Welcome to our new website. It's been a while in the building and we are just getting started. There is a lot more to come and we have many plans for this little place - in fact as you can see we have even got Roger his own 'website construction suit' to explore this vast internet landscape.

Indeed after the re-purchase of Flying Nun Records by founder Roger Shepherd late last year there has been plenty to do. We’ve got nearly 30 years of music to care for, restore and re-release. Just as importantly, there’s a bunch of new bands for us to hunt out and help out. It has all just begun, and the plan now is to take it quietly, step by step, in an organised and sober manner. Of course the reality will be rather different...As far as history goes, simply put, we are an independent New Zealand music label. We started in 1981, like many independent labels do, by just wanting to make music we like available for people we like. It is still why we do it.

But a lot’s happened since then.

Pretty soon we got bigger than we’d ever have dreamed possible. All the while working with a wonderfully diverse bunch of brilliant bands and crazy characters that were making music for like-minded people all around the world. Then we got partially bought by someone else. But after a while they got bought by someone else. And after some more time Flying Nun stopped being what it was supposed to be…

We started off with a simple, do-it-yourself post-punk attitude, which still remains. After all, who else was going to record and release the likes of The Clean, Chris Knox or The Dead C. It also happened that we were stuck on a couple of remote islands at the bottom of the world. So we were always going to be a bit different from the word go.

We are truly independent in the ‘music industry’ sense of the term, and Flying Nun Records - as it always was - is about the musicians and the fans, so feel free to say hi, spout an opinion, or simply let us know what you want to hear. 

All in all, nothing’s changed really. We’re right back where we started, just a little bit older and a little bit wiser.