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The inside story of New Zealand's iconic independent record label
by the man who made it happen. I wanted to be more than just an
observer. I wanted to be a part of what was going on. I had told
someone and the word was out, and now I had to actually do this
thing. Start a record label. I must have been drunk. Roger Shepherd
was working in a Christchurch record shop when he realised the
local bands he loved needed someone to make their records. Flying
Nun was born. Those records and the bands that created them - The
Chills, The Clean, Chris Knox and the Tall Dwarfs, The Verlaines,
Sneaky Feelings, The Bats, Straitjacket Fits and many more - went
on to define an era and create what became known as "the Dunedin
Sound". In truth it was less a unified sound than a spirit of
adventure and independence that characterised the Flying Nun ethos.
In this long-awaited memoir, label founder Roger Shepherd describes
the idealism and passion that drove the project in the first place,
the hard realities of the music industry, and the constant tension
between art and commerce. Filled with revealing anecdote and
insight, this is the definitive insider history of the one of the
most innovative and original record labels of the modern era.
"Surely the label with the highest quality output per capita in pop
history." - Guardian UK. "Something inexplicably special happened
in the Southern Hemisphere a quarter of a century or so ago, the
ripples still rumbling, and without it, all the music you love
today would sound ever so slightly, and indefinably, different." -
British comedian Stewart Lee.
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