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...is not a country I know an awful lot about, music-wise. Since I'll be going there soon, I ask you:

What should I be looking out for? Band recommendations? Which towns have cool music scenes? Any decent clubs around? Good record shops? Venues? Anything, really, I am a blank slate. Blow your own trumpet, tell me something you heard down the pub, whatever - gimme an idea where I should be going!

I'me aware of the Flying Nun/Chills etc thing, but hey, that was ages ago - what's up nowadays?

― Charlie (Charlie), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 00:48 (twenty-three years ago)

NB I'm currently leaning towards travelling to Auckland, but I have a will of jelly so do yr worst...

― Charlie (Charlie), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 00:48 (twenty-three years ago)

man, insound.com used ot have pages devoted to different styles (free jazz, kraut, surf, post-punk, etc) and they even had one about the NZ scene, but they're all gone,,,,,,,, as far as i can tell?

― JasonD (JasonD), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 01:43 (twenty-three years ago)

how soon is soon? lots of summer festivals etc - the Wellington post-roots scene (haha) & the South Auckland hip-hop/etc scenes are probably where it's at right now; + lots of indiepop & nu-drum'n'bass. if I make it to auckland before you (& $ permitting) I'll try & assess the club scene.

(here is where everyone else talks about people with guitars)

― Ess Kay (esskay), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 01:59 (twenty-three years ago)

you should stalk demarnia lloyd

― keith (keithmcl), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 02:05 (twenty-three years ago)

NB
What does NB mean?

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 02:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Uhhh, NB means nota bene, which means mark well in Latin, which in turn is "used to call attention to something important" (www.m-w.com).

I'll be hitting NZ in late May, I reckon - am currently in Sydney.

More on Demarnia Lllyd please - looks *just* twee enough...

― Charlie (Charlie), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 02:46 (twenty-three years ago)

demarnia lloyd, formerly of mink, currently part of cloudboy & does solo stuff. the arclife site (scroll down) has info on a few albums/eps; & there is also the cloudboy website. sadly my copy of down at the end of the garden is currently in limbo/dunedin.

(if yr in sydney, you should be able to check out the latest salmonella dub album (inside the dubplates), also shapeshifter's real time. hmmmn. the loop select 03 compilation is loaded with k-grate tracks, too).

(haha & if yr after twee - Brunettes, Pine & Mestar (& possibly goodshirt) might be up yr (bowling) alley).

― Ess Kay (esskay), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 03:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Goodshirt? twee? some mistake?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 03:22 (twenty-three years ago)

This all reminds me that I need to get cracking with all the Arclife stuff I'm supposed to have reviewed by now. D'oh!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 06:21 (twenty-three years ago)

tweeness of goodshirt = rodney balancing tambourine on his head & doing the chicken dance. or not. okay, not so much twee as an appeal to a certain quasi-kitsch kiwi(ana)/pastoral aesthetic (think Four Square Guy, Buzzy Bee or Edmond's Sure To Rise) in their visual iconography & also an unusually well-developed lyrical sense of geography (the mutton birds are the only other nz non-hip-hop group with this sort of (potential-lack-of-cringe)) - k-grate track they've been playing live on their current tour, "Fiji Baby", has killer opening lines involving the horizonlike metonymy of the-landscape-in-aotearoa, & HAMILTRON!

― Ess Kay (esskay), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 08:04 (twenty-three years ago)

If you can listen to radio on the web head over to http://www.95bfm.co.nz/ - that's the student radio station in Auckland, you should get to hear NZ bands plus an idea of what's on at various clubs. There isn't/wasn't (haven't lived there for 4 years; moving back in May) much of a live music scene, but Aucklanders/New Zealanders seem fairly passionate about music so what's on should be interesting.

See also http://www.nzmusic.com/

Record shops worth checking out in Auckland: Marbecks (two stores on Queen St), Real Groovy (also Queen St), Beauitful Music (K' Rd).

― wr, Tuesday, 7 January 2003 09:55 (twenty-three years ago)

in christchurch you must go to galaxy records and echo records on high street, and penny lane which i believe is on the sydenham side of colombo st. don't know all that much about the music scene there but i have seen shadow of the valley and the lovin 44s, both are good country rock bands. the venue to look out for is the wunderbar in lyttelton. in dunedin you should go to records records. the bands to watch out for there are couch, international telepaths, the futurians, the strange girls, the snares (and more but probably have forgotten). you can find them at such places as the crown hotel, the cellar bar and arc.

― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 10:14 (twenty-three years ago)

ps when you're in dunners, don't forget to organise an FAP!

― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 10:15 (twenty-three years ago)

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