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Live: Die! Die! Die! – ‘Harmony’ tour

Flashback to September 28th, 20012: Die! Die! Die!’s New Zealand tour for their excellent 2012 album ‘Harmony’, with support from Dunedin group Opposite Sex and local lads Ipswich, at Dux Live.

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Live Flashback: Dux Live Double-Header

Flashback to: June 2012, with a double-header weekend at Dux Live.
Starting with the return of Goodshirt, ably supported by popular local group Sleepy Age and followed by the final of the 2012 RDU Round-Up band competition, taken out by excellent local post punk group Ipswich.

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Live: Shacklock Meth Party Release Party

Flashback to August 26th, 2012. Photos from an All Plastics house party, celebrating the release of Shacklock Meth Party’s album with Zen Mantra, Ipswich, Anthony Drent and Raygun.

Rhett has since deleted most evidence of the band (and all his other bands) from the web, so it’s a bit of a blind alley.

Cool photos though.

Muzai Records

Auckland-based independent label formed by Martin Phillips and Benjii Jackson in 2009, with Michael McClelland (previously a writer for The Corner, but that site appears to be AI generated spam now) and Maeve Munro, completing the team.

Miniatures

Excellent shoe-gaze trio formed around the songs of Annemarie Duff (vocals, electronics and production), with Ché Walden (guitar) and Steven Marr (bass). Duff’s vocals (a wispy Cocteau Twins type approach), enveloping electronics and Walden’s guitar engulf the groups sound, with… Read More »Miniatures

Ipswich

Excellent young Christchurch Noise-Pop / Post-Punk group featuring a trio of musicians that are becoming regular sites around local venues. Steven Marr (Guitar/lead vocals, also of Psych Tigers and Miniatures), Matthew Gunn (Bass/backing vocals, Psych Tigers), and Jamie Larson (Drums).… Read More »Ipswich

All Plastics

A former plastic manufacturing business located in industrial Philipstown, All Plastics was originally leased by Nick O’Keefe of The Undercurrents some time in the 2000’s. O’Keefe, along with his band members (which included local sound-men Marcus Winstanley and Mikey Summerfield, plus Phantom Billstickers’ Jamey Holloway) began using the site as a recording studio and practice space.

Several house-party type shows were put on both inside and outside the studio space, before the last occupant (Rhett Copland of Doctors etc) left around 2013.

Psych Tigers

Originally the solo recording alias of teenage frontman Sam Perry (Vox/Guitar), now a live band also consisting of Matt Gunn (Bass, also of Ipswich), Steven Marr (Guitar, Ipswich and Miniatures) and Todd Williamson (Drums). Perry’s recordings have made a splash… Read More »Psych Tigers