Flying Nun Records Music News — Roger Shepherd

FLYING NUN'S STORY 40 YEARS ON: UNDERGROUND LABEL, NEARLY BANDS, OR SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY

FLYING NUN'S STORY 40 YEARS ON: UNDERGROUND LABEL, NEARLY BANDS, OR SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY

We asked Gareth Shute to write an article highlighting the ongoing importance of new indie labels in Aotearoa New Zealand. It got him thinking about how the story of a record label is often filled with as much mythology as truth.

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FLYING NUN'S EARLY YEARS IN CHRISTCHURCH

FLYING NUN'S EARLY YEARS IN CHRISTCHURCH

The kind folk at AudioCulture - "The noisy library of New Zealand music" - have allowed us to republish their story map which explores the early locations of Flying Nun in Christchurch.

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ROGER SHEPHERD NEW BOOK - IN LOVE WITH THESE TIMES

ROGER SHEPHERD NEW BOOK - IN LOVE WITH THESE TIMES

Flying Nun king prawn, Roger Shepherd is set to release his first book next month - a collection of memoirs reaching back to the early days of the label, that fertile feast of kiwi ingenuity, dreamt up in the back rooms of a Christchurch record shop in the early '80s. "I wanted to be more than just an observer. I wanted to be a part of what was going on. I had told someone and the word was out, and now I had to actually do this thing. Start a record label. I must have been drunk." he explains.Was he? Who is Wendy Broccoli?...

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