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The Leather Nun - Slow Death

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2008-11-30 20:28:00 by Club80 in The Post Punk Progressive Pop Party
...Nun released their debut EP, Slow Death . It contained the tracks, " No Rule ", " Death Threats ", " Slow Death " and " Ensam I Natt ". None of the tracks appeared on an album but the fourth track was later released as a single. The Gothenburg, Sweden experimental post punk/industrial band released several albums and singles, the last of...
 
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Flying Nun Records / Dunedin Sound

2008-09-20 20:05:04 by cardboard adolescent in Music Banter
 
...Nun have delivered so many great bands it's unbelievable, starting with The Clean and including The Chills, The Bats, The 3D's, The Dead C, Bailter Space, The Verlaines, Able Tasmans, etc. etc. Anyone at all interested in lo-fi, punk, jangle pop, indie pop, post-punk, noise, krautrock, shoegaze, etc. will find something to appreciate here....
 
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Can't Find Water - Great 1980s and 1990s Kiwi Singles

2008-02-12 15:12:00 by Andrew Schmidt in Mysterex
 
...Nun Records) - Number 39 in April 1984 The original Clean with both Kilgour brothers and future Snapper mastermind Peter Gutteridge, the trio that wrote Point That Thing. Live they were an affirmation of The Clean's best moments with their head down acid instrumentals and rich folk rock bent. The best songs here are Gutteridge's Born In The...
 
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The Gathering of the Clan - New Plymouth - New Year's Eve - 1982

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2008-07-27 18:39:00 by Andrew Schmidt in Mysterex
...Nun Records - had played sparingly since Toy Love's split in September 1980. Too busy rebuilding their sound and mind in Knox's garden shed head, in bedrooms and living rooms, and low key supports for Ballon D'essai, The Chills, The Clean, and English punk poet John Cooper Clarke. They were intent on breaking down the rigid musical roles of...
 
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The Ultimate Compilation?

2008-08-25 14:52:00 by Andrew Schmidt in Mysterex
 
...Nun Records' box set retrospective Kiwi blogs were running hot with nostalgia for New Zealand's post-punk era. Even toothsome John Campbell weighed in with some cool reminisce It was worthwhile at the very least to confirm that there's still great interest in this part of our cultural history, but am I the only one disappointed with the...
 
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I Met Her Outside The IGA - Punk culture in New Zealand - 1977 - 1983

2008-12-08 09:20:12 by Andrew Schmidt in Mysterex
 
...Nun Records at Nightshift Studios The Playthings; in support of their self released single, Coloured, which reached number forty one on the singles chart for a week in July, appear at the Gladstone the following week with new punks Desperate Measures The Clean are up from Dunedin mid-month for their dates at The Gladstone. Theyve found a...
 
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The Clean - live and on record - 1978 - 1982

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2008-12-28 06:21:24 by Andrew Schmidt in Mysterex
 
...Nun Records 7. Recorded Christchurch by Arnie Van Bussell at Nightshift Studios in July 1981. Number 19 in September 1981. Seven weeks in chart Chirpy keyboard driven number and surprise chart hit. The home recording (lo-fi) strand that followed punk in New Zealand began here The Clean Anything Could Happen/ Point That Thing Somewhere Else...
 
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Indie Snapshots - Christchurch - 1990

2008-06-03 20:13:00 by Andrew Schmidt in Mysterex
 
...Nun, tired of the A, D, G strum of the early years. In much the same way as The 3Ds have channelled the distorted late 1980s sound through their own chaotic vision, Parkes is using crafted spontaneity to power his contribution to Swim Everything Songs begin with a programmed drum beat over which the three guitarists blaze with an uncaged...
 
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Wilbur Kentwell - Organ Contrasts

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2008-08-28 21:05:00 by Mr Snookles in Third Island
...Nun's Chorus' from, er, Casanova (First Nun "Ohhh, what was it like for you?" Second Nun "Ohhh, what was it like for you?" etc. etc.) and 'Stranglers in the Night'; not to mention 'Goodnight Sweetheart' and 'Consider Yourself While the Hammond is the lounge organ du jour for the discerning listener, The Conn Theatre Organ with its many...
 
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Above Ground - Bill Direen's early years - 1976 - 1984

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2008-08-11 16:27:00 by Andrew Schmid