Now a restaurant and bar and originally constructed as a craft brewery, the Brewery functioned as a live music venue at a time when there were few operating in Christchurch – immediately after the February 2011 earthquakes.
A large, narrow venue with good food and a fair amount of outside seating, the Brewery has also been a popular spot for regular quiz nights and other events.
Biography Former bass-player for Sneaky Feelings, released an album under his own name in the early 90’s. Discography Personal Disorganiser [1991, Failsafe Records, SAFE013] Links
Early Wildside hard-rock outfit comprised of Evan Roberts, Mike Young and Arthur Tauhore. Not to be confused with Bruce Bluchers’ Trash. Discography Flourish And Decay [1989 Intellect Intel1] Reason Rhyme Cassingle [1992 Wildside] Chemikaze [1992 Wildside 30720] Links BandCamp Page… Read More »Trasch
Excellent quirky pop from Brunettes side-men Ryan McPhun (guitar, keys and vocals) and James Milne (drums and backing vocals) – also both in the Milne-led Reduction Agents. Flanked by Amee Robinson (keyboards, saxophone, melodica), Mark Stebben (bass), Gareth Shute (guitars,… Read More »Ryan McPhun and the Ruby Suns
along with the vespas (crash johnson, greg purcell and jaime foot), john gennett released the ep ‘only naked’ in 1986. Discography picks in bold only naked [1986 records revolving RR01]
Biography After the demise of This Kind Of Punishment, Graeme Jefferies recorded a solo EP called ‘Messages From The Cakekitchen‘, and needed to form a band to perform the material in a live environment: [Started] as a two piece guitar,… Read More »The Cakekitchen
dunedin-based 3-piece outfit comprised of campbell kneale (guitars, synth, drums, vocal), andrew savage (guitar, percussion) and leon schultz (guitar, effects, drums), who released a series of home-brew and relatively melodic noise/drone/guitar pice albums on kneales own celebrate psi phenomenon label.rn… Read More »Lugosi
Biography Bob Cardy has a long history of making lo-fi, shambolic and DIY rock music. From the early days of post-Vacuum Blue Ladder Christchurch with the infamous Axemen (then known as Bob Brannigan), through to the eventual rise of Shaft in… Read More »Robert Cardy
Discography This Time Square EP [198? Ode SODEP201] Links BandCamp Page Photo’s on Flickr
Biography Evolving out of The New Entrants in the early 80’s, Blond Comedy were Andrew and Tony Johns, David Mauger (Marginal Era) and Craig Smith-Pilling. Members Andrew Johns (Drums, 1982 – 1983) Tony Johns (Vocals/Saxophone, 1982 – 1983) David Mauger… Read More »Blond Comedy
wellington based 4-piece formed in 1996, the letterbox lambs were paul trigg, anton wuts, julian desmond and oscar wuts – a power-rock outfit from wellington, sharing some of shihad’s spotlight (they shared ep releases and constantly toured with their older… Read More »Letterbox Lambs
one of stink magnetic‘s many low-run underground tape-heroes, cortina have been described by teledu records as blondie meets ministry (psalm 69, natch) at the bottom of a swamp. Discography picks in bold as seen on tv cassette [stink magnetic MAG… Read More »Cortina
marvey king is singer-songwriter tanya horo, former singer / guitarist with auckland girl group growler and the face of new zealand’s house of travel adverts. horo has contributed vocals for australian dance act pnau, and released her debut solo lp,… Read More »Marvey King
david grace, nana parata, alan huriwai, nathan rae, johnny tipuna, nathan warren, tam epiha, hope pohatu and gerald grace. Discography picks in bold tribute to a friend [1985]
the prolific output of clayton noone – dunedin-based solo musician and member of future-punkers the futurians. noone also runs the root don lonie for cash record label. Discography picks in bold < ul> ‘moon’/’danger’ 7″ lathe-cut [plop] i like gate… Read More »CJA