Flying Nun Records
Home to the audio visual world of Flying Nun Records. New Zealand and Independent, with music videos, live clips, interviews and much more.
A lot of these videos feature the bands "performing" direct to camera (with and without makeup), several of them have driving motifs, and plenty of 'em were made with extremely limited resources. Both new and old clips, with all the fun times captured and presented in a user friendly format (often 3 minutes or less) while our test audiences have found the cameo-spotting to be an excellent source of enjoyment - not to mention the memories that were evoked upon viewing some of the rarer material.
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Remaining RSD stock and secondhand now available online www.flyingnun.co.nz/
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Tomorrow is Record Store Day and the Flying Nun Record stores will be celebrating this auspicious day like everyone else - will a lot of record love.
We have hundreds of RSD titles in stores, a large drop of rare and collectible second hand vinyl (some of which can be advance viewed here), live music in Wellington (Half/Angel) , DJs in Auckland and a whole lot more. You can view some of the Auckland RSD titles on our instagram page - over here and here...(Wellington's will be up soon)
GIVEAWAY!: Flying Nun Record store also also doing a Record Store Day giveaway of this ultra-rare Toy Love box set! This includes 2x LPs, 1x 7" a zine and some lovely packaging! All you have to do is take a photo of any purchase you make at a Flying Nun Record store from now until 5pm Saturday, post it on your socials and tag us at @flyingnunrecordstores (or similar - we aren't too fussy)...if you make the purchase online a screenshot or something fun will suffice!
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THE CLEAN BOOK RELEASE EVENTS!!!
The Clean profoundly changed alternative music: hitting the New Zealand charts for months with a single made for $50, ‘Tally Ho!’; helping establish Flying Nun and a music scene independent of the big labels; pioneering a low-fi, do-it-yourself approach to rock music; and touring internationally to influence bands like Pavement and Yo La Tengo.
Raw and immediate, this is the story as told by members of The Clean and their inner circle – fellow musicians such as Chris Knox, Martin Phillipps, Graeme Downes and Ira Kaplan, friends and family, pub promoters and sound engineers, and their good friend, Richard Langston. From teenagers in a Dunedin practice room to New York City on 9/11 – this is the band’s history as it unfolds.
The Clean: In the Dreamlife You Need a Rubber Soul
Featuring special musical guests (to be announced) and author Q&As
Wednesday 8th April - Pearl Diver, Dunedin*
Thursday 9th April - Lyttelton Coffee Co., Christchurch
Wednesday 15th April - Flying Nun Records, Auckland
Thursday 16th April - Flying Nun Records, Wellington
All events are free (tickets required for Dunedin), starting 6pm. Books will be available to purchase at www.flyingnun.co.nz/collections/pre-orders/product…
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New merch in store now www.flyingnun.co.nz/
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Richard Langston - The Clean: In The Dreamlife You Need A Rubber Soul (Book) - AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW from Flying Nun! www.flyingnun.co.nz/products/richard-langston-the-…
Raw and immediate, this is the story as told by members of The Clean and their inner circle – fellow musicians such as Chris Knox, Martin Phillipps, Graeme Downes and Ira Kaplan, friends and family, pub promoters and sound engineers, and their good friend, Richard Langston. From teenagers in a Dunedin practice room to New York City on 9/11 – this is the band’s history as it unfolds.
Richard Langston is a journalist, poet and television director who has written about the Dunedin music scene since the 1980s. The fanzine he edited from 1984–86, Garage, was issued as the book Pull Down the Shades: Garage Fanzine 1984–1986 (HoZac Books, 2023). He has been friends with the members of The Clean for forty years.
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Rolling Stone Magazine NZ/AU have just listed their '50 Best New Zealand Albums of 2025' (Link au.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/50-best-new-…. Congratulations to all but especially the nine artists released via Flying Nun Records.
For people who like stats, 100% of the albums Flying Nun released this year made this list, and 18% of the top 50 were released by Flying Nun.
#40 - Voom, ‘Something Good Is Happening’
#38 Reb Fountain, ‘How Love Bends’
#35 Soft Bait, ‘Life Advice’
#29 Ringlets, ‘The Lord Is My German Shepherd (Time for Walkies)’
#25 Jazmine Mary, ‘I Want to Rock and Roll’
#18 Womb, ‘One Is Always Heading Somewhere’
#12 Pearly*, ‘Not So Sweet’
#11 The Bats, ‘Corner Coming Up’
#2 Dick Move, ‘Dream, Believe, Achieve’
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SURPRISE! Out today is a musical match from above, Shayne Carter and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. www.flyingnun.co.nz/products/shayne-p-carter-with-…
REforms is a retrospective of Carter’s songs (with one new composition) orchestrated with Tane Upjohn-Beatson and recorded with the NZSO.
The album originated from Carter’s collaborative concerts with the NZSO, where he curated a programme of his favourite classical works for the first half and then played a selection of his own songs with the orchestra for the second. That concert was itself the result of his intensive exploration of classical music leading up to his 2016 album Offsider, made up of piano-based songs, all written as he learnt the instrument from scratch.
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Over 200 tapes from the Flying Nun and the Chris Knox collections have now been digitised and are available to listen to in the Wellington National Library reading room. Ever wondered about how multitracki tapes works? Now you can learn all about it. In fact, of the 1,600 recordings in the Flying Nun and Chris Knox archival collections at the Turnbull Library, just over a quarter are multitrack tapes. we'll leave the explaining to Michael Brown, the expert, read all about it here natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/flying-nun-on-multitrack
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Who loves a nice 7” inch single? If that’s you, we’ve just listed about 100 of these tasty morsels on the website.
www.flyingnun.co.nz/collections/7-vinyl-single-sec…
They are also in store - split evenly between the Auckland and Wellington. In the mix are plenty of classic pop, rock and a smattering of brit-pop and metal. We’ve got a few hundred more to process and list so keep an eye out!
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Pre-order now! Originally released on Flying Nun Records in 1997, reissued by Haymaker Records - here comes the expended High Dependency Unit - Higher 12"! Remasteredastered by Bob Weston - pre-order available now. Look out for more HDU coming soon! www.flyingnun.co.nz/collections/flying-nun/product…
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