Chills still thrill

Flying Nun legends the Chills are the unlikely inspiration behind up-and-coming Swedish band Peter, Bjorn and John. The indiepop trio pay tribute to Dunedin’s finest with a song titled The Chills, on their third album Writer’s Block. “First we took a beat from an old Dionne Warwick tune,” says bassist Bjorn Yttling, “then we made this Pink Frost [the Chills’ most loved song] chorus thing. It’s like a homage to them.” Martin Phillips formed the Chills as a 15-year-old in 1978. The band went on to become Flying Nun’s most successful international act of the 80s and 90s.


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Pirate Comedy Deserves Another Season

Pirate Comedy Deserves Another Season

Cancelled after two season, Taika Waititi’s “silly comedy” Our Flag Means Death “deserves one more voyage”, according to Radio Times critic George White. “ was meant to be sacred…