No Great Oaks

Another casual meeting of musical minds in Wellington saw [Caroline] Easther perform with a short-lived 1982 live version of the post punk Beat Rhythm Fashion, centred around the brothers Dan and Nino Birch. Less than a year later the band played its final gig at the Clyde Quay tavern. In 2018 BRF was resurrected and Easther recorded drum tracks at the Surgery in Wellington, with founder guitarist Nino Birch in Melbourne Australia and bass player Rob Mayes of Failsafe Records working out of Japan.

– Writer Andrew Schmidt, in an AudioCulture profile of musician Caroline Easther, 4 April 2019

We did a gig called Not The Royal Wedding at Rock Theatre in Wellington (in late July 1981). We got up onstage and there were all these boot boys yelling 'get off the stage you’re too pretty'. I don’t really think our music was at all pretty although we did go to great effort live and in the studio to get a good sound. We ran a big rig. I ran my guitar in stereo chorus. My brother had a really good bass rig. We spent a lot of time on drum sound and getting a really full sound, even if the club was small.

– Guitarist Nino Birch remember the heyday of his band Beat Rhythm Fashion, AudioCulture, 22 April 2013