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KIERAN
MONAGHAN: 'History Wringing' Released on Pseudoarcana in Wellington, this cdr is the first solo disc released by Kieran. It was approxamately 2 years from go to whoa, and was initiated as a method to pay homage to then the recently departed Alan Brunton, and as a vehicle to work through grief and understanding. This body of work is a piece performance in four distinct sections explorind the themes of colonisation, globalisation, and a modern and speculative historic glance at this phenomena. It is deliver by looped drums, live drums, and text. The CDr comes in a beautiful package with a mini-booklet to compliment the disc with text and artwork. Released through Pseudoarcana. |
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Suppository:
The first mr sterile release, fairly raw but the thread pokes through. 15 tunes, released 1998 features a cover of the Pere Ubu song 'Throw'. ho-down acoustic punk rock (in parts). limited cassette run with suppository glued to every cover (for personal usage). Never to be re-issued! |
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SUNSHIP:
2 Cd's to date have been released by cpsip, its top grade destruction done to some very nice pop songs. kieran applyed the drums. 'Destroyer' Holy Mother of God! A pretty aptly named new release from the New Zealand band voted 'most likely to die from a dog attack'. Taking a left turn from their previous'...Omen' EPs hacked up stew of broken leads and tuning disasters, 'Destroyer' features an utterly suicidal live show in its brief, hideous, entirety. Apparently nothing was left standing above knee-height. Woof! 'Everythings An Omen' Birchville Cat Motels 'power-trio' (no, that is NOT a misprint) with its sights set firmly on the super-heated disco-ball of its namesake. Fushitsusha plays 'Land Speed Record'? Crowded House plays 'Sonic Death'? Flipper plays The Corrs? That subjective decision is perhaps best left to the ears of the beholder. Speaker-thrashing, venue demolishing, remorselessly spliced... um... 'pop' (for lack of a better word). |
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MOREPORK:
'Let the Marketplace Fall Bleeding' CJA meets mr sterile in this collaboration. Recorded during sporadic journeys to wellington by clayton over the period of a year. recorded fast, mixed drunk. herein lies the result. Released by Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, it came with a hand made, 6 page, random booklet.2nd album in the pipeline. cpsip press release: 8 tracks of damaged pop that are all over in 25 minutes. Punkier than Pumice, noisier than pop. Refreshing. " Armpit string-slinger, Clayton Noone sidles up to the crap-trap assault of Mr Sterile's Kieran Monaghan for a concise kiwi fistful of scouring junk-punk greatness. Scunge-rock from the top shelf - two thumbs up!" No longer sold by cpsip, but still available through Teledu Records. View Morepork comic book: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. |
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BIRCHVILLE
CAT MOTEL: 'Chinaslope' 1997 (lathecut)-stabbies and the rocket, 'Shapeshifter' (CD-R) cpsip, 'Jeweled wings (beating themselves to a powder against thick glass)' 2000( LP)Freedom-from , "The latest recording from this group out of New Zealand, this LP represents a radical departure from there other work in that the entire album is 'electric-instrument-free'. All acoustic, no overdubs, no effects. Everything from kitchen bowls to toy squeakers to shafted mandolins are fashioned into an alchemical haze, all wrapped up with violin and banjo hums and percussive shimmer. Mundane household paraphernalia gently coerced into glorious song. 'Lion of eight thousand generations'1998 (LP)Bently welcomes careful drivers: Kieran Monaghan accompanied Mr Kneele on these various BCM recording projects |
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ALAN
BRUNTON AND THE FREE WORD BAND: '33 Perfumes of Pleasure' Released in 1997 through Bumper Records, an off-shoot of Bumper Books,which is the publishing house for the works related and associated with Alan Brunton. This project evolved from improvisations in a warehouse facing Lyall Bay. From there the strongest ideas were taken , those that complimented the text being delivered, and cast into shape. Recorded at Braburn Studios, the recording process maintained many aspects of the improv process while capturing the mood of the poems. Performed twice, was one of the last performances to be held before the Taki Rua theatre close in Wellington. "Campbell Kneale, electric guitar, screwdrivers, loops; Kieran Monaghan, drums & percussion; Michelle Scullion, synths, percussion, wind, backing vocals; Grant Sutherland, bass, percussion, backing vocals. The songs are filled with the people a sinner meets in his last week on earth: an angel called Inessa, a caliph, a pharmacist with 200 statues of his ancestors, a band of hairy monks and an elusive lover he knows only as 'You'. "Ginsberg will be requesting this on God's jukebox." -Rex Bourke, NZM". |
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LOOSEHEAD: 'Dork' Loosehead was Grant Sutherland-bass/ vocals, words, Aaron Lloydd-guitar/ trombome, vocals and words, and Kieran Monaghan- Drums/percussion and words. Dork was released in 1999 as a 4 song ep-cdr and as a south island release only while on tour down that way. As well, the ep had 2 bonus tracks, a remix of 'home' by cancer boy, and a song by mr sterile called 'flash and exposure'.The photo on the cover is welly anarcho-punk/activist running for parliament with the Mcgillicuddy Serious Party. He is holding a sign which reads 'dork' pointing towards fellow mp contenders. The ep had been recorded quite a bit of time before the tour but 2 weeks before we they were to head off, they decided they didn't like what they had done, So the weekend before they left, they rapidly recorded what they had . The entire thing was complete within 48 hours and all packaged up and ready to sell the day before they left. mad it was.Loosehead broke up in 2001. |
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'Pet Shop Gourmet' Released in 1999, this album saw Loosehead alter direction with a new three-piece line up. The band was Kieran, Grant and Aaron. The songs became more complicated in structure, however the actual song was not compromised in favour of technique. 11 songs."Kicking off with the musical equivalent of a rugby team after match function (any connection to namesake Len?), this band bounds for the 22 metre line at a good pace, offering to "smash your face cos you look funny", collapsing into skirmishes and scrums at regular intervals. ...twists jut out, but you'll find no pansy-ass shrinking violets here". Real Groove |
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'Ugly' Released 1999 on cdr. This one is more a compilation of tracks that had been released on other formats, mainly geradine records. Inculdes the single Threshold/ Dali's dream. Also a bunch of songs which were released under the banner of the 'Wellington Singles Club' which Loosehead set up. An attempt at a collective effort to have other local musicians at the time to be more pro-active yet independant in their own material. The WSC released 7 10" singles. Ugly has 9 songs. |
 
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'First Aid Kit' First release upon Grant and Kieran moving to Wellington. A couple of line-up changes occurs till we settled on Aaron Lloyd and Phil Scahill joining the group.Was cassette only, put out in 1996. Includes some songs from the Invercargill period. There was a tape released in Invercargill, about 1990-91, called 'Nun' however I dont have a copy of it. Later re-released on cdr in 1999. 10 songs. |
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'Threshold' Released in 1996 as a 7" Geradine pressing. Contains 2 song, Dali dreams, and Threshold. Was meant to pre-empt the release of an album which never made it. oh well. |
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WELLINGTONSINGLESCLUB: 'When the mute get lucid 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. The WELLINGTONSINGLESCLUB was a project undertaken in 1996 "by a group of independent musicians and bands from the Wellington region. [The] aim was to support ourselves as a collective and encourage other local acts to pool their resources and make things happen." The records were cut onto 8 inch Geraldine acetate discs. Click on the fairy to view individual records. |
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THE
MICROHARD HILLSILLIES: 0+0=1: the collaboration between EE Monk of Wendyhouse and mr sterile. Upon first meeting while neither knew who the either was, in history or auditory, they decided to give each other 3 of their song titles with lyrics. From this point the text would be reinterperated into a new album.Quite a fine almost compilation sounding album. The album has only 6 songs on it, but each song is played twice so theres 12, the original version by respective performer plus the new interpretation. Some are still available via the contacts page @ $15NZ. |
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MORAL
FIBRE: 'You guys are shit!' A postumous Moral Fibre cassette release. ''You guys are shit!' was released in 1996 by Grant. It was recorded in August 1990 at the Nerve Centre in Dunedin by John Farrow on his 4-track. |
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MORAL
FIBRE: 'I have no mouth and I must scream!' Released 1990. Came in a hand box cardboard box with mini-book, tape, poster, with a nice wee sticker attached. Recorded on 4 track. |
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MORAL
FIBRE: Sand in the gears of Life' Moral Fibre's 3rd release but the first with kieran drumming. The first Moral Fibre cassette was called 'New Beginnings, final endings', and the second one was a live tape which I can't remember the name off. The line up for 'Sand...' was Grant Sutherland -bass, Spook-guitar, Ross Thompson-vocals, and kieran on drums. This tape was released in 1989, and had 9 songs on it, and was recorded on Grant's portable 4-track at a friend's house. Released in an edition of 300 |
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