C5.2 Famous New Zealanders: Music
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This article is from the New Zealand FAQ, by Phil Stuart-Jones and Lin Nah with numerous contributions by others.
C5.2 Famous New Zealanders: Music
Links to NZ Music on the Web
Akiko http://nz.com/NZ/Culture/Music/MainPage.html
BFM's List http://www.95bfm.co.nz/links.html
Simon Dear's pages http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Users/sd/kiwimusic/
URL's NZ Arts page http://url.co.nz/arts/nzarts.html
C5.2.1 Pop/Rock Bands
(thumbnails by Dave Joll)
Abel Tasmans Melodic alternative pop often including string,
wind or keyboard parts.
Ardijah Pop with a slight tinge of funk.
Bats, The
Blam Blam Blam Thoughtful and occasionally weird post-punk pop.
Best known for the hilarious and viciously sarcastic
"There is No Depression in New Zealand".
Body Electric, The
Chills, The
Crowded House
Dance Exponents Now known as the Exponents. "Good time" party rock.
DD Smash Rock became funk became pop. Leader Dave Dobbyn
later went solo with offerings as diverse as the
Footrot Flats movie sound track and the dark
"Lament for the Numb".
Dragon
Dudes, The
Enemy, The
Exponents, The
Father Time
Front Lawn, The
Hello Sailor
Herbs
Jean Paul Satre Experience
Johnnies, The
MiSex Cynical, self conscious post-punk rock.
Mockers, The
Muttonbirds, The
Netherworld Dancing Toys
Narcs, The
Ragnarok
Screaming Mee Mees
Sheerlux
Shona Laing
Space Waltz
Split Enz All time musical genii
Suburban Reptiles
Swingers, The Responsible for the infectious classic
"Counting the Beat"
Tall Dwarfs
Verlaines, The Complicated and literate alternative rock. Are
beginning to have their songs covered by overseas
musicians
Thin Red Line
Toy Love
etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.
C5.2.2 Blues
Midge Marsden
C5.2.3 Country
The Warratahs
C5.2.4 Classical
Michael Houston
Dame Kiri te Kanawa
Lili Kraus
Douglas Lilburn
Noel Mangin
Dame Malvina Major
Donald McIntyre
Oscar Natzke (sp?)
A WWW page of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra is now available:
http://www.nzso.co.nz/
Dale Gold adds:
"We will soon have a new URL on our own virtual server, as well as a mirror
on Akiko to speed things up for overseas users. More audio is in the
works, and much of it will have a NZ slant, although it won't all be
human... :-)"
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