Thursday, 24 February 2011

Cane Slide: Two Songs
1996-7


 Cane Slide are one of the greatly undervalued New Zealand bands.  Centred round songwriter, filmmaker and skateboarding legend, Andrew Moore. They were part of the mid 1990s Auckland lo-fi, DIY sloppy pop scene that included Cabbage Bomber and Gaunt Pudding. Cane Slide released two albums (Sloppy Pop Wars and Stop Look Listen), two EPs (Lunatic Fringe and Tone Down) and two singles (Kamikaze and Shoes) and were also featured on two compilations (Dollar Mixture and the Boss TV album). They have played gigs with amongst others Pavement, Pollyanna, The 3ds, Superette, and The Tufnels.

Andrew Moore                                        Vocals, Guitar
Boyd Thwaites                                                      Bass
Nicola Rush                           Drums on Lunatic Fringe
James Stephenson    Drums on Change The Channel

Change The Channel is from their first album Sloppy Pop Wars. It was released on Humbucker Records in 1997. Lunatic Fringe is off of the EP of the same name. It was self-released (Cane 002) in 1996.


Cane Slide: Change The Channel
Cane Slide: Lunatic Fringe

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