Bad Statistics were formed in Wellington (New Zealand) in late 2005 as a much-needed noise-band jam outlet for its constituents. There had been several collaborations between the players previously, but this constellation was quite unique. The vocal explosions/explorations of Thebis Mutante fitted in perfectly with the band’s motoric rock stylings, and the debut album was recorded in a flurry of concerts and private jams. So far, the group has gleefully been exploring the unpredictabilities that come out of its stylistic and instrumental framework - and it’s been refreshingly unpolemic at that. Artistic integrity is not a measure but a byproduct of Bad Statistics. The band exists out of Thebis Mutante (singer, and in New Zealand not an unimportant improv sax player), Mark Williams (guitarist in several underground groups like The Idle Suite (Last Visible Dog)), Johannes Contag (drummer en assembled Static, played previously with Cloudboy),Justin Barr (bass and more known as a drummer in the garage-fuzz-rock scene) and Torben Tilly (organ player, mr tone generator and member of Minit (Staubgold))