Nightshift Studios is a recording studio at 27 Whittington Avenue, Woolston, Christchurch, founded and operated by Dutch-born engineer Arnie van Bussel and in continuous operation since approximately 1976. Built around a custom-built console in a converted outbuilding at the rear of van Bussel's home, Nightshift became one of the key spaces of the New Zealand independent music scene — capturing Flying Nun's debut release (The Pin Group's Ambivalence, 1981), The Clean's Tally Ho, and a string of Bats albums across three decades, while remaining open to every genre from death metal to choral music.
One of the least-known Flying Nun Records releases, 'Stuff of Dreams' was the 7" debut from The Jumblies - the pop-punky Christchurch duo of Claire Timings and Peter Arnold recorded at Nightshift Studios in 1984.
Arnold would somehow manage a 2nd rare release for Flying Nun on 1986; that time performing under his own name and the with appropriate title 'Rarer than Radium'.
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Junkanoo were a percussive band from Christchurch who put out a split album release on Campbell McLay's Onset/Offset label in 1986, recorded at Arne van Bussell's Nightshift Studios. The name 'Junkanoo' stems from a festival that was originated during the period of African chattel slavery in British American colonies.
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Jangly Christchurch pop from the early 1980's. The group recorded a 6 song mini-album with the intent of it being released on Flying Nun Records, however the recordings went unreleased until 2013 when it was picked up and released as a retrospective LP by German label Unwucht.
The song 'Mystery' shows the group had bags of potential.
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