Missing videos from June 1996
I’m still mourning the recent loss of Annie Crummer‘s videos. “U Soul Me” was another single from her second solo album. Bike‘s first single, “Save My Life”, is afforded digital immortality due to its inclusion on the Flying Nun “Very Short Films” compilation, but second single “Old and Blue” isn’t so lucky. The Film Archive...
Missing videos from February 1996
The Film Archive vaults contain the video for Second Child‘s “Desire You”, a song NZOA described as a “blistering blast of melodic, guitar-driven rock”. Teina was nicknamed “the bard of Otara” and his song “Gone Fishing” had guest vocals from Teremoana Rapley. Cinematic‘s song “See You Round” is a pleasant Smithsian song with some good...
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...
Missing videos from December 1993
Andrew Fagan returns with “Exciting”, a cruchy, slightly psychedelic pop tune with great hooks. My memory of the video is that it was also slightly psychedelic, in that unique Andrew Fagan way. Christchurch band Cinematic is here with “Already Gone”, a lovely song, with folky guitar, a bit of keyboard and some awesome vocal harmonies....
Missing videos from October 1992
I listened to the 30 second preview of Al Hunter‘s song “I Don’t Want to go to Work Today” on iTunes. To summarise: Al doesn’t want to go to work. He’d rather stowaway on a cruise ship and laze around by the pool. “Language”, Annie Crummer‘s ode to Pacific languages and/or love is liked enough...
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