User:KrazyKiwi

KrazyKiwi

I am me. I guess that was obvious. This is a foetal page - I guess that was obvious too. I'll put real stuff on it when (if) I am convinced the evil wiki fairies aren't going to eat the darn page. Don't laugh, it's happened before.

Stuff to do

• write an explanation of the stuff I've been working on (Kiwi rock, Swedish pop, random german stuff)
• Link it all up, some time
• The absolute music discography

About Languages & Countries

I am from New Zealand, although I haven't lived there for a long time. I did grow up there in the halcyon days of kiwi rock, and I grew up in in a family heavily involved in the music scene. Suffice it to say, I am very familiar with exceedingly obscure Australian and Kiwi music of the 70's and 80's, and my plan is to get to work on all those great and largely unknown outside oceania bands of my childhood. I also have an enormous vinyl collection from those days, and a nearly as enormous CD collection, but it's packed in boxes in my grandmother's house in NZ, so it's not that easy for me to add them, unfortunately.

Among other places I've lived in Switzerland for quite a while (Basel, to be specific, great city), and I've spent a good deal of time since then working with German folk. So I have a fondness for weird German language bands (especially but not exclusively industrial), and know enough german to spot grievous errors in spelling and pick out impossible grammar constructions, but not enough to see the subtle ones, and I never did learn the gender stuff. Also, when I attempt to speak german, I send real germans into fits of laughter, thanks to the swiss accent.

Since then I've lived in Sweden for many years, my husband is Swedish, and I am quite fluent. I also adore Swedish Music, and having grown up immersed in the Kiwi music scene, I made a point of immersing myself in the Swedish scene since I've been here, so I've grown quite a collection of Swedish stuff to get around to fixing up here. Mostly "classic" rock and power pop stuff, folks like Tomas Ledin and Ulf Lundell. My step-father-in-law has an even more enormous than you could believe collection of 60's through 80's vinyls too, all in Swedish, and I've been adding and/or cleaning up a bunch of those over time.

Bands I am especially interested in fixing the discographies of (and keeping fixed)

• The Angels (AKA Angel City)
• Letzte Instanz
• Sissel / Sissel Kyrkebø
• KMFDM
• Dragon
• The Chieftains
• Tomas Ledin
• Ulf Lundell