NZ music acts whining about how hard it is to make a mark in 2024 might find this piece about the struggle to make our sounds heard internationally from 40 years ago a little bit interesting.
Albums
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear: Wing
MATT KELLY’s tribute to one of the best/worst singers ever to grace NZ stages and Southpark, a true classic of awful. RIP Wing.
Graham Nash’s 60 Years Of Songs & Stories
GARY STEEL chats with GRAHAM NASH about his halcyon 60 years in rock and his first-ever solo dates in New Zealand.
Two Pink Guy albums for the price of one. Gah!
MATT KELLY listens all the way through (so you don’t have to) to two of the most imbecilic records ever made. Shame on Pink Guy.
There’s a riot goin’ on: Riot III
Riot III’s explosive and controversial music gets a respectful reissue 43 years later. GARY STEEL, who was there at the time, digs in.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear: Fallout Boy’s Mania
MATT KELLY once had a bit of a thing for Fallout Boy, but no more, savaging their Mania album for being the dog it is. Woof.
Riot 111: Wellington’s “terrorist” punk band
To celebrate the imminent release of a lovely vinyl platter capturing the key moments of Wellington’s “terrorist” punk band Riot 111, here’s a story originally published in 1981.
1001 Albums You Must Die Before You Hear: Patrick Stump’s Soul Punk
Fallout Boys’ stuff was okay but MATT KELLY is utterly stumped at how totally and irredeemably naff that group’s Pat Stump’s solo is.