Bored Games

A punky footnote in NZ’s alt-rock timeline, Bored Games was the high school band of Shayne Carter, who would go on to stamp his mark with Straitjacket Fits and Dimmer. While attending Kaikorai Valley High School in Dunedin, Shayne Carter formed Bored Games with Wayne Elsey, Fraser Batts, Jonathan Moore and Jeff Harford. Debuting at the school talent quest in 1979, the group subsequently played support to Toy Love, a group that (along with Chris Knox’s previous group The Enemy) proved to be a prime influence on the fledgling Carter. When Wayne Elsey defected to The Stones in 1981, Terry Moore joined briefly before defecting with Fraser Batts to The Chills later that year. A year later, this line-up posthumously recorded Bored Games’ one 12-inch EP, 'Who Killed Colonel Mustard', with $200 provided by the nascent Flying Nun label. Featuring the deliriously catchy "Happy Endings" and the classic punk thrash of "Joe 90", it’s a minor gem. [SOURCE: AUDIOCULTURE]