News: Ringlets head to the UK and Europe for their first international tour this May. Ringlets have been gathering momentum since 2021, and now they’re taking that slow-burn ascent out of Aotearoa and into the wider world. This May, the quartet will set out on their debut UK and European tour, a run that trades familiarity for friction. It’s the kind of move that doesn’t guarantee anything, just a van, a handful of songs, and the quiet confidence that they might land somewhere new. If their trajectory so far is anything to go by, they’re not arriving untested. Backseat Mafia has already seen Ringlets in full flight on stage in Sydney.

Ringlets head to UK and Europe for tour their first international tour this May.
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...aucun lien avec la #soeurvolante #flyingnun

Alec Bathgate - AudioCulture And yet, Chris Knox is the dominant presence. It was a songwriting partnership and a friendship that just worked, hence its longevity and its ability to evolve through three very different musical pro...

It's not quite as long as Craig Robertson's book on Chris Knox, but my AudioCulture epic on Knox's musical companion in The Enemy, Toy Love and Tall Dwarfs is still an epic. I invite you to read it.

www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/alec...

#alecbathgate #ToyLove #theenemy #talldwarfs #flyingnun

I like remembering things as much as I like discovering things ... and sometimes the experience is one and the same!

#remembering #memories #newdiscoveries #oldfavorites #discovering #nostolgia #beatles #pattyduke #flyingnun #lostinspace #tosirwithlove #memento #touch #westwardthewomen #sinead

Make sure you all turn your channel to ABC to watch Sarah as the flying mouse!!!!!
Gift Art For @katzenzungens.bsky.social
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Here we goooooo!!

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Review by m_campos - Not Given Lightly In my record collection I have two treasured Tall Dwarfs records - Slugbuckethairybreathmonste...

Just finished the exhaustive (and exhausting!) bio of Chris Knox.
#booksky #aotearoa #flyingnun #talldwarfs #notgivenlightly #storygraph

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#NowSpinning Bored Games - Who Killed Colonel Mustard (1982)
A 2014 RSD reissue of this EP of early #FlyingNun #DunedinSound NZ #punk feat Shayne Carter (Straitjacket Fits), Terry Moore & Fraser Batts (The Chills), Jeff Harford (The Rip) & Wayne Elsey (The Stones). #NowPlaying #vinyl #VinylCommunity

Still so gutted I missed his happening in my little town at a great bar. And with this amazing poster! Apparently they'll do another soon. So there will be a next time. #hastings #flyingnun #nzmusic #aotearoa

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From Michael Brown(@jingajik.bsky.social)Music Curator at Alexander Turnbull Library(NZ):

"Flying Nun on Multitrack

First installment of my blog about these special tapes in the FNR and Chris Knox collections at National Library of NZ. What is a multitrack? What is on these tapes? And how can […]

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The Bats return

Album number 11

Mighty fine jangly guitar pop from the OG Dunedin sound maestros

Used to sneak into bars in the 1980’s to hear them 😎

Why did John Peel fly to New Zealand? - Witchdoctor When much-loved English DJ John Peel flew to New Zealand in 2002 many thought he was there for a Flying Nun party. But was he really more interested in a singing, yodelling star from the 1950s?

A conversation with an old friend inspired me to pen this piece about the time John Peel came to NZ and met up with... Ronnie Ronalde?!?

www.witchdoctor.co.nz/2025/why-did...

#johnpeel #ronnieronalde #flyingnun #auckland

Not Given Lightly – A long and winding road - Witchdoctor Sixteen years after the stroke that put a full stop on his career Chris Knox gets a biography that describes his life, character and achievements in forensic detail. Reviewed by GARY STEEL.

My review of the Chris Knox biography, which comes out today.

www.witchdoctor.co.nz/2025/not-giv...

#ChrisKnox #flyingnun #kiwirock

Found out in the wild: my favorite rock ‘n’ roll book. @peoplesbooktakoma.com
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Oct. 1 / Splash

Splash Your Jewells ~ David Kilgour

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#DavidKilgour #FlyingNun

With Craig Robertson's exhaustive biography of Chris Knox due out on Oct 9, here's a reminder that there's a (searchable) wealth of Knox stuff on Witchdoctor, including this "lost" 1986 interview.

www.witchdoctor.co.nz/2017/new-zea...

#ChrisKnox #flyingnun #ToyLove #talldwarfs #nzmusic

Listening to this for the first time in yonks. Magnificent. (The Pin Group's Go To Town ep, if you can't read the small print, btw). #FlyingNun #PinGroup

Sally Field...
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Petite trouvaille du jour à Gibert... parce qu'on a jamais assez d'indie-pop néo-zélandaise #flyingnun #NZ

News: Aotearoa/New Zealand band Soft Bait offer ‘Life Advice’ – news of their new album being released through Flying Nun Records, with a taste through the visceral single ‘Long Line’. The new single 'Long Line' from Tāmaki Makaurau band Soft Bait is an angular juggernaut of attitude and swagger that is enticing with its shattering guitars and distant observant delivery. With a genetic code containing elements of The Fall, it's an über cool slice of post punk that canters along with a throbbing bass and scyting guitars. Lyrically, it's about the inherited things that weigh us down - as Josh Hunter from the band says:

News: Aotearoa/New Zealand band Soft Bait offer 'Life Advice' - news of their new album being released through Flying Nun Records, with a taste through the visceral single 'Long Line'.
@flyingnun @soft_bait
#softbait #backseatdownunder #flyingnun #indie #news #video #track

Album review: Aotearoa’s Ringlets unveil ‘The Lord Is My German Shepherd (Time for Walkies)’ – a spectacular post punk blast from the land of the long white cloud, with NZ tour announced. Aotearoa/New Zealand’s fabulous  Ringlets have released their second album, endearingly entitled ‘The Lord Is My German Shepherd (Time For Walkies)’ and it is a blast of thoroughly commendable sonic joy. Ringlets so epitomise the classic Dunedin sound it is kind of fitting they are on the legendary Flying Nun and Leather Jackets Records label: intelligent wry pop at its very best.

Album review: Aotearoa's Ringlets unveil 'The Lord Is My German Shepherd (Time for Walkies)' - a spectacular post punk blast from the land of the long white cloud.
@_ringlets @flyngnun
#ringlets #backseatdownunder #indie #postpunk #aotearoa #leatherjacketrecords #flyingnun

Track: ‘I Was on That Roof Once’ – New Zealand’s epic Ringlets bounce back with third single ahead of album release New Zealand’s Ringlets  recently announced the release of their second album, with the cute title ‘The Lord Is My German Shepherd (Time For Walkies)’ for 27 June 2025, and have unveiled the third thrilling single ‘I Was on That Roof Once'. It follows the earlier singles ‘Heavenly Wheel’ and 'Street Message' (reviewed by me here and here respectively). Ringlets have that classic Dunedin sound and is kind of fitting they are on the legendary…

Track: 'I Was on That Roof Once' - New Zealand's epic Ringlets bounce back with third single ahead of album release.
@_ringlets @flyingnun @leatherjacketrecords
#ringlets #flyingnun #leatherjacketrecords #backseatdownunder #indie #pop #thedunedinsound #news #video

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Day 7 - Ditty

Beatnik ~ The Clean

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Short and sweet indie jangle from @neverthebridle.bsky.social

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#neverthebridle #janglepop #flyingnun

Album cover: The Jean-Paul Sartre Experience - Love Songs

Love Songs
Debut album from The Jean-Paul Sartre Experience.
One of many remarkable 'Indie' rockbands from Aotearoa (NZ)in the 80s

#JeanPaulSartreExperience #Aotearoa #vinyl #vinylcollection #recordcollection #vinylcommunity #nowplaying #recordoftheday #recordcommunity #musicsky #flyingnun