October 2008: Cairo Knife Fight, Cobra Khan, Collapsing Cities, Dave Dobbyn, Devolo, J Williams

Nature vs wallpaper, bloody lovers, Uncle Dave’s musical adventure, when shyness stops you from doing all the things in live you’d like to, and a solo dance.

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October 2008: Addison, An Emerald City, Annabel Fay, Antiform, Autozamm, Beneath the Silence

The ticking of time, sand dunes as desert, a trip to the beach, a trip around Auckland, murderous revenge, and some bad-ass shredding.

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August 2008: Bang Bang Eche, Boh Runga, Bruce Conlon, Cobra Khan, Cut Off Your Hands, Dane Rumble

Ok, let’s get this over with. Our adventure resumes in August 2008. There we shall find giant cats, a live gig, morphing Boh, motionless rock, and the artist formerly known as Kid Deft.

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June 2008: Mareko, Nathan King, Nesian Mystik, Opensouls, Over the Atlantic, Shihad, Sweet & Irie

Raging against the machine, a boring road trip, high school musical, an ’80s celebration, a dark disco corner, rocking in a forest, fake tropics.
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April 2008: Rhombus, Scribe, Shihad, Simple Day, Solstate, Stu Strawbridge

Blackboard scribbles, a modern Pacific city, shockingly inoffensive, helping out with the lambs, the location that swallowed the band, and the most boring farm ever.
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April 2008: Mumsdollar, Pearl, Percieve, PNC, Recloose

Cave hideaway, funeral crashers, car park party, places other than the recording studio, and a wander around K Road.
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April 2008: Antiform, Audio Empire, Bulletproof, David Dallas, dDub

Secret underground pop, un-New Zealand, parkour leaps, a Friday night hoon, and Victorian paper craft.
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February 2008: Katchafire, Mareko, Opshop, Salmonella Dub, Spacifix

A celebration of the glorious proletariat, work-related travel expenses, subterranean homesick New Zealander, nature porn, and cramped working conditions.
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February 2008: Airspace, All Left Out, Anika Moa, Batucada Sound Machine, Collapsing Cities

In bed with Anika, strangers on a train, Farrah Fawcett hair, rhythm and dramatics, and attack of the fruity blobs.
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December 2007: Solomon, Spacifix, Streetwise Scarlet, Sweet & Irie, The Big Man, The Rabble, The Rickshaws

Vintage underwear, a puzzling experience, from a mall to the tropics, motherly appreciation, B-grade delights, craziness, and so much heartache.
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