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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…
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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
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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Lichen Pole
Biography grayson, john, steve and broc. Discography picks in bold ebola cola ep [1995 word of mouth / mediate music] Members Links
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Jason Sad
Biography Discography Saduction EP [1982 Jsa2] Lilac Dan And The Underworld Ep [1983] Links BandCamp Page LastFM Photo’s on Flickr Members
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…