Interviews
The Enright House [October 2006]
[Originally published in A Low Hum, October 2006] Skittery percussion, ethereal drones with metallic resonance, a disturbingly atmospheric sound counter-balanced by human, emotive vocals…
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Sugarbug
Biography Originally an Auckland based indie-pop outfit that formed in 1996, and showed a lot of promise, before dissappearing in the early 00s after…
Venues
Cassels and Son’s The Brewery
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.
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John Kelcher
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]…
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Trasch
Biography Early Wildside hard-rock outfit comprised of Evan Roberts, Mike Young and Arthur Tauhore. Not to be confused with Bruce Bluchers’ Trash. Discography Flourish…
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Ryan McPhun and the Ruby Suns
Biography Excellent quirky pop from Brunettes side-men Ryan McPhun (guitar, keys and vocals) and James Milne (drums and backing vocals) – also both in…
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John Gennett and the Vespas
Biography along with the vespas (crash johnson, greg purcell and jaime foot), john gennett released the ep ‘only naked’ in 1986. Discography picks in…
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The Cakekitchen
Biography After the demise of This Kind Of Punishment, Graeme Jefferies recorded a solo EP called ‘Messages From The Cakekitchen‘, and needed to form…
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Lugosi
Biography 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…
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Robert Cardy
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…
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This Time Square
Biography Discography This Time Square EP [198? Ode SODEP201] Links BandCamp Page Photo’s on Flickr Members
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Blond Comedy
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…
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Letterbox Lambs
Biography wellington based 4-piece formed in 1996, the letterbox lambs were paul trigg, anton wuts, julian desmond and oscar wuts – a power-rock outfit…
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Cortina
Biography 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…
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Marvey King
Biography marvey king is singer-songwriter tanya horo, former singer / guitarist with auckland girl group growler and the face of new zealand’s house of…