Nun’s on a run!
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Category: Music

Hi there,

It's been a really great time for all at Flying Nun recently.

Following on from the beautiful Shocking Pinks album (and just for the record, we will also be bringing you the next Shocking Pinks album from DFA in NZ and Australia) came the sublime album from the Phoenix Foundation, 'Happy Ending'.

'Happy Ending' debuted at an incredible number 5 in the New Zealand national album chart, as well as being at number 1 on the NZ i-tunes album chart during the same week.

Then came the Mint Chicks at the NZ Music Awards who won Album Of The Year for 'Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No!' along with Group Of The Year, Rock Album Of The Year, Video Of The Year (for Sam Peacocke's clip for Crazy?Yes!Dumb?No!), and Cover Art Of The Year.

We've been trawling back through the dusty archives for the last Flying Nun winner of Album Of The Year and going way, way back stumbled across The Headless Chickens...so congratulations to the Mint Chicks - it's been a while between drinks for us and we're incredibly proud of you.

 ...and we're not done there! There's one more Flying Nun release this year and in many ways we've placed the cherry on top of the years cake by bringing you the first studio album in 10 years by The Verlaines!!

 A track from the incredible 'Pot Boiler' is up on our cover page now to listen to entitled 'It's Easier To Harden A Broken Heart (Than Mend It)'. 'Pot Boiler' will be released on Dec 10th in NZ, and fingers crossed Worldwide through i-tunes at the same time.

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THE PHOENIX FOUNDATION’S NEW ALBUM - HAPPY ENDING -OUT NOW!
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Category: Music

Wellington's finest The Phoenix Foundation's new album "Happy Ending" is out now in New Zealand!!

really...does it get any better than that ?!?!

A NEW ALBUM BY THE PHOENIX FOUNDATION!!! WAHOOO !!!!

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Bright Grey
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       Bright Grey

Single & Video Released,

Bright Grey – the first single from The Phoenix Foundations highly anticipated 3^rd studio album Happy Ending has been released and is now available for download online through iTunes, Digirama, and also Telecom and Vodafone Mobile phones.

The follow up to their gold selling album Pegasus released in 2005, Happy Ending will be released through Flying Nunn Records on October 8.

"Bright Grey started its life as synthy instrumental thing for possible use in the film Eagle Vs Shark. The demo was very pleasing indeed so the band stole it back for our own filthy purposes…. the lyrics are a direct result of the cosmic malaise that came over New Zealand during that crazy period when were visited by a comet. Its kind of future angst as imagined by a 12 year old boy in 1983. A distopian nightmare of our own boredom."    Says Vocalist/guitarist Samuel Flynn Scott

New Bright Grey Video:

The amazing new video for the single was released to Music Television this week. The video, shot in Island Bay, Wellington over one, long 16-hour day in mid August, was directed by Oscar nominated Taika Waititi (Two Cars One Night, Eagle Vs Shark), with whom The Phoenix Foundation wrote the soundtrack for his latest box office film Eagle Vs Shark.

Developed by the Samuel Flynn Scott and Luke Buda (who spend way too many hours on you Tube…), the concept was inspired by Japanese 'synth pop' legends Yellow Magic Orchestra, and features loads of synths, bored musicians, the 'Back to the Future' car, an audience of weird 80's kids, heaps of dried ice…….and all things cool.. 

Click here to download Bright Grey iTunes:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?id=157071931

And check out the new Bright Grey video now at:

www.myspace.com/thephoenixfoundationnz  and www.thephoenixfoundation.co.nz 

Currently listening : Shocking Pinks By The Shocking Pinks Release date: 25 September, 2007

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THE MINT CHICKS - FRIDAY 20TH JULY schooner

This will be a fantastic show.
One of the last at the Schooner too - did you hear its closing down? To build high rise apartments - blah!)

THE MINT CHICKS
with the DHDFDS
FRIDAY 20TH JULY
the schooner, auckland
doors open 8.30pm
tickets from fast and loose

(now just imagine a picture of a hand holding a dagger)

Currently listening : Venus Trail By 3ds Release date: 19 July, 2005

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Heavenly Pop Hits: The Flying Nun Story

As part of the New Zealand Music month celebrations Satellite Media's documentary Heavenly Pop Hits: The Flying Nun Story will be screening on the Sky Documentary channel...:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

'Heavenly Pop Hits: The Flying Nun Story commemorated the 21^st anniversary of the home-grown indie record label Flying Nun. Established in the South Island during the early 1980's, Flying Nun gave fledgling Kiwi bands such as The Chills and Straightjacket Fits their first taste of recording and releasing music. Renowned for recording music for music's sake rather than promoting songs purely for their commercial value, Flying Nun Records gained an international reputation for releasing great alternative Kiwi music. More recently Flying Nun had bands like the D4 and The Mint Chicks on its books.'

Don't miss this insight into a classic piece of ..:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />New Zealand music history.

Heavenly Pop Hits: The Flying Nun Story, 10pm Saturday May 5^th, Sky Documentary.

Currently listening : You're Just Too Obscure for Me By The Verlaines Release date: 15 March, 2007

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Tour dates for The Clean...starting THIS WEEK.
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Tour dates for The Clean...starting THIS WEEK....

Friday 16th March - San Francisco Bath House – Wellington – with LUKE BUDA and Band
Saturday 17th March - The Studio – Auckland – With Voom
Sunday 18th of March - Leigh Sawmill Cafe – Leigh – With Chris Knox and A Nothing
Wednesday 21st of March - Penguin Club – Oamaru – With Bill Direen
Friday 23rd of March - Heritage Festival - Dunedin
Saturday 24th March - Jetset Lounge – Christchurch – with Minisnap
Sunday 25th March - Harbourlight – Lyttleton – with The Undercurrents

Tickets on sale nationally from Ticketmaster.co.nz, Real Groovy stores.

Currently listening : The Far Now By David Kilgour with The Heavy Eights Release date: 23 January, 2007

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FLYING NUN at SXSW, USA
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FLYING NUN TRIPLE FEATURE

DIMMER, THE MINT CHICKS & CHILDERN COLLIDE

WED 14 MARCH 07

11PM - 2AM

ONE VENUE

611. 7TH STREET, AUSTIN, TX 78701

ROGER SHEPHERD (Founder of Flying Nun) will be there too!

COME ALONG!

TELL YOUR FRIENDS!

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the mint chicks in USA

THE MINT CHICKS brought to you by Panache Booking:

http://www.panacherock.com

Currently listening : Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No! By Mint Chicks Release date: 30 November, 2006

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the chills, the clean and sneaky feelings...

the chills, the clean and sneaky feelings...are all playing at one gig in dunedin - read below for more information!

love flying nun xxx

DUNEDIN HERITAGE FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FULL RESOUND LINEUP.
It's official RESOUND- Three Decades of Dunedin Sound, 23 March 2007 Regent Theatre- is set to be the Dunedin rock concert of the new millennium. Get ready for an unforgettable blast of Dunedin rock through the ages, from the 70's through to 2007.

Dunedin's inaugural Heritage Festival has pulled off the unimaginable all under one roof: Mother Goose, The Clean and Sneaky Feelings are all reforming to take the stage alongside the inimitable Chills. This showcase of Dunedin rock icons is joined by contemporary Dunedin sounds that include Onanon, Gestalt Switch, Taking The Fall, Delgirl, Freddy Fudd Pucker and Anji Sami; indisputable proof that Dunedin's music scene is still rocking.

Festival Director, Caroline Cook says it's been hard to keep the line –up under wraps. "There has been so much interest in this concert, so many rumours and so much excitement building that it's been difficult to keep a lid on it. This will be a unique event, not just because of the calibre of artists performing but because it is being embraced as a true celebration of the energy and creativity that Dunedin unleashes in those who live here. For many people it will be a rare opportunity to experience live, Dunedin bands that have had the world's music media in raptures."
Production Manger Scott Muir comments, "This will be a real journey through the decades and will have appeal to a wide cross section of ages."

70's band Mother Goose will don their outrageous costumes and deliver their 'speedy mixture of sophisticated music and stage presentation'. Drummer Marcel Rodeka says,   " It was a unique piece of rock'n roll, vaudeville, theatre that just seemed to hit the mark wherever it played."    These Dunedin boys, many of them schoolmates with a couple of ring-ins from Alexandra and an Otago Boys High boarder from Heriot, hatched Mother Goose inside the Dunedin Highland Pipe Band clubrooms. 18 months later they were the biggest act in Australia breaking house attendance records wherever they played while other bands fell over themselves fighting to be their support act including Cold Chisel, Men at Work, Aussie Crawl, and Midnight Oil. For keyboard player Steve Young, "It was a huge adventure, we were made for TV, it was massive." Young adds, "We had had thoughts of reforming before but decided that we didn't want to pretend that we were 20 again. It's taken the Heritage Festival to motivate us because we are all proud to be part of Dunedin's heritage." www.dunedinmusic.com

In walks the 80's, the Flying Nun label and the band who started it all, The Clean. Dunedin brothers Hamish and David Kilgour regroup with Robert Scott, aka the Bats, to serve up the fruits of their 'free-flowing chemistry and musical experimentation'. Hamish Kilgour now lives in New York and plays in his band The Mad Scene. David Kilgour was and still is an integral part of Dunedin's unique sound of the eighties and nineties and continues to impress at home in Dunedin, throughout New Zealand and in parts of the States where he has acquired a cult status. The Clean reform periodically, as it suits their creative desires, and this time, to celebrate Dunedin's music legacy, it suits just fine. www.flyingnun.co.nz/archive_site/

Flying Nun's most successful band The Chills are as musically powerful today as they were in the 80's. Martin Phillipps is Dunedin through and through. Says Phillipps "I feel recharged in Dunedin." And that recharging continues to fuel the live energy that makes The Chills one of the most well-known New Zealand groups to date - particularly in the U.S.A., U.K. and Europe. The Heritage Festival gets the thumbs up from Phillips, "I think it is a special thing to celebrate the unusual amount of wonderful music that has come out of this city. It is worth celebrating and I am thrilled to still be around to be part of it.  We are a band that has been around for more than a quarter of a century and we are especially excited about the music we are playing today, it feels as relevant as anything we are hearing." www.softbomb.com

Mathew Bannister is returning to Dunedin to head up the multi-voiced harmonies of Sneaky Feelings and is sold on the idea of the concert. "It's a great idea and so good that we are choosing to be proud of our culture and achievements, not just our rugby, so good that the cultural cringe is dying out.".  As a 17 yr old boy from Scotland, Mathew couldn't believe his luck with the emerging music scene he found in the city he'd emigrated to in the 80's. Get ready for that jangle sound of guitars and be prepared for a touch of the new generation as Mathew's sons Tom (15) and Albert (12) add a touch of brass to the performance.  www.flyingnun.co.nz/archive_site/

Supporting acts for the concert tell their own story of Dunedin's creative rock scene. There's the generational thing, influences from the past, and family and school mate connections; there's the eternal youth that keeps pouring into the city at the start of each University year; and there's the utmost encouragement to do whatever you want to do; the perfect environment to experiment and be original.

Onanon  - "...one of the most interesting things to scuttle out of the Dunedin underground..."  (Bill Morris, Pavement Magazine).
Onanon guitarist, Don Ferns gives substance to the claim that they are presently one of the most Dunedin sounding bands, "some of the first songs we ever played were from The Clean… there was just something about that early Dunedin sound that made you want to play music…."
www.myspace.com/onanonnz

Gestalt Switch –" This is a band getting seriously good seriously quickly."  (Max Johns, dunedinmusic.com )
This self confessed old rock 'n' roll band has roots in Otago Uni's Contemporary Music programme run by Graeme Downes (Verlaines). They are going places loudly.
www.gestaltswitch.co.nz

Freddy Fudd Pucker aka Two Fat Ladies frontman, Tom Young –"a ' raw talent worth keeping in sight' (Sunday Star Times). 
The irreverence in his music runs in the family… son of Mother Goose founder Steve Young who took the piss out of 70's rock by injecting it with vaudeville… Freddy's cynicism has much the same affect  in the ' noughties'.     http://youtube.com (Search: Freddy Fudd Pucker for video)

Delgirl – "Double Bass, Guitar, Percussion, Trumpet and Ukuele all get a look-in accompanied by 3 of the sweetest voices you are likely to hear this side of the black stag." (dunedinmusic.com ).
Delgirl play skiffily, folky, country, gospley, jazzy, bluesy music with a Pacific flavour! www.delgirl.co.nz    www.myspace.com/delgirl

Anji Sami – "Sami became of musical age in Dunedin. a shining light on the Dunedin music scene" (Pavement Magazine)
Sami has proven she can captivate an audience with just her guitar, her voice and her songs.
www.myspace.com/anjisami

Taking The Fall –"..a step up from most with a unique, almost Blindspott sound as well as great energy and build-up." Bevan O'Connor (dunedinmusic.com)
Winner of last year's Otago Smoke Free Rock Quest, TTF are too young to remember the bands they will support, too excited to care, but old enough to never forget the experience.
www.myspace.com/takingthefalls

Tickets go on sale 10th February www.ticketek.co.nz and at Regent Ticketek 03 477 8597

Dunedin Heritage Festival March 22 – 26 2007
www.dunedinheritagefestival.co.nz

Currently listening : Anthology By The Clean Release date: 21 January, 2003

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THE CLEAN are reforming for a NZ Tour....
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Press release:

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