fine free-rock garage-drone from new zealanders kim pieters, adria morgan, and sara stephenson. guitars feedback strum clang – drums pound freely – an occasional melody blossoms and quickly wilts a few other sounds are employed. this music is noisy in… Read More »Doramaar
Blair Parkes (All Fall Down, Creeley). Discography Orange Tape Cassette Ep [1989 Self-Released Swim001] Green Tape Cassette Ep [1989 Self-Released Swim002] Last Hexit 7″ Lathe-Cut [1995 Self-Released] Links BandCamp Page LastFM Photo’s on Flickr
‘Not The Black Metal Band’ – But Rather The First Band Released On The Small Headshy Lathe-Cut Label. Discography Four Steps To Successful Kite Flying 8″ Lathe-Cut Ep [Headshy Hs001] Links BandCamp Page LastFM Photo’s on Flickr
Biography After Toy Love (the bastard son of The Enemy) disintegrated in 1980, Chris Knox and Alec Bathgate were so fed up with the ‘band’ approach to making music, that they formed The Tall Dwarfs as a performing collective absolutely… Read More »Tall Dwarfs
an iconoclastic lead-singer, fiona mcdonald has been the vocal point for both the strawpeople and later-era headless chickens – two of new zealand’s highest profile bands during the mid to late 90s. She has a saucy, dark vocal style and… Read More »Fiona McDonald
1994 / 2003 Reissue, Flying Nun Records, FNCD078 With Flying Nun Records reissuing a number of their long out-of-print release, it was about time the boys from Jean-Paul Sartre Experience saw the light of day again. Their early discography is… Read More »Jean-Paul Sartre Experience – Jean-Paul Sartre Experience
Biography Forming in Kapiti in 1999, this Wellington based punk outfit split an album with Christchurch’s Molly Says Go in 2001, after releasing their own debut EP. Members Discography Channel Thirteen EP (1999, Self-released) Channel Thirteen vs. Molly Says Go… Read More »Channel Thirteen
Mid 90s outfit from the legendary Roy Montgomery, joined by former Remarkables guitarist [and fellow Christchurch resident] Chris Heaphy. Their excellent Third Album From The Sun features contributions from heavyweights John Chrisstoffels (cello, drums – the Terminals), Kaye Woodward (guitar,… Read More »Dissolve
Biography Formed in 1994 the four piece Chicane rapidly gained a strong following in their home town of Christchurch. The band features the vocal and guitar talents of Dean Chiplin who was last seen on the Failsafe Records label on the… Read More »Chicane
duo prod and poke at guitars, bells, reed organ, violin, and household stuff; loop and sample various sounds; add efx via baby monitor and dictaphone. 13 mostly short-ish pieces of inspired sound exploration.rn- slippy town features ben spiers and karl… Read More »Empty Mirror
christchurch angst rockers. scott mason, greg hillier, david bergman, jol mulholland (aka gasoline cowboy). Discography picks in bold peacekeeper ep [2001]
Show piece group for the writing talents of local sound engineering guru Rex Visible (real name Brett Taylor). Rex was an ex navy mechanic before he devoted his time to sound engineering, rising to prominence as the sound engineer for… Read More »Not Really Anything
Robbie Ans Simon Kay, Kieren Cooney, Luke Casey and Miles Gillett. Discography Gib Ep [1991 Sting Sd2] ‘Pulling The Strings’/’It’S In My Mind’/’Intrusion’ Lathe-Cut 7″ [Self-Released] Links BandCamp Page LastFM Photo’s on Flickr
Note: This is a work in progress and will have additional content added both in the Map (i.e. venue images) or in the body of this post (i.e. a list of the venues in questioned, grouped by status etc). Feel… Read More »Christchurch Venue Map
Biography One of the more popular Wellington punk acts from the late 1990’s and early 00’s, formed in 1997 by Paul Tansley and Sarah Radford. Through-out the late 90’s the band had a swag of high profile tour support slots,… Read More »Brubeck