Melodic guitar textural band from a musically-reborn Roy Montgomery, who was noteably absent from the New Zealand music scene after the demise of the Pin Group in the early 80s. Kim Pieters sparse vocals add a lot to their charismatic… Read More »Dadamah
Hard core punk outfit, pretty serious about their music. The band feature Jeff Paris (Drums), Harry Hepworth (Vocals), Mark ‘Gibby’ Gibson (Bass), and Phil Johnston (Guitar). The band released half an album, the other side of Desperate Measures – ‘Wasted… Read More »Unauthorised
simon lear, peter o’donoghue, marc chesterman, gillian boyd and dave harker. Discography picks in bold will flush ep [1990 wellington] slabneckery [1994 wellington]
Westlake Boys High Boys Tim Mahon and Mark Bell were North-Shore punks back in 1978, initially as part of the ‘Avant-Punk-Theatre’ act the Plague. [The Plague’s] major claim to fame came with their naked live performance (albeit covered in paint)… Read More »Whizz Kids
live independent black metal act that even managed a support slot for pantera back in 2001. originally formed in 1992 after the demise of guitar/vocalist xanataph’s former band bloodwych, with a succession of line-ups eventually settling jude (guitar), jim (bass)… Read More »Daemon
Biography Its hard to describe Pumpkinhead. Maybe riding off the likes of the Infectious Grooves, but with a mid-90s funk-metal edge (not as bad as it sounds) that distinguished them from just about everyone. Hugely popular through-out New Zealand for… Read More »Pumpkinhead
Biography Solo alias of Wellington based singer songwriter Charlotte Yates. After debuting with Jayrem group Putty In Her Hands in 1987, Yates released the first recordings as Charlotte Sometimes on Festival Records in 1991 before being part of Kitsch folk group When… Read More »Charlotte Sometimes
Biography Not to be confused with the U.S. hip-hop outfit, Black Sheep A Wellington-based Avante Garde Jazz Trio, based around the Donaldson brothers rhythm section with Stuart Porter on Saxophone/Clarinet. Members Stuart Porter (Saxophone/Clarinet, 1985) David Donaldson (Double Bass, 1985)… Read More »The Black Sheep
at the forefront of new zealand independent pop in the 00s is lil chief records, a small, but firmly established label maintained by [the tokey tones] scott mannion and [the brunettes] jonathan bree. lil chief estasblished their name and chirpy… Read More »Lil Chief
..A loose cowpunk outfit that played a mixture of originals and country covers. Royce T Doyster got compared to the Violent Femmes a lot, mostly because people couldn’t see past the stand up drums. The band played 15 gigs altogether,… Read More »Royce T Doyster
Also known as Eskimo Biography Formed in 2004, Eskimo marked Dave Mulcahy‘s return to the Christchurch music scene, after playing in Superette and solo up north. Playing guitar and singing, Mulcahy was flanked by Rob Mayes (Dolphin, the Failsafe label… Read More »Kimo
delphy sprung into existence after members kevin stokes – guitar/vocals, rob mayes – bass/guitar, and tracy thompkins – drums, decided to change their name from dolphin due to the number of london based bands with that word in their name.… Read More »Delphy
spooky punky pop from defunct palmerston north outfit on spotty dog. Discography picks in bold hard of hearing no. 3 cassette [1995 w/ dog tooth violet / vortex victims spotty dog 09 spots]
Auckland based post-punk outfit. After the group dissolved in 2005, 4 of their original members reconvened with guitarist Nick Johnstone now on vocals to become shaky hands, who eventually changed their name to Cut off Your Hands… Discography picks in… Read More »Nova Echo