Category Archives: g artists

catherine george, amanda hedley, steve hemmens, richard caigou and steve hinderwell.discographypicks in bold gardening angels [1993 hair shirt music HAISH001] inflorescence [199? hair shirt music HAISH002]

wellington outfit that featured torben tilly, paul ling, yuri frusin and helen johnstone (also both of dress). since disbanding in the early 1990s, all the members have relocated to australia, tilly forming minit with jasmine guffond and flabergé with the … Continue reading →

jeremy eades’ garageland (along with andrew gladstone, mark and debbie silvey – who was later replaced by andrew claridge, who eventually made way for dave goodison) were originally billed as new zealand’s answer to pavement, they went on to find … Continue reading →

hard-working blues muso, heavily chronicled in the (brilliant) ‘stranded in paradise’ book on kiwi music. continually toured nz, forming a great number of bands over 20 years, and releasing a handful of albums.discographypicks in bold hammond gamble [1980 wea z22004] … Continue reading →

an accomplished violinist and a naturally talented song-writer (who cut his teeth in his mid teens with the brilliant but under-recorded the rip), galbraith has quietly gone about producing a number of excellent solo albums through a long, consistant career, … Continue reading →

fruit-ball lo-fi solo artist and the head-loon behind the demi whores, edward gains has been making his own bedroom recordings since the mid 1990s – initially in dunedin, though he didn’t really produce anything until being holed up in london. … Continue reading →

recorded live to air on radio massey in june 1998, this was only just captured on tape by the astute bongo bunny. tapes, ocarina, guitar and bass played by noctuary (who has a solo 8″ on headshy) and pht – … Continue reading →

michael morley, david and sid merritt, a 90s experimental 3-piece putting out acknowledged material on morley’s own precious metal imprint. gate have even managed a collaboration with sonic youth’s thurston moore.discographypicks in bold island of memory [198?] fear of music … Continue reading →

former singer song-writer with late 70s auckland 3-piece waves (who made light and vaguely hippy prog-rock), graeme gash his solo debut with after the carnivel in 1981, which saw some praise in john dix’s ‘stranded in paradise’.discographypicks in bold after … Continue reading →

from the gas webpage: “gas began in 1995 in an upstairs room in columbo st. three multi-instrumentalists, gene-pool belmondo , ian blenkinsop, and mick elborado began to melt down a number of influences in belmondo’s living room. among the early … Continue reading →