Ryan Cockburn is an compulsive tinkerer and a lazy careerist.

A New Zealander by birth, an Australian by locale.
Bad teenage taste issues led to a search for importance.
This led to the abyss of self reflection, where the ho-hum and hokum, holy and hirsute coexists.

Home-wired, stuck together with tape.
Record interventions and caves of audio tape.
Scouring the fragile grooves, excavating the dust mines.
Heart in hand, broken tonal skeletons.
Wonky, outsider-art turntable percussion machines & collected trash ensembles.
Shunned by the academics.
No delusions of rock grandeur.
Full of cast-offs, seconds and contradictions aplenty.

Ryan has performed under the name SPIT since 2001, when resident in Dunedin and surrounds.
Since moving to Australian, he has grappled with the obsolete moniker. This is his first tour under the Pits title.

Ryan has exhibited, recorded and released in Australia and his native New Zealand and completed a M.F.A. (dis) in 2005.

PITS(EX SPIT)
NEW ZEALAND TOUR MARCH/APRIL 2009

March 25 Dunedin
None Gallery 24 Stafford St 6pm
( with il cornuto! DUNEDIN! HEAVY TURKEY! THE GHASTLIES, MEGA-KIPPLE, plus more on the night!)
March 26 Dunedin
The Octagon C.B.D. 12noon
( performing as part of Eye @ Dunedin Fringe Festival Opening)
March 26 Dunedin
Records Records 393 Princes St 4pm
( Instore show with CJA )
March 27 Port Chalmers
Chicks Hotel 2 Mount St 8pm
( performing as part of Eye @ Lines Of Flight )
March 30 Christchurch
The Physics Room 209 Tuam Street 8pm
( with Alex MacKinnon & Tim Coster )
April 2 Whanganui
Stink Magnetic H.Q. Cnr Drews ave and Rutland St 6pm
( with Sets & Dr Spooky )
April 3 Wellington
Spacething 171 Adelaide Rd, Newtown 7pm
( Instore with Rory Storm )
April 4 Wellington
Happy 118 Tory St C.B.D. 9pm
( with Rory Storm and the Invaders, Zombie? Fuck!, Tim Coster )
April 5 Tauranga
Colosseum Cnr Willow & Harrington St 6pm
( with Dakotas )
April 10 Auckland
The Wine Cellar St. Kevins Arcade, 183 K Road 11pm
( playing as part of the Borderline Festival )
April 11 Auckland
21 Mercury Lane Newton 7pm
(with Cathedrals, + guests)

He is/has been a member/been kicked out of/ been associated with the groups Eye, Jojo Ef Steve and Ray Off.