{"product_id":"9781775491262_in-love-with-these-times-my-life-with-flying-nun-records","title":"In Love With These Times: My Life With Flying Nun Records","description":"The inside story of New Zealand's iconic independent record label by the man who made it happen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cp style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 8pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\"\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt\"\u003eI wanted to be more than just an observer. I wanted to be a part of what was going on. I had told someone and the word was out, and now I had to actually do this thing. Start a record label.\u003c?xml:namespace prefix = o \/?\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 8pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\"\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt\"\u003eI must have been drunk.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoger Shepherd was working in a Christchurch record shop when he realised the local bands he loved needed someone to make their records. Flying Nun was born.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThose records and the bands that created them – The Chills, The Clean, Chris Knox and the Tall Dwarfs, The Verlaines, Sneaky Feelings, The Bats, Straitjacket Fits and many more – went on to define an era and create what became known as “the Dunedin Sound”.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn truth it was less a unified sound than a spirit of adventure and independence that characterised the Flying Nun ethos. In this long-awaited memoir, label founder Roger Shepherd describes the idealism and passion that drove the project in the first place, the hard realities of the music industry, and the constant tension between art and commerce.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFilled with revealing anecdote and insight, this is the definitive insider history of the one of the most innovative and original record labels of the modern era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Surely the label with the highest quality output per capita in pop history.\" – \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin\"\u003e\"Something inexplicably special happened in the Southern Hemisphere a quarter of a century or so ago, the ripples still rumbling, and without it, all the music you love today would sound ever so slightly, and indefinably, different.” - British comedian Stewart Lee.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 8pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Calibri\"\u003e \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Roger Shepherd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46908500213909,"sku":"9781775491262","price":15.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9781775491262_646a9b9d-0d11-4169-a13b-6e1490f930a9.jpg?v=1776889937","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9781775491262_in-love-with-these-times-my-life-with-flying-nun-records","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}