Remarkably resilient NZ crew The Bats keep rolling on with Corner Coming Up

Robert Scott and and his mates in The Bats are all about travelling on their latest album Corner Coming Up out now via Flying Nun.

Get a copy of The Bats' new album Corner Coming Up via Bandcamp right here. 

Happy Birthday Robert Scott of The Bats!

Celebrating Robert Scott's birthday with a couple of interviews and "Lazyboy" from his 2014 album The Green House and more. 

One For The Weekend: The Clean

Here's the video clip for The Clean's 1982 classic "Beatnik"

Barbara Manning vs. The Magick Heads

Barbara Manning recorded a fine version of Robert Scott's "B4 We Go Under" backed by Flophouse in 1993. 

Happy Birthday Robert Scott!

Happy Birthday Robert Scott!

Too Early by Robert Scott

The Verlaines, Flying Nun turn 30

Believe it or not, three decades have passed since Roger Shepherd started up New Zealand's fabulous Flying Nun label. Coincidentally, it was also in 1981 that Graeme Downes founded The Verlaines in Dunedin. With word now that Downes is putting the finishing touches on a new Verlaines album, it seems worthwhile to look back at the development of the Dunedin scene which spawned many of the amazing groups that helped launch Flying Nun globally, inspiring countless artists, from Pavement to Guided By Voices and Barbara Manning to the late Jay Reatard. Here are a couple of clips which document the South Island origins of New Zealand's influential musical exports The Clean, The Chills, The Bats and The Verlaines whose members are still musically active today.

Friends Of The Enemy



Getting Older by The Clean 1981



Flamethrower by The Chills 1982



Pyromaniac by The Verlaines 1984


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