Interview with Shayne Carter and David Wood from 1990 (and Missing Presumed Drowned, live on MTV Australia)
Straitjacket Fits in the studio in 1987: Andrew Brough, Shayne Carter, John Collie and David Wood
Straitjacket Fits in April 1983: David Wood, Mark Peterson, John Collie and Shayne Carter
Photo credit:
Photo by Lisa Johnson
Straitjacket Fits - Cat Inna Can (1993, directed by Andrew Dominik)
Straitjacket Fits - Dialling A Prayer (live at Mountain Rock, Woodville, 16 January 1994 - filmed by Andrew Moore)
Straitjacket Fits - She Speeds (1987)
Straitjacket Fits - Bad Note For A Heart (1990, directed by Niki Caro)
Straitjacket Fits - Done (1992, directed by Andrew Dominik)
John Collie's poster for Hail
Straitjacket Fits in 1993: Shayne Carter, David Wood, Mark Peterson and John Collie
David Wood and John Collie recall the split with Andrew Brough (from C4's Rocked The Nation)
Hail, released on 7-inch and 12-inch in 1988
Straitjacket Fits, The Puddle and David Kilgour at Dunedin's Chippendale House, likely 1987
Straitjacket Fits with Galaxie 500 in Europe, 1989
Straitjacket Fits - Kathy Direct Retires (unreleased tune, live at the Gluepot, Auckland, 23 April 1988 - filmed by Bob Sutton)
Done, from 1992, artwork by John Collie
Straitjacket Fits in 1990: John Collie, Shayne Carter, Andrew Brough and David Wood
Shayne Carter with Straitjacket Fits, circa 1989
Photo credit:
Photo by Murray Cammick
The Melt tour, 1990
The 2005 Straitjacket Fits reunion concerts
A Jonathan Ganley shot of Straitjacket Fits on the cover of Radio B's BIFIM magazine, November 1988
Straitjacket Fits - Dead Heat (Radio With Pictures special Live At Avalon, 1987)
Straitjacket Fits - Down In Splendour (live on Triple J Wireless, 1991)
The debut Straitjacket Fits release, the 12-inch EP Life In A Chord, 1987
Straitjacket Fits at Auckland's Rising Sun (with The Cakekitchen), 1987
Straitjacket Fits in 1990: (clockwise from left) Andrew Brough, Shayne Carter, John Collie, David Wood
Photo credit:
Photo by Tony Mott
Straitjacket Fits - Down In Splendour (1990, directed by Andrew Dominik)
Down In Splendour double 7-inch, with a John Collie designed sleeve, 1990
Straitjacket Fits 1990: Shayne Carter, John Collie, David Wood and Andrew Brough
Straitjacket Fits in 1990: Shayne Carter, Andrew Brough, John Collie and David Wood
Photo credit:
Photo by Polly Borland
Straitjacket Fits - Hail (1988)
Straitjacket Fits - This Taste Delight (Radio With Pictures special Live At Avalon, 1987)
Straitjacket Fits at The Oriental, December 1987
Interview with Shayne Carter from Flying Nun band Straightjacket Fits. 12 May 1994. Directed by Ross Cunningham.
Straitjacket Fits in 1993: John Collie, David Wood, Mark Peterson and Shayne Carter
Photo credit:
Photo by Lisa Johnston
Straitjacket Fits in 1988: John Collie, Andrew Brough, Shayne Carter and David Wood
Photo credit:
Photo by Jonathan Ganley
Straitjacket Fits in 1993: John Collie, Mark Petersen, David Wood and Shayne Carter,
Straitjacket Fits - John Peel live session, 12 November 1988
Look Blue Go Purple with a misspelled Straitjacket Fits, February 1987
Straitjacket Fits - Telling Tales (1988, live on Friday Night)
Sparkle That Shines, a July 1990 7-inch single
A poster for the 1998 retrospective CD
Melt, 1990
Straitjacket Fits - Life In One Chord (Radio With Pictures special Live At Avalon, 1987)
Hail, 1988
Straitjacket Fits - She Speeds (live at the Gluepot, Auckland, 23 April 1988 - filmed by Bob Sutton)
Straitjacket Fits - Dialling A Prayer (live on Friday Night, 1988)
Straitjacket Fits and The Benders at Dunedin's Oriental, 1987
Straitjacket Fits - Such A Daze (live on Triple J Wireless, 1991)
Straitjacket Fits - In Spite Of It All (live on Australian TV)
Straitjacket Fits - Take From The Years (Radio With Pictures special Live At Avalon, 1987)
Andrew Brough on the cover of Stamp magazine, October 1990
Straitjacket Fits - Not To Worry (live at the Gluepot, Auckland, 23 April 1988 - filmed by Bob Sutton)
Straitjacket Fits - APS (live on Triple J Wireless, 1991)
Interview with Shayne Carter after the split with Andrew Brough (Nightline, 1992)
Dialling A Prayer (Mountain Rock Festival, Jan 16, 1994)
Straitjacket Fits live on KPFK fm, Los Angeles, 21 October 1989 during their first US tour
The US tour edition of 1991's Missing From Melt EP
Straitjacket Fits - Bad Note For A Heart (live on Triple J Wireless, 1991)
Straitjacket Fits first gig at Dunedin's Chippendale House, October 1986
Photo credit:
Photo by Jeff Harford
John Collie's interior artwork for the Melt LP
Straitjacket Fits - If I Were You (1994)
Shayne Carter with Straitjacket Fits, 1987
Look Blue Go Purple and Straitjacket Fits at Auckland's Gluepot
Straitjacket Fits were inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame | Te Whare Taonga Puoro o Aotearoa in 2008. The
Hall of Fame is an initiative of Recorded Music NZ and the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA), whose support of AudioCulture enables the site to stream music content.
Straitjacket Fits were inducted into the NZ Music Hall of Fame in 2008.
NZ-born, Australian-raised film director Andrew Dominik (Chopper, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Killing Them Softly) helmed four music videos for Straitjacket Fits - Down In Splendour, Done, Cat Inna Can and If I Were You.
The video for the Andrew Brough/ Bike single ‘Welcome To My World’ features Shayne Carter as a policeman.
After several years in Auckland garage band Shaft, Mark Petersen became the long-serving live sound engineer at the Kings Arms venue in Auckland. He remains a local guitar god in psychedelic rock trio Seeds of Orbit.
The footage of Straitjacket Fits on the back of a truck in the clip for She Speeds was filmed inside the Lyttelton Tunnel.
