SEARCH! AND DESTROY!: NEW ZEALAND

This is an extremely useful thread. Many thanks sbahnhof for your diligence.

― neilasimpson, Saturday, August 24, 2019 1:49 AM

Cheers, Neil...

I'm not from here either.

When you first arrive, you hope life is all gonna be like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evx3J-bzNRQ

But then it turns out it's mostly like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxm-wutKi7k

HHAHAHAHAHAHAH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS5fN9bo1Vc

"Blue Smoke" was the first ever single from New Zealand, here's the story:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMBBttcTVwo

If Pixie Williams had done nothing else, she would still be in the history books for what happened on October 3, 1948 when she turned up at a makeshift recording studio in Wellington, New Zealand, still wearing her hockey uniform. ... It was a huge hit (and was covered by the likes of Dean Martin) and it would have seemed Williams -- then living in a hostel and working in a battery factory -- would have a wonderful career. It was, however, brief.

Pixie Williams: "Maori Land" (1949)
https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/fromthevaults/4306/pixie-williams-maori-land-1949

https://www.audioculture.co.nz/content/images/857/hero_thumb_Blue_Smoke_Songsheet.jpg

That's pretty cool.

That RSA thing is great. And kinda topical today. I can see myself foisting it on others now.

I've long been puzzled by the relative lack of chatter about Blam Blam Blam. Including here, apparently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HVogejKx_c

They would've achieved Nunnesque popularity, if only they'd had a sensible name like The Blams

Good band tho – this is their last live gig, on Radio with Pictures

- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/rwp-live-at-mainstreet-blam-blam-blam-1984
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That RSA thing is great. And kinda topical today. I can see myself foisting it on others now.

― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, April 25, 2020 12:01

OK, but

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This may not be the right place to ask but an RFI question about NZ music scene...

I'm fairly familiar with the popular (and some fringe) releases of the Flying Nun/Xpressway catalogs, but something I've also been curious about: are/were there any indigenous/maori/polynesian members of any of the bands/scenes?

Living ~1/3 of the world away, my only exposure to crossover (non-traditional) NZ artists are like OMC or Jemaine Clement (or maybe Te Vaka counts?) which seems fairly scant, but maybe there could be other factors other than the obvious.

I should note that I'm fairly unfamiliar with the Urban Pasifika genre.

So there it is: RFI nontraditional NZ artists with indigenous/maori/polynesian roots.

(working through this thread backwards, that Pateo Maori Club - "Poi E" embed upthread is a jam)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8frPD7DgqI

OUT FRONT WITH THE KNOBZ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKColaFHHg0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tDBjJGnfrY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiddntlexkY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQFI2yqyYO4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXxalI6Mg6w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tdOCYQo_qQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdoNzewx3ko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB4zTSG7k1M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SGy4e_UZ9Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNoCuTMfJa8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYAa09jIn0o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erE7NYEZLYY

These guys! From my 2008 Voice review, when they were coming to NYC:

..."Blue Skies" is the last stop on Die! Die! Die!'s second album, Promises, Promises. The Steve Albini–recorded, self-titled 2006 debut's flying shards of impulsive/compulsive encounters were caught by walls thrown up, tracks tightened till they imploded: 10 songs, in just over 20 minutes. But now, all through this Shayne (of Straitjacket Fits) Carter–produced set, walls are pushed out as inner space-junk expands; shards reappear as pieces of Andrew Wilson's personal blue skies, of old hopes and dreams. Breathing room is found, yes, though his shattered, scattered voice and guitar can't help planting some bizarre memory garden of l-o-v-e and more, despite it all. The eloquent guts of Lachlan Anderson's bass will never digest such seeds very easily, and drummer Michael Prain's Keith Moon-schooled soloing-as-accompaniment dents craters in today's glazed maze, where Wilson and "You!" grapple in reflective gear.
Die! Die! Die! play the Music Hall of Williamsburg March 29 and Highline Ballroom March 30.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhfU8YfzOi4

https://soundcloud.com/ladi6/ladi6-guru-mp3?ref=clipboard&p=a&c=0&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20C19KmI03g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWGoqsAoKvI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siBurrXFJ3g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGIbSdnbgOE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9uru4LJkps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjJY95_Kj9E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayV0dlQNMMA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyObGLciBRA

Hey do rag I was thinking of you - and George Gossett - when xyzzzz and I saw the Dead C in London this summer - good times

takes all sorts i guess