Category Archives: i artists

the two-bit two-piece of lucy lurex (aka dianne smith) and duane zarakov (aka pat faigen), garage-rockers extraordinaire. with lucy’s impressive and powerful singing, heavily influenced by idol marc bolan (and lets not forget her bryan adams fandom), the international telepaths … Continue reading →

short-lived and bizarre christchurch industrial outfit from around 1992-1993, comprised of (at various times) robbie forrester (bass & vocals), simon mclaren (subliminals, loves ugly children – drums & vocals), david clark (ape management, dragastrip – guitar, bass, vocals), stefan jordan … Continue reading →

a caustic, chaotic, sprawling mess of a band. been around since the late 80s, putting out a pretty grotty (and not particularly good) self-titled album in the early 90s, back when they had more of a straight metal focus. since … Continue reading →

Christchurch based band, The Insurgents were the darlings of the all-ages scene courtesy of their involvement with out of kilter music. The band spent a year on hiatus courtesy of guitarist/vocalist Chris Young’s other pop-tastic band neil robinson winning the … Continue reading →

solo alias of craig houghton (ride on estrada), who’s released a couple very lo-key, melodic, and occassionally country-tinged albums on the small stinkbuzz inprint, specifically in short-order lathe-cut runs. i ran into craig travelling to sonic youths’ fantastic 2004 gig … Continue reading →

huge band line-up – nigel beckford, steve hinderwell, doloros hoy, marie salter, andrew downes, murray costello, john rnfletcher and brian nelson.rnfrom nigel beckford: “this wellington seven piece, a popular live band in the late 80s, early 90s, made two albums … Continue reading →

a christchurch pub band, no less. their self-titled and self-released debut was a valiant attempt at some kind of credibility. maybe next time.discographypicks in bold idle star [2002 self-released]

discographypicks in bold circumsession cassette [root don lonie for cash rdl008] live / evil cassette [w/ the pumice root don lonie for cash rdl049] 1977 ep cd-r [root don lonie for cash rdl082] ‘bmstrmstrmbngsplt’/’bullseye’ lathe-cut 7″ [1997 a stabbies and … Continue reading →

infinitesimal is the electronic feedback/computer improvisation project of mark sadgrove (mhfs, hometown fielding, plains) and paul winstanley (sci hi, audible 3, dial, plains) who first rocked the reactivated auckland scene during the alt.music festival in 2004, their first gig. sadgrove … Continue reading →