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The Chills: Scatterbrain (Fire/digital outlets)

...years ago, on the release of the Chills' album Snow Bound, Martin Phillipps noted... ...were saying “it sounded like the Chills”, his particular style evident almost 40... ...[I'm] being recognised for it.” With the Chills' new album Scatterbrain that aural autograph... ...hallmark as much as that identifiable Chills sound. With strings and spacious arrangements,... ...muted delivery and themes, this is still the Chills®. . Scatterbrain is on digital platforms,...

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The Chills: The BBC Sessions (Fire/Southbound)

...in '85, '87 and '88 -- various line-ups of the Chills recorded sessions for John Peel's famous radio... ...BBC Sessions is an important addition to the Chills remarkable catalogue....

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RECOMMENDED RECORD: The Chills: Submarine Bells (Fire/Flying Nun)

...this one . . . . There is a reason why many Chills' loyalists speak of Martin Phillipps' timeless... ...for his Chills (by-any-other-name) outlet: It is that because... ...aspect to his idea than Wilson had. And the Chills' Submarine Bells album ended a tidy 40 minutes...

Music at Elsewhere: music/9682/recommended-record-the-chills-submarine-bells-fire-flying-nun/

The Soft Pack: The Soft Pack (Pod/Inertia)

...of Joy Division monochrome gloom and the early Chills. And More or Less brings to mind the...

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The Chills: Snow Bound (Fire/Southbound)

...Martin Phillipps – mainman of the Chills – observed that their last album Silver... ...new album of recent songs should confirm the Chills are still viable and strong. Always a writer... ...Phillipps was pleased when told that the Chills have an archetypal sound . . . and it is... ...and yet another solid plank in the rebuilt Chills' career this past decade. Snow Bound is...

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The Chills: Brave Words Spoken Bravely, The Remix (Fire Records/digital outlets

...release Martin Phillipps get to include the Chills debut album Brave Words – by the... ...buried a lot of the real performance from that Chills line-up beneath too much Eighties reverb and... ...many more: demos, B-sides and live tracks. The Chills are still very much a going concern –...

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The Chills: Silver Bullets (Fire/Flying In)

...observing that Silver Bullets is the first Chills album of new material in 19 years. In the... ...Pauline Murray, the mainman of the Chills -- Martin Phillipps – seems positively... ...slightly diminishing returns on the previous Chills album Sunburnt in '96 (Phillipps and session... ...songs were. And how, at their best, the Chills (whoever they might be) could bring them to... ...not only harks back to an identifiably urgent Chills sound but delivers songs which count among... ...Bullets, but it's worth noting that these Chills actually sound like a band:... ...album you'll hear this year. Even if the last Chills album came out when you were at playcentre or... ...here, and there is more about the Chills at Elsewhere starting here. THE CHILLS...

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Surf City: Kudos (Arch Hill)

...rolling energy of early Flying Nun acts (the Chills and the Clean especially) but turn it up to 11...

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THE CHILLS: THE TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY OF MARTIN PHILLIPPS, a doco by JULIA PARNELL and ROB CURRY (Madman DVD/Blu-Ray)

...seen going through his scrupulously archived Chills clippings and comes on one from '92 written... ...the surprise of his bandmates – that the Chills would be no more. He reads from the article... ...following, “the Chills were the great white hope of Kiwi rock . . .... ...booze and taking treatment, the story of the Chills' rise and demise and rise again – this... ...autobiographical. His vision for the Chills was one that he couldn't share however, at... ...“There's a lot of tragedy in the Chills story,” says Doug Hood who was there at... ...all lucky to survive. Neil Finn speaks of the Chills music having longing, alienation and joy, and... ...a chance to contribute to an exhibition of the Chills and his artwork and memorabilia which was... ...have been going well for him and the stable Chills since this doco was completed. He is also... ...to his life behind closed doors, the wealth of Chills visual material and his archives, and of...

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THE LAST HURRAH (2025): Martin Phillipps' last Chills album

...– who steered his vision of the Chills from the early 1980s until his death last July... ...mortality from an early age: his friend and Chills' drummer Martyn Bull dying in 1983; Phillipps... ...health issues. But in the last decade the Chills – a stable line-up with excellent albums... ...unrecorded songs repolished by Phillipps, the Chills and others – it's swept aside by the... ...Soda is gloriously shimmering and archetypal Chills jangle-pop (“I don't regret a thing . .... ...troubles the charts these days. Not even the Chills embellished by female vocalists. Despite the... ...Submarine Bells – and many familiar Chills motifs, there isn't a breakout pop hit here,...

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Martin Phillipps of the Chills

...it is easy to be flippant about the Chills' constantly changing line-ups during their... ...Pop Hit to be incuded in the payload. The Chills have continued to play (and even recorded a... ...the core of my being as I am capable of. THE CHILLS ON TOUR The Juice Bar at the Windsor Castle,... ...Saturday May 31 Churchills Tavern on Colombo, Christchurch. Sunday June 1...

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Surf Friends: Confusion (SF)

...exactly the same place as the early Clean and Chills whose sound they effectively hijack completely...

Music at Elsewhere: music/3722/surf-friends-confusion-sf/

THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE SONGWRITER QUESTIONNAIRE: Martin Phillipps of the Chills

...He helmed various versions of his band the Chills out of Dunedin on to the cusp of international... ...after 19 years – has returned with a new Chills album, the quite exceptional Silver Bullets.... ...retrieve my sample tray of meat”. THE CHILLS AUSTRALASIAN TOUR DATES Nov 7: Sammys, Dunedin...

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The Courtneys: The Courtneys (Conquest of Noise/Flying In)

...just have quite a number of Clean and early Chills albums at home. They possess exactly the right... ...in the way of riffs, hooks (yes, think the Chills and especially the Clean) and even a few wiry,...

Music at Elsewhere: music/6002/the-courtneys-the-courtneys-conquest-of-noise-flying-in/

The Prophet Hens: Popular People Do Popular People (Fishrider)

...fictional 'Dunedin Sound' – think the Chills, The Bats . . .” you'd have say on this... ...the early Bats, Sneaky Feeling and the young Chills at their poppermost. This is no real criticism...

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MARTIN PHILLIPPS, OF THE DISBANDED CHILLS, INTERVIEWED (1992): The dream is over

...has left the corpse of his 12-year dream, the Chills. He cups the pint of beer he will... ...to the long anticipated heavenly pop hit, the Chills were the great white hope of Kiwi rock, the... ...the first time, it was “the end of the Chills as a concept,” there was more ridicule... ...begins to emerge. “The energy level the Chills need to live up to our past reputation has to... ...one Phillipps has been able to share with many Chills. It wasn’t until the last couple of... ...the end was in sight” – that these Chills reached the heights Phillipps could feel... ...the band “had an obligation to be the Chills and not play Chills songs like a covers... ...with those people and been a much better Chills than it was. They were being paid good money... ...their job; they should try, he says. Where the Chills ultimately lost it all was their fifth gig,... ...at the New Music Seminar in New York got the Chills an American deal in the first place. But from...

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Dead Famous People: “Harry” (Fire Records/Southbound/digital outlets)

...back here by the likes of Martin Phillipps (Chills) – and an appearances on the Leonard... ...God's work for New Zealand artists like the Chills, JPSE and others – sought out Savage in... ...of '78), those on the Pop Frenzy label, the Chills and early Sneaky Feelings. But Savage also... ...be heavenly pop hits (Savage appeared on that Chills track). Chiming guitars, an upbeat ethic and...

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The Doubtful Sounds: The Pop Album (doubtfulsounds.com)

...strum'n'jangle which brings to mind early Chills, Bats et al. So the promise of "a pop...

Music at Elsewhere: music/5264/the-doubtful-sounds-the-pop-album-doubtfulsoundscom/

Martin Phillipps: Live at the Moth Club (Fire CD/DVD through Southbound)

...Martin Phillipps of the Chills – a songwriter, lyricist and arranger of... ...seemed to be finished when he broke up the Chills on stage n the US in 92 – has ridden a... ...through Britain's Fire Records – of the Chills' BBC Sessions in the Eighties and more... ...biographical DVD entitled The Curse of the Chills – illuminates all of that: the curse of...

Music at Elsewhere: music/7616/martin-phillipps-live-at-the-moth-club-fire-cd-dvd-through-southbound/

The Close Readers: Group Hug (Austin)

...he was in the Jonahs who once opened for the Chills. But the Close Readers' indie.pop/alt.country...

Music at Elsewhere: music/4326/the-close-readers-group-hug-austin/

Orchestra of Spheres: Brothers and Sisters of the Black Lagoon (Fire)

...complete JPSE, as well as the excellent new Chills album Silver Bullets. Let it be said there are...

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MARTIN PHILLIPPS, REMEMBERED AND RESPECTED (2024): Pop hits for those that still want them

...right at the start of his career with the Chills in 1980. When I was teaching at the university... ...was evident in the 2019 documentary The Chills: The Triumph & Tragedy of Martin... ...to see Martin and his stable line-up of Chills enjoying success. He was recording and... ...him in 1992. He'd announced the end of the Chills on-stage in New York (to the shock and... ...has left the corpse of his 12-year dream, the Chills. “He cups the pint of beer he will... ...people who had passed through the ranks of the Chills . . . He went back to Dunedin and as we know... ...with their memories. When I took him and the Chills around the Volume: Making Music in Aotearoa... ...literally, when Martin Phillipps and the Chills got back up there under the lights and once...

Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/11219/martin-phillipps-remembered-and-respected-2024-pop-hits-for-those-that-still-want-them/

Orangefarm: Inheritance (Failsafe Records/digital outlets)

...idiomatic songs with drummer Caroline Easther (Chills, Verlaines, Lets Planet) sharing drum duties... ...Pressure is perhaps perilously close to the Chills (but with wah-wah guitar) and the appealingly...

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Various Artists: Heaven on Fire (Fire/digital outlets)

...UK post-punk cult acts and the on-going Chills). Consider this Weaver's calling card for Fire...

Music at Elsewhere: music/10002/various-artists-heaven-on-fire-fire-digital-outlets/

Embryo: 40 (Trikont/Yellow Eye)

...pass through their ranks (which makes the Chills seems stable); they toured in Morocco; brought...

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Cut Off Your Hands: Hollow (Speak N Spell)

...Nausea you hear more of locals like the Chills, JPSE and the Bats than off-shore sounds....

Music at Elsewhere: music/4407/cut-off-your-hands-hollow-speak-n-spell/

Surf Friends: Sonic Waves (Flying Nun/bandcamp)

...unashamed influences from the Clean and the Chills (“whose sound they effectively hijack...

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THE VERLAINES; REISSUED AND RECONSIDERED (2010): Listened to Mahler, look over my shoulder . . .

...how each of the four bands -- the Stones, the Chills, Sneaky Feelings and the Verlaines -- thought... ...posturing on display. For their space the Chills' Martin Phillipps wrote out his lyrics (he...

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: David Kilgour

...bomb with fuse promoting Soft Bomb by the Chills. A piece of kindling that Gary from Pavement...

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GRAEME DOWNES OF THE VERLAINES INTERVIEWED (2003): Such brave, flawed diamonds

...Flying Nun Dunedin Double EP alongside the Chills, Sneaky Feelings and the Stones, wrote their... ...likely candidates to succeed, which was the Chills and, when they went into hiatus, Straitjacket...

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Belle and Sebastian: Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance (Matador)

...spiritual Nobody's Empire, think the Chills at their most uplifting – and the...

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ANTHEMS, NEW ZEALAND'S ICON HITS a doco series by JULIA PARNELL and MARCUS PALMER

...riveting doco on Martin Phillipps and the Chills) seeks to answer in this five-part series on...

Film at Elsewhere: film/8908/anthems-new-zealands-icon-hits-a-doco-series-by-julia-parnell-and-marcus-palmer/

Various Artists: Time to Go; The Southern Psychedelic Movement 1981-86 (Flying Nun)

...the Clean, the Gordons, the Builders, the Chills, Tall Dwarfs, Sneaky Feelings, the Puddle etc... ...tripped-out pop end of the broad spectrum (the Chills' Flamethrower, Sneaky Feelings' dreamy Not to...

Music at Elsewhere: music/4864/various-artists-time-to-go-the-southern-psychedelic-movement-1981-86-flying-nun/

BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2009 The Puddle: The Shakespeare Monkey (Fishrider/Yellow Eye)

...Colin Wilson to aural references to the Chills, and sublime Kinks-pop. This is an album which... ...is astonishing, simple beauty here (the post-Chills ballad Solace with its lovely Sixties guitar...

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Sundae Painters, Sundae Painters (digital outlets)

...and the many young acts citing the Clean, Chills, Bats and so on as influences. But Matthew... ...the mid Eighties, the expanded reissues of the Chills' albums Kaleidoscope World and Brave Words,...

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ANDREW STAFFORD, WRITER AND LABEL OWNER INTERVIEWED (2017): Going global in our own backyard #2

...to your day, today? Kaleidoscope World, by the Chills (appropriately enough - somehow the song came... ...New Zealand bands are you listening to? The Chills, again. I just got the double vinyl reissue of... ...riff, but I’m going to go with the Chills again - Heavenly Pop Hit. Lighter than air,...

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The Shifting Sands: Cosmic Radio Station (Fishrider)

...Eighties with familiar names like the Clean, Chills and Puddle alongside the barely-recalled...

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The Puddle: Playboys in the Bush (Fishrider)

...Monogamy and Christmas in the Country (cf. Chills/Sneaky Feelings), the jangle-pop of Sleepy...

Music at Elsewhere: music/3678/the-puddle-playboys-in-the-bush-fishrider/

THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE SONGWRITER QUESTIONNAIRE: Darren McShane of Superturtle

...your most recent downloads include . . . The Chills – Snow Bound via the code that came with...

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Nick Smith: Requiem (1985)

...big names on the Flying Nun label -- the Bats, Chills, Verlaines, Chris Knox et al -- were a large...

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REDD KROSS: RESEARCHING THE BLUES, CONSIDERED (2012): Power pop with attitude

...the Rolling Stones (in the Sixties), the Chills and Clean . . . And Redd Kross out of...

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Golden Curtain: English Tuning (bandcamp)

...there for the first wave of Flying Nun (Clean/Chills etc) who have turned their mature attention to...

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Panther and the Zoo: More Fun (download)

...and simple percussion. (Think early Clean and Chills but with the tuneful architecture of...

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THE GREAT JB HI-FI VINYL MARKDOWN (2021): Darling, can I borrow your credit card?

...Exit Planet Dust (double vinyl, $20) The Chills: Silver Bullets ($15) Elvis Costello: Almost...

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IT FOLLOWS, a film by DAVID ROBERT MITCHELL (Rialto DVD)

...the price for a sexual encounter . . . but the chills come from the fact that menace can be just...

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Various Artists: Late Night Tales, MGMT (Latenighttales/Southbound)

...how pleasing it is to see the Chills' Pink Frost here alongside Velvet...

Music at Elsewhere: music/4519/various-artists-late-night-tales-mgmt-latenighttales-southbound/

HIGHWAY 80s REVISITED (2021): Failsafe's alternatives to the alternative

...pop wall-of-noise from Double Happys, the Chills (thrashing through I'll Only See You), Sneaky...

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Caroline Easther

...given she was there in the early Verlaines and Chills back in the Eighties and has been in a number... ...photo album Martin gave me when I left the Chills signed by them all. It has a picture of an...

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T54: In Brush Park (Flying Nun)

...context of their predecesors like the Clean, Chills, Bats and so forth, some (eg Surf Friends'...

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The Bats: The Deep Set (Secretly Canadian/Flying Out)

...which rides a rolling rhythm like a toned-down Chills' of Kaleidoscope World). As always there is...

Music at Elsewhere: music/7861/the-bats-the-deep-set-secretly-canadian-flying-out/

MARTIN PHILLIPPS INTERVIEWED (2018): A lone guide cutting through snow

...can talk about, among many other things, the Chills' new album Snow Bound. But he immediately... ...yet another rung in what he rightly calls a Chills' “renaissance”. With his much... ...going away”), a very stable line-up of Chills for the past decade, international touring,... ...reviews for Silver Bullets and a Chills exhibition of his memorabilia in his hometown... ...installment of the on-going story of the Chills which began almost four decades ago and has... ...which have been going on. First of all the Chills exhibition in Dunedin, how did that go? It... ...much a mixture of the children's things and Chills history, and also focusing on my creative... ...of exposing the Annex. Phillipps' life and the Chills' story is the subject of an expansive... ...on and expands on the DVD The Curse of the Chills which came with the Live at the MOTH Club... ...interesting story about the renaissance of the Chills and a good chance to look at what brought it...

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FLYING NUN AT 30 (2011): Getting older and bolder

...Martin Phillipps announcing the end of the Chills on-stage in America in '92 to the surprise of... ...enhances the guitar jangle and pure pop The Chills, Heavenly Pop Hits: From Leather Jacket, Pink...

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Slowdive: Slowdive (Dead Oceans/Rhythmethod)

...to achieve liftoff before it pulls back into a Chills-like dreamy ballad for a while). But then...

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Black Wings: Meltwater (Powertool)

...rides have their musical references in early Chills and Cure with a smattering of the dreamscape...

Music at Elsewhere: music/4314/black-wings-meltwater-powertool/

Brian Jonestown Massacre: Aufheben (A Recordings/Southbound)

...listeners there may be a sense of Clean-meets-Chills in places as rolling rhythms cascade onward...

Music at Elsewhere: music/4998/brian-jonestown-massacre-aufheben-a-recordings-southbound/

Loud Ghost: All in a Day (Tone Exchange/digital outlets)

...guitar and vocals, drummer Earl Robertson (Chills, Peter Stuyvesanttt Hitlist, Bic Runga etc),...

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Jay Clarkson and the Containers: Falling Through (Zelle/digital outlets)

...bands (Television, Joy Division, early Chills) to provide a rolling and moody backdrop...

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The Shifting Sands: The Shifting Sands (Fishrider)

...whch has that oceanic swell familiar from the Chills and the Clean . . . and so it manages to...

Music at Elsewhere: music/4995/the-shifting-sands-the-shifting-sands-fishrider/

IN BRIEF: A quick overview of some recent releases

...label, and yes . . . you can hear some of the Chills' soaring melodic smarts here too. So if some...

Music at Elsewhere: music/6599/in-brief-a-quick-overview-of-some-recent-releases/

Citrus Clouds: Imagination (bandcamp)

...past the five minute mark). There's an early Chills quality to Bright Lights, albeit with some...

Music at Elsewhere: music/7877/citrus-clouds-imagination-bandcamp/

SNEAKY FEELINGS CONSIDERED (2013): The Nuns that really flew

...(1980-89). Along with Martin Phillipps in the Chills and Andrew Brough who brought gorgeous... ...on the seminal Dunedin Double alongside the Chills, Verlaines and Stones. Yet even in those early...

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Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/6529/sneaky-feelings-considered-2013-the-nuns-that-really-flew/

SHORT CUTS: A round-up of recent New Zealand releases

...chords of so many early Nun bands (Bats/Chills). Apparently that album got some nice notices... ...Sneaky Feelings than disappassionate early Chills) but the reference points remain the same....

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THE HASSELHOFF EXPERIMENT: ALWAYS OUTNUMBERED ALWAYS OUTGUNNED, CONSIDERED (1999): Loud, fast and in control

...rock. The defense calls the Bats, Clean, Chills, Verlaines . . . This conspicuously overlooks...

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ALL KINDS OF HIGHS, SIXTIES PSYCHEDELIC POP (2012): The jellybean-tangerine-dandelion years

...What's in name? Well, Martin Phillipps of the Chills told me an A&R man said to him (just as... ...Chills were about to get some traction in the US)...

Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/5171/all-kinds-of-highs-sixties-psychedelic-pop-2012-the-jellybean-tangerine-dandelion-years/

Tole Puddle: Frodo (1973)

...eight line-up changes in three years (the Chills of their generation?) and eventually left for...

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The New Existentialists: Poetry is Theft (bandcamp)

...of the Worm, the chiming/driving and oddly Chills-like melody of Naked (with a widescreen guitar...

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Music at Elsewhere: music/9979/the-new-existentialists-poetry-is-theft-bandcamp/

Dominic Blaazer: The Lights of Te Atatu (vinyl/streaming services)

...them Greg Fleming's Trains, a stint in the Chills in the mid Nineties and the hipster favourites...

Music at Elsewhere: music/8309/dominic-blaazer-the-lights-of-te-atatu-vinyl-streaming-services/

DISCOVER LIVE, INTRODUCED (2019): An invitation across the nation in NZ Music Month

...prefer a visual treat then the documentary The Chills – The Triumph & Tragedy of Martin...

Something Elsewhere: somethingelsewhere/8927/discover-live-introduced-2019-an-invitation-across-the-nation-in-nz-music-month/

The Feelies: Here Before (Pop Frenzy)

...satisfy older fans and those of the Bats/Chills persuasion, but might even engage an audience...

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Music at Elsewhere: music/4191/the-feelies-here-before-pop-frenzy/

Various Artists: Tally Ho! (Flying Nun)

...the Verlaines (Death and the Maiden), the Chills (Heavenly Pop Hit), Sneaky Feelings (Husband...

Music at Elsewhere: music/4574/various-artists-tally-ho-flying-nun/

NEEDLES AND PLASTIC; FLYING NUN RECORDS, 1981-1988, by MATTHEW GOODY

...and FN014s. And no FN004 or FN 005. And the Chills' first releases weren't FN anything, they had... ...Doug Hood; the various members of the Clean, Chills, Verlaines and others; promoters and producers...

Writing at Elsewhere: writingelsewhere/10444/needles-and-plastic-flying-nun-records-1981-1988-by-matthew-goody/

THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE SONGWRITERS' QUESTIONNAIRE: Simon Comber/Herriot Row

...miles behind him too having opened for the Chills around this country, through Australia with...

The Famous Elsewhere Questionnaire: thefamouselsewherequestionnaire/8081/the-famous-elsewhere-songwriters-questionnaire-simon-comber-herriot-row/

SUPERETTE; REISSUED AND EXPANDED (2018): Got a tiger by the tail

...the early Nineties good things happened: The Chills released Submarine Bells, the Clean re-formed...

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Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/8664/superette-reissued-and-expanded-2018-got-a-tiger-by-the-tail/

BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2009 Various: Stroke; Songs for Chris Knox (Rhythmethod)

...others among the internationals; the Checks, Chills, Mint Chicks, Shayne Carter, Don McGlashan,... ...It Nice, the jangle'n'orchestration of the Chills on Luck or Loveliness, David Kilgour turning...

Music at Elsewhere: music/2663/best-of-elsewhere-2009-various-stroke-songs-for-chris-knox-rhythmethod/

Caroline Easther: Lucky (bandcamp, other digital outlets to come)

...– the young Verlaines, a classic early Chills line-up, her own Let's Planet, and others . ....

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Music at Elsewhere: music/8817/caroline-easther-lucky-bandcamp-other-digital-outlets-to-come/

Beat Rhythm Fashion: Tenterhook (Failsafe/digital outlets)

...Birch, singer/drummer Caroline Easther (BRF, Chills, Let's Planet, Verlaines) and bassist Rob...

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Music at Elsewhere: music/8779/beat-rhythm-fashion-tenterhook-failsafe-digital-outlets/

SHORT CUTS: A round-up of recent New Zealand releases

...two nights when the band was on tour with the Chills and before the recording of their Pop Lib EP... ...the late Peter Gutteridge (keyboards, Clean/Chills/Great Unwashed/Snapper), bassist Ross Jackson...

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Music at Elsewhere: music/9391/short-cuts-a-round-up-of-recent-new-zealand-releases/

Various: The Great New Zealand Songbook (Thom/Sony)

...Taller Than God, Neil Finn's Sinner, the Chills' still heavenly Heavenly Pop Hit, Shihad's...

Music at Elsewhere: music/2348/various-the-great-new-zealand-songbook-thom-sony/

THE STEADY RETURN OF THE VERLAINES (2024): Taking good care of it

...the Clean, the Gordons, Balloon D'Essai, Chills and others in the early-mid Eighties. Where... ...Downes, bassist Jane Dodd formerly with the Chills and drummer Robbie Yeats – and this...

Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/11052/the-steady-return-of-the-verlaines-2024-taking-good-care-of-it/

Sneaky Feelings: Progress Junction (Flying Nun)

...this group applied. The irony was that the Chills, who also harboured mainstream acclaim, were...

Music at Elsewhere: music/8086/sneaky-feelings-progress-junction-flying-nun/

THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Quaint of Polar Extremes

...on the Bessemer process – I got the chills… even though the iron was melting. Your...

The Famous Elsewhere Questionnaire: thefamouselsewherequestionnaire/8813/the-famous-elsewhere-questionnaire-quaint-of-polar-extremes/

THE ART AND IMAGERY OF FLYING NUN (2021): From record shelves to gallery walls

...Martin Phillipps' whimsical work for the early Chills (cartoon characters on the I Love My Leather... ...Here too is work by bassist Jane Dodd (Chills, Verlaines, Able Tasmans) whose wide-ranging...

Cultural Elsewhere: culturalelsewhere/9972/the-art-and-imagery-of-flying-nun-2021-from-record-shelves-to-gallery-walls/

RECOMMENDED REISSUE: The Stones; Three Blind Mice (Flying Nun)

...space given them. Both the Verlaines and the Chills chose to get artistic and serious (the former...

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Music at Elsewhere: music/6946/recommended-reissue-the-stones-three-blind-mice-flying-nun/

ZAWINUL: DIALECTS, CONSIDERED (1986): Keyboard player speaking for himself

...band – which had more line-ups than the Chills – had come to the end of its natural...

The Album Considered: albumconsidered/9713/zawinul-dialects-considered-1986-keyboard-player-speaking-for-himself/

David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights: Bobbie's a girl (Merge/digital outlets)

...familiar with Flying Nun acts, notably the Chills and the Clean. When I set him on the path of a...

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Music at Elsewhere: music/9117/david-kilgour-and-the-heavy-eights-bobbies-a-girl-merge-digital-outlets/

THE PET ROCKS, RELEASED AGAIN AT LAST (2023): Time has come today?

...of Flying Nun bands like the Verlaines, the Chills and the Clean were losing traction and guitar...

Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/10649/the-pet-rocks-released-again-at-last-2023-time-has-come-today/

DODSON AND FOGG. ONCE MORE, AGAIN (2018): No sleep until . . .

...a Trip sounds remarkably close to the early Chills/Clean for its driving minimalist grandeur and...

Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/8263/dodson-and-fogg-once-more-again-2018-no-sleep-until/

Beat Rhythm Fashion: Critical Mass (Failsafe/digital outlets)

...Nino Birch and drummer Caroline Easther (Chills, Verlaines etc) reconnected and reformed BRF...

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Music at Elsewhere: music/11117/beat-rhythm-fashion-critical-mass-failsafe-digital-outlets/

NADIA REID PROFILED (2020): Time has come today

...front, the cover-mount CD included a recent Chills recording of Pink Frost, inside was a Q&A...

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Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/9347/nadia-reid-profiled-2020-time-has-come-today/

BIG STAR REISSUED AND REVERED (1992): The Great Lost American Pop Band - found!

...usual suspects (REM, Martin Phillipps of the Chills, the Replacements, Teenage Fanclub) and one...

Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/1851/big-star-reissued-and-revered-1992-the-great-lost-american-pop-band-found/

PERE UBU REISSUED, PART ONE (2016): On a thin wire dancing above the abyss

...-- among other things -- released the recent Chills album Silver Bullets (and their excellent BBC...

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Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/7334/pere-ubu-reissued-part-one-2016-on-a-thin-wire-dancing-above-the-abyss/

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT . . . THE FALL'S IN A HOLE ALBUM: Almost stopping the Nun taking flight

...wings: Bands like the Clean, Tall Dwarfs, the Chills, the Builders and others had all achieved... ...The Dunedin Double – the Verlaines, Chills, Stones and Sneaky Feelings – had been...

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WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT . . .: weneedtotalkabout/7717/we-need-to-talk-about-the-falls-in-a-hole-album-almost-stopping-the-nun-taking-flight/

PULL DOWN THE SHADES, GARAGE FANZINE 1984-86, edited by RICHARD LANGSTON

...media of today -- it's likely bands like the Chills, Clean, Verlaines and others would have had... ...photocopied pages celebrating the Verlaines, Chills, Tall Dwarfs and others in roughly typed copy...

Writing at Elsewhere: writingelsewhere/10678/pull-down-the-shades-garage-fanzine-1984-86-edited-by-richard-langston/

FAILSAFE RECORDS, REISSUED AND REMIXED (2021): Lodestone, touchstones and The Absolute Truth

...recorded at the Lab by Mayes with Terry Moore (Chills etc) or at Progressive with Tim Gummer and...

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Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/9859/failsafe-records-reissued-and-remixed-2021-lodestone-touchstones-and-the-absolute-truth/

THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Little Ross of Bird Nest Roys

...and their introduction was opening for the Chills in '85. They didn't last long -- one album, an...

The Famous Elsewhere Questionnaire: thefamouselsewherequestionnaire/5880/the-famous-elsewhere-questionnaire-little-ross-of-bird-nest-roys/

The Jean-Paul Sartre Experience: I Like Rain (Fire/Flying Nun)

...at the time – aside from perhaps the Chills, Straitjacket Fits and the Clean – could...

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Music at Elsewhere: music/7091/the-jean-paul-sartre-experience-i-like-rain-fire-flying-nun/

MALCOLM BLACK REMEMBERED, IN HIS OWN WORDS (2021): Faith, hope and family

...of his praetorian vanguard – the Clean, Chills, Verlaines, Sneaky Feelings and others –...

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Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/9856/malcolm-black-remembered-in-his-own-words-2021-faith-hope-and-family/

The Feelies: Crazy Rhythms (1980)

...bands like The Clean, the Verlaines and the Chills must have heard this album too. REM’s...

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Essential Elsewhere: essentialelsewhere/2641/the-feelies-crazy-rhythms-1980/

Windows on Elsewhere

From every room in which Graham stays he takes a photograph out the window. Here are images of sometimes beautiful, but mostly mundane, views. And some odd interiors also. Further evidence that travel

Windows on Elsewhere: windows/1002/windows-on-elsewhere/

Something Elsewhere

Short stories, satires, thinking-out-loud stuff and nonsense for your enjoyment, amusement . . . or otherwise. Just utterly Elsewhere.

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Images from Elsewhere

Evocative, strange, extraordinary or mundane photographs taken Elsewhere in this world. Some relate to Travels in Elsewhere stories, so feel free to flick back and forth. No PhotoShop either. All phot

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Windows on Elsewhere

From every room in which Graham stays he takes a photograph out the window. Here are images of sometimes beautiful, but mostly mundane, views. And some odd interiors also. Further evidence that travel

windows

Recipes from Elsewhere

Culinary ideas picked up from various places around the world, most very easily made with readily available ingredients and a bit of effort -- which will be rewarded when you sit and enjoy your labour

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Links to Somewhere else

A list of regularly updated links to other sites in music, travel and the arts of interest to Elsewhere. Readers are invited to submit suggestions about sites they would like to be added here, and sha

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Music at Elsewhere

These pages - sometimes with sample tracks and videos posted - introduce and review music which may otherwise go unheard and unnoticed. Subscribers to Elsewhere (free, here) receive a weekly e-newslet

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Subscribers to Elsewhere (free) receive a weekly e-newsletter with updates on what's new at the ever-expanding site . . . and are in to win weekly CDs, DVDs, concert tickets and so on. Elsewhere is an

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Cultural Elsewhere

Essays and interviews in the world of the arts, architecture, design, journalism, politics and culture. And more, which appeal to the curious spirit of Elsewhere . . .

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My Back Pages

Graham recalls the stories behind some of the many hundreds of music interviews he has done with artists like Henry Rollins, Rod Stewart, Quincy Jones and Mick Jagger. And many lesser talents. Not alw

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Absolute Elsewhere

Music interviews, overviews, critical essays and reviews. Big names, cult acts and interviews exclusive to Elsewhere. Straight and bizarre, oddball and ordinary music and musicians. Important moments

absoluteelsewhere

Writing at Elsewhere

Books, authors, spoken word and poetry which may appeal to the curious spirit of Elsewhere.

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Travel Books by Elsewhere's Graham Reid

Postcards From Elsewhere WINNER: WHITCOULLS TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2006 critical comments . . . "His engaging style makes these vicarious journeys seem especially real ... his marvellous ability

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Travels in Elsewhere

Some of Graham's travel stories with an emphasis on odd destinations, or a different view of the familiar. Must-see places and some to avoid. and encounters with unusual characters, usually in colourf

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Graham Reid

Graham John Claverhouse Reid was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and educated in New Zealand. He is a graduate of Auckland University with a catch-all Bachelor of Arts degree with papers in Chinese Philos

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Essential Elsewhere

A selection of cornerstone albums to help you build an interesting collection of diverse Elsewhere music. These essays will introduce albums which can lead you into whole threads of music, areas you m

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Contact

Please send any questions, enquiries in the form below.

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From the Vaults

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World Music from Elsewhere

Music and musicians from around the global village; interviews, overviews and profiles.

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Favourite Five Recent Releases

Five of the best albums from the recent postings at Elsewhere. Music too good to let slide into the archives. The Elsewhere place if you're looking for a quick fix.

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Blues at Elsewhere

Interviews, overviews and reviews of classic and contemporary blues musicians and music. The blues was "wuthless immoral music, played by wuthless immoral loafers expressin' their vulgar minds wi

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The Bargain Buy

Elsewhere recommends interesting or Essential Elsewhere albums -- or useful collections by important artists -- which come at a low price. Build a real world collection of discs beyond what you have i

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The Famous Elsewhere Questionnaire

Fifteen revealing questions submitted to well-known musicians or newcomers which they can answer as serious or as silly as they please.

thefamouselsewherequestionnaire

The Album Considered

Unusual, over-looked and interesting albums pulled from the shelves at random for reconsideration

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Art by Elsewhere

For many years, even before this website arrived almost 20 years ago, Graham Reid had been involved in art and design (CD, record and cassette sleeves, posters and illustrations). Here are some recent

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Further Outwhere

Sounds beyond songs, ideas outside the obvious, possibilities far from pop

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The Famous Elsewhere Questionnaire

Fifteen revealing questions submitted to well-known musicians or newcomers to the game which they can answer seriously or as silly as they please.

thefamouselsewherequestionnaire

Other Voices, Other Rooms

This page offers the opportunity for other opinions to be added to Elsewhere. Contributions should be around 600 - 1000 words and can be sent to Graham Reid for consideration. (Use the "contact&q

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EPs by Shani.O

With so many CDs commanding and demanding attention Elsewhere will run this occasional column by the informed and opinionated Shani.O.

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