DElicate restraints album

35 YEARS OF FLYING NUN RECORDS LIMITED EDITION VINYL
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ABOUT

Flying Nun Records

We are an independent New Zealand music label. We started in 1981, like many independent labels do, by just wanting to make music we like available for people we like. It is still why we do it. But a lot’s happened since then.

35 Year Anniversary

Delicate Restraints is our special 35th Anniversary album we have put together to celebrate the various talented artists. We started off with a simple, do-it-yourself post-punk attitude, which still remains.

Delicate Restraints

Delicate Restraints is avaliable to purchase on vinyl from Penny Lane. You can also download a digital copy from Itunes, Google Play Music, or Bandcamp. Each song has been remastered so you can enjoy it in crystal clear high-definition.

BANDS

Headless chickens
Axe
The brain-child of temperamental crazy-guy chris matthews, the headless chickens started out as a children’s hour spin-off band, and took a while before their bizarre, synth-inflected style took hold. members included matthews, johnny pierce, grant fell, michael lawry, bevan sweeney, rupert taylor and anthony nevison.
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The verlaines
Only Dream Left
Graeme Downes’ long-standing song-writing vehicle, and one-hell of a brilliant, literate band at that. With the classic line-up of Downes on guitar and vocals, Alan Haig on drums and Jane Dodd on bass. Intricate, visionary song-writing and dynamic, unusual instrumentation (Downes approached composition from a more angular classical perspective, yet their songs could still Rock)
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Straitjacket fits
Dead Head
Dissonant kiwi pop-rock that at times verged on shoe-gazer (the band were known for incredibly loud live performances), often hiding their delicate melodies and concise, heartfelt lyrics behind a wall of feedback. Based around Shayne Carter and Andrew Brough both on guitar and vocals, David Wood filling the bass role, and John Collie at the drums.
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The clean
Anything Could Happen
Formed in 1978 by David Kilgour (gat/vox) and Peter Gutteridge (bass / vox), and eventually settled on Hamish Kilgour (drums / vox) as the permanent 3rd member after an assortment on configurations came and went. Gutteridge was a major force in the band until artistic differences saw him leave (later forming Snapper), to be replaced by Rob Scott in 1980.
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Tall dwarfs
Song of the Silents
After Toy Love (the bastard son of The Enemy) disintegrated in 1980, Chris Knox and Alec Bathgate were so fed up with the ‘band’ approach to making music, that they formed The Tall Dwarfs as a performing collective absolutely opposed to the way they created music in the past.
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The moas
Coming Back for More
David Pine, Jamie Mclennan, Damian Woodhouse and William Field are the crew that make up the moas. Featuring David Pine (guitarist) from the well known pop/rock band Sneaky Feelings from the 1980s. The Moas were unusual among Dunedin Sound bands in that all four members of the band sang and several of the members wrote material. The jangle sound of the guitars and layered vocals drew their influence from the music of the Byrds and the Beatles.
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The stones
Final Days
The Stones were an anarchic, anything goes rock band – in Matthew Bannisters’ Positively George Street novel on the Dunedin scene, Bainnister recalls Wayne Elsey (The Stones brilliant singer / guitarist) exclaiming in disgust that Sneaky Feelings think about their music, an idea that seemed foreign to the Stones. But then, the Stones didn’t need to think about the music they made, they were primal, raw, things just fell into place.
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The Bats
Blindfold
The Bats continue to write, record and perform scores of catchy, poppy tunes – jangly, homely and folky tunes filled with images of Bob Scotts’ Central Otago past and propelled by one hell of a dynamic rhythm section. The Bats have continued to be a live fixture over the past decade, particularly in Christchurch; where the majority of the group now resides.
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The gordons
Sometimes
The Gordons formed in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1980 and were comprised of Alister Parker (Guitar/Vocals), John Halvorsen (Bass) and Brent McLachlan (Drums). With a sound both edgy post-Punk and semi-industrial, they toured and recorded throughout 1980, and in October released their first single "Future Shock".
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The CHILLS
Dark Carnival
Over the years the Chills have released a number of brilliant pop songs, right from the outset their material has been catchy and melodic, and have a certain eerie quality to them that separates them from most mainstream pop outfits.
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NEWS

New Track & Video by The Verlaines - AWCWD

From their up coming record Dunedin's Spleen, we offer up a new song/video from The Verlaines! Originally penned as an obituary for Obama’s first term, The Verlaines popped in the studio and found out that the track is still relevant at the end of Obama's second term! Downes comments: “The 'W' in the title is pronounced dubbleya as in the middle initial of the Commander-in-Chief before this one. The office make the man or woman, not the other way around, and so the end result will be any war criminal will do.”. We'll be the first to let you know when the pre-orders for Dunedin's Spleen are available.

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Delicate Restraints

Limited Edition Vinyl
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Delicate Restraints is an insight into the world of New Zealand guitar-pop and the Dunedin Sound - an influence which carries on to indie-pop/rock bands around the world today. This compilation captures the best of Flying Nun including bands such as The Chills, The Bats, Straitjacket Fits and more! Now on a deluxe LP and available for download from Itunes, Google Play Music, and Bandcamp. Each vinyl copy also comes with a digital download code so you can take your music on the go. It features live tracks plus an expanded gatefold cover with photos, posters and liner notes from journalist Marcus Anderson.

CONTACT

We started off with a simple, do-it-yourself post-punk attitude, which still remains. After all, who else was going to record and release the likes of The Clean, Chris Knox or The Dead C. It also happened that we were stuck on a couple of remote islands at the bottom of the world. So we were always going to be a bit different from the word go.

We are truly independent in the ‘music industry’ sense of the term, and Flying Nun Records - as it always was - is about the musicians and the fans, so feel free to say hi, spout an opinion, or simply let us know what you want to hear.

All in all, nothing’s changed really. We’re right back where we started, just a little bit older and (maybe) a little bit wiser.
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