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Extra bonus points for Martin Phillipps managing to not get swept away by a rogue wave in the making of Heavenly Pop Hit. Another staple in the Flying Nun stable were Straitjacket Fits. The trio burst on to the music scene in the late eighties and quickly captured the public's attention with their single She Speeds. The unlikely melding of Shayne Carter's snarling sonic edge and Andrew Brough's pop instincts saw world domination hailed as imminent. In Melody Maker called them the weirdest and best guitar band in the world.

After Hail, Melt and Brough-less third album Blow , they disbanded in Extra bonus points for Shayne Carter's awesome half-mullet hairdo in the She Speeds video. Dunedin has always had a reputation for being a little off the wall. Take Mother Goose as a very good example. Their mad-cap image and on-stage antics blended mids rock'n'roll theatricality with a nursery sensibility built around characters that included a sailor, a bumble-bee, a ballerina and a nappy-clad baby.

Their biggest hit, the novelty song Baked Beans , threatened to overwhelm their more serious music and a career which ran to three albums. Bono intervened, gave them another bottle of wine and told the promoter they would be paid double. Talisman, spiritual heartbeat and conscience of New Zealand punk, Chris Knox all but started the movement in Dunedin with his bands the Enemy, then Toy Love. He later maintained a prolific career as one-half of the Tall Dwarfs, as a soloist, and as a newspaper columnist and cartoonist.

Tragically Knox was cut down by a stroke in that has left him unable to say more than a few words. A tribute album to raise funds for his ongoing rehabilitation featured Yo La Tengo, the late Jay Reatard, Bonnie Prince Billy and Bill Callahan, as well as many of the bands mentioned above. Flying Nun Records: 10 of the best songs of the Dunedin sound. The Clean — Anything Could Happen Neil Finn: 'Lorde should leave New Zealand'.

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