The Dead C
aka The Dead See
They made provincial art rock, as re-energised by 1970s American mavericks and the initial British post-punk era. Late 80s highpoints such as ‘Max Harris’ and ‘Three Years’ had the chill, stilted beauty of those more complicated listening experiences. From there, they went backwards into European, British and American experimental sounds creating, at times, a seemingly random terrain of sound peaks and shadowed crevices.
Diabolic Root
Ba Da Bing
Siltbreeze
Shock
Sub Pop
Forced Exposure
Language Recordings
Precious Metal
Robbie Yeats was the drummer during The Verlaines’ peak mid-1980s period.
Michael Morley performs and records as Gate. His first duo, Wreck Small Speakers on Expensive Stereos, with Richard Ram, was active in Taradale and Dunedin in the early to late 1980s and released many tapes.
Despite being a wilfully left-field trio, The Dead C were able to pack out Auckland pub venues in the mid-1990s.
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