C1 Espresso
Coffee shop and informal live music venue at 150 High Street, active from 1996 until the 2011 Christchurch earthquakes. Closely connected to student radio station RDU, which at one point operated a studio from the premises.
This Is Heaven
This Is Heaven was the solo project of Auckland musician Paul Luker, founder of the Industrial Tapes cassette label, releasing the limited-edition 200 Variations EP on Flying Nun Records in 1985.
Aldous Harding
Auckland-born singer-songwriter whose gothic folk and surrealist pop has brought her international acclaim on 4AD Records. Winner of the 2018 Taite Music Prize (for Party) and 2019 APRA Silver Scroll (for ‘The Barrel’). Her 2022 album Warm Chris reached number one in New Zealand.
Blue Smoke
Live music bar within the Tannery complex in Woolston, opened in 2015 in the former Gustav’s Kitchen space alongside the Cassels and Sons Brewery. One of Christchurch’s more active mid-sized venues.
Live Music: Camp A Low Hum 2012 – Day Two at Camp Wainui
FLASHBACK to January 2012 — Day Two at Camp A Low Hum 2012: Spring Break, The Phoenix Foundation, Beast Wars, All Seeing Hand and Forces at Camp Wainui.
The D4
Auckland garage rock four-piece The D4 spearheaded New Zealand’s part in the early 2000s garage rock revival, releasing 6Twenty on Flying Nun Records and touring the world before reuniting in 2018.
Robert Scott
Dunedin bassist, guitarist, and songwriter at the heart of New Zealand’s underground music scene since the late 1970s. Co-founder of the Every Secret Thing cassette label and fanzine, bassist in The Clean, and frontman of The Bats.
Fatal Jelly Space
Auckland all-female punk outfit Fatal Jelly Space were one of the most ferocious live acts in the early 1990s New Zealand music scene, releasing the Hole EP on Flying Nun Records in 1990.
Negative Nancies
Biography Art rock trio from Dunedin based around the vocals and keyboard of Emilie Smith, Tess MacKay’s industrial drumming and vocals, and the legendary Mick Elborado on noisy wailing guitar and the occasional vocal. Negative Nancies first surfaced on a… Read More »Negative Nancies
Jazmine Mary
Neo-folk and dark pop artist from Gippsland, Australia, based in New Zealand. Their trio of albums — The Licking of a Tangerine (2021), Dog (2023), and I Want to Rock and Roll (2025, Flying Nun) — trace a path through visceral, haunting folk music and bold psychedelic pop.
Wunderbar
Quirky two-room bar built into the hillside of Lyttelton, opened in 1991 by German publican Jörg Schwarz with a distinctly Berlin-influenced interior. One of the port town’s best-loved live music venues.
Family Cactus
Wellington seven-piece indie pop and psych-folk band who released two albums on Arch Hill Recordings: Come Howling (2009) and Spirit Lights (2011). Known for their orchestral arrangements, the band wove guitars, organs, piano, synth, and autoharp into lush, expansive soundscapes.
Live Music: Camp A Low Hum 2012 – Day One at Camp Wainui
FLASHBACK to January 2012 — six galleries of photos and a full write-up from Day One of Camp A Low Hum 2012 at Camp Wainui, Wainuomata.
Princess Chelsea
Auckland electropop singer-songwriter Chelsea Nikkel, recording as Princess Chelsea on Lil’ Chief Records. Her four albums — from Lil’ Golden Book (2011) to Everything Is Going To Be Alright (2022) — blend satirical wit with maximalist chamber pop. Winner of the 2023 Taite Music Prize.
All Seeing Hand
Wellington experimental trio combining Synthi AKS synthesis, throat singing and turntables in dense improvisational soundscapes.