Electric Blood
Electric Blood was the formative group of Robert Scott; forming the group with his brother in 1978, and featuring any number of local friends and family members on extremely lo-fi DIY recordings.
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The Enright House
The Enright House was the not quite pop, not quite post rock, brain-child of German born Mark Roberts.
The live band consisted of Roberts along with Thomas Lambert on guitar (also of A Flight to Blackout), Simon Gemmill on Drums and Evan Schaare on synths.
Ebony Sye
Youthful New wave pop group who put out an album in 1987 on Auckland label Ode Records before disappearing. Frontman Neil de Jong would resurface in another short-lived group (Voodoo Love); however the most well-known group he’s associated with would be Alien Weapony, as brothers Henry and Lewis de Jong are his songs, and he’s assisted as a live sound engineer and manager for the group.
8 Living Legs
Short lived flying nun band who contributed a brilliant track to the last rhumba compilation (a live single-night recording on flying nun), and split an ep with flak in 1984. In 2005 the failsafe label released ‘false sense of security’… Read More »8 Living Legs
Eso Steel
aka richard francis – half of small blue torch, a new zealander now living in japan who deals in experimental electronic manipulations. Discography picks in bold sandpaper cassette [1996 20 city] split lathe-cut 7″ [1996 w/ three 20 city] ‘sect’/’doverider’… Read More »Eso Steel
Evermore
fielding pop-rock outfit thats made a big splash in australia in 2003-4, touring with other mellow (and somewhat girly) pop-rock bands such as keane and snow patrol. formed by the three hume brothers – jon (vocals/guitar), peter (bass) and dann… Read More »Evermore
8 Foot Sativa
Hugely popular West Auckland metal act that managed to come very close to topping the new zealand album charts with their 2nd album Season For Assault, and have continued to rise in profile since their debut Hate Made Me, securing… Read More »8 Foot Sativa
Expendables
jay clarkson fronted 3-piece (originally called they were expendable, but later shortened) that put out two well liked ep’s in the mid 80s that pretty much conformed to the ‘dunedin sound’ jangle and lo-fi approach. featured michael kime and robert… Read More »Expendables
David Eggleton
versifier is the umbrella title of performance poet david eggleton’s new album of words and music. musical contributions are from jay clarkson, martin phillipps, joost langeveld, jordan reyne, michael morley, trevor coleman, david downes, matthew robertson and others. tracks range… Read More »David Eggleton
Evil Priest
auckland 5-piece hardcore outfit formed in 2000 by dean parkin, duncan ‘pepe’ long (guitar – ex dsm), t-dubbs (bass), cashdog (vocals) and george (drums). self-released a brief album called underground hardcore in 2002, described as a mix of bad brains… Read More »Evil Priest
Exploding Budgies
one of dave mitchell’s earliest bands (while he was still based in auckland, no less), the exploding budgies sounded british, and ignored then evolving jangly sound and vocal approach that had become our trademark (taking on more of a smiths… Read More »Exploding Budgies
Ekko
Discography picks in bold a strategy for modifying planetary orbits cd-r [root don lonie for cash rdl056]
The Eyeballs
Discography picks in bold meet the eyeballs ep [2005 split release with th’ burgers as ‘double meat side’ monsterr]
En Can M.A.
Biography A very strange band but also strangely good from 1982-4. These guys had some connection with the Auckland group The Features. Guitarist/singer Ljinon sharing a similar shard like guitar style and vocal approach to The Features. The band had… Read More »En Can M.A.