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Auckland satirical country and western outfit whose one album, Adrenal Glandy (Flying Nun, FN048), was recorded live in 1986 with a baked-beans-recruited audience. Featuring the young Don McGlashan performing under a pseudonym, it sold approximately 40 copies.
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Auckland punk-pop trio formed in 2007 as Mean Street by Emily Littler and Billie Rogers. Known for their ferocious live performances, they won the inaugural Critics' Choice award at the 2010 New Zealand Music Awards for debut album Means and the 2017 Taite Music Prize for Hauora.
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English-born composer who on settling in New Zealand in the early 1980's started working with many of New Zealand's best and most creative contemporary independent musicians and groups - Tall Dwarfs, Blam Blam Blam, Big Sideways, Avant Garage etc. #nzmusic #ivanzagni
Record Labels
Simon Griggs' mighty fine Propeller Records - was (along with Ripper Records) the label that kicked off New Zealand's independent record scene with an absolute hoard of excellent singles through the first few years of the 1980s. #nzmusic #propellerrecords #screamingmeemees #blamblamblam #newmatics
b artists
Blam Blam Blam was a politically-charged underground pop act with touches of post-punk guitar, intelligent lyrics and the melodic touch of Don McGlashan's vocals and Euphonium playing on killer signature tunes like 'There is no depression in New Zealand' and 'Don't fight it Marsha (it's bigger than the both of us)'.
c artists
Brilliant synth-pop group formed by former Whizz Kids / Pop Mechanix / The Swingers vocalist Andrew McLennan. Known solely for their one-hit wonder 'Sierra Leonne'.
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Christchurch power-pop Pop Mechanix began their life as 'Splash Alley'. They built up a strong reputation locally and around the country with Dick Driver (and later, Peter McLennan) as front-man; but never quite made it to the next level in Australia.
a artists
Ira Robbins (Trouser Press): "A jazzy-cum-classical nine-person ensemble with clarinets, cello, tuba and bassoon (in addition to guitar, bass and drums), New Zealand's determinedly oddball Avant Garage sounds like something Zappa might have done in his Dada orchestral phase."
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Biography Excellent, and highly popular post-punk / new-wave pop act out of auckland in the early 80s. Achieved unprecedented success with the release of…
m artists
Biography Probably Don McGlashan’s most famous song-writing vehicle, the Mutton Birds achieved considerable success in the 1990’s, with a number of successful singles, albums…
f artists
Biography somewhere between a band and a performance troup..well closer to the later, really – they released their albums as ‘songs from the front…
n artists
Biography Through-Out The 80s The Dancing Toys Were (For A Brief Moment) One Of New Zealand’S Most Populal Bands, A Horn-Punctuated Post-Punk Pop Outfit…
w artists
Biography 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…
