Alien8
Biography Wellington 5-piece in the rock/metal/prog vein (not to be confused with the British electronic act of the same name) who self-released their debut EP in 2000. Members Discography Links
Guava Groove
craig bracken, darrin kennedy, daniel salmon and troy shanks. Discography picks in bold who’s that girl ep [1987 onslaught CNT002]
Pluto
a brash but likeable auckland-based pop outfit based around the vocal talents of milan borich and tim arnold, who built up a large following through-out new zealand in the early 00s. keyboardist mattias jordan and former head like a hole… Read More »Pluto
Mobile Stud Unit
notorious comedy-rock-punk cum-head like a hole parody act mobile stud unit are a hamilton institution, and actually managed to outlive their comic target. head up yr’ hole was a tremendously funny pistake of the wellington hard-rockers and an underground hit… Read More »Mobile Stud Unit
Leper Ballet [April 2005]
The Leper Ballet burnt so brightly and so quickly that it’s astonishing they didn’t garner wider acclaim. Like Iggy and his Stooges during the epochal hey-day, the group were a writhing, for-the-moment ball of energy, engulfing rooms with pulsating sound… Read More »Leper Ballet [April 2005]
High Dependency Unit
dunedin sonic 3-piece (tristian dingermans, dino karlins and neil phillips) in the mold of a louder, younger mogwai, born out of metal influence and small-town frustration, their startling sophmoric higher ep [1997] was given the remix treatment sound after release,… Read More »High Dependency Unit
Lichen Pole
grayson, john, steve and broc. Discography picks in bold ebola cola ep [1995 word of mouth / mediate music]
Jason Sad
Discography Saduction EP [1982 Jsa2] Lilac Dan And The Underworld Ep [1983] Links BandCamp Page LastFM Photo’s on Flickr
Swagger Jack
‘Swagger Jack’ is something else entirely. Jacks my hillbilly-punk songwriting character (a hard-drinking embittered feral/hippy idealist who records occasionally ‘rattly’ and violent, but often ‘pretty’ (in a melancholy way) acoustic numbers on battery powered 4-trks in doc huts and hardly… Read More »Swagger Jack
Ben Fulton
an acoustic singer-songwriter solo artists from the hawkes bay (now based in wellington) with connections to monkey records (an emerging ambient and electronic label with several releases from key members of the mink / cloudboy collective). fultons’ debut featured brother… Read More »Ben Fulton
White Winged Moth
With the demise of Thela, Dean Roberts emerged as White Winged Moth, presenting his own guitar-playing in an improvisational guise, which eventually evolved (with his sophmoric release) towards a ditially-altered composition approach. After the relative success of his two Formacentric… Read More »White Winged Moth
Thrashing Marlins
David Donaldson and Steve Roche (both previously in Brainchilds), a duo out of Wellington, linked to Peter Jackson and Coasta Boates filming exploits. Discography Thrashing Marlin [1996 Braille] Garage Sailors [1999 Braille] Links BandCamp Page Photo’s on Flickr
The Shrugs
The Shrugs originally got together as the Hamilton trio of Richie Ranum, Neil Ramsey and Geoff Doube in 2000, after several line-up changes (cHris Metcalfe came and went after replacing Ranum, and Ramsey’s replacement Rob Smith eventually gave way to… Read More »The Shrugs
Little Lord Corduroy
one of rob scott‘s many one-off bands – this time with the dead c‘s michael morley. they put out the hi ho washing day cassette on scotts’ own every secret thing label. Discography picks in bold hi ho washing day… Read More »Little Lord Corduroy