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    A MATTER OF RECORDS

    Feb 22, 2021 4 minutes
    By Sharon Stephenson

    It started with an incorrectly labelled cassette tape. A mistake so minor that most people wouldn’t even notice it. Archivist William Daymond isn’t most people. With his intervention a small, careless error caused by a bit of messy handwriting became the catalyst for rescuing an important part of New Zealand’s musical history.

    In February last year, Daymond, a public servant, decided to forego his usual lunchtime sandwich for a visit to Wellington’s Alexander Turnbull Library. The tall, affable 36-year-old father-of-one was keen to check out the recently-digitised 162 cassettes of live gigs, demos, rough mixes and interviews of bands signed to iconic Kiwi music label Flying Nun,

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