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| − | ''Andrew Schmidt'' was the founder of the Hamilton based zine [[Ha Ha Ha]] in the early 1980s, and went on to produce the zines ''Mysterex'' and ''Social End Product''. He describes himself as a music historian, and produces a website that includes a number of stories on Hamilton punk and post-punk bands through the 1980s. Writer of over a dozen NZ music reissue sleevenotes for indie and mainstream record labels. Qantas New Zealand Journalism Awards finalist in 1993. Received a New Zealand Culture and Heritage Department Award for History Research in 2005 on the NZ Punk and Post-Punk eras. The book was written but not published. Currently finishing a memoir (''Ratted'' - twenty years in the NZ post-punk underground) on experiences in indie music in NZ from 1981 - 2001, which has long chapters on Hamilton in the 1980s. An unpublished novel, ''Helldoobie'', is set in Hamilton and Paeroa with scenes at The [[Ward Lane]] and in punk houses around the city.
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| − | Also guitarist and principal songwriter in ''Fried'', and in [[Steaknife]], who had ''Day is Gone'' released on the Reverberation Records' [[The Weird Lode]] compilation in 1998. Released the single ''Ron Morrieson (Town)''/ ''Ron Morrieson'' (Country) as ''Droid'' (with [[Stu Schmidt]] on bass) in 1999 on ''Reverberation Records'', who also released [[The Crawfords]] single. In the late-2000s he was at [[Waikato University]], undertaking a Masters on NZ Punk and Post-punk music.
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