Apple Music/iTunes
* Soundcloud
* YouTube

## References

1. ↑ UFO Holidaze, Facebook event page, 10/10/2014, https://www.facebook.com/events/777241172332720/
2. ↑ "Bandstanding", The Fringe, page 21, issue 152, September 2016, https://issuu.com/fringemedia8/docs/1609?workerAddress=ec2-52-201-252-3.compute-1.amazonaws.com
3. ↑ Polyester - Lucky Me, Bandcamp, 22/11/2016, https://therealpolyester.bandcamp.com/album/lucky-me
4. ↑ Polyester Single Release w/ The Beths, Milk, & April's Fool, Polyester, Facebook event page, 18/11/2016, https://www.facebook.com/events/1016721241773165/
5. ↑ "

Thanks Adele for having me, Keegan and Harry as choir bois lmao", Cameron Mason McCurdy, cam.apparently, 24/3/2017, https://www.instagram.com/p/BSAxo-6AzV6/
6. ↑ "Bandstanding", The Fringe, page 14, issue 178, February 2019, https://issuu.com/fringemedia8/docs/1902
7. ↑ Concert Review: Blu Fish Swim in Success, Radio 13, https://radio13.co.nz/articles/concert-review-blu-fish-swim-in-success/
8. ↑ Blu Fish’s debut EP Shments is a slice of dynamic surf-rock goodness, Happy Mag, https://hhhhappy.com/blu-fish-shments/