The Wellingtonista

Tag: phoenix foundation

July 28, 2015

The Phoenix Foundation — Mountain

The new Phoenix Foun­da­tion track ‘Moun­tain’ (first sin­gle off their forth­com­ing album ‘Give up your Dreams’) and accom­pa­ny­ing video are very good. Enjoy. And head over to their web­site to get your hands on some of the fan­tas­tic look­ing lim­it­ed edi­tion copies (12″ vinyl!) of the new album.

noizyboy
Music / Video
2 Comments
June 18, 2014

The Phoenix Foundation: Bob Lennon John Dylan

The new Phoenix Foun­da­tion video is very good. That is all. (From the Tom’s Lunch EP, which you can lis­ten to and buy over at band­camp).

noizyboy
Music
0 Comment
October 28, 2011

Phoenix Foundation on Jools Holland

Hey, it’s Fri­day! And we haven’t done Fri­day music vids for aaaages. So, for your view­ing and lis­ten­ing plea­sure, here’s Welly-boys-doing-good-over­seas, the Phoenix Foun­da­tion, play­ing live on the BBC’s Lat­er with Jools Hol­land show… Feel free to add your own Welling­­ton-themed (or, oth­er­wise) musi­cal sug­ges­tions in the com­ments.

noizyboy
Music
2 Comments
October 1, 2007

The Phoenix Foundation — Bright Grey

With a shiny US record deal under their belts, The Phoenix Foun­da­tion are get­ting ready to take over the world with their upcom­ing third album enti­tled “Hap­py End­ing” (which dis­pens­es with — dis­ap­point­ing­ly — the equine-themed nature of their pre­vi­ous two releas­es: “Horse Pow­er” & “Pega­sus”).

Here’s the first sin­gle and video from the album, shot, I’m told, in Island Bay, and direct­ed by fel­low Welling­ton­ian and Oscar-nom­i­nat­ed film-mak­er, Tai­ka Wait­i­ti.

noizyboy
Music
10 Comments
March 21, 2007

A Friday night and a Saturday morning

Down at the City Gallery on Fri­day night they are run­ning anoth­er one of their Late Night Ses­sions, where you get to cruise around the big exhi­bi­tion (this time it’s the bien­ni­al Prospect show) in rel­a­tive peace and lis­ten to love­ly live music while you do so. And all for free.

City Gallery’s pop­u­lar late night Fri­day returns. Wan­der through Tele­com Prospect 2007: New Art New Zealand to a back­drop of inde­pen­dent and elec­tron­ic sounds by local per­form­ers. Fea­tur­ing Penelop­ing, Tc Wed­de with Luke Buda, and Aspen.

The love­ly Luke Buda is of course in The Phoenix Foun­da­tion, as is (the equal­ly love­ly) Tc Wed­de. Aspen is also love­ly and also known as Sign­er, and is one half of Over the Atlantic and one half of Skallan­der. And the “medi­um-core girl-boy plinkpop!” Penelop­ing also have a very good rep­u­ta­tion as a live act. Hav­ing expe­ri­enced Late Night Ses­sions many times before — from the point of view both of a per­former and a patron — I can hearti­ly rec­om­mend this event.

stephen clover
Art / Events / Festival / Music
2 Comments
May 27, 2005

The Phoenix Foundation — Pegasus

The Phoenix Foun­da­tion’s sec­ond album Pega­sus is out now, and has fol­lowed the lead of recent releas­es of fel­low Welling­ton bands Fat Fred­dy’s Drop (Based on a True Sto­ry) and Shi­had (Love is the New Hate) by going straight into the top 10 of the NZ album charts. Ten years ago it would have been […]

noizyboy
Music
0 Comment
May 15, 2005

Ready to Roll

Despite the fact that it’s New Zealand Music Month, there’s no shame in cel­e­brat­ing the fact that the #1 and #2 spots in the New Zealand album charts are tak­en up by Welling­ton bands. Welling­ton’s orig­i­nal and now reborn rock riff-meis­ters Shi­had’s sixth album Love is the New Hate is being kept at only being […]

noizyboy
Music
0 Comment
February 16, 2005

Phoenix Foundation sign with FMR

Local lads The Phoenix Foun­da­tion con­tin­ue their well-paced rise to the top of the musi­cal pile, with the news that they’ve signed a deal with Fes­ti­val Mush­room Records (FMR). The band have appar­ent­ly been the sub­ject of a ‘bid­ding war’ amongst at least a cou­ple of the big­ger Auck­­­land-based labels, with some fine win­ing and […]

noizyboy
Music
0 Comment