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.
#nzmusic #duxlive #goodshirt #sleepyage #ipswich #rdu #roundup
Flashback to September 19th, 2008 with a Red Panda (all-ages) show at the Otautahi Social Centre, headlined by Wellington’s Thought Creature and supported by then-young Christchurch groups Warble, Shocking and Stunning Statement and Ruffians.
I’ve added some context and reflective detail to the brief original review.
#nzmusic #redpanda #thoughtcreature #warble
Flashback to October 6th, 2012 – Celebrating post-Earthquake venue The Darkroom’s first birthday with a show featuring Bang! Bang! Eche, The Transistors and Brown Leaves.
#nzmusic #darkroom #bangbangeche #thetransistors $brownleaves
Flashback to May 17th, 2012: Live performance from the Steffan van Soest Hit Machine, Ed Muzic and the Burning Sensations and the Flying Sorcerers at Dux Live – photographed and reviewed for the Christchurch Press.
#nzmusic #livemusic #flyingsorcerers #edmuzic #steffanvansoesthitmachine
Flashback to January 28th, 2011. Local electronic noise + percussion duo Witchuals supported Brisbane-based Finnish performer Kutomo at the High Street Project and I was in a very-sparse audience.
#nsmusic #undergroundmusic #witchuals #highstreetproject #kutomo
Phil Elverum of The Microphones and Mount Eerie is currently touring New Zealand; with his first show kicking off in Dunedin tonight.
Here’s a link I previously posted to the ‘Cabin Porn’ website, detailling the most amazing, decrepit cabin that he lived in for a year near his home town of Anacortes, Washington.
#mounteerie #themicrophones #cabinporn
Flashback to May 9th, 2008!
I attended an afterwork album release gig in a basement next to NG Gallery (on Madras Street – now part of the Te Kaha Stadium site) with Pinacolada Records presenting the Tiger Tones self-titled album.
#nzmusic #tigertones #pinacoladarecords #nggallery
Flashback to Opossom playing the Darkroom Bar on June 30th, 2012 with support from local legends T54.
#nzmusic #opossom #t54 $mintchicks #bicrunga
Flashback to the Flying Nun Records 30th Birthday show, November 26th, 2011 at the CPIT Students Association with The Clean, The Subliminals and T54.
#nzmusic #flyingnun #t54 #thesubliminals #theclean
Flashback to the Flying Nun Records 30th Birthday show, November 19th, 2011 at the CPIT Students Association with High Dependency Unit and Delaney Davidson
#nzmusic #flyingnun #hdu #delaneydavidson #highdependencyunit
Flashback to the Flying Nun Records 30th Birthday show, November 18th, 2011 at the CPIT Students Association with Ghost Club, Shayne P Carter and Popstrangers.
#nzmusic #flyingnun #ghostclub #shaynepcarter #popstrangers
Throwback to the October 2008 (15 years ago!) Borderline Ballroom show at the Christchurch Media Club. Performances by Birchville Cat Motel, Antony Milton, Peter Wright and Sally Ann McIntyre DJing.
Flashback to Japanese experimental noise legend Merzbow playing Dux Live in Noverember 2013, alongside Rotorua’s Acclimate and Christchurch’s own Stanier-Black Five.
Flashback to September 2012 – one of the first Christchurch performances from productive indie-pop-emo duo Carb on Carb.
Joined by Dunedin’s Males and local group Coate.
Live review of the late-great Peter Gutteridge at Dark Room on March 29th, 2012 and published by the Christchurch Press on April 5th.
The photos I took of Peter were picked up by International Press when he sadly passed away 2 years later.