Biography After Toy Love (the bastard son of The Enemy) disintegrated in 1980, Chris Knox and Alec Bathgate were so fed up with the ‘band’ approach to making music, that they formed The Tall Dwarfs as a performing collective absolutely… Read More »Tall Dwarfs
Biography an iconoclastic lead-singer, fiona mcdonald has been the vocal point for both the strawpeople and later-era headless chickens – two of new zealand’s highest profile bands during the mid to late 90s. She has a saucy, dark vocal style… Read More »Fiona McDonald
Biography Forming in Kapiti in 1999, this Wellington based punk outfit split an album with Christchurch’s Molly Says Go in 2001, after releasing their own debut EP. Members Discography Channel Thirteen EP (1999, Self-released) Channel Thirteen vs. Molly Says Go… Read More »Channel Thirteen
Biography duo prod and poke at guitars, bells, reed organ, violin, and household stuff; loop and sample various sounds; add efx via baby monitor and dictaphone. 13 mostly short-ish pieces of inspired sound exploration.rn- slippy town features ben spiers and… Read More »Empty Mirror
Biography Show piece group for the writing talents of local sound engineering guru Rex Visible (real name Brett Taylor). Rex was an ex navy mechanic before he devoted his time to sound engineering, rising to prominence as the sound engineer… Read More »Not Really Anything
Biography Robbie Ans Simon Kay, Kieren Cooney, Luke Casey and Miles Gillett. Discography Gib Ep [1991 Sting Sd2] ‘Pulling The Strings’/’It’S In My Mind’/’Intrusion’ Lathe-Cut 7″ [Self-Released] Links BandCamp Page LastFM Photo’s on Flickr Members
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 With A Huge Live Following And A Swagger Of Catchy Singles. From Humble Beginnings As High-School… Read More »Netherworld Dancing Toys
Biography Young and exciting screamo-pop from Christchurch, have their foot in the door with the local all-age scene and with a little exposure (recent low hum tours) could make themselves a popular r18 favorite too. A technically proficient 4-piece featuring… Read More »Not So Experimental
Biography deep throated and dark singer-song-writer, brother of peter, and fellow member of legendary new zealand post punk outfit nocturnal projections. went on to form the cake kitchen [main entry]. Discography picks in bold messages from the cakekitchen [1988 flying… Read More »Graeme Jefferies
Biography Bizarre Auckland spazz-rock band comprised of Luvshorse (bass, vocals), HimynamesdaN (guitar), Tree (lead vocals, drums) Boom Boom (drums). Discography Nothing to say ep [2006 self-released] Links BandCamp Page LastFM Photo’s on Flickr Members
Biography Discography picks in bold experienced tape hobbyist cassette [a stabbies and the rocket recording] Members Dr Fil Links
Biography post-punk / new-wave outfit from the early 80s and made up of nigel russell, wes prince, ralph crump and roddy carlson. russell eventually went on to form car crash set. Discography picks in bold between the lines ep [1981… Read More »Danse Macabre
Biography Jason Hill, Richard Craven And Lyndon Gill. Discography Static Black [1996] Links BandCamp Page Photo’s on Flickr Members
Biography Christchurch Dance/Pop act from the mid 80s. Members included vocalist Raoul Bridges. Discography picks in bold heartbeat [1984 self-released] Music Videos TVNZ piece from 1984 on ChCh bands featuring Maiden China Members Maiden China Links
Biography One of Bill Direen‘s more productive early 1980s outfits. Discography High Thirties Piano EP [1982 Self-Released] Dance Of Death EP [1982 Self-Released] Sound Cues [1987 South Indies] Links BandCamp Page LastFM Photo’s on Flickr Members