DD Smash (Musical group)

New Zealand pop/rock band formed by Dave Dobbyn after the breakup of Th' Dudes.

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Pop-Shot-Show, Closet Artists, Tuesday August 25th 1981. 520 Queen Street, Auckland / P...

Date: 1981

From: Various artists :[Posters advertising performances by popular music groups, singers, musicians, and rock bands performing in New Zealand in 1980 and 1981].

By: Peacocke, Philip, active 1980

Reference: Eph-E-MUSIC-Popular-1981-01

Description: Shows an arrangement of photographs of individual members of various bands, scattered across the poster. There is a key at the bottom identifying the numbered figures. Musicians from the following bands are shown: New Entrants, Screaming Mee Mees, Pen Knife Glides, Bombers, Valentinos, Danse Macabre, Blam, Rhythm-Method, Corners, The Mad Ranks, Hammond Gamble, The (Garage) Crawlers, Famous Five, Youth for a Price, Coupd'Etat, "Shower Curtains", Missing Tremble, A.F.C. (Arms for Children), The Neighbours, Skinny Brothers, Otis Mace, Freudian Slips, The Diplomats, Techtones, Prime Movers, The Gurlz, Broken Dolls, Side Affect, Teddy Boys, Blind Date, Instigators, Tall Dwarfs, The Pink Flamingos, Hattie and the Havana Hotshots, Larry and the Ladders, Dead on Arrival, A Second Nose, I Love You, Androidss, Fusion, The Furys, Pleasure Boys, Frank Adam, D D Smash, Rank and File. Closet Entrepreneur shown: Ray Castle. Exhibited in 'Keeping The Score' exhibition curated by Jill Palmer, displayed on the First Floor Foyer, National Library Building, 12 July to 16 August 1999. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 997 x 680 mm. Provenance: Second copy donated by Bill Lake in 2000. Processing information: Two copies held.

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Dave Dobbyn of musical group DD Smash standing on the corner of Kent Terrace and Orient...

Date: 15 March 1985

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Reid, Philip John, 1954-

Reference: EP/1985/1233

Description: Dave Dobbyn of music group DD Smash standing on the corner of Kent Terrace and Oriental Parade, Wellington. Dobbyn is wearing a leather jacket and a pair of sunglasses. Photographed 15 March 1985 by Evening Post staff photographer Phil Reid. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

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The New Zealand Music Awards 1983, live on stage. Featuring Body Electric, Coconut Roug...

Date: 1983

From: Various artists :[Posters advertising performances by popular music groups, singers, musicians, and rock bands performing in New Zealand in 1983].

Reference: Eph-D-MUSIC-Popular-1983-10

Description: Shows an arrangement of text. Exhibited in 'Keeping The Score' exhibition curated by Jill Palmer, displayed on the First Floor Foyer, National Library Building, 12 July to 16 August 1999. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 600 x 422 mm.

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Rainbow Music Festival, March 5, 6, 7th 1982. Rock + Reggae + Folk + Blues + Country. A...

Date: 1982

From: [Programmes and other ephemera for popular music events, bands and singers. 1982]

Reference: Eph-B-MUSIC-Popular-1982-01

Description: Programme for a live music festival at Masterton, with photographs and biographical notes on the following performers: The Spaces, Taste of Bounty, DD Smash, The Knobz, Rodger Fox Big Band, Billy T James, Midge Marsden Connection, and Kevin Borich. Also performing were: Spines, Consorts, Shadow Fax, Ghetto, Hulamen, The Scheme, Frankie Stevens and the Scouts, Mockers, Precious, Los Dogs, Steel Breeze, Rusty Nail, Billy Larkin Big Band. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 16 pages, each 297 x 205 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2007.

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D D Smash Cool Bananas tour '82, with special guests The Narcs & Gary McCormick. 2ZM Un...

Date: 1982

From: Various artists :[Posters advertising performances by popular music groups, singers, musicians, and rock bands performing in New Zealand in 1982].

Reference: Eph-D-MUSIC-Popular-1982-01

Description: Arrangement of text. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 635 x 470 mm.

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[Posters of around A0 size, collected by Anthony Norton. Folder 1]

Date: 1980-1993

From: Norton, Anthony, 1959-: Collection

Reference: Eph-E-MUSIC-Norton-1

Description: Includes: 1980s: D D Smash; Blazing Back. With special guest Jon Zealando, master illusionist and magician. Hillsborough Fri & Sat [1980s] The Verandahs; shady music [1980s?]. Banner poster Zero Bars. Hillsborough, Tues to Sat [1980s?] 1981: Penknife Glides and Danse Macabre. On the Positive Reaction Tour [November / December 1981] Swingers. Practical Jokers tour. Live in concert at their very best. [Itinerary 13-26 October 1981] (Damaged poster) 1983: Dave McArtney & The Pink Flamingos. The Catch album tour [1983] 1987: Shona Laing. "South" The album; the single "Drive (Baby drive)". Virgin [1987] Mockers. Stewart Macpherson and Cadbury's Crunchie proudly present Emperor's New Clothers Australasian tour '87 1988: Knightshade, Living the Life tour Mushroom [Records. 1988]. 1993: Legionnaires Inside Out tour '93. Hillcrest, Wed Aug 25th [1993] (Damaged poster) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Sizes up to 840 mm.

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[Posters of around A2 and A1 size, collected by Anthony Norton. 1970-1989]

Date: 1970-1989

From: Norton, Anthony, 1959-: Collection

Reference: Eph-D-MUSIC-Norton-1970/1989

Description: Includes: 1970s: Vapor and the Trails [1970s?] 1977: Schtung. On stereo records and tapes [1977] 1978: Golden Harvest; new original rock sound; performing live ... [1978?] 1981: [Icehouse]. Love In Motion. Massive; Music with a big Mmmmmmm. Fuji Rd [1981?] Valentinos. Mad Mary, new 12" E.P. plus "Looking at you / Don't let up". Hillsborough 19-21st [1981] Verandahs. Art direction Rick Reid; photography Peter Webb, Verandahs for Mr Wonderful Records. [ca 1981] 1982: Citizen Band. The single "The way it will be" out and about! Live at Hillsborough Tavern 9-11 [Shows 1973 photograph of three muscle-men including Arnold Schwarzenegger] Clients. Gladstone, Friday 6th [1982?] D.D. Smash at Macey's, 24 + 25 july [1982 or 1983] "Rockin' in the Street". Now the album ... appear live at: [1982] The Spines. "Fishing". Hillcrest, Wed 30 June - Thurs 1 July [1982] The Willie Dayson Blues Band. 'Rogues & fools', the new album out now [1982] 1983: The Body Electric. Hillcrest, Fri 18 / Sat 19 Nov [1983] The Bronx [with 4 autographs. ca 1983] Radio Active. Debut single out now: "Angela' and "Money man'. Crystal Records [1983] Rip It Up, no. 76, Nov 1983; billboard photo features Dance Exponents 1985: Politicians. "Down in Baghdad" [1985?] 1986: Roy Harper appearing Metropole, 19 March [1986] (Autographed) 1987: Sneaky Feelings. New album "Sentimental Education" [1987] 1988: Knightshade. Festival Records. Out for the count, The Physical You, Out for the Night. Regines, Sun 1st, Tue 3rd May [1988] (Damaged/torn at top right) 1989: Upper Hutt Posse. The album "Against the flow" [1989] (Signed and laminated) Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Sizes varying up to 700 mm.

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Mr Vintage: I [love] NZ music. Guess the band. [Poster. 2016]

Date: 2016

Reference: Eph-D-MUSIC-Popular-2016-03

Description: Poster showing a grid of 46 clues in rebus form representing 46 New Zealand bands. At top left are the words: I [heart/love] NZ music. The band names are arranged in eight rows as follows: Herbs, Black Seeds, Dimmer, Dragon, Hollie Smith Ladyhawke, Bats, Goldenhorse, Die! Die! Die!, Tadpole, Katchafire Pacifier (ie Shihad), Kora, Zed, Brunettes, The Fourmyula, P-Money The Datsuns[?], Goodshirt, Chicks, Concord Dawn, 3Ds, Crowded House Feelers, DD Smash, Shape Shifter, Pitch Black, Strawpeople, Rhombus Checks, Headless Chickens, Hello Sailor, Minuit, Scribe, Blindspott ...., Shocking Pinks, Muttonbirds, Naked Spots Dance, Bleeders, Topp Twins Split Enz, Flight of the Conchords, Dead C, Phoenix Foundation, Head Like a Hole Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Digital print, 595 x 420 mm.

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Various artists :[Posters advertising performances by popular music groups, singers, mu...

Date: 1982

Reference: Eph-D-MUSIC-Popular-1982

Description: Blam Blam Blam. Luxury length album. Taita, Weds, 26th May [1982] Direct from L.A. the Bobby Shew Sextet & All Star big band. Cricketers Arms 18 & 20 May [1980]. (2 posters) Cold Chisel with special guests: Inxs. Wellington Town Hall 24 Jan [1982]. DD Smash. Cool Bananas tour '82 with special guests The Narcs and Gary McCormick. Daggy and The Dickheads. Mid-winter campus tour. Victoria University Union Hall 21 July 1982. Desperate Measures. Last nite tonite. [1982]. Donovan. Touring April / May '82. '82 Orientation. Fright Night. Instigators, Riot III, Desperate Measures. Ballroom 3 March. George Benson in concert with a brilliant 38 piece orchestra. Auckland, Wellington 25 & 27 Feburary [1982]. (2 copies) Edward Zimblis + Syndicate presents the Hex Enduction Hour by The Fall. University ballroom, Aug 17th. Tickets from U.C.S.A.; Christchurch Town Hall, Aug 18th; tickets from Town Hall. Plus The Clean and Sporting Life. [1982?] The Gordons. Billy the club. [ca 1982]. Gurlz. Mini album out now. Clyde Quay 16 November [1982]. The Innocent. Quinns Post 21-24 [July 1982]. Jazz upstairs at the Cricketers. Roger Fox Big Band & Louise Gibbs. [1982]. (2 posters) Joe Cocker in concert. 1982 New Zealand Tour November. John Rowles in concert. 16-26 May [1982]. Joy Yates. Outstanding Jazz singer direct from Ronnie Scott's Club, London. Circa 12 December [1982]. (2 posters) Madness. The Specials, The Beat, The Selecter, The Bodysnatchers, Bad Manners in Dance Craze. [1982]. Out now on Warrior Records. "Nite Street lady", newest single by Mantra. Taita, Thurs-Sat, 22nd-24th [1982] Marcia Hines & John English together in concert. Jokers and Queens Tour '82. Touring July. (2 posters) Marg Layton band. Clyde Quay Tavern 1 December [1982]. '82 Orientation. Masquerade Ball. Tall Dwarfs, Clean, Ballon D' Essai, Newtones. Ballroom 6 March [1982]. '82 Orientation. Mid Night. Ballroom 27 February [1982]. The Narcs. Taita Tavern 1-3 [1982]. (2 posters) The Narcs. Concert at the Athletic Rugby Club Stadium, Bell Rd off Brooklyn Rd. & "The Parasites". The Neighbors. Watching Westerns tour, Winter 1982. Penknife Glides and Danse Macabre on the Positive Reaction tour. Hillsborough [1982]. Rank and File (Musical group): The H-h-hullo Rank + File tour. A big h-h-hullo to the people at the Terminus, Mon + Tues 15th + 16th March [1982] Rod McKuen. His music, his words and the magic of one of the world's finest entertainters and the biggest selling poet of our time. 21-29 March 1982. (2 posters) Roger Fox and all that jazz band. Cricketers Arms Tavern, Wednesday thru Saturday [1982]. Rose Bayonet. New Zealand's top heavy metal band. 1 x Terminus; 1 x Quinns Post 29 June [1982]. (2 copies) The Royales. Living in the suburbs. Taita Hotel 5-7 August [1982]. Shadow Fax. 1 x blank; 1 x Clyde Quay Sat 10th; Cricketers Arms 9-11 September (x2), 19-20 (x1) [1982]. (5 posters) The Spines. Fishing. 1 x EP on sale now; 1 x at Chips 23 May [1982]. (2 copies) Spines & Carnival Din. Cosgroves 17-18 [September 1982]. The Stones from Dunedin. Cosgroves 7 December [1982]. Topp Twins. National Tour 1982. (2 copies) Topp Twins. Victoria University Union Hall. 13 November [1982]. (2 copies) Vanguards live. 2 x Cricketers Arms 26-27 November; 2 x Clyde Quay Tavern 17 November [1982]. (4 posters) Video Night. Orientation. Gordons. Ballroom 1 March [1982]. Whizz Kids. Birds of a feather; back together. Hilsborough 9-11 September [1982]. Quantity: 41 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on posters, plus 15 duplicates.. Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying.

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Various artists :[Posters advertising performances by popular music groups, singers, mu...

Date: 1985

Reference: Eph-D-MUSIC-Popular-1985

Description: Includes posters for the following performers: Axemen 1985 world tour. Auckland 4-5 January; Wellington 11-12 January, etc. (2 copies) Backdoor Blues Band (at the Cricketers - 2 copies) The Bats with [... at] The Pulse, Clyde Quay Tavern, 10-11 May. 7 track EP out soon "And here is Music for the Fireside". [1985]. (aquired from Slow Boat Records 2001) Rick Bryant and the Jive Rumblers summer tour 17-19 January. Cricketers. The Car Crash Set. at the Pulse. 22-23 February. (2 copies) The Chills, in their "Lost in Space" NZ tour. Cricketers Arms 4th-6th. Circus Block Four Commodores live in concert. New Zealand tour (Auckland, Hamilton, Palmerston North, Wellington, 21 - 24 November 1985) Dali will be at the Pulse 20th - 21st. "For crying out loud!". Dance Exponents Expectations tour, May 1985. Dazzle. Downstage Studio Bar. Late night music Dec - Feb. Marg Layton & Kevin Clark; Besser & Prosser; Sheila Graham; Ann Pacey; Roslynne Aberhart; Marg Layton & Dave Murphy; Jonathan Crayford; Free Radicals; Sarah Davison & Rod Dunbar. Flesh D-Vice. Summertime Blues tour of '85. (2 copies) The return of Flesh D-Vice. New Zealand death rock tour. Now playing at your local sleaze pit, The Pulse 18-19. New album "Bloodstained Morning" out now! Flesh D-Vice. at The Pulse Fri 3rd - Sat 4th. Four Volts. Cricketers Arms 4-5 December 1985. Freudian Slips (different poster) The Freudian Slips (last Wellington gig - 2 copies) Friendly Jersey Promotions present Graham Wilkinson - come and watch him play - all six of him, at ... The Front Lawn / NZ Students Arts Council. Songs and stories from the Front Lawn, with Don McGlashan and Harry Sinclair. Fortune Theatre, 7-8 July 1985. Poster by Derek Ward. The Front Lawn / NZ Students Arts Council. Songs and stories from the Front Lawn, with Don McGlashan and Harry Sinclair. Cafe Pacific, 33 Willis St, 17-20 July 1985. Poster by Derek Ward (2 copies) Gladstone 50th birthday party weekend, with Smart Russians, Maiden China, Belle Motions, and Backdoor Blues Band. 30 August - 1 September. The Go-Betweens. New Zealand tour. Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland, February 1985. Gogo Yetis, Bros Gorgonzola, The Sheets. Thistle Hall 15 November (handmade poster) Gary Grant and Bill Reichenbach with the Rodger Fox Band and Midge Marsden. Napier, Palmerston North and Wellington, August tour - 2 copies). Herbs. Long ago / Warrior Records Ltd. [1985]. Herbs, Aotearoa, Dread Beat & Blood (University of Victoria Students Association in conjunction with Radio with Pictures. Radio Active, 19 July 1985. Humanimals. Bats Theatre 7th-9th November. The Johnnys. Cricketers 21 May 1985. The Johnnys. Looney Tours presents ... [Blank in bottom space] ca 19085. Tom Jones live in concert. Michael Fowler Centre 27 February 1985. Jungle Mice (Cricketers, Friday-Saturday 29-30 November 1985 - 2 copies) Lionheart. Running free on Jayrem Records. [Gig poster]. Live Aid. Live on TV2 13-14 July. New Zealand Live Aid for Africa (Lists many overseas performers) Don McLean. Direct from the USA, touring December 1985. Midge Marsden Band. Cricketers 23-24th (2 copies) The Mockers. New album "Culprit and the king". Town Hall rage, 22 September 1985. Netherworld Dancing Toys. "The real you". Cricketers, 7 March. New Zealand Music awards 1985. Mockers, Patea Maori Club, Narcs, Netherworld Dancing Toys, D D Smash, Jacquie Fitzgerald, Debbie Harwood, Sneaky Feelings, Alan Young, Peking Man. Michael Fowler Centre 11 November 1985. (2 copies) Peking Man [group photograph] ca 1985. Peking Man. "Lift your heads up high". Thursday-Friday 1-2 August. Peking Man. "Scared of a sound". New single available now. Cricketers 1-2 February. Rockett 88. NZ 85 tour. From the southern states of America, Michael Bagley's Rockett 88. Cricketers 12th-14th. The Shadows. Michael Fowler centre 1 February 1985. "Shake" (advertising poster for a periodical, issue no 2 Feb/March 1985). Skank Attack and Murder Inc. Clyde Quay Tavern Wgtn 17th Sept; Windsor Castle, Auck. 19, 20th Sept. [1985]. (Two copies, one orange and black, one yellow and black) The Spines. Clyde Quay + Ten Foot Faces. At the Pulse 25-26 January. TKP. This Kind of Punishment, with the Expendables. Friday 3rd, Saturday 4th May. [1985?] Tokyo. At the Terminus 26th 27th [and] at Cricketers 1st and 2nd. A touch of Country (with Gray Bartlett, Jodi Vaughan, at the Boots and Saddles Club, Johnsonville, 26 September 1985) U2 live. Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland. 29 August - 2 September 1985. (Tim Rowberry donation 1992) The Verlaines. Christchurch, Auckland and Wellington tour, May 1985. (2 copies) Wayward Witches, at the Pulse 21-22 June 1985. YFC [+ Haemogoblins. Zanzibar Wed 14th and Thurs 15th. ca 1985]. Neil Young and Crazy Horse. Wellington 24 February 1985. Quantity: 50 colour art print(s) on posters.. Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying.

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Various artists :[Posters advertising sound and phonographic recordings made in 1984].

Date: 1984

Reference: Eph-D-PHONO-1984

Description: Includes posters for the following: Children's Hour. New 12: e.p. "Flesh" out now on Flying Nun. [1984] DD Smash. "The optimist"; a quite remarkable album. Mushroom N.Z. [1984] Chuck Girard. Latest release "Name above all names, at your Christian bookstore now! [1984] Marie + the Atom. 12 inch EP on Flying Nun Records. [1984] More goodies from Flying Nun. [1984] Mockers new single "Swear it's true" Album out soon (Keep your peepers open for it). Reaction. [1984] Primitive Art Group. Five Tread Drop Down. Double album out now on Braille Records. [1984] (2 copies) Verlaines with special guests Marie and the Atom. New 6 track EP "10 o'clock in the afternoon" out now on Flying Nun Records [Aeroplanes] (2 versions, one blue and one yellow) [1984] Quantity: 9 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on posters.. Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying around A2 size.

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DD Smash

Date: [ca Mar 1983]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP-Arts-Music-Rock & Pop-D-DD Smash-3

Description: New Zealand Band DD Smash, taken circa March 1983 by an unidentified photographer. Back, from left: Gary Langsford, Peter Warren, Andrew Clouston, Scott Carlton. In front: Dave Dobbyn. Source of descriptive information - Notes on item. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Resin-coated paper print, 20.1 x 25.3 cm

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New Zealand music awards 1985. Mockers, Patea Maori Club, Narcs, Netherworld Dancing To...

Date: 1985

From: Various artists :[Posters advertising performances by popular music groups, singers, musicians, and rock bands performing in New Zealand in 1985].

Reference: Eph-D-MUSIC-Popular-1985-09

Description: Shows a a graphic design of musical instruments drawn towards a vanishing point on the horizon of a keyboard: saxophone, guitars, violin and brass instruments. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph on poster, 590 x 423 mm. (curved arch top).

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DD Smash

Date: [ca Apr 1982]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP-Arts-Music-Rock & Pop-D-DD Smash-2

Description: New Zealand Band DD Smash, taken circa April 1982 by an unidentified photographer. From left: Lisle Kinney, Rob Guy, Dave Dobbyn, Peter Warren. Source of descriptive information - Notes on item. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Resin-coated paper print, 19.4 x 26.1 cm

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DD Smash

Date: April 1983

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP-Arts-Music-Rock & Pop-D-DD Smash-1

Description: Photograph of New Zealand rock group DD Smash, taken April 1983 by an unknown photographer. From left: Scot Calhoun, Andrew Clouston, Dave Dobbyn, Peter Warren, Ian Morris and Gary Langsford. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Resin-coated paper print 20.4 x 25.5 cm

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D D Smash (Musical group) :DD Smash 'The Optimist'; a quite remarkable album. Mushroom ...

Date: 1984

From: Various artists :[Posters advertising sound and phonographic recordings made in 1984].

Reference: Eph-D-PHONO-1984-07

Description: Shows a photographic portrait of Dave Dobbyn and Peter Warren, members of DD Smash. At lower right is an inset photograph of the album cover, referencing the Buster Keaton movie scene, with Dave Dobbyn hanging from one of the hands of Big Ben, while Peter Warren sits in the window at the left. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 592 x 418 mm.