Biography Hamilton mainstream 90’s metal group that found some success in the mid 90’s thanks to being championed by Grant Hislop – the young founder of The Rock radio station – which focused on getting New Zealand rock music onto… Read More »Blackjack
Biography danny butt, kim pieters and peter stapleton outfit. pieters and stapleton formed the metonymic label to release their material, whilst flies inside the sun co-existed as the same line-up, but with the addition of the brilliant renderers front-man brian… Read More »Rain
Biography Crude Hard Rock From Scott Patterson, Aaron Peck, Jason Ennor And Sean O’Brien. Discography ‘Overdrive’ Cssingle [1995 Wildside] ‘Where’S The Cornbag? / I Don’T Wanna Know’ Ep [1996 Wildside] ‘Cool Guy’ Cd Single [1997 Wildside] Kooza [1997 Wildside] Links… Read More »Muckhole
Biography mahia blackmore’s mid 80s outfit – won an apra award for her song ‘little tui’ as the song of the year n 1986. Discography picks in bold meg was here ep [1986] Members Meg and the Fones Links
Biography jay clarkson’s debut as a song-writer – the playthings were originally a 4-piece featuring clarkson (who went on to form the expenables and breathing cage) and janine saundercock – both sharing bass, guitar and vocal duties, along with dave… Read More »Playthings
Biography 4-piece post-punk outfit from christchurch who have been active since the early 00s, based around diana mckay’s vocals and rythm guitar, with jason tamihana-bryce shimmering lead guitar having a big impact on their angular sound. though adrienne ross has… Read More »Idols of Eve
Biography birchville cat motel‘s campbell kneale, along with glen ‘g-frenzy‘ and darren from ac death. hbc was more along the lines of pistake-electronica-noise-bufoonery which resulted in some really staggering recordings. unlike lugosi, we actually played live in front of a… Read More »Hataitai Bowling Club
Biography Christchurch hardcore with a decidedly independent swagger, comprised of Stephen ‘Chucky’ Hope (Vocals), Jimmy (Guitar), Rich (Drums) and Jono (Bass). Gained quite a bit of a nation-wide reputation in 2004 with strong live performances in the booming hardcore scene.… Read More »Sixlip
Biography Mike Miers, Alan Currie, Don Stevenson, Kevin Downing and Nihat Orerel. Discography Snatch Ep [1982 Wea Z20022] Links BandCamp Page LastFM Photo’s on Flickr Members
Biography Craig Mason, Russel Hoffman, Graeme Jefferies, Dave Wishart and Robert Key. Discography The Sombretones 12″ EP [1990 Flying Nun Records Fn149] Links BandCamp Page LastFM Photo’s on Flickr Members
Biography Quirky whimsical 3-piece based around one-man studio mark lyons, along with cohorts dionne and tam taylor. haphazardly recorded during the late 90s and early 00s, and then finally released in 2003, the thoroughly involving songbook debut was created using… Read More »The Nudie Suits
Biography Featured Stefan Wolf, released a self-titled album record at Stiff Herbert’s studio in Wellington, in 1991. Members Stefan Wolf (guitar / vocals / harmonica / keyboard, Bizu) Mike Jansen (bass, Bizu) … Grass (?, Bizu) Erin Tasker (vocals, Bizu)… Read More »Bizu
Biography Mark Clare, Simon Clark, Brent Pasley, Dick Reed, Kelly Rogers, Jeff Smith, Ben Staples, Chris Watts. Discography Links BandCamp Page Facebook Page LastFM Photo’s on Flickr Members
Biography Discography picks in bold zk ep [1999] the silver age [2001] city hum ep [2001] reset start reset [2002] hemispheres ep [2002] Members Links
Christchurch death-metal outfit, formed in 1996 that has supported such national acts as Hatred, Malevolence and others, plus international acts Impailed Nazerine and American death-rockers Brutal Truth.