Flying Nun Records is a New Zealand label created in the early ’80s to showcase local talent. The Chills, the Clean, the Bats and Straightjacket Fits are among the many standout bands signed to the label.
This Saturday, on Record Store Day, two excellent reissues will be released in limited quantities: Dunedin Double (featuring four bands) and Who Killed Colonel Mustard by the short-lived group Boredom Games. Dunedin Double is two EPs — one featuring the Chills and Sneaky Feelings and the other is split between the Stones and the Verlaines. Released in 1982, the double EP actually didn’t have a name but it became known as Dunedin Double, which is a reference to the college town that produced these bands. The music is an interesting mix of genres (pop, punk, folk, etc.) that holds up well today more than three decades after it was first recorded.
The second Flying Nun release this Saturday is the reissue of the four-song EP by Boredom Games, a young band whose members would go on to play in other New Zealand groups. (Lead singer Shayne Carter formed Straightjacket Fits.) The songs here are a little more straight-up punk (think late ’70s and early ’80s UK music).
All the Young Punks 