Flying Nun Artists: The D4, Straitjacket Fits, Bailter Space, Headless Chickens, Gerling, the 3ds, the Bats, the Mint Chicks, Sneaky Feelings Reviews

Flying Nun Artists: The D4, Straitjacket Fits, Bailter Space, Headless Chickens, Gerling, the 3ds, the Bats, the Mint Chicks, Sneaky Feelings





Chapters: The D4, Straitjacket Fits, Bailter Space, Headless Chickens, Gerling, the 3ds, the Bats, the Mint Chicks, Sneaky Feelings, the Chills, the Clean, the Verlaines, Netherworld Dancing Toys, Chris Knox, Able Tasmans, David Kilgour, Garageland, Tall Dwarfs, the Terminals, Look Blue Go Purple, Toy Love, Dimmer, Jean-Paul Sartre Experience, Betchadupa, Wreck Small Speakers on Expensive Stereos, Alec Bathgate, the Doublehappys, the Renderers, Ghost Club, Bird Nest Roys. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 116. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Straitjacket Fits formed in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1986 and were a prominent band in the Flying Nun label's second wave of the Dunedin Sound. Like many of their stable-mates, the band hailed from the southern city of Dunedin. They formed from the ashes of The DoubleHappys, a band comprising Shayne Carter, Wayne Elsey and John Collie. The tragic accidental death of Elsey saw Carter and Collie join forces with David Wood (ex-Working With Walt) in 1986 to form Straitjacket Fits. Andrew Brough (from The Orange) signed on the following year, adding a foil in the form of pop sensibility to Carter's more raucous songwriting. From their inception, the sound of the band was marked by the seemingly incongruous but highly effective pairing of Carter's rough abrasive voice and strident guitar and Andrew Brough's saccharine-sweet vocals and pop hooks. 1987 marked the release of their first EP. Life in One Chord defined their sound, spending 10 weeks in the Top 50. All four of the songs are justifiable New Zealand rock classics, none more so than the astonishing "She Speeds", which was to become the band's hallmark song. Its edgy lead vocal (from Carter) was underpinned with a dynamic jagged guitar and stabs of strings which tumbled into a churning melodic...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1866211









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