3 piece pop-punk band out of Gisborne featuring Martin Kirk, Mark Revington and Jason Fawcett. A couple of releases on the tiny F Star label, along with an appearance on the Positive Vibrations compilation on Pagan, showing influence from american… Read More »Wasp Factory
Discography Slurp Track EP [1983 Jayrem JAY111] Links BandCamp Page LastFM Photo’s on Flickr
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 album with help of a creative nz grant after enrolling in otago universities music degree (under the… Read More »Simon Comber
Location: 25 Wakefield Ave, Sumner Current Status: Running! Active as a live music venue: 2001 – Bookings: Email Fuse Website: Fuse Website Capacity: Around 80? Fuse Youth Cafe is Christian-focused Youth Centre in Sumner that regularly hosts events for teens and even… Read More »Fuse Youth Cafe
My review of ‘Compilation’, the original retrospective of The Clean’s first phase releases. 2 singles and 2 EPs crammed into a brilliant album.
Biography Dark Xpressway post-punk outfit featuring Rachel Shearer (Lovely Midget), Michael Morley (The Dead C, Wreck Small Speakers on Expensive Stereos), Stella Corkery and Deborah Hinden. Pretty much in the same vein (and influenced by) other port-chalmers based bands of… Read More »Angelhead
the current king of polynesian hip-hop – bill urale is a self-styled example of how with a bit of ambition and some good friends, anyone can make it big. with the help of his sister he created an award-winning debut… Read More »King Kapisi
Sedative was an ambitious attemp to form an improvisational project utilising primal-industrial sound textures. Featuring Brendon Mably, Ed Wilson and Nigel Cooper; Sedative only lasted roughly the length of 1997 but managed to leave behind a half hour recording, utilising… Read More »Sedative
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
auckland based singer song-writer with a large body of work (a fair portion as the greg johnson set, the rest solo) in a fairly mor capacity, though with the occassional witty lyric. hit it big with his first solo-accredited release,… Read More »Greg Johnson
short-lived super-group featuring alastair galbraith (also of the rip, dave mitchell (the 3ds, goblin mix, ghost club etc), robbie muir (the dead c) and, of course, peter jefferies (nocturnal projections, cake kitchen). during their brief tenure they put out just… Read More »Plagal Grind
Forming in 2004 the Wellington-based trio of Will Rattray (Guitar and Vocals), Danny Brady (Bass, Synth) and Peter Copeland (Electronic Drums) started out as an slack-vocaled Surf-Rock group, however their sound has changed quite a lot over the years. After… Read More »Thought Creature
Biography Hamish Noonan’s underground and experimental tape (and the occasional lathe-cut 7″) label from the late 90’s that featured projects from the likes of Nick Hodgson (as a member of Montessori), Charles Horn, (the late) Richard Neave and other Post-Corpus… Read More »High Tension House
Biography Christchurch 4-piece with a heavy Birthday Party flavor comprised of Mark E Smith-channeling vocalist Janus Currie, Nick Cave look-a-like guitarist Herbert Palmer, drummer Kris Taylor and bass-playing Karate enthusiast Rush Jopson. These guys exploded onto the local scene in… Read More »Leper Ballet
auckland hip-hop crew with heavy ‘community-based’ funding and advertising that ended up sending their debut to the top of the new zealand charts on release. they’re a sturdy, if not too flashy crew and have been playing live fairly regularly,… Read More »Deceptikonz