Album Reviews
Darcy Clay – Songs for Beethoven
1998, Antenna Recordings, ANT012 Originally published as a retrospective feature review for Stylus Magazine There’s a distinct possibility that you may never see this…
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Surfing USSR
Biography Greg Malcolms’ excellent kletzmer surf guitar 3-piece. Featuring Malcolmg on guitar, the odd vocal warble, floor guitar and a huge beavy of toys…
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YFC
Biography Originally called Youth For Christ, just to piss off the local Christians, the band got told to change their name…. Or else. Their…
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Cinematic
Biography Cinematic we’re a high-profile Christchurch outfit based around local singer-songwriting fixture Jeremy Taylor that released a couple of albums in the mid 90’s.…
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Dolphin
Biography Christchurch based three piece featuring Failsafe’s Rob Maye, Kevin Stokes and Stephen Birss. The band was formed out of the ashes of 1986 –…
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Coal
Biography Coal are energy in another form. Long-lasting groovy Christchurch noise-rock cum post-rock band based around the core guitar duo of Andrew Hensley and…
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The Dabs
Biography 3-piece consisting of steve thorpe, geogg hayden and rowan sheddon who put out an ep on simon griggs propeller label and were featured…
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Mancini 500
Biography 3-piece outfit featuring Daniel Mancini (Guitar), Luke (bass) and Health (drums). The group released a lathe cut EP and we’re on a couple…
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Dragstrip
Biography dragstrip is david clark, a wellington based fella who’s been playing guitar since the early 90s, most notably in ex-christchurch group ape management,…
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Ben King
Biography singer-songwriter and part of the goldenhorse team who put out his debut self-titled release on siren a year following the goldenhorse debut. Discography…
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Harley Williams
Biography Lyttelton-based former bassist/vocalist for popular Christchurch act Mountains of Murray. Williams took a few years off from performing when the group disbanded in…
Record Labels
Corpus Hermeticum
bruce russell’s (of the dead c, gate et al) lyttleton based label, putting out limited edition, gate-fold cds for a number of bands both…
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Backyard Burial
Biography Lower Hutt death-metal / grind-core with a handful of self-produced recordings and some international support slots under their belt since forming in the…
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David Eggleton
Biography versifier is the umbrella title of performance poet david eggleton’s new album of words and music. musical contributions are from jay clarkson, martin…
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Peter Jefferies
Biography prolific singer-songwriter who’s played in a number of seminal kiwi dirge-rock outfits, along with his own one-man band projects. primarily playing electric piano…