[{"id":211725320343,"handle":"able-tasmans","title":"Able Tasmans","updated_at":"2022-08-08T12:35:34+12:00","body_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"Able%20Tasmans%20band%20from%20New%20Zealand%20on%20Flying%20Nun%20\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/files\/Able_Tasmans_Flying_Nun_Records_1024x1024.jpg?v=1598091205\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003eThe Able Tasmans Band is Formed\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNamed after the Dutch explorer \u003cstrong\u003eAbel Tasman\u003c\/strong\u003e (who was first European to visit New Zealand in 1642) the band themselves were avid explorers limited only by their imagination. Their songwriting and arrangement crossed lines between baroque and indie-pop integrating field recordings and bringing keyboards to the forefront of their music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Auckland-based group went through a number of line-up and mood changes since they first surfaced in 1984 as a trio whammying things up for the kids on the dancefloor with a very '60s fun organ-bass-drums sound and songs with titles like \"Nelson the Cat?!!\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Nelson\" was one of six songs which appeared on the Ables' 1985 debut EP for \u003cstrong\u003eFlying Nun\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Tired Sun\u003c\/em\u003e. The EP featured the quietly expanding Ables line-up, with the original trio of \u003cstrong\u003eGraeme Humphreys\u003c\/strong\u003e (keybaords and vocals), \u003cstrong\u003eDave Beniston\u003c\/strong\u003e (bass) and \u003cstrong\u003eCraig Baxter\u003c\/strong\u003e (drums) being augmented by \u003cstrong\u003ePeter Keen\u003c\/strong\u003e on vocals and future \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.flyingnun.co.nz\/collections\/headless-chickens\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHeadless Chicken\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eAnthony Nevison\u003c\/strong\u003e, who lent a hand on guitar and vocals.\u003cbr\u003eRecorded with thanks to 'the marvels of modern steam recording' at Auckland's Progressive Studio over Easter, 1985, The Tired Sun was a lively psych-out, admired for its strong singing and punchy upbeat feel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe following year, the \u003cstrong\u003eAble Tasmans\u003c\/strong\u003e released the sparse and eccentric 7\" single \u003cem\u003eBuffalos\u003c\/em\u003e, which was backed with \u003cem\u003eRelapse\u003c\/em\u003e, a song performed by \u003cstrong\u003ePeter Keen's\u003c\/strong\u003e first band, \u003cstrong\u003eRaucous Laughter\u003c\/strong\u003e. The classic organ pop frolic \u003cem\u003eCarolines\u003c\/em\u003e also appeared on the Radio B compilation, \u003cem\u003eOutnumbered By Sheep\u003c\/em\u003e in 1986.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Able Tasmans Debut Album\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Ables released their first full-length album in 1987, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.flyingnun.co.nz\/products\/fn536-able-tasmans-a-cuppa-tea-and-a-lie-down-2015\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Cuppa Tea And A Lie Down\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e -- which featured an expanded line-up of six people. \u003cstrong\u003eLeslie Jonkers\u003c\/strong\u003e (who was responsible for the front cover art of \u003cem\u003eThe Tired Sun\u003c\/em\u003e and had been writing Ables tunes since the early days without appearing on stage!) was playing organ, and \u003cstrong\u003ePeter Keen\u003c\/strong\u003e was now full-time on vocals and \u003cstrong\u003eGraeme Humphreys\u003c\/strong\u003e playing guitar and singing. \u003cstrong\u003eDave Beniston\u003c\/strong\u003e still played bass but \u003cstrong\u003eStuart Greenway\u003c\/strong\u003e replaced the Australia-bound Craig Baxter on drums. Additional instrumentation was provided by \u003cstrong\u003eJane Leggott\u003c\/strong\u003e (flute) and \u003cstrong\u003eDave Tennent\u003c\/strong\u003e (some guitar). The Ables confused plenty of people by including 23 associates (from studio and live sound engineers to album cover artists and dancers -- the band was now involved with providing music for the Te Kani Kani dance group) in the group photo on the back of the album...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Cuppa Tea... remains the \u003cstrong\u003eAble Tasmans\u003c\/strong\u003e most eclectic recording to date. In Melody Maker, the album was described as \"a strange beast indeed... winding, melodic, theatrical, folky, with more than a string of acerbic guitars in its tail... Jaunty tunes, blissful rock-outs, sixties throwbacks with whining violins and catchy cowboy singalongs.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Hey Spinner' on Record\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was three years and more line-up changes (naturally) until a new \u003cstrong\u003eAble Tasmans\u003c\/strong\u003e recording appeared on \u003cstrong\u003eFlying Nun\u003c\/strong\u003e. Released in 1990, \u003cstrong\u003eHey Spinner!\u003c\/strong\u003e was a denser album, with tunes that continued the Ables' curious line in lyrical kiwiana -- a trend begun on the previous album, which had built local geography and custom into songs like \"And We Swam the Magic Bay\" and \"Evil Barbeque\". Hey Spinner! matched these with \"Grey Lynn\" and \"Michael Fay\" -- a Dickensian tale where \"It was Christmas day\/When Michael Fay gave all his money away\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe band line-up now featured the songwriting core of Humphreys, Jonkers and Keen, with former Verlaine \u003cstrong\u003eJane Dodd\u003c\/strong\u003e playing bass and \u003cstrong\u003eCraig Mason\u003c\/strong\u003e, longtime Ables associate and singer-guitarist in Auckland's \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.flyingnun.co.nz\/collections\/the-sombretones\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSombretones\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, on drums. Another new full-time member and longtime associate was Ron Young, adding a curtain of analogue synth nonsense and more vocals to the songs. The Ables' Hey Spinner! sound was rounded out by regular live clarinetist, Donald Nichols, and extra trumpet, cello and violin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \"baroque folk rock\" (Colin Hogg) of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.flyingnun.co.nz\/products\/fn162-able-tasmans-hey-spinner-album1990\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHey Spinner!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e gave way to something a little wilder and weirder by the time of the 1992 release, Somebody Ate My Planet. The album, recorded with the same settled line-up as Hey Spinner! at Auckland's Lab Studio with engineer \u003cstrong\u003eVictor Grbic\u003c\/strong\u003e, sees the \u003cstrong\u003eAble Tasmans\u003c\/strong\u003e fully extending their sound over eleven songs packed with warm noise and cool ideas. It's the best commie astronomer clever lover environmentally friendly rock you'll enjoy in a good while -- proof that the \u003cstrong\u003eAble Tasmans\u003c\/strong\u003e have grown to a position where they're comfortable and popular musical adventurers on this planet, even if \"somebody\" is making a mess of their own...\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2020-08-09T18:30:30+12:00","sort_order":"created","template_suffix":"","disjunctive":false,"rules":[{"column":"tag","relation":"equals","condition":"Able Tasmans"}],"published_scope":"global","image":{"created_at":"2020-08-22T22:12:17+12:00","alt":"Able Tasmans band from New Zealand on Flying Nun ","width":993,"height":992,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/collections\/Able_Tasmans_Flying_Nun_Records-2.jpg?v=1656324388"}},{"id":211727089815,"handle":"bird-nest-roys","title":"Bird Nest Roys","updated_at":"2022-06-18T14:21:35+12:00","body_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/files\/Bird_Nest_Roys_Flying_Nun_1024x1024.jpg?v=1604912960\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorn in the hills west of Auckland, New Zealand the \u003cstrong\u003eBird Nest Roys\u003c\/strong\u003e had a brief but brilliant lifespan. Formed in the mid-1980s the six-piece released one LP, one EP and a 7\" single in the space of four years. Now, we've packaged them up for your listening convenience.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith a knack for off-kilter pop, and a decent hint of chaos the Bird Nest Roys quite literally layered guitars (three out of the six played them), with members of the band going on to play with likes of the \u003cstrong\u003e3Ds\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eSnapper\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eThe Tufnels\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2020-08-09T18:48:34+12:00","sort_order":"created","template_suffix":"","disjunctive":false,"rules":[{"column":"tag","relation":"equals","condition":"Bird Nest Roys"}],"published_scope":"global","image":{"created_at":"2020-08-25T22:11:40+12:00","alt":null,"width":1000,"height":1000,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/collections\/BirdNestRoys_5_grande_a219a4db-caf7-4c5f-8922-0fd274c9cf0f.jpg?v=1598350301"}},{"id":211727810711,"handle":"childrens-hour","title":"Children's Hour","updated_at":"2022-08-10T17:50:46+12:00","body_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/files\/Childrens_Hour_Flying_Nun-2_1024x1024.jpg?v=1598868260\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore on Children's House coming soon...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pWrMNRe7arg\" height=\"630\" width=\"1120\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2020-08-09T18:55:02+12:00","sort_order":"best-selling","template_suffix":"","disjunctive":false,"rules":[{"column":"tag","relation":"equals","condition":"Children's Hour"}],"published_scope":"global","image":{"created_at":"2020-08-26T21:07:17+12:00","alt":null,"width":1000,"height":1000,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/collections\/Children_sHourYa_Ya_Ya_FrontCover_1512x_85fb3389-d5f4-47e0-91e4-262ea8967798.jpg?v=1598868356"}},{"id":211727974551,"handle":"chris-knox","title":"Chris Knox","updated_at":"2022-08-15T12:50:03+12:00","body_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/files\/Chris_Knox_Flying_Nun_1024x1024.jpg?v=1598260692\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI first met Chris Knox in my shop Records Records, where he would come after he had finished his postie run. He would usually denigrate some of the vaunted albums in the Recent Arrivals bin, always with a smile, lovely teeth, and then drift over to the One Dollar Cardboard Box, where, in those incredible days, he was able to buy Pip Proud for just that one dollar. I had tried to sell Pip Proud for more, but nobody wanted it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChris also worked, variously, at the Cadburys Chocolate Factory and Brian Snell's Hi Fi Shop. He flatted behind Snells, and shop manager Ron Esplin was fond of telling people later on when Chris' musical stature grew, that one morning when Chris didn't turn up for work, he went over there to yank him out of bed, only there was someone else in the bed as well. Ron, with the highly developed Presbyterian moral ethic so common to those of us who live in the south, was shocked. But he liked Chris, he kept him on.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Enemy was put together a year or two later. I knew Chris quite well by then, but didn't go to any of the practices, unlike others in our group, who reported back breathlessly that the songs were amazing. Like a number of others, I was asked to come and try out for the band with my Diplomat copy guitar, but I knew my limitations and said I was busy that night.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Beneficiaries Hall debut confirmed The Enemy had amazing songs. Talk turned quickly to getting them down on tape. I had a good reel to reel, a Revox A-77 (which I later sold to David Kilgour, his song Tape Machine is about that) and a bad microphone, so I hauled the two along to the old Cellar Club in Manse Street to record a gig on Alec Bathgate's birthday. Chris had given me a tape I could use - \"Don't worry about what is on it, just wipe eberything off, they're just really old songs I used to write, they're crap.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNone of us had a sense of history then, not even me, who was older, and should have understood history. So I didn't even play the tape before I erased it with The Enemy at The Cellar Club. This would rank as one of the top ten studpiest things I have ever done in my life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUnfortunately the cheap microphone had the final say that night. The band dutifully came up to our house on the following Monday and we listened to the tape through a big Jansen valve amplifier to try and get that raw rough live sound. Everyone got very depressed, tape recorders can be cruel when you have only performed in public a couple of times. But Chris was great all the way through, trying to pull the project up from under the water in much the same way he tried to rescue the Toy Love album years later, singing his heart out. Talk turned to doing covers. Yes please, said Mick. No, never, said Chris.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Enemy took all those good songs into Toy Love and records were finally made, chart positions achieved, and then came Flying Nun. When the label produced a pack of cards on their tenth anniversary with drawings by Chris, he did one of me, calling me The Godfather Of The Dunedin Sound. Wrong. Chris was always that. Everyone deferred to him, hung on his every word and piece of advice, and used his evaluation of their performance as a barometer of where they stood. Most of all, Chris helped so many of them, often reserving his most fulsome praise and material assistance to the ones who were at the bottom of the totem pole, the Pip Proud One Dollar Cardboard Box ones.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI went up to see Chris in Auckland this year, well after his debilitating stroke. I had been told a variety of distressing stories, I didn't know what to expect. But the old Chris was still there, wordless maybe, but the eyes and the smile and the expressive face said so much. As it always did. I had always meant to mention that silly story about him not making it to work that morning at Brian Snells, somehow it had just never come up. Probably because it was silly. It seemed the time now, the moment was ripe for something right off the wall. But Chris was getting tired. I saved it for another time, and used the extra few minutes it would have taken to tell to hug him that much longer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChris would have laughed though, he would have really laughed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2020-08-09T18:56:44+12:00","sort_order":"created","template_suffix":"","disjunctive":false,"rules":[{"column":"tag","relation":"equals","condition":"Chris Knox"}],"published_scope":"global","image":{"created_at":"2020-08-24T21:18:30+12:00","alt":null,"width":1000,"height":1000,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/collections\/Chris_Knox_Flying_Nun_Square.jpg?v=1598260710"}},{"id":211729711255,"handle":"expendables","title":"Expendables","updated_at":"2022-06-14T21:15:33+12:00","body_html":"","published_at":"2020-08-09T19:12:14+12:00","sort_order":"best-selling","template_suffix":"","disjunctive":false,"rules":[{"column":"tag","relation":"equals","condition":"Expendables"}],"published_scope":"global"},{"id":211730006167,"handle":"fetus-productions","title":"Fetus Productions","updated_at":"2022-06-18T14:21:35+12:00","body_html":"","published_at":"2020-08-09T19:14:19+12:00","sort_order":"best-selling","template_suffix":"","disjunctive":false,"rules":[{"column":"tag","relation":"equals","condition":"Fetus Productions"}],"published_scope":"global","image":{"created_at":"2020-09-22T19:40:49+12:00","alt":null,"width":1000,"height":1000,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/collections\/Fetus_Productions_SQUARE.jpg?v=1600760449"}},{"id":392313798900,"handle":"flying-nun-catalog","title":"Flying Nun Catalog","updated_at":"2022-08-19T16:25:12+12:00","body_html":"The full catalog of Flying Nun Records releases, including many rare and collectable records released on 7' 12\" vinyl, cassette, CD and download. Many of these albums are out of print or no longer available, while others have been re-pressed and can be bought in our record store. If you find one of these going cheap in your local junk shop - snap it up!","published_at":"2021-12-04T16:32:39+13:00","sort_order":"created-desc","template_suffix":"","disjunctive":true,"rules":[{"column":"tag","relation":"equals","condition":"Flying Nun Catalog"},{"column":"tag","relation":"equals","condition":"Flying Nun"}],"published_scope":"global"},{"id":211730890903,"handle":"goblin-mix","title":"Goblin Mix","updated_at":"2022-06-15T21:35:48+12:00","body_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/files\/Goblin_Mix_Flying_Nun-2_1024x1024.jpg?v=1598868496\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore on Goblin Mix coming soon...\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2020-08-09T19:19:05+12:00","sort_order":"best-selling","template_suffix":"","disjunctive":false,"rules":[{"column":"tag","relation":"equals","condition":"Goblin Mix"}],"published_scope":"global","image":{"created_at":"2020-08-31T22:08:28+12:00","alt":null,"width":1177,"height":1177,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/collections\/Goblin_Mix_Flying_Nun_SQUARE.jpg?v=1598868509"}},{"id":211731447959,"handle":"headless-chickens","title":"Headless Chickens","updated_at":"2022-08-18T16:55:15+12:00","body_html":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"float: none;\" alt=\"Headless Chickens | Band from New Zealand\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/files\/Headless_Chickens_Flying_Nun_1024x1024.jpg?v=1598674768\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThey were an “alternative, underground band using hi-tech instruments in a low tech way”, controversial winners of the \u003cstrong\u003eRheineck Rock Award\u003c\/strong\u003e, the \u003cstrong\u003eFlying Nun\u003c\/strong\u003e act that came closest to dance music (giving the label its only number one) and, throughout, a vehicle for the singular vision and dark humour of \u003cstrong\u003eChris Matthews.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the beginning – the early 80s - Matthews and Johnny Pierce were half of the uncompromising attack of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.flyingnun.co.nz\/search?q=Children%E2%80%99s+Hour\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eChildren’s Hour\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (along with \u003cstrong\u003eGrant Fell\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eBevan Sweeny\u003c\/strong\u003e) and occasional contributors to the Jefferies brothers project, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.flyingnun.co.nz\/collections\/this-kind-of-punishment\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis Kind of Punishment\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 1985 the pair roped in the more electronically inclined \u003cstrong\u003eMichael Lawry\u003c\/strong\u003e to form the International \u003cstrong\u003eHeadless Chickens\u003c\/strong\u003e for a one-off performance at the ‘Nitpickers Picnic’. Shortening their name, they released a self titled EP in mid-1986. Their use of samplers, synthesisers and drum machines combined with a claustrophobic sound and \u003cstrong\u003eChris Matthews’\u003c\/strong\u003e dark, often bleak, lyrics quickly set them apart from most of their contemporaries.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn August 1986, \u003cstrong\u003eJohnny Pierce\u003c\/strong\u003e tragically took his own life and the band stalled – but Matthews and Lawry picked up the pieces again, adding \u003cb\u003eChildren’s Hour\u003c\/b\u003e band mate Grant Fell on bass and flamboyant former \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.flyingnun.co.nz\/collections\/bird-nest-roys\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eBird Nest Roy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e Rupert E Taylor as a vocalist.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn December 1987 the \u003cb\u003eHeadless Chickens\u003c\/b\u003e won the second Rheineck Rock award and hilarity ensued. The inaugural winners, South Auckland funksters \u003cstrong\u003eArdijah\u003c\/strong\u003e, had – to the satisfaction of the “industry” – parlayed their win into radio play and chart hits. Awarding the prize to such an unrepentantly alternative outfit created an outcry best summed up in a Metro article alleging a “severe lack of judgement” and bizarrely suggesting that, as an alternative band, the Chickens played “music which you can’t actually listen to”. \u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSomehow, the firmament held together and the band recorded their debut album. \u003cb\u003eThe Children’s Hour\u003c\/b\u003e reunion was completed with Bevan Sweeney brought in to add a more human element to the rhythms.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReleased in mid-1988, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.flyingnun.co.nz\/products\/headless-chickens-stunt-clown-1988-2021\"\u003eStunt Clown\u003c\/a\u003e’\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e underlined the gaping chasm between established industry and alternative scene – nothing here would follow Ardijah to Top 40 radio rotates; and it amplified unresolved tensions on the other side of the tracks – where such heavy use of emulators and drum programmes sat badly with some.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn its own terms, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘Stunt Clown’\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e was a stunning achievement with a huge sweep encompassing everything from the dark driving guitars and rhythms of \u003ci\u003e‘Expecting To Fly’\u003c\/i\u003e, the self referential \u003ci\u003e‘Do The Headless Chicken’\u003c\/i\u003e and the snarling \u003ci\u003e‘Donka’\u003c\/i\u003e to the lighter touch of \u003ci\u003e‘Soul Catcher’ \u003c\/i\u003eand the tenderness of \u003ci\u003e‘Fish Song’\u003c\/i\u003e – with cello, violin and piano accordion thrown in for good measure. The critics were impressed; the detractors probably still didn’t understood.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eHEADLESS CHICKENS - \u003ci\u003eDONKA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe first of innumerable trips to Australia followed in late 1988; and Anthony Nevison joined in early 1989. The new line-up recorded \u003ci\u003e‘Gaskrankinstation’\u003c\/i\u003e – a relentless Matthews number about a gas station attendant with only his job to give meaning to an otherwise bleak and empty life. 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Tracklist A1 The Expendables - Liberal Cad A2 Bird Nest Roys - Who Is The Silliest Rossi A3 Kim Blackburn - Oceania A4 Headless Chickens - Trigger A5 The Pterodactyls - Everytime It Rains A6 Chris Knox - Indigestion A7 Children's Hour - Creeping Flesh
B1 The Kiwi Animal - Dragons In Eden B2 The Fold - Need Of Want B3 Able Tasmans - Carolines B4 Nick Smith - Testament B5 Goblin Mix - Travelling Grave B6 Fetus Productions - Sparks Fly
