Vargas Grell
Master Cheese Maker
Wholesale Drainage
Mortema Kahn
The Hendersons
State of Hate
GMC
Release
Sense_
Ruptured Spleen
Sanctum
Grinder
Slugfarm
Motorsheep
Sid Vishnu
Froithead
it just keeps going....

i always liked noddy on the cross
i liked shoeshine at the time but i have no cd to see if thats still the case
ive had a couple of my most fuck yeah rock moments to live froithead
turbostill were the best band in the world...lots
sid vishnu....i know ive seen them....practicing in the hog lounge....
cannibal sex kicks
the ashvins could rock like no other , but artistic liscence could also suck any fun
oh elise...
the ogden steers, maybe the second best song ever.....when the cows come home

brickshit house
snus
fader
retail plumbing
the flaming werepigs
groove status

some that I have fond memories of that havent been mentioned just yet.

Since no one else will remember them, mindshaft, filthy business and wacker........ for selfish reasons

Turbostill are playing on Saturday, we are just semi-retired
once or twice a year.
I just heard Wacker on the Musac compilation, and Filthy Business when
I listened to Excommunicated, I've been digging out old swamp comps, to
get the best songs to add to the playlist in our lounge,
Was Mindshaft that band you and Jarrod had at high school? I think I saw a video of you guys round at the old botanical rd flat about '96
heh

Rimend was a wicked band I think they maybe in auzzie now or I dunno but they are not here so I guess that counts. Also I think we forgot Re-Creation........................ tee hee

[/quote]Rimend was a wicked band I think they maybe in auzzie now or I dunno but they are not here so I guess that counts. Also I think we forgot Re-CreationWas Mindshaft that band you and Jarrod had at high school? I think I saw a video of you guys round at the old botanical rd flat about '96

lung
the skeptics!
e-haw
wholesale drainage
sausage roll

aw shit, what a list ......

I could write this all night long, and still miss far too much good stuff.

>Vargas Grell
Hell yes. Going to school with them, they were damn awesome to see. And several cuts above the winceful music I was involved in at the time.
>State of Hate
>Grinder
Hehe... lots of fun, and I really liked the attitude behind it.
>Sid Vishnu
>Froithead
As I've just said in another post, they were a Palmy band I think deserved to go international. Industrial music as good as any, anywhere. Royce wingeing about them kicking him out of the band and stealing his songs got on my fucking tits though.
>oh elise...
Not just Elise.. Meat Market blew my mind. I went off into some far away trance states watching them high out of my kite, like I've not had since.
>the ogden steers
not defunct, just resting. I've been privileged enough to have joined the line up, and playing the Cows come home is wicked fun.
>brickshit house
hell yes... Man Alone and the Man Alone band were fucking awesome too. Love robs stuff, and JCs killer bass lines rocked my world.
>snus
still got the CD
>the flaming werepigs
oh yes... Boris becoming a techno guy was a strange happening.
I still remember mindshaft, filthy business and wacker
>lung
damn yes. Lung playing at QEC when I was 14 or 15 was a seminal event in my musical awakening. One of the loudest gigs I've ever been to, and outdoors as well. I have fond memories of finding out that the music teacher (Mrs Barrett) and her music nerds (although I was kinda one myself) spent the whole gig trying to pull the power, but Dave had realised this would happen, and blocked access to the closet with the fusebox in it using a chair.
>skeptics
Too young to have seen them, but damn their albums are good (the good ones are anyhow. I had the misfortune of buying a mediocre one)
>e-haw
hell yes. I still[\B] see e-haw tagging around.

and to make this a value added post, a few noone has mentioned yet (I can't remember enough, damn my drug addled memory !!)

Jack Black - fucken maniac, no less. and the dog junk sculpture that was opposite boys high for years... terrible drunk though. I think he's lurking around dunners
Buzz Jack Buzz - god, Eketuhuna and the boonies of Manawatu produced some fucken wierdos, that's all I can say. Great Star Wars obsession.
Greased Arm - hahaha, damn that's a good album. Shit Brown Trouser Suit is a great anthem. Mabye I'll cover it sometime.
Blunt
Mechanic
De Jong Swemer
Star Factory
The Wet Pussys
Shit All to Hell - and not just 'cause my bros in it. Demented.
Cunt - a fantastically ugly noise
Surplus Sons of a Factory Nation - lathe cut on steel core, heavy as fuck vinyl, with each 10" then being added into the mix for the next, so each copy is unique. The description of the making of this in Valve was awesome, also.
Foisemaster - wow, what a fucking experience. What ever you say about Ross, the man is a performer. I remember seeing him at the Stomach, throwing his guitar several feet bouncing it off the wall, catching it, and continuing playing. Anybody who could get away with covering a Pere Ubu song ... !
Polio

I know there's fucken heaps more, but my memory fails me, to say the least.

Was groove status the one Smiley sung for for a while?

And snuff, we're not crusties, you're just a little whippersnapper spring chicken type.

We got this far!

http://www.slave.co.nz/images/family_tree_1024x768.jpg
Is that what Gretchen became?? Either way Gretchen was the first band I ever saw live here... down at Pacifica.
Found my De Jong tape the other day...
Fuckin legends... It's the same day, David...
Meh I was mearly takin th piss cos those 2 old bastards had inundated a similar thread on punkas with swamp bands!

Nice !

There was one of those at the House Of Goth, for of course a different piece of the scene. (Is the H.O.G still going?)

Have you seen the thing that builds conspiracy theory graphs? You start with a node, like say Bill Gates, and then can expand Bill Gates to see who is connected with Bill, and then expand any of them to see their connections and so on. So you can map out your own conspiracy theory with a few clicks of a button. We need one of those for the PNth music scene, one that people can easily add to. And add bio info etc to.

A collaborative scene mapper would be a damn cool tool.

I see 7.62 Short is a pretty central node to things ! And I also see Nought, who should have been on my first list of PNth bands who used to rock.
Buzz Jack Buzz is what Gretchen became. Didn't Gretchen have a little maori guy as the drummer, who was some kind of metaller? I wonder what became of him.

And I was lying... we are crusty old bastards - well at least I'm feeling like it, with my gammy fucking leg. And my grumpy old man attitude. Although it seems easy enough to develop one of those before you're twenty.

That's a lovely olde family tree thing, will you add to it? How do you attach bands that have their own family but can't hoook up to any on the map already,eg

Fader (lorena) links to Rapunzel (steph, lorena, bek coogs - we were a bit metal too) links to Cortina and Hoopla and then to Black Pudding, and then into the Rob Thorne bands - oh, that's the link! from thorne backwards...

I see what a mission those maps are, good effort, I can work that particular branch out better if you are keen to add to it, Steph

not sure how many of you remember these guys, monsterworks..... they are alive and kicking still, releasing an album a year, now based in London. I hope to catch up with Ian and Jono later in the year on my way to Munich for Oktoberfest I think this is a band even Murray Juana would approve of being the metal connoisseur that he is

Check out their site

http://www.supermetal.net/

I would be happy to help out too...... thinking for selfish reasons here completely.... to get someting I was involved in on the tree lol.... but there are many links.... just shows you how sorded the swamp is..... almost incestual like

I've decided that I'm quite willing to try and build a "complete" swamp band map... obviously it's not going to be feasable to make something like this by hand, so I've found some software to generate the maps. Means the map won't be anywhere near as pretty as the one above unfortunately, but that's the way it has to be. Also, with the way the generator works, I'll be able to have the map so you can click on bands, and go through to an info page. I'll build a bit of an application and database around it, so you can do things like go to a band info page, click on a member, and see all the bands that person was in.

I'm in the planning stages of the application now.

I'm waiting for Jimmy to send me the original photoshop version of the map, so I can copy all the band names out, and use his map as a starting point (plus a few bands I think need naming - go on my ego trip!).

So watch for more news, eventually I'll be soliciting contributions so you can claim your piece of notority for you and your friends.