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 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.
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.
Flashback live review/photos of an early show at the Darkroom with Seth Frightening, Glass Faults and Disasteradio! with guest vocals from Zach Donney of Bang! Bang! Eche!
Flashback to December 16th, 2011 at the Darkroom with a fabulous showcase of the legendary Stink Magnetic record label.
Performances from I Drink Your Blood, Ritchie Venus, Planet of the Tapes and Golden Axe.
#nzmusic #livemusic #darkroom #stinkmagnetic
The Renderers played Christchurch on Friday April 23rd, 2004 at Creation along with the Terminals and an acoustic performance from Hamish Kilgour (The Clean / Magick Heads etc). I conducted this interview with Brian and Maryrose Crook in the lead-up to the show.