Needles and Plastic: Flying Nun Records, 1981–1988 Craig Brown Band the band’s psychedelic award-winning masterpiece

the band’s psychedelic award-winning masterpiece that helped usher in the 1990s

" to deal with the heavy realities of love turning sour

and synthesizers

The rhythms undulate from despair to ecstasy

Needles and Plastic: Flying Nun Records, 1981–1988 Craig Brown Band the band’s psychedelic award-winning masterpiecePreview "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