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3-piece guitar-less surf trio out of Wellington with members using the aliases Capt Hammondhead (Nigel Patterson - screaming vintage organ), Segue Lugosi (Dylan Herkes - over-driven bass guitar), and Trevlac (rock-steady surf drums). #nzmusic #surfmusic #thechandeliers #stinkmagnetic
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Brilliant synth-pop group formed by former Whizz Kids / Pop Mechanix / The Swingers vocalist Andrew McLennan. Known solely for their one-hit wonder 'Sierra Leonne'.
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The Cartilage Family were a short-lived Dunedin group featuring Peter Gutteridge (and a bunch of his best early songs), Shayne Carter, Lesley Paris and Francisca Griffin. No official recordings exist and they only performed live twice; but the Cartilage Family were an important stepping stone for New Zealand Music.
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Excellent Dunedin 4-piece with a stellar line-up. Dark, noisy guitar and driving rhythm, but sadly only a single hard-to-find album (plus a couple 7" singles) to their name. Closely tied to Bruce Blucher concurrent band Trash.
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Wellington punk band from the mid-1980's. Released a handful of DIY cassettes, mostly on the Sound Mind label. Oddly on their album 'A short history' they gave each of the band members home addresses, but not their last names!
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Not to be confused with the Auckland punk venue of the late 70s, or the Suburban Reptiles song of the same name, Coup D'Etat were a tight trouser new wave outfit of the early 80s formed by Hello Sailor's Harry Lyon. Well-remembered for their catchy upstroke white-boy reggae-lite single 'Doctor I like your medicine' which got to number 9 on the NZ charts in 1981.
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Whilst Chris Matthews was struggling within the pop-confines of the Prime Movers, Johnny Pierce (Bass), Grant Fell (Guitar) and Bevan Sweeney (Drums) were forming their own sound as Children's Hour.
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Dunedin mid-90s experimental trio with a handful of impossible to find releases, including a lathe on Crawlspace, and 2 releases on drummer Stefan Neville's own 'A Stabbies and the Rocket Recording' label.
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The Clean have left a giant stamp on New Zealand Independent Music. The group that came to define 'The Dunedin Sound' had a terrific topsy-turvy career that spanned 5 albums and a number of EPs, singles, compilations and live releases over a 31 year time-span.
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General craziness in musical form at the hand of Michael Weston and his troops Bruce Mahalski, Eric Neuman and Nathan McConnell. The Dunedin music compilation But I Can Write Songs OK includes their brilliant stars-on-45 take on Flying Nun bands 'Dunedin sound on 45', and even featured guest appearances from some of the targets - David Kilgour and Martin Phillips.
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Biography somber but poppy dunedin-based ex-auckland acoustic balladeer who has toured with the chills and released an album on carpathian records. comber recorded the…
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Biography Wellington based electro-synth rockers Charlie Ash were formed around the Christchurch-grown duo of bassist/keytar player Mailee Matthews (formerly of Maestro Cooltone and the…
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Biography No relation to the UK band of the same name, this one was formed in 1988 if it makes any difference. Following on…
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Biography three-piece all-girl punk group in the early shonen knife mold, i.e. sing-shoutty appropriations of the ramones with huge slabs of anarchic (and not…
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Biography Members Murray Couling (Chainsaw Masochist) Debbie Silvey (Chainsaw Masochist) Darren McShane (Chainsaw Masochist, Figure 60) Ricky McShane (Chainsaw Masochist) Discography Facing Up…
