Missing videos from December 1996
More Polyfonk from Ardijah, this time with “Bad Buzz”. Like both Tin Finn and Jacqui Keelan Davey, Brothers & Sisters pay tribute to the pacifist Te Whiti with their song “Parihaka”. “Black Panthers” was the second single off DLT‘s album “The True School” According to NZOA, In The Whare‘s music was a mix of reggae,...
Missing videos from August 1996
The long bleak winter of 1996 continues. Breathe debuted with “Smiley Hands”, giving just an inkling of the major label excitement they stirred only a few years later. Cinematic asks “Why Are You So Tired”. Yes, I’m tired of Cinematic’s videos not being online. As if the name wasn’t a giveaway, Dancing Azians were the...
Strawpeople “Taller Than God”
Strange things are afoot at the Moturemu Motel, where Fiona McDonald plays a bored clerk at the kitschy motel. In real life it’s in Parakai, but it has a not-quite-New-Zealand feel to it. Fiona mans the front desk, where a handsome young man checks in for the night. In other rooms we meet a elderly...
Missing videos for April 1995
Lodger was a side project by Damon of the Dead Flowers and “Forever” was one of two funded singles. Semi Lemon Kola‘s second single “Otherwise” was a crunchy rocky tune. Strawpeople‘s “Beautiful Skin” continues the dicing-with-violence theme of “Trick with a Knife”. “Pettibone” is the second single from the Tufnels, the greatest pop band in...
Strawpeople “Sweet Disorder”
The vocal collaborator on this track was Leza Corban, who gives the group a rootier, jazzier feeling. I know this song inside out due to a flatmate who played it all the time. Yeah, not quite two minutes into it, a trumpet solo kicks in. The video is clever. It’s a way of shooting in...
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...
Missing videos from June 1994
The Strawpeople got there first with covering “Under the Milky Way” Andrew Fagan unveils “Now You Know” a choice piece of jangly ’60-inspired pop. I bet the video was amazing. I originally confused Cinema with Cinematic, but it turns out they were two quite different groups doing stuff in the mid ’90s. Cinema was signed...
Strawpeople “Trick with a Knife”
When Fiona wasn’t being Fiona From The Headless Chickens, she was bringing the gift of songcraft to the Strawpeople. “Trick with a Knife” is a dark and moody song, and Fiona lets her voice get really high. The video is a crazy noir, where a smoking man in a chair awaits the arrival of a...
Missing videos from February 1993
Moana and the Moahunters team up with Andrew Fagan for a rock sound in “I’ll Be the One”. A band and a song called My Conviction. That’s so hard to google, but Auckland Library has an news article about them on microfiche. Update: Cheers to @MrJonathanKing for revealing that “My Conviction = Kurt Shanks from...
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