SEARCH! AND DESTROY!: NEW ZEALAND

OK, I love a lot of this stuff too, but you're debating as if Clean/MBV/MF have something in common. They have their common decline in common, I guess.

MF and Clean fans alike know that their best days are behind 'em. Pete & the Pirates have filled the gap for a lot of Clean fans, not sure what MF fans do. Zombie Boy sure was bad.

On the mbv note:

MBV have responded to their obsolescence with a gimmick: we're the loudest. didn't sound all that great though. combined lack of onstage charisma with pre-sets. loveless as rote-noise-routine. and somehow managed to convince people that new material would be good. mbv were 4 years. 17 years have passed since.

Some of these Beat Rhythm Fashion songs are really good.
and holy shit this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1MfeLx6Uds

duh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSwvQsMY2Bs

No mention of Bachelorette on here? Surprising!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWViyhzLCPw
title song of this album is amazing. boo youtube

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

Flying Nun's got some new and old material brewing. A compilation tribute to The Clean's "Tally Ho" and a new retrospective comp due out in Nov.

Dearest ILMers. Incredibly, I'm going on tour to Auckland and Wellington in November. I'm doing what I can to find out about what might be happening there, and in NZ more generally, in terms of interesting and unusual musics but would welcome any thoughts you might have. Specifically in terms of bands/artists, venues, record shops and related things. Currently, my knowledge extends as far as a microscopic amount of the Flying Nun back catalogue and The D4, but I'm curious about anything that you are aware of and think is worthwhile. Any thoughts you have would be very greatly appreciated.

Oh, and Look Blue Go Purple, whom I absolutely love to bits.

My sister is a big fan of Aldous Harding, though I don't know if Harding identifies with any particular NZ scene or sound. I just read a comment describing her as "like if Feist was a sleep paralysis demon."

There is a What’s New in New Zealand Music thread that’s regularly updated, but I can’t find it in Search somehow.

That'd be What's New in New Zealand Music? , which I've been a bit slack about posting in.

Just moved to Auckland from Wellington, so I can probably help out a little. If you're into marquee Flying Nun stuff, there's a David Kilgour show in early Nov and the Beths are playing a homecoming show mid November (though the first date has sold out). For record stores, Flying Out and Real Groovy in Auckland and Slow Boat in Wellington will probably have what you're after. For indie-ish stuff, there are venues like Whammy Bar/Wine Cellar in Auckland, and Caroline/Meow/SFBH in Wellington; for more experimental/noise stuff, the Audio Foundation in Auckland and Pyramid Club in Wellington are havens.

Aldous Harding I'd lump in with both the Christchurch/Lyttleton folk/country scene (Marlon Williams, Delaney Davidson etc) plus a more NZ-wide wave of stuff like Nadia Reid/Tiny Ruins.

There is a What’s New in New Zealand Music thread that’s regularly updated, but I can’t find it in Search somehow.

― breastcrawl, maandag 19 augustus 2019 15:16 bookmarkflaglink

That'd be What's New in New Zealand Music? , which I've been a bit slack about posting in.

― etc, dinsdag 20 augustus 2019 5:32 bookmarkflaglink

lol, it's literally called that? I should have looked harder, I guess, but I assumed it was a recent-ish thread.

This is great advice and direction. Thank you so much!

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

You must sign in

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