Heavenly pop hits: the Flying Nun story (2002)
-Music documentary-
https://youtu.be/GJxdex3QHog?si=mea4XsG1x5BvfssG
#HeavenlyPopHits #TheFlyingNunStory #Pop #Rock #Music #NewZealand #Christchurch #Dunedin #Auckland #DunedinSound #FlyingNunRecords #TheChills #TheClean #TheStraitjacketFits #TheVerlaines #RogerSheperd #ChrisKnox #TheBats #TallDwarfs #Skeptics #Gordons #BailterSpace #HeadlessChickens #3ds
@pipesunlimited
> Sad day for NZ and Australia
NZ's sad news is good news for Oz, they're about to get some of our best and brightest, as they escape the return of the full neoliberal hellscape : (
Everyone who can't leave is facing years of struggle, to avoid being totally juiced for the enrichment of an ever-shrinking property owning class, ie capitalists.
Theme tune for this election campaign; Ozone by Tall Dwarfs:
from the album Weeville
The Jessels
One off x-mas theme side-project (joke release?) from Toy Love's Chris Knox and his soundman cohort Doug Hood (who both lived in Jessel Street in Grey Lynn, Auckland) featuring their partners Barbara Ward and Carol Hood. Sometimes credited to David Kilgour and Martin Phillips too.
https://thebigcity.co.nz/artists/j/jessels-the/
#ChrisKnox #ChrisKnoxAndTheNothing #DavidKilgour #FlyingNun #Knoxious #RightLeftAndCentre #TallDwarfs #TheClean #TheEnemy #TheJessels #ToyLove
Toy Love
Though lasting just 18 months, Toy Love were one of New Zealand's most influential groups. Chris Knox, Alec Bathgate and Mike Dooley had come from The Enemy were joined by the Christchurch duo of Paul Kean and Kate Walker to form the most brilliantly dynamic new wave group.
https://thebigcity.co.nz/artists/t/toy-love/
#AlecBathgate #ChrisKnox #DetroitHemorrhoids #FlyingNun #Minsnap #Playthings #PopArtToasters #Snapper #Swingers #TallDwarfs #TheBasketcases #TheBats #TheDriHorrors #TheEnemy #ToyLove
The And Band
The And Band were an outgrowth of influential but undiscovered Wellington punk-oddities The Spies. When feed up with the limitations of the Wellington scene, the band, along with several of their friends relocated to a small Christchurch flat, sharing a recording spac
https://thebigcity.co.nz/artists/a/andband-the/
#GeorgeHenderson #Mink #PerfectStrangers #SpacecaseRecords #TallDwarfs #TheAndBand #TheClean #TheGDHSmokeMachine #TheNewExistentialists #ThePuddle #TheSpies
Alec Bathgate
Alec Bathgate's always kept a couple steps back in his fellow Enemy, Toy Love and Tall Dwarfs shadow, but released a lovely little Byrds-jangle-pop album (with heavy Beatles and Beach Boy flourishes) in 1996.
More technically competent than Knox, and somewhat reserved (in comparison at least), Bathgate is a
https://thebigcity.co.nz/artists/b/bathgate-alec/
#BArtists #AlecBathgate #ChrisKnox #FlyingNun #LilChief #TallDwarfs #TheEnemy #TheSundaePainters #ThokeiTapes #ToyLove
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