Exploring the world of NZ On Air music video funding

I’ve set myself the challenge of watching every music video made as part of NZ On Air's $5000 music video funding scheme from 1991 to 2011.
Posts tagged "jordan reyne"
Missing videos for August 1995

Missing videos for August 1995

There’s a Barry Saunders song called “Little Things”. I can’t even figure out what album it was on. It’s so… little. Another sweet Emma Paki song, but “Don’t Give It Up” is another one that’s not as beloved as “System Virtue” and so misses out on being digitised. Another of Ermehn‘s early tracks is “Nuttin...
Missing videos from June 1995

Missing videos from June 1995

YouTube user annjoel1 reports that the video to Ermehn‘s single “Walls of Steel” featured Tha Feelstyle and King Kapisi before they were famous. Commenter Dean reports that this video shoot can be seen in the background of Dam Native’s “Horrified One” video (and vice versa). The googles turned up an Italian punk band called Fun...
Jordan Reyne "Wilt"

Jordan Reyne “Wilt”

The jordanreyne YouTube account explains that this video involves “A rock band imitating Jordan and the instrumentalists that played on her album. This video is full of evil twins from a past everyone denies.” Whoa. And indeed the song is played by a black-clad band, with a singer who looks like Jordan Reyne. Without this...
Missing videos for August 1994

Missing videos for August 1994

The Brainchilds take on the Beatles’ real-trippy-as tune “Tomorrow Never Knows”, though with Janet Roddick’s lovely clear voice, the song sounds more like a hypotherapy tape. Turn off your phone, relax, and float downstream. You crave not ciggies. You crave not ciggies. “Long Way to Climb”, the debut single of gothic folkstress Jordan Reyne, is...