Live Music Reviews and Photos
A Flight to Blackout, …Damage Done, Warble
FLASHBACK to July 2022 — A Flight to Blackout, ...Damage Done, Warble.
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Purple Pilgrims
New Zealand sister duo Clementine and Valentine Nixon — great-granddaughters of Scottish folk musician Davie Stewart — whose devotional dream pop spans Not Not Fun Records and Flying Nun. Albums: Eternal Delight (2016) and Perfumed Earth (2019). Now also recording as Clementine Valentine.
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The Shocking and Stunning
Biography Started life as Christchurch-based teen instrumental duo The Shocking and Stunning Statement, eventually relocated to Wellington and dropped the ‘Statement‘. The majority of…
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Warble
Warble was a High School aged post-rock group formed by (future stand-up comedian and author) Eamonn Marra and Jack Hooker, with the intent to enter Smoke-Free Rock Quest in 2008. Joined by drummer James Woods (who had previously appeared alongside Hooker in We Will Fight You), violinist Clare Fryer and (initially) Valentine Nixon - though the Purple Pilgrims vocalist left before Warble had started recording their sole EP, which they put out on BandCamp in 2009. #nzmusic #warble #purplepilgrims
Live Music Reviews and Photos
Live: Red Panda Presents Thought Creature
Flashback to September 19th, 2008 with a Red Panda (all-ages) show at the Otautahi Social Centre, headlined by Wellington's Thought Creature and supported by then-young Christchurch groups Warble, Shocking and Stunning Statement and Ruffians. I've added some context and reflective detail to the brief original review. #nzmusic #redpanda #thoughtcreature #warble
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Otautahi Social Centre
The Otautahi Social Centre was a mid-sized old hall on Barbados Street in Central Christchurch which ran for a couple of years as an All-Ages-Friendly live music venue. Being an unlicensed youth center, there was no bar or much in the way of formal organization, just a space set up with a small PA system, a few couches and a small kitchen and toilets out back. On occasion some kids would bring alcohol to shows (it was even openly endorsed at some punk gigs), but generally things got along in a friendly, community-orientated kind of way.