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Headless Chickens

the brain-child of temperamental crazy-guy chris matthews, the headless chickens started out as a children’s hour spin-off band, and took a while before their bizarre, synth-inflected style took hold. members included matthews, johnny pierce, grant fell, michael lawry, bevan sweeney,… Read More »Headless Chickens

Missing Teeth

straight-ahead and honest auckland punk from seamus mcloud (vocals), kolya dereijger (guitar), dean judd (bass) and dave hine (drums). after a couple of releases on the quickly-established icon of auckland hardcore, elevenfiftyseven – the band formed their own label puppy… Read More »Missing Teeth

Sixlip

Christchurch hardcore with a decidedly independent swagger, comprised of Stephen ‘Chucky’ Hope (Vocals), Jimmy (Guitar), Rich (Drums) and Jono (Bass). Gained quite a bit of a nation-wide reputation in 2004 with strong live performances in the booming hardcore scene. Discography… Read More »Sixlip

Snatch

Mike Miers, Alan Currie, Don Stevenson, Kevin Downing and Nihat Orerel. Discography Snatch Ep [1982 Wea Z20022] Links BandCamp Page LastFM Photo’s on Flickr

Leonard Nimoy

the band that came to represent the krkrkrk label in the mid 90s, leonard nimoy were a high profile christchurch experimental, but essentially rock outfit comprised of label founder david khan, apoplexy founder and major krkrkrk contributor peter wright, tracey… Read More »Leonard Nimoy

Sombretones

Craig Mason, Russel Hoffman, Graeme Jefferies, Dave Wishart and Robert Key. Discography The Sombretones 12″ EP [1990 Flying Nun Records Fn149] Links BandCamp Page LastFM Photo’s on Flickr

The Nudie Suits

Quirky whimsical 3-piece based around one-man studio mark lyons, along with cohorts dionne and tam taylor. haphazardly recorded during the late 90s and early 00s, and then finally released in 2003, the thoroughly involving songbook debut was created using simple… Read More »The Nudie Suits

Bizu

Biography Featured Stefan Wolf, released a self-titled album record at Stiff Herbert’s studio in Wellington, in 1991. Members Stefan Wolf (Guitar/Vocals/Harmonica/Keyboards) Mike Jansen (Bass) … Grass (?) Erin Tasker (Vocals) Discography Bizu (1991, Toonz, TNZCD901) Links Discogs Entry  

The Newmatics

Mark Clare, Simon Clark, Brent Pasley, Dick Reed, Kelly Rogers, Jeff Smith, Ben Staples, Chris Watts. Discography Links BandCamp Page Facebook Page LastFM Photo’s on Flickr

World Gone Wild

Obscure early 90s band who put out a self-titled album along with a promotionary EP, then promptly disappeared. Discography World Gone Wild [1991 Definitive] Links BandCamp Page LastFM Photo’s on Flickr

Meterman

Discography picks in bold zk ep [1999] the silver age [2001] city hum ep [2001] reset start reset [2002] hemispheres ep [2002]

Grief

Christchurch death-metal outfit, formed in 1996 that has supported such national acts as Hatred, Malevolence and others, plus international acts Impailed Nazerine and American death-rockers Brutal Truth.

The Clear

david white, teddi clover, greg and kristen finucane, phil williscroft and brent gemmill. Discography picks in bold the clear ep [1988 ode SODEP311] live stomach [live recording 1991 yellow bike]