Dunedin Sound Tapes

The purpose of this blog is to expose you to the unique and unrepeatable New Zealand scene known as "Dunedin Sound" that emerged in New Zealand in the early eighties. This space takes over from wonderful blogs that in their time served to make known to the world some of the most significant bands and records of that period. The present collection is dedicated to all those kiwi bands -many of them already forgotten- who, without knowing it, wrote a very important page in the history of music.

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viernes, 26 de abril de 2019

The Weeds ‎– Wheatfields (1985)

Sometimes they played in their underwear and in 1985 they released the raucous folk-blues ‘Wheatfields’ as a one-off single, flipped with a live take on Elvis Presley’s ‘Trouble’ on Flying Nun Records.

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The Weeds ‎– Soundtrack (1986)

Homemade tape on Robert Scott's EST imprint played as a fake hootenanny with The Weeds performing as different bands.

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domingo, 25 de marzo de 2018

The Weeds - Pay It All Back (1985)

Dunedin supergroup The Weeds were Michael Morley (bass, vocals), Shayne Carter (guitar, vocals), Robert Scott (guitar, bass, vocals) and on drums, Jeff Harford, Chris Healey or John Collie. Sometimes they played in their underwear and in 1985 they released the raucous folk-blues ‘Wheatfields’ as a one-off single, flipped with a live take on Elvis Presley’s ‘Trouble’ on Flying Nun Records. Pay It All Back, a 13-song tape, was released in 1985 on Scott’s Every Secret Thing tape imprint, followed in 1986 by songs on three subsequent EST compilation tapes. An EP (‘Emily’, ‘Ivan’, ‘Heads Abound’, ‘In Your Talk’) was recorded with Ivan Purvis at Chippendale House in Dunedin in November 1985 but remains unreleased in that form.

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