I quite enjoyed the doco - it reminded me of what an awesome band the Chills were/are, and some of that band footage was priceless.

there was a lot packed in there, but I couldn't help but feel depressed by the end of it, so many 'what if' stories about the bands who did well but never 'made it' and no interviews with Shane Carter or Alastair Parker? (ok he's in N.Y) Only Graeme Humphries had anything really positive or uplifting to say.
It was obviously done on a real budget.
For anyone not familiar with the label (most people) it would have been better to simply show some music videos, live stuff with only short sound bites from band memebers in between in between - less bitter sidewipes at each other from those involved and more focus on the music.

yeah u've got a point there... chris knox did come off as being involved in everything, & tryin to organise it to his belief.
it was so good to see all that footage 7 stories bout those times, & it was also sad to hear bout the fact that so many bands had "good" cd's but there wasn't enough money to publicise those bands :(
it was awesome to see videos of those bands, specially since they don't get played much, cept occasionally on m2. which comes to my next point
why isn't some of the old stuff in general not being played??? why don't we see "love my leather jacket". why don't we see classic billy t james skits (which beat any current "comedy shows) i admit some of the stuff should never be seen again e.g. bananarama, russell crowe...
yeah i know a bit about flying nun, & from what i saw yesterday was really cool, thats the sort of music that NZ produces its a NZ label for NZ music. the bit i liked was the whole thing bout these american guys who looked up to flying nun music as the pinnacle of music...
but it was sad to see the amount of "bad blood" & the bands that could have been great but ended up good. it was sad to realise the HUGE influence flying nun bands & flying nun have had on NZ musicly, if not with songs but in encouraging many bands to succed & make shit hot music.

yeah, i did miss hasslehoff & HDU, good point there, 3d's yeah enjoyed that. also enjoyed the garageland segment as well as headless chickends, it was more the sound that fiona macdonald brought in, cause most of the bands under flying nun were/are guys...

Jesus is that it or is there a director's cut? is this a trailer for a series..if so it's about time i mean why get the iconic clean together on a couch and show them for a nano second? even helen put david kilgour on the honours list aren't there music lovers out there who could have done more than scratch the surface of what made flying nun tick felt a bit bloody sorry for chris knox and roger shepherd as they were being asked to carry a lot of the programme the net should have been spread wider yes it's great to see us bands influenced by flying nun but it's a definite crossfertilisation thing what the hell was that punk band paul kean and jane walker were in before toy love that did velvets and stooges stuff? what about the venues the gladstone and the windsor castle the reverb room the cook bar bodega and the last resort (what ever happened to the guy with his head in the speaker the night the gordons played?) the blue light discos the clean played at! flying nun took off on the back of live performances that were too fucking great not to be recorded loved seeing the 3Ds they have never got the telly they deserve i can put up with not-my-personal-favorites the headless chooks if they're in perspective with everything else but where are the legendary snapper? bats, superette, jps exp, hdu, hasselhoff exp it's a bit like the tragic nz punk exhibition at te papa it's a bloody token gesture and if anyone from nz on air needs to know yes i want more!!

Thanks for the nice comments....[I am the director of the doco]

Just to answer a few criticisms with a blindingly obvious answer....length of program was my greatest enemy. The program was 70 minutes long and it was VITAL that there was enough of the music in there....There was of course tons of bands I'd like to have put in the doco...JPSE, King Loser, HDU, Snapper, SPUD, Bats etc etc I'd also have liked to go to NY to interview Bailterspace....yeah right

To a certain extent the documentary had to be understandable to a person that had maybe only heard of the Chills, or seen Shayne Carter at a gig i.e it couldn't be just for experts. That is why all the 'major' bands were covered...

And there have been two documentaries on Flying Nun before, one was an hour of clips wth interviews with Chris Knox and Roger Shepherd, the other was a 23 minute one on TV3 or 4....

According to nzonair there is another NZ music doco in the making - a kind of Walk On By history called Give It A Whirl. would love to see soemthing that pillaged the archives of kiwi music programmes wonder how the current batch of presenters would stack up against dr rock, and karen hay etc its good to have squeeze, space and m2 playing nz music alongside the usual chart programmes i find the repetition between them pretty bloody annoying but enjoy the alt show bits and dips into the archive it'll be bloody annoying if given the current taste for kiwi the bloody bbc come over here and do the definitive programme on nzmusic there's enough kiwis in the bbc wanting a trip home for it to happen!