ChCh Music History

2002 - c/o www.nzonscreen.com
This documentary tells the story of the legendary Flying Nun music label up to its 21st birthday. The label became associated with the 'Dunedin Sound': a catch-all term for a sprawl of DIY, post-punk, warped, jangly guitar-pop. The Guardian: "[it's] as if being on the other side of the world meant the music was played upside down". Features interviews with key players, the spats and the dark-but-breezy glory...

18th November 2009 - c/o Radio NZ National
In 1981 Christchurch, New Zealand record shop manager and music fan Roger Shepherd decided that someone should be recording the bands he loved to watch each weekend. Armed with this idea and a mere $50, Flying Nun Records went on to document one of the most diverse and interesting bodies of music in New Zealand - and, some would argue, the world...

13th May 2009 - c/o www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment
For me New Zealand Music Month emphasises the nature of our music and the business that it has become. And in the process it is also a stark reminder of how much has changed since I first started working part-time in a Christchurch record shop in the mid-1970s...

1st May 2009 - By Kate Preece c/o www.stuff.co.nz/the-press
It's NZ Music Month and here in Christchurch we are celebrating all the fantastic musicians who made their mark here first. Christchurch doesn't often get credit for being a creative city, but when you look at the number of great musicians who have started here, it's about time it did...

ROCKHAPPENZ is a database providing details of Christchurch (and Canterbury)
 Vocalists, Musicians and Groups of the late 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s...

The ROCKONZ Rock Hall of Fame showcases those artists who have reached and maintained the highest standards possible in the New Zealand Rock Music Industry - an industry which had it's beginnings in the late 1950s...

Links to web articles on Christchurch music - 1950's to present...