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Jet, Wolfmother, Augie March, The Whitlams, Thirsty Merc, The Living End, Evermore(New Zealand), The Cat Empire, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Bob Evans, Eskimo Joe, Pete Murray and Ben Lee.

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Merkaba

Please leave Evermore out of this, us Kiwi's would like to make a good impression on the back of this Aussie bashing and Evermore are not a good impression.

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_Spinning_

I dunno Rick.
I went and saw them open for Elemeno P a couple of years before they hit it big...

They were awesome and their EP's aren't too shabby either.

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beat yr own KID

There didn't need to be anything else said after nick cave anyway.

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Seltzer

Jakob is a good NZ band - I'm sure plenty of post rockers would like them. I'll be seeing them at the BDO, as well as supporting Isis.

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Frances

I Agree, a lot of Aus local talent is pretty poor, but Nick Cave is awesome! Tumbleweed were good but I don't think they are doing anything anymore.
Some Powderfinger is good.
Personally, my fave Aus bands (apart from Nick Cave) have been and gone.
Blackfeather
Midnight Oil
Daddy Cool

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Merkaba

Really?
I really can't say I like their stuff on the radio at the moment, but I can't punish their live performances as I wouldn't know.

Seltzer, I'll check out Jakob, I stumbled across The House of Capricorn, I quite like what I've heard, thought they might be your heavy sort of thing too. They're selling copies of their recent debut EP on Trademe for $10.

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DontRunMeOver

I was actually thinking of those as examples of how bad Australian music can be. My brother bought me a Pete Murray CD last year and I was considering setting fire to it, filming the flames and sending the video to Pete Murray to make some kind of point about his dull acoustic band mid-tempo MOR crap.

The other suggestions, I shall check out.

And yes, Nick Cave is great, there are always exceptions. Nobody wants to say Danni Minogue then?

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Desired_Moments

Never really bothered to listen to it.

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