FILTER BOOKS
Beyond The Cringe
Molecular research into every release on New Zealand’s groundbreaking indie label.
By Andy Fyfe.
Getting into the habit: Roger Shepherd (left) and recently deceased Clean drummer Hamish Kilgour in the Flying Nun label’s Hereford Street office, Christchurch, 1983.
Needles & Plastic: Flying Nun Records, 1981-1988
★★★★
Matthew Goody
THIRD MAN. £28.99
CULTURALLY SPEAKING, New Zealand in the late ’70s was a largely monochrome place. For decades the country had been stifled through censorship laws aimed at maintaining a cartoonish ’50s idyll by ‘protecting’ its youth from the corrosion of radical music, books, films and ideas. Kiwis also suffered from “cultural cringe”, a wide-spread colonial hangover that assumed homegrown art would always be inferior.