By GRAHAM REID
(Herald rating: * * * * )
The soundtrack to the new Kiwi road movie offers a pretty terrific, incredibly schizoid compilation of locals and internationals.
The former includes Flying Nun country outfit the Renderers (with their original Bigger Than Texas), Bill Wolfgramm and Daphne Walker (old-time ballad When My Wahine Does the Poi), the Terrorways (punk classic Short Haired Rock'n'Roll), with Darcy Clay, King Loser, Pitch Black, Salmonella Dub, Shaft and Space Dust (a hangover treatment of Lee Hazelwood's Some Velvet Morning).
While the internationals include rockabilly's Robert Gordon (Way I Walk), Nancy Sinatra (the chintzy Sugar Town), and Mama Cass (Dream a Little Dream).
And any album ending with Chloe of Wainuiomata singing Doris Day's Calamity Jane has got much to recommend it. Stupid in a nice way.
Label: Festival Mushroom
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