B Artists

Wonderful home-brewed recordings from annabelle alpers - the now auckland-based guitarist, keyboardist and singer-songwriter formerly of the supremely under-recognized christchurch troop hawaii five-0. her debut ep the end of things is full of memorable, catchy pop gems - smothered in quirky electronic textures, and featuring a guest appearance by none-other than mick elborado (scorched earth policy etc), plus former fang drummer andrea holmes.

underground dunedin singer-songwriter of the xpressway ilk who has performed with peter jefferies, kathy bull, peter gutteridge, david mitchell, alistair galbraith and bruce blucher. after a long creative gap, bell resurfaced in 2000 with city of sorrows, written from her new home of berlin.

the george harrison to chris knox''s john lennon. alec bathgate''s always kept a couple steps back in his fellow tall dwarfs shadow, but released a lovely little byrds-jangle-pop album (with heavy beatles and beach boy flourishes) in 1996. somewhat more technically competent than knox, and somewhat reserved (in comparison at least), bathgates'' a reflective, precarious song-writer of great talent.