Electronicky Singer-Songwriter fellow with his foot in the door as the guitarist for SJDs band… releases locally on Round Trip Mars and a wee bit of international exposure too.
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nelson punk, with johnny trousers formerly of killtrain. johnny knees-up, johnny trousers, chrissy christ.
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auckland based singer song-writer with a large body of work (a fair portion as the greg johnson set, the rest solo) in a fairly mor capacity, though with the occassional witty lyric. hit it big with his first solo-accredited release, vine street stories.
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awards etc
rianz awards 1992
apra silver scroll 1997
A.H. Jones is Auckland-based experimental ambient-electronic artist Andrew Jones, who has produced 2 CDr’s on the fresh Sumac label – one of the many labels distributed through the now-Melbourne based Teledu records.
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one of rob scott‘s many one-off bands – this time with r. dejoux. they put out the ground level cassette on scotts’ own every secret thing label.
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hawkes bay based mostly-instrumental (textural, in the mogwai style) rockers maurice beckett, jeff boyle and jason johnston. three low-run releases have seen them gather quite a bit of interest through-out new zealand, and their live shows are usual well-attended. though lacking a bit of the diversity and melody that made substandard‘s debut such a bright light, they are still a highly worthwhile band, grounded in excellent musicianship.
originally forming in napier, the trio achieved attention through fairly lef-of-centre sources for an instrumental rock out, mainly as a support act for touring dub and electronic acts salmonella dub and pitchblack. subsequently the band was signed to kog transmissions new start-up indie off-shoot midium and worked with the likes of label-mates avotor.
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member of split enz, the swingers, and just about every other high profile band of the 70s and early 80s (including a short stint in toy love!), phil judd finally released a solo album under his name after the demise of the swingers in 1983, and followed it with a soundtrack to the australian movie death in brunswick in the early 90s.
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brent tasker, andrew horst, david ball, dave steunebrink and jozsef fityus.
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mid 90s rock’n’roll outfit from andrew tolley, before he found fame with the hasselhoff experiment. jawload were based in wellington and released an album and two singles on tolley’s own kato label. tolley was joined by rod de spong, andrew goodchild and paul lester.
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For a band that has so much influence and family history spread across its members, Jean-Paul Sartre Experience (later shortened to JPS experience, due to legal wrangles with Sartre’s family estate) produced what could be considered a limited body of work – never living up to the expectations they had made for themselves as one of New Zealand’s best live acts during the late 80’s and early 90’s.
However ‘Love Songs’, their brilliant first album, is something of a New Zealand classic – an infectious example of quirky New Zealand guitar-pop. A varied album based around love and positively, i always find something to enjoy every time I come back to it. Jangley numbers such as ‘The Loving Grapevine’, cherished sing-a-longs like ‘I Like Rain’, and all-out fun romps such as ‘Crap-Rap’ keep me entertained, if only for the fun aspect.
After the subdued but often sparkling quirky debut, they took a very long time to release ‘The Size of Food’, which showed a change to a more rock sound.