Kiwi (NZ) bands you love

are you a member?

i REALLY dig cut off your hands' new single

Wow. At first I thought it was going to be a really boring 60s revival thing. But the chorus is almost backstreet boys esque in its tightness. It almost seems 80s. I think I like it.

no I'm not a member, i just art directed their music vid

Cool bunch of guys with some great chops. I expect they will go far and wide but then again there have always been champion 'indy' sounding bands from NZ who could have been contenders. One could argue NZ even invented the genre with 'flying nun'.

So to see its international death proclaimed and justified by its absence of blackness seems even more funny cos the lead singer in the EC's has a white kiwi mum and a black american bluesman dad

Its almost like UK and US still think if it hasn't happened to them, it hasn't happened to anyone. Or if it has happened to them it's happening to everyone. I'm sorry but NZ is popping off with great bands at the mo

Kora anyone ???

http://www.myspace.com/koraroots

Maybe you just need to look a bit further beyond the horizon to find the undiscovered unless you're too scared of sailing off the edge of the earth

no need to be patronising. it's not easy for people outside of local scenes to keep abreast of what's going on within them

it's much the same with australian music right now. i don't see anything good that isn't totally underground at the moment.

More parochial than patronising but now more than ever what with teh interweb theres no real excuse for not keeping abreast of foreign scenes especially if you think yours is stagnating.

Who likes the funk ? Heres some mates of mine who just this week released their sophomore album

http://www.myspace.com/pbassexpressway

Split Enz (And Crowded House although they are partly Australian)

just finished rigging 'crowded house' tonight but couldn't be arsed watching the show...

...was only keen on the opening acts 'Pluto'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto_(New_Zealand_band)

and a reformed 'Supergroove'...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergroove

Jakob: a post-rock band in the vein of Mogwai, Mono, Explosions In The Sky...

http://www.myspace.com/jakobmusic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob

if this thread had the word "current" in the title it might seem less like band spam. you "just came across" this band whose video you happened to direct?

Alastair Galbraith is pretty much tops for me. I'm also partial to large chunks of the Xpressway/Flying Nun/Corpus Hermeticum scene and its more contemporary manifestations. I would really like to hear more of the stuff on Celebrate Psi Phenomenon but I just don't see it around too much.

you "just came across" this band whose video you happened to direct?

They couldn't afford to pay wages, so they compromised on laying still for it?

Never heard of them before and to be honest indy isn't my thing nor is guitar pop. It was dubstep but i'm kinda over that virus now. I was just contracted by the production company a couple of weeks ago, got played the tune, given a brief, built a set, dressed it and that was it. I didn't direct it, I was art director. It was directed by Richard Bell famous for being half of 'state' the hot shot video prod company of the 90's of which Anton Corbijn was the other half.

digging this golden awesome record

three parts mbv, two parts early stereolab, one part 3ds

thx 4 rec, digging it