T54 | BAND

Before New Zealand’s Salad Boys, there was T54, also fronted by Joe Sampson joined by Matt Scobie on drums and Sam Hood on bass. As Matt Hellriegel writes in his liner notes to the Drone Attacks release, “In certain respects, Christchuch’s T54 were a band out of time.”

T54 featured a visceral, sonic guitar sound, perhaps out of step with most of the Flying Nun bands at the time. Joe describes T54 as being “stuck in the wrong era somewhat” yet “enduring well in New Zealand for those who bought the music and saw us live at the time.”