Chills

The Chills are a guitar and keyboard-based indie rock band from Dunedin, New Zealand formed in 1980. The band is essentially the continuing project of singer/songwriter Martin Phillipps, who is the group's sole constant member—for a time in the 1990s, the act was billed as Martin Phillipps & The Chills. In the 1980s and 1990s, The Chills had some significant chart success in their homeland, and were a cult band in other parts of the world as one of the earliest proponents of the Dunedin Sound, a style of "jingly jangly" guitar-playing, minimal bass lines and loose drumming.

Links To Peel
Peel heard the band through the Flyning Nun label, a New Zealand based indie record company that championed the Dunedin Sound. The group did three sessions for Peel's show and was the first New Zealand band to do a Peel session. After the 80's, Peel seemed to lost interest in the group.

Sessions
All sessions are available on The Chills - The BBC Sessions (2014, CD, Fire Records) 1. Recorded: 1985-11-12. Broadcast: 25 November 1985. Repeated: 10 December 1985 2. Recorded: 1987-04-05. Broadcast: 15 April 1987. Repeated: 05 May 1987 3. Recorded: 1988-12-18. Broadcast: 04 January 1989. Repeated: 07 February 1989
 * Rolling Man / Brave Words / Wet Blanket / Night Of Chill Blue
 * Dan Destiny And The Silver Dawn / Living In A Jungle / Rain / Moonlight On Flesh
 * Part Past Part Fiction / Christmas Chimes / Effloresce And Deliquesce / Dead Web

Other Shows Played
1984 1986
 * 25 July 1984: Pink Frost (7" single) Flying Nun (JP: 'Well that's what they're up to in New Zealand these days, apart from staring out to sea watching for the next delivery of fresh fruit.')
 * 27 January 1986: Satin Doll (album - Kaleidoscope World) Creation

1987
 * 29 January 1986 (VPRO): Flame Thrower (LP – Kaleidoscope World) Creation
 * Peel 028 (BFBS): 'Doledrums (LP-Kaleidoscope)' (Creation)
 * Peel 031 (BFBS): 'Satin Doll (LP-Kaleidoscope World)' (Creation)
 * Peel 033 (BFBS): 'Flamethrower (7"-Rolling Moon)' (Flying Nun)
 * Peel 054 (BFBS): 'I Love My Leather Jacket (7")' (Flying Nun)
 * Peel 071 (BFBS): 'Look For The Good In Others And They'll See The Good In You (LP-Brave Words)' (Flying Nun)
 * 22 October 1987 (BBC World Service): Wet Blanket (LP Brave Words) Flying Nun