Look Blue Go Purple to Receive IMNZ Classic Record + Best Independent Debut & Music Journalism Award Finalists Announced

Won by electronic pioneer micronism last year, Independent Music NZ have announced this year's recipient of the prestigious Classic Record accolade is Look Blue Go Purple for Compilation, released in 1991 via Flying Nun Records. The Ōtepoti-based all-wāhine collective of Francisca Griffin (previously known as Kathy Bull), Norma O'Malley, Lesley Paris, Denise Roughan and Kath Webster's pivotal collection was in fact a retrospective release, bundling together choice cuts from their Bewitched (1985), LBGPEP2 (1986) and This Is This (1988) EPs including such widely beloved numbers as 'Cactus Cat', 'Circumspect Penelope' and 'I Don't Want You Anyway' — later expanded with previously unreleased live tracks on 2017's Still Bewitched.

The Classic Record will be presented as part of the 2024 Taite Music Prize ceremony at Tāmaki Makaurau’s Q Theatre on Tuesday 23rd April, alongside the Auckland Live Best Independent Debut Award, NZ On Air Outstanding Music Journalism Award, the Independent Spirit Award and of course the main prize. Along with today's Classic Record news, the finalists for the Auckland Live Best Independent Debut Award, NZ On Air Outstanding Music Journalism Award have also been revealed.

The three debut collections shortlisted for the 2024 Auckland Live Best Independent Debut Award are...

D.C. Maxwell - Lone Rider (Danger Collective Records)

Jujulipps - Get That Shot (Bigpop Records)

Soft Plastics - Saturn Return (Independent)

Recognising "a journalist, blogger, director or editor who has made a creative contribution and significant impact with coverage of Aotearoa music in the previous year," the NZ On Air Outstanding Music Journalism Award finalists for 2024 are...

Cushla Dillon and Andrew Moore - Directors - King Loser Documentary

So'omālō Iteni Schwalger - The Sampler - RNZ Music

Tony Stamp - Journalist - RNZ Lifestyle

Dive into Look Blue Go Purple's Compilation...

The 2024 Taite Music Prize finalists are:

Dick Move - Wet (1:12 Records)
Ebony Lamb - Ebony Lamb (Slow Time Records)
Erny Belle - Not Your Cupid (Flying Nun Records)
Home Brew - Run It Back (Years Gone By)
Mermaidens - Mermaidens (Independent)
Shepherds Reign - Ala Mai (Golden Robot Records)
Tiny Ruins - Ceremony (Ursa Minor)
Tom Lark - Brave Star (Winegum Records)
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - V (Jagjaguwar Records)
Vera Ellen - Ideal Home Noise (Flying Nun Records)