28 February – BTU zine launch

Join us to launch Beneath the Underdog (BTU), an old-school DIY, fanzine focusing on local music, arts and ideas from the fringes. With BTU we hope to shine a wee spotlight on people doing interesting and creative things and comment on things we think deserve attention.

Be the first to get your hands on Issue 1 (bound to become a rare collector’s item!), and get down to live sets from our friends and fellow contributors, Ken Double, Zac Winterwood and FFSE (Featherston Free Sound Ensemble).

And if that wasn’t awesome enough already, you will also be among the first ever visitors to Murtle Chickpea’s Tiny Travelling Art Gallery, full of tiny little pieces of art (for sale!), which Murtle will be bringing along for the night.

PLUS, merch and RAFFLE to boot!!

Entry $10 (includes a copy of the zine!)

4 Wakefield St, Featherston, New Zealand

Goblins (2024)

Electroacoustic, slow burn, noisy in part, moods inverted, deep in imaginary forest. Alludes to Shakespeare, Tolkien, Brothers Grimm…

Listen

credits

released February 19, 2026

Dave Edwards – bass, glockenspiel (1,3,6), electric guitar (3,5,6), e-drum (2,4), pitch-shifted gong (3.6), clarinet (7)

Previously unreleased solo instrumental recordings from 2024;
expands on the possibilities of fiffdimension.bandcamp.com/album/jovial-blade-7-2024

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Recorded in Featherston, NZ, 2024. Editing finished off February 2026.

Photos taken in the ‘Goblin forest’ of Mt Taranaki, NZ (on a visit back to my hometown of New Plymouth)..

Tracklist

1.	Goblins 02:301.
2.	Trail of Breadcrumbs 03:12
3.	Oberon 07:49
4.	by Jupiter 04:42
5.	Hobgoblins 03:03
6.	Titania 11:28
7.	Extant Body & Weight Extended 10:58

Further listening: Jovial Blade 7″

FFSE: MiXtape X (2026)

Our first album release of 2026, by Featherston Free Sound Ensemble – courtesy of Antony Milton’s Troubled Times Tapes label. Available on cassette or download.

“Every few weeks the peace of a small hall in the otherwise quiet tiny town of Featherston at the very bottom of the North Island of New Zealand/Aotearoa is disrupted by a gathering of eccentric misfits with a ragtag collection of noise making electronics. Old tape decks playing home made loops, dusty turntables spinning even dustier vinyl festooned with tags of sellotape, and glitchy cheap effects pedals disrupting the signal of an array of instruments that are being force-fed into weirdly small amplifiers.
“The recordings here in are from a variety of said get togethers and performances. Noise collage meets odd techno dub butted up against distorted rock. Tapiness wins.” – Antony Milton

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credits

released January 14, 2026

Guy Walker – turntable, cassette loops
Alex V – turntable, MIDI, sampler
Dave Edwards – bass, e-drum, clarinet, guitar
Recorded Oct-Nov 2025

Edited and mastered (somewhat) by A.M
Cover photos by Guy Walker