In 2005 Rainy and Geva met on their first day at work for Dunedin City Museums. They discovered that they shared a love of pop music, the macabre, and teen angst. The Haunted Love duo was formed, and performed for the first time on Halloween that year.

Geva provides a classic gothic sound and electronic beats via her living-room organ, The Zachary Enchanter, while Rainy adds a sprinkling of country with a vintage acoustic guitar handed down from her mother.

The girls' complementary, though very different, voices create a sound that is a blend of innocence and doom, perfectly suited to their preferred subject matter. Libraries, museum ghosts, werewolves in love, computer lust, and ponies that just won't go feature among their stories of mystery and love, the condemned resurrected, heartache and hauntings of all kinds. Their sound has been affectionately described as being like "two teenage girls locked in their grandmother's lounge, trying to play 80's pop hits they heard once on the radio". The band's name is derived from the girls' collection of 60's and 70's Charlton gothic-romance comic book series. These are an endless inspiration for their songs. Other sources of inspiration include; Teenage crushes, abandoned computer graveyards, oversized spectacles, robots, Edgar Allen Poe, Joan of Arc and zombies trying to make it in the modern world.

In 2006 Haunted Love produced their first music video, for the song "Librarian". This film noir/horror parody was filmed in the basement of the Dunedin City Library and featured Haunted Love in full librarian garb dishing out otherworldly comeuppance to a boy committing library sins. The video became a hit with librarians all over the world when it was posted on Youtube it netted an average of a thousand views per day for many weeks. Haunted Love continues to receive mail from librarians everywhere. Haunted Love are currently recording their first EP.

Signify: A Fashion/Art Collaboration
16th February-15th March 2008
Ticketed Auction night Saturday 15th March 2008
Tickets $25 available from the Gallery

Signify: A Fashion Art Collaboration is an exhibition/event which draws together the New Zealand fashion and fine art sectors. New Zealand designers/companies have donated garments which have been painted by selected New Zealand artists (washable fabric paints). The exhibition/event takes place every two years and is also a fundraising event for the Gallery. The Ashburton Art Gallery committee fundraisers annually towards the development of services - particularly education programmes and collection based services. The Signify exhibition is made up of the painted garments and a selected number of artworks by contributing artists - allowing visitors to see the relationship between the artist's work and their contribution to the garment. An auction evening is being held on Saturday the 15th of March 2008 with Mr. Chris Finlayson (MP National Party: Spokesman for Arts, Culture and Heritage) as the official guest speaker.

Some of the contributors taking part to date are as follows: Liz Mitchell, Trelise Cooper, Vamp, Bobby's, Doosh, Helen Talbot, Petrena Miller, Sabatini, The Sander Tie Company, Ewan McDougall, Diana Smillie, Margaret Digby, Michael Armstrong, Lyn Plummer and more.

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