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.
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FLASHBACK TO 9 October 2008 with Birchville Cat Motel, Peter Wright and Antony Milton at the Media Club. This Borderline Ballroom show marked Campbell Kneale’s final performance under the Birchville Cat Motel name in Christchurch.
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.
FLASHBACK TO 29 March 2012 with Peter Gutteridge and Brother Love at Darkroom. One of the Christchurch musician’s later live performances, captured in a review originally published in the Christchurch Press on 5 April 2012.
FLASHBACK TO 14 October 2011 with Seth Frightening, Glass Vaults and Disasteradio! at Darkroom. An early show at the newly established Archive venue, featuring 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.
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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.
Wow, this is loud, caustic stuff.
The 2nd album from the ever-changing Christchurch 3-piece The Incisions blow the current crop of rock’n’roll revivalists out of the water. Its pure fire in a recording, scratchy, loud, abrasive and rude – more in the style of Japanese noise merchants Guitar Wolf or (particularly) Teengenrate than The Datsuns (who seem positively polished in comparison).
My review of ‘Compilation’, the original retrospective of The Clean’s first phase releases. 2 singles and 2 EPs crammed into a brilliant album.
2001, Arclife Records, ARC010 Demarnia Lloyd is something of an enigma in the Dunedin music scene. Over the past 7 years her involvement in former rock outfit mink and current band Cloudboy, as well as her solo material as cloud… Read More »Cloudboy – Down at the End of the Garden
2001, Flying Nun Records, FNCD456 After 20 years of continually releasing dynamic, independent and thoroughly inventive music – the Tall Dwarfs have released perhaps their most laid-back and restrained full length with ‘The Sky Above, The Mud Below’, their 13th… Read More »Tall Dwarfs – The Sky Above, The Mud Below
2002, Arclife Records Oh how CD’s have changed the face of music! Where once a double-album ‘opus’ from the likes of Led Zeppelin barely scraped the 60-minute mark, we now expect our albums to be at least 45 minutes long,… Read More »Demarnia Lloyd – Set Upon a Curve
A memorial I wrote for Michael J. Brassell after he sadly passed away from pneumonia in 2004. I helped organize a music tribute wake here in Christchurch to celebrate his life, whilst a similar event was also help in his then-current home of Dunedin.
The Christchurch scene of 1980-82 is pretty legendary, and rightly so. This was most fertile period of rock’n’roll in the city since the beat-boom days of Chants R’n’B circa 1966. There were some very good Christchurch punk bands (notably the… Read More »Christchurch in the 80’s [By David Swift]