Guava Groove
Biography craig bracken, darrin kennedy, daniel salmon and troy shanks. Discography picks in bold who’s that girl ep [1987 onslaught CNT002] Members Links
Pluto
Biography 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… Read More »Pluto
Mobile Stud Unit
Biography 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… 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]
Lichen Pole
Biography grayson, john, steve and broc. Discography picks in bold ebola cola ep [1995 word of mouth / mediate music] Members Links
Jason Sad
Biography Discography Saduction EP [1982 Jsa2] Lilac Dan And The Underworld Ep [1983] Links BandCamp Page LastFM Photo’s on Flickr Members
Swagger Jack
Biography ‘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… Read More »Swagger Jack
Ben Fulton
Biography 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… Read More »Ben Fulton
White Winged Moth
Biography 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… Read More »White Winged Moth
Thrashing Marlins
Biography 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 Members
The Shrugs
Biography 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… Read More »The Shrugs
Little Lord Corduroy
Biography 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… Read More »Little Lord Corduroy
Eye
Biography dunedin noise legend peter stapleton’s latest performing outfit, featuring stapleton (drums, tapes), peter porteus (guitar) and ryan cockburn (turntables and guitar) with guest appearances from nathan thompson (sandoz lab techs). the group have been performing fairly regularly in dunedin,… Read More »Eye
Teen X-Ray
Biography Gfrenzy and Pumice‘s Steffan ‘Level’ Neville started Teen X-Ray in Hamilton back in 1993. Over the years they’ve managed to put out a few releases despite being scattered across the country (and even the world), though the band finally… Read More »Teen X-Ray
Mongolian BBQ
Biography Hamilton Based Duo Of Martin Webclaw (Ceremonously Credited As Playing Remote Viewing Devices, Casiotones, Roland Compu-Rythmn, Vocals, 202 Sequencer, Omni-Gibon) And ‘Snake Beings’ (Wasp Synth, Electric Kettle-Fish, Vocals, Psychic Monkey, Dictorphone Tapes, Cassette 4 Track, Transmission Device). Somewhere In… Read More »Mongolian BBQ