Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
An American visits New Zealand only to find that nobody wants to play
You wouldn’t play like that if you didn’t know what you were doing
In which the band find themselves in front of the whole country
An Englishman does not share the droll humour of the local people
The natural born gifts of the drummer
On the poetics of the Bible, and the day jobs of the artists
Looking the Horse in the Mouth
In which a correspondence is established, and an exchange of like views
The Port Chalmers Sound
The cells of the body return to their unliving state
References
Index

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Discusses improvised rock and DIY labels stretching from Dunedin, the tiny centre of New Zealand pop and rock, to Europe and the US through The Dead C’s Clyma est mort album.

About the Author

Darren Jorgensen is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Western Australia. He is the co-author of Wanarn Painters of Place and Time (2015), co-editor of Indigenous Archives (2017), and editor of Bush Women (2018).