by Roger Shepherd
The Story Of Ballon D'essai - 'Ballon D’essai', 1982

The Story Of Ballon D'essai - 'Ballon D’essai', 1981

The name says it all. Ballon D’essai or a “balloon trial”, which is a fancy French way of saying “floating an idea”. This is exactly what happened back in 1980 in Christchurch with a young band. Ballon D’essai were a beginner band of arty schoolboys taking up the music thing to see how it would fly and to where.

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The story of Bored Games' 1982 EP, 'Who Killed Colonel Mustard'

The story of Bored Games' 1982 EP, 'Who Killed Colonel Mustard'

"...Bored Games rewrote themselves back into the history of Dunedin music and helped put in place a small but significant building block in the long-lasting career of Shayne Carter."

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The Story Of This Sporting Life's 1982 Album, 'Show Me To The Bellrope'

The Story Of This Sporting Life's 1982 Album, 'Show Me To The Bellrope'

This Sporting Life were the necessary disrupting outsiders that helped mix and mess things up. They made Show Me to the Bellrope and helped to make Flying Nun a more interesting musical place.

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