The D4

Rockers D4 were signed to Flying Nun in 1999, a year after making their mark as a pulsating live act playing at the now legendary Frisbee Leisure Lounge parties. Led by Jimmy Christmas (now frontman for Luger Boa), the Auckland 'garage punk' rockers began making waves overseas when they scored a slot at the famed SXSW Music Festival in Texas in 2002. NME raved about their debut album 6Twenty: "Primordial and fun [it is] one of the great, grubby milestones of the current garage renaissance". The band announced they were taking "time out" in 2006, having released two albums.