New Zealand Music News — Flying Nun

NZ on Screen is now streaming the excellent film Sheen of Gold, by Simon Ogston. Watch it below or on their website. Experimental noise band the Skeptics are best known for their 1987 single 'AFFCO' (named after a meat processing company) and its controversial video. For devoted fans, the band's mix of what Flying Nun founder Roger Shepherd calls "chopped up bits of sound" with vocalist David D'Ath's enigmatic lyrics makes the Skeptics one of New Zealand's most fascinating bands. Simon Ogston's feature-length documentary explores the band's Palmerston North origins, and interviews band members and collaborators. The presence of D'Ath...

Flying Nun Records and Bailter Space are proud to announce the vinyl reissue of their 1995 album Wammo, out on translucent green vinyl on 12th February 2021, with this special Flying Nun edition pressed here in New Zealand. Wammo’s original session reels were dug up, baked, transferred and remastered for a refreshed vinyl reissue — the first time back on vinyl in 25 years, and the first time ever for Flying Nun Records. Since 1987, Bailter Space have released some of the most compelling and innovative albums, EPs and singles of the late post-punk era. Revered as one of the loudest and most intense live bands of all-time, Bailter Space befittingly left...

The songs for Foothills were captured and immortalised in the Canterbury foothills of the Southern Alps, Aotearoa New Zealand. Only too well, The Bats know the possibilities, potentialities and sonic vistas that arise when one takes the reins for the recording process in a beautiful place that’s on home turf.

This September will see the return of Wax Chattels in the form of their sophomore album Clot. The first single, named No Ties, is a melodic expression of the first generation immigrant experience. Check out the single's densely textured video