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Matthew Goody is a Canadian editor and publisher who has worked in the book industry for over a decade. A fanatical record collector and researcher, he has spent years combing through the archives and records stacks to compile this comprehensive discographic history of Flying Nun's early years. He currently lives in Vancouver, Canada.
"With his gratifying archive, Matt Goody details one of the most
successful eras in the history of rock music – Flying Nun Records,
formed in 1981 by Roger Shepherd in a Christchurch record shop.
Shepherd and his brilliant cohorts served up the legendary output
of not only kingpins like The Clean, The Chills and Tall Dwarfs,
but also captured the best from favourites of mine like Able
Tasmans, Bird Nest Roys, Look Blue Go Purple and The Verlaines.
Goody provides the most comprehensive presentation yet of Flying
Nun’s rise from Shepherd’s notepad to international underground
rock sovereignty – and a vital part of one nation’s collective art
history." — Bob Nastanovich, Pavement
"Matthew Goody's Needles and Plastic tells detailed stories
about each record and artist, from the Chills to Tall Dwarfs to the
Bats, and unearths a sparkling wealth of photos and ephemera,
building a rich document of how exciting and resourceful this scene
was." — Pitchfork's Best of Music Books 2022
"Molecular research into every release on the groundbreaking
label." — MOJO
"Needles & Plastics is a heroic piece of research, 436
large-format pages of extraordinary detail and rare photos, flyers,
posters and memorabilia." — Louder
"Leaves no stone unturned ... Needles And Plastic is
useful as a nearly academic-level reference to the '80s
Christchurch/Dunedin scene and is also eminently skimmable -
the work of a patient researcher sure, but a fan and a completist
collector as well." — Dave Mandl, The Wire
"Needles and Plastic] looks so cool. I can’t wait to devour it.
When you go through the trials and tribulations of an independent
record label, you are immediately a champion of every other label.
You know how hard it is." — Multi-Grammy winning musician Jack
White
“Bruce [Pavitt, Sub-Pop co-founder] and I were huge fans of the
Flying Nun model, a regional scene pulling itself up by its
bootstraps with compelling personalities, a sense of place and
musical continuity. The ‘Dunedin Sound’ wasn’t as catchy a tag like
grunge but there was most definitely a sound, something dark and
breezy at the same time, and it continues to resonate. The Chills’
‘I Love My Leather Jacket’, The Clean’s ‘Tally Ho!’, The Verlaines’
‘Death And The Maiden’, it’s all great. It’s the biggest mystery to
me why Flying Nun has yet to really be discovered.” — Jonathan
Poneman, co-founder of Sub Pop
“Needles and Plastic is so thoroughly and lovingly researched and
written, it reads with the narrative drive and immediacy of a
first-hand account. This from a writer and fan who came to the
Flying Nun story two decades later and from half a world away. It
is a remarkable achievement, and another bizarre twist in the
Flying Nun story that its first meticulously written history should
be produced in such circumstances.”— Richard Langston, Founder
of the Garage fanzine and author of PULL DOWN THE SHADES: Garage NZ
fanzine compendium 1984-86
“When anyone writes about New Zealand music, they mean Flying Nun
records.... In its prime, Flying Nun's embrace of all post-punk's
manifestations – exquisite psych-pop, cantankerous quasi-goth,
warped folk, experimental synth warfare – meant it was New
Zealand's Rough Trade, Factory, Postcard and Mute rolled into one.”
— Martin Aston, The Guardian
“There doesn’t seem to be anything on Flying Nun Records that is
less than excellent.” — Billboard
"A fascinating and edifying book that is drenched in a wealth of
fabulous photographs and illustrations throughout. And Matthew
Goody really gets it: rather than simply expressing exasperation at
the idiosyncrasies of the label in its early incarnation, he
determines to untangle conundrums presented by them. His inspired
methodology and meticulous research have resulted in this
marvellous story – told as a series of stories – that is absorbing
from go to woah." — Denise Roughan, Look Blue Go Purple and The
3D
"There have been insider accounts of the Flying Nun story: how this
ramshackle indie changed the game with a do-it-yourself alternative
New Zealand music. Yet it is a Canadian record collector rather
than an insider who has written the most detailed and palpable
account of those reverberant early years, by using the records
themselves as portals to the stories in this energetic, exhaustive
review of the label’s Christchurch years." — Nick Bollinger
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