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Live Music Reviews and Photos

Live: Campus A Low Hum Day 3

Flashback to February 13th, 2011 - Day 3 of Campus A Low Hum at Flock House in Bulls. Featuring camping, b-ball and lots and lots of bands! #nzmusic #alowhum #campusalowhum

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Live: Campus A Low Hum Day 2

Flashback to February 12th, 2011 - Day 2 of Campus A Low Hum at Flock House in Bulls. Featuring heaps of bands from around New Zealand, Australia and even a few from the States. #nzmusic #aussiemusic #alowhum #campusalowhum

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Live: Campus A Low Hum Day 1

Flashback to February 11th, 2011 - Day 1 of Campus A Low Hum at Flock House in Bulls. Featuring heaps of bands from around New Zealand, Australia and even a few from the States. #nzmusic #aussiemusic #alowhum #campusalowhum

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Live: Campus A Low Hum Day 0

Flashback to February 10th, 2011 - Day 0 of Campus A Low Hum at Flock House in Bulls. Featuring Pre-Campus performances from Street Chant and Scul Hazzards. #nzmusic #aussiemusic #streetchant #alowhum #campusalowhum #sculhazzards

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Live: Die! Die! Die! – ‘Harmony’ tour

Flashback to September 28th, 20012: Die! Die! Die!'s New Zealand tour for their excellent 2012 album 'Harmony', with support from Dunedin group Opposite Sex and local lads Ipswich, at Dux Live. #nzmusic #die!die!die! #oppositesex #ipswich #duxlive

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Live: Familia Moja Fundraiser

Flashback to November 16th 2011 with an epic fundraising show at the Thunderdome, a temporary venue that was erected at North Hagley Park. #nzmusic #livemusic #sleepyage #thetransistors #bang!bang!eche! #steden #coate #valdera #planetofthetapes

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Live Flashback: Dux Live Double-Header

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

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Live: Red Panda Presents Thought Creature

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

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Live: Darkroom’s 1st Birthday

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

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LIVE: Witchuals and Kutomo

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

Upcoming Tours

Phil Elverum Tour of New Zealand 2023

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

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Live: Tiger Tones Album Release Party

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

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Live: Opossom and T54

Flashback to Opossom playing the Darkroom Bar on June 30th, 2012 with support from local legends T54. #nzmusic #opossom #t54 $mintchicks #bicrunga

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Live: Flying Nun Records 30th Birthday

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