The Garbage and the Flowers

Coming out of Sonic Youth-drenched Wellington, NZ in the early nineties, The Garbage & the Flowers were always going to be an anomaly. Denounced as the fifty-thousandth band to sound like the The Velvet Underground, and even as a Christian band in the local street press, the five-piece nevertheless built up a solid gang of devotees, who claimed their sound to be "unique, fractured, and psychedelic" and ideal to take acid with and get stoned to. Championed by songwriter Alastair Galbraith