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Entry 01,452 · Est. 2002
New Zealand Music and Christchurch Culture
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Christchurch lo-fi collective founded by Luke Towart in 2012, recorded to four-track cassette. Members have included Brian Feary, Ben Woods and Adam Hattaway. Their 2023 album The Giant's Lawn was named one of the best New Zealand albums of the year by Rolling Stone NZ.
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Auckland experimental/noise rock group releasing cassettes and vinyl through Night People, Hideotic and Selection Records. The A-Team released 2019 on Melted Ice Cream.
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Dunedin indie pop group rooted in the jangle pop tradition. Released Opposite Sex (2011, Fishrider Records), Hamlet (2015) and High Drama (2021, Spik & Span).
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Christchurch lo-fi solo project of James G. Sullivan. Released cassette EPs from 2013 before debuting on vinyl with In The Marigolds (2022) and Grey Eyes, Grey Lynn (2024) on Melted Ice Cream.
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Wellington indie pop four-piece formed by twin brothers Oliver and Callum Devlin. Signed to Carpark Records (US), their 2022 album No Drama was nominated for the Taite Music Prize and earned international praise. Known for eclectic influences spanning 60s pop, musical theatre, and 70s disco.
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Dunedin electronic trio featuring Lucinda King, Hope Robertson and Danny Brady. Their three albums — Death and the Maiden (2015), Wisteria (2018) and Uneven Ground (2024) — fuse post-punk guitars with dream-pop electronics on Fishrider Records.
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Christchurch guitarist and songwriter, member of Wurld Series and Salad Boys. Released Put (2019) and Dispeller (2022) on Melted Ice Cream.
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Power-pop group from Rangiora, Canterbury. Released Life Under The Big Top EP (2018) and albums On An Unhistoric Night (2022) and The Hollow Husk of Feeling (2024) on Melted Ice Cream and Meritorio Records.
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Woolston, Christchurch alt rock'n'roll band led by guitarist and singer Adam Hattaway (formerly of Wurld Series and The Eastern). Seven studio albums in seven years, from the 2018 debut All Dat Love through to Hot Variety (2025). Rooster (2021) reached #16 on the NZ album charts and was playlisted on 40-plus US radio stations.
Live Music Reviews and Photos
FLASHBACK to February 2022 — Red Panda Prom, a school-themed live music event at Unlimited Paenga Taonga, Christchurch, with Bang! Bang! Eche!, Sandfly Bay, Jimmy Zoom, Beytown Grifters, and the Red Panda Prom Band.
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Biography Poppy Dunedin-based 4-piece featuring future Cloudboy vocalist Demarnia Lloyd. The excellent scattering of recordings bassist Pete Gorman has archived on Youtube show the…
Live Music Reviews and Photos
FLASHBACK to March 2022 — Ghostwork, Denmark Street, Warble, Sandfly Bay.
Venues
The Repertory Theatre at 146 Kilmore Street was one of Christchurch’s most architecturally distinctive interwar buildings, a 1929 Spanish Mission structure originally built as the Radiant Hall and later the home of the Canterbury Repertory Theatre Society for over eighty years. Demolished following the 2011 Canterbury earthquake, the building hosted decades of theatrical and musical life including productions directed by Ngaio Marsh and performances by leading Christchurch folk, jazz, and indie acts.
Live Music Reviews and Photos
FLASHBACK to December 2006: Pig Out, Not So Experimental, and The Shaky Hands at the Jetset Lounge, Christchurch.
Venues
The Rockpool has been a fixture of Christchurch’s central city since 1995, operating as a pool hall on the ground floor and Micky Finn’s Irish Pub — a live music venue — on the first floor. Closed following the 2011 Canterbury earthquakes and reopened in 2015, it remains one of the few pre-earthquake CBD venues still trading, billing itself as the only pub in Central City.
