Negative Nancies and the midnight horror punk show- "Monkey Chest"

 

"I've got a monkey on my chest"

Dunedin, New Zealand's art punk trio Negative Nancies wax darkly poetic about a murderous simian on the discordant distressing "Monkey Chest". It could be a metaphor for self inflicted curses or the soundtrack for some future midnight horror movie but I love how savagely punk and fun it is. It rattles and shakes like industrial punk with late 70's proto punk tones totally raw and unencumbered by any rules whatsoever. Negative Nancies are Tess Mackay on casio and vox, Emilie Smith on drums and vox and Mick Elborado on guitar and vox. 

-Robb Donker Curtius

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Negative Nancies exist in their own universe, sounding unlike anything else happening in Dunedin or in New Zealand past or present. The songs are created organically in the rehearsal room, through an evolution of experimentation. In amongst the art-punk chaos there’s an irrepressible undercurrent of pop melodicism.

Negative Nancies don’t play by anyone’s rules. Songs unfold in unusual ways. Sombre glory, impish mischief. Wired anxiety, manic glee. It makes sense until it doesn’t any more. And vice versa. It’s not so much Dada as Dunedin-a, filtering observations about everyday human behaviour through a unique appreciation of the absurd and a wild-yeast approach to organic song creation and performance. They don’t want to be banned, they just want to play in a band.

Negative Nancies, punk, experimental punk, indie rock, proto punk tones, industrial punk, noise rock, "Monkey Chest", Dunedin, New Zealand