Hamilton Music Wiki

The Htown wiki is a wiki for all things music-related from Hamilton, New Zealand. This is the Twitter account for the Htown Wiki

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20 years ago the @HtownWiki hit the internet. It grew to over 2000 articles about our local music scene. Less happily, it also disappeared once or twice. Now the Wiki back again, hosted by us, and it's ready for your eyeballs and contributions.

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"The Mobile Stud Unit (MSU) are like that one friend who’s great at parties but who you’d never let into your own house".

Ahead of the Contact 50th, Max interviews MSU!

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....and, ahead of the Contact 50th, we also recently interviewed Commodore65! (ft. Phil from The Datsuns and Trinket).

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Ahead of the Contact 50th, we also recently interviewed Broadcast State!

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Many of us remember Vicki from her time as guitarist in 5 Girls, the dirty, noisy punk/rock band initially active in the '90s. But now Vicki has lost her old bandmates. Vicki, now, is 'Vicki No Mates’.

​Ahead of the Contact 50th gig, we talked to Vicki.

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Lo-fi instrumentalists DEAN have been active since the mid-1990s featuring (at least, initially) 24 strings (and still) 4 tracks… and an attitude. Ahead of the Contact 50th, we spoke to DEAN about their rules for songwriting, career highlights, and more!

https://t.co/hLWcw0viZC

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Formed in 1987, Watershed was Hamilton’s premiere underground band in the late ‘80s til 1991. We spoke with Marcus MacRury ahead of the Contact 50th party about the band’s greatest successes, playing in Motueka, what Contact meant to them, and more!

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‘When the Cows Come Home’ was released a couple of years ago, but has just become available on TVNZ+. On the surface about cattle, the primary focus is herdsman Andrew Johnstone, formerly of Hamilton bands ‘Three Men Missing’, ‘Hoola Troupe’, and more.

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The Wine Cellar owner Rohan Evans talks to UTR about his Auckland venue, including some detail at the start about the importance of Contact 89FM and the music scene in Hamilton in the '90s in getting him to where he is today.

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New Podcast from (the fictitious) Radio Dolby feat an interview with Hamilton's Mike Alpha Xray. Hear about the development of his fantastic "Dominion Road" cover & more. Trigger warning: to avoid some low level Hamilton bashing, start listening at 9:13

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Review: How have I not stumbled across ‘The Steak Place’ before? They have roughly yearly releases going back to 2001?! There is barely a mention of them on the internet… but that needs to change, because there is some fantastic music on this release.

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Southern Tribe has just released his debut album (proper), 'Polyphon'. We review the release on your website:

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[Max Johns @MxDEJ]

The one and only review that my album will ever receive contains the phrases "fucking brilliant" and "utterly ridiculous". I can't even work out which is the higher praise, let alone the better description.

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"Well, my fellow emo-jazzfuzz-janglists, has Mike Alpha Xray’s got the covers album for you!"

HUP reviews M.A.X.'s astounding debut covers LP

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An excellent, must-read, article in the Waikato Times by Andrew Johnstone on how the Waikato punches above its weight on the international music stage.

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Review: Mike Alpha Xray is likely Hamilton’s biggest lover of short acrostic poems, but instead harshly describes himself in his self-deprecating press release as “Kirikiriroa’s newest and least essential recording artist”. But we're not having it!

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[Archives New Zealand @ArchivesNZ]

For #NZMusicMonth we’ll highlight some music related records we hold. To kick things off here is the Hamilton County Bluegrass Band performing in 1968. A snippet from Pictorial Parade 204, full film here https://t.co/IWWAF68g9S @nzmusicmonth @AudioCultureNZ @HtownWiki

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The engimatic musician with an anarchic spirit: Martin James Fisher (1961-2023)

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