Matthew Goody has a serious Flying Nun habit. He owns almost all of the 140-plus records the enduring Kiwi independent label released between 1981 and 1988 during its scrappy pioneering early days. He’s seen Flying Nun foundation band the Clean at least three times in the 2010s – twice in the UK and once in Detroit in 2014, which required a two-hour drive across the US border from his then home in Hamilton, Ontario.
He’d been a fan of the band – founded in Dunedin in 1978 – since discovering them via the retrospective Anthology CD collection released in 2002. He’d had a thing for the era of underground DIY post-punk of the early 1980s.
One day, while living in London and doing his regular check through the bins at his favourite record shop, he discovered a copy of the Clean’s 1981 debut EP , which he’d never seen before. It was part of a huge New Zealand collection that had just been traded in. Goody bought a chunk of it, took
