Biography hilarious and clever electro-rapper from auckland with an unusual lo-fi indie beginning. with beats and production from former incisions guitarist alc5 and mint chicks bassist michael logie, coco busted out with collaborator erik ultimate on tracks like ‘jealous’ (included… Read More »Coco Solid
Biography Auckland based 3 piece pop-rock band band formed in 1996 featuring Andy Moore (The Letter 5), Boyd Thwaites (The Lils) and Nicola Rush that released two albums and were include on the (excellent) Dollar Mixture compilation. Luckily scored a… Read More »Cane Slide
Biography neil finn’s uber-successful post-split enz band, featuring brother tim and autralian paul hester. Discography picks in bold crowded house [1986 capitol ST240555] temple of low men [1988 capitol ST748763] woodface [1991 capitol 793559-1] together alone [1993 capitol 27048-2] pineapple… Read More »Crowded House
Biography Forming in Kapiti in 1999, this Wellington based punk outfit split an album with Christchurch’s Molly Says Go in 2001, after releasing their own debut EP. Members Discography Channel Thirteen EP (1999, Self-released) Channel Thirteen vs. Molly Says Go… Read More »Channel Thirteen
Biography Formed in 1994 the four piece Chicane rapidly gained a strong following in their home town of Christchurch. The band features the vocal and guitar talents of Dean Chiplin who was last seen on the Failsafe Records label on the… Read More »Chicane
Biography Solo alias of Wellington based singer songwriter Charlotte Yates. After debuting with Jayrem group Putty In Her Hands in 1987, Yates released the first recordings as Charlotte Sometimes on Festival Records in 1991 before being part of Kitsch folk group When… Read More »Charlotte Sometimes
Biography Discography picks in bold homunculus lathe cut ep [blunt instrumentals bint006] Members Links
Biography Melodic pop four-piece Chameleon was formed by Jazz School students Leigh Franklin and Julian Marchant late in 1993. Drummer Bevan Davison and keyboardist turned bassist Mike completed the lineup. This was soon to change with Greig Bainbridge coming on… Read More »Chameleon
Biography brian crook has had a long and varied career in the new zealand underground scene. initially as a guitarist in seminal christchurch post-punk outfit scorched earth policy in the early to mid 1980s, then with the max block, and… Read More »Brian Crook
Biography Formed by Tom Watson (Head Like A Hole) and Craig Terris (Hell Is Other People), and later joined by Dave Fraser and Paul Trigg. A poppy country-tinged indie-rock outfit that formed in 2000 in Wellington (when Watson and Terris’… Read More »Cassette
Biography Now defunct Dunedin guitar-texturalists (in the High Dependency Unit vein) that created loud, driving rock that tread the line between post-rock and heavy-metal while still in their mid teens. The group consisted of Tim ‘Tiddy’ Smith and the duo of… Read More »Carriage H
Biography 3-piece Auckland new wave act from the early/mid 80’s featuring Nigel Russell (Spelling Mistakes, Danse Macabre), David Bulog and Trevor Reekie, though they went through many other members. After an EP and an album the band disbanded with Russell… Read More »Car Crash Set
Biography An early pop punk band featuring Eugene Butcher (later of Desperate Measures and Evasive Action), David Gent and Michael Harrallambi (both of Dance Exponents). Never saw this band but ‘You Were The One‘ (Failsafe Records‘ ‘Accident‘ compilation) is a… Read More »Channel Four
Biography vehicle for the song writing talents of john kelcher and blair parkes. the bands line-up featured parkes (ex-letter 5 – guitar / vocals), john kelcher (sneaky feelings – guitar / vocals), bert aldridge (drums), and dean aldridge (bass). the… Read More »Creeley
Biography Members Brendan Kaufman (The Cartoon) Chris Verryt (The Cartoon) Steven Price (The Cartoon) Peter Brebner (The Cartoon) Discography The Cartoon (1995, Metro Marketing, MCD2465) Links