As the 1970s gave way to the 1980s, New Zealand society underwent a sea change.
In the post-punk/springbok tour era, it took a bright idea, $50, and a lot of good will to start Flying Nun Records, an independent record company based in Christchurch NZ.
Formed almost by accident to document the evolving music scene, and working project to project, it was fuelled by a freakishly good collection of songwriters and other creative types.
Voice Credits
(Here is who you hear, in order of first appearance in the programme).
Chris Knox of The Enemy/ Toy Love/ Tall Dwarfs.
Karyn Hay, former Radio With Pictures host, Flying Nun Records presenter.
Alec Bathgate of The Enemy/ Toy Love / Tall Dwarfs
Roger Shepherd, founder of Flying Nun Records
Shayne Carter of Board Games / Cartilage Family / Double Happys
Steven Kilroy, sound, lights, guitar, Dunedin
Paul Kean of Toy Love / The Bats
Robert Scott of The Clean / The Bats
David Kilgour of The Clean / Great Unwashed
Roy Colbert journalist, mentor & proprietor of Records Records, Dunedin
Peter Stapleton of The Pin Group
Arnie van Bussell of Nightshift Studio, Christchurch.
Martin Phillipps of The Same / The Chills
Graham Downes of The Verlaines
Matthew Bannister of Sneaky Feelings
Roy Montgomery of The Pin Group
Doug Hood, sound man/tour manager/promoter
Music Credits
(In order of appearance in the programme).
(Song Title - composers (if given) - Performer/Band – Record Title – Catalogue Number – format)
Testimony To Paradise Street - Ballon D’essai - FN007 - 12” 45rpm
Anything Could Happen (Kilgour/Kilgour/Scott) – The Clean - Boodle Boodle Boodle - FN003 - 12” 45rpm
Anarchy In The UK (Rotton/Jones/Matlock/Cook) The Sex Pistols - Universal MCD 60066 CD
192 (Judd/T Finn) - Split Enz – The Beginning Of The Enz - Mushroom D80940-45 CD
introduction and Frogs demo - The Enemy - unreleased
Pull Down The Shades (live) (Knox/Dooley /Bathgate) - The Enemy – “… But I
Can Write Songs OK” (Forty Years Of Dunedin Popular Music) - Yellow Eye EYE 005-007 CD
Rebel / Squeeze (Bathgate/ Dooley / Dawson/ Knox) - Toy Love - Electra WEA (Z 10015B) - 7” 45rpm
‘Encore’/Frogs intro - Toy Love live Christchurch August 1980 – Unreleased
Green Walls (Bathgate/ Dooley / Kean/ Knox/ Walker) Toy Love – Toy Love - WEA De Luxe Z 20008 LP
Riot Squad - Newmatics – Riot Squad - PRIV MD 001 CD
introduction and Frantic Drift Demo 1980 - The Same - Unreleased
At The Bottom (live 1981) - The Clean - Live Dead Clean - FN LDC 001 - 12” 45rpm
Ambivalence (Montgomery/Humphries/ Stapleton) - The Pin Group - FN001 7” 45rpm
Point That Think intro (live 1980) The Clean - Unreleased
Attack of The Teddybears (live 1981) - The Clean - Live Dead Clean - FN LDC 001 12” 45rpm
Tally Ho - The Clean - FN 002 - 7” 45rpm
Intro and (cover of) Pull Down The Shades (live 1980) Bored Games - unreleased
Billy Two (Kilgour/Kilgour/Scott) – The Clean - Boodle Boodle Boodle FN003 12” 45rpm
Anything Could Happen (Kilgour/Kilgour/Scott) – The Clean - Boodle Boodle Boodle FN003 12” 45rpm
Kaleidoscope World (M Phillipps) - The Chills – ‘Dunedin Double EP’ FN DUN –1 12” 45rpm
Angela - The Verlaines – ‘Dunedin Double EP’ FN DUN –1 12” 45rpm
Pities Sake (Bannister/Pine) Sneaky Feelings – ‘Dunedin Double EP’ FN DUN –1
12” 45rpm
Something New (The Stones) The Stones – ‘Dunedin Double EP’ FN DUN –1
12” 45rpm
Don't Deceive Me - Twenty Five Cents FN009 7” 45rpm
Testimony To Paradise Street - Ballon D’essai FN007 7” 45rpm
Bleeding Heart (L.R. Chamberlain) Richie Venus & The Blue Beetles FN008 7” 45rpm
Coalminer’s Song - The Gordons ‘The Gordons’ FN ? LP
Louis The First (Knox/ Bathgate) - Tall Dwarfs - Louis Likes His Daily Dip FN WEE 001 12” 45rpm
Clover (Knox/ Bathgate) - Tall Dwarfs - Louis Likes His Daily Dip FN WEE 001 12” 45rpm
Long Night – The Pin Group - The Pin Group Go To Town FN 1967 EP 12” 45rpm
Starry Day - The Builders - Schwimmen in der See FN006 7” 33.3rpm
Turning Brown And Torn In Two (Bathgate/Knox) - Tall Dwarfs - Canned Music FN TIN 001 12” 45rpm
See Red - The Stones – ‘Dunedin Double EP - FN DUN –1 12” 45rpm
Rolling Moon (Phillipps/Chills) The Chills FN COLD 001 7” 45rpm
Point That Thing Somewhere Else (Kilgour/Kilgour/Gutteridge) - The Clean –
Boodle Boodle Boodle FN003 12” 45rpm
Thumbs Off (Kilgour/Kilgour/Scott) – The Clean - Boodle Boodle Boodle FN003 12” 45rpm
Anything Could Happen (Kilgour/Kilgour/Scott)