Product Code: FN 047
Artist: Orange The
Origin: New Zealand
Label: Flying Nun Records (1986)
Format: LP
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Condition:
Cover: VG+
Record: NM (M-)
Genre: Indie Rock U

Fruit Salad Lives

Very smart clean vinyl with a good cover showing minor shelf wear.

Rarely seen outside of Dunedin’s Oriental and Empire Taverns, The Orange was one of a strong crop of mid-1980s Dunedin groups who found an outlet through Flying Nun Records.

Formed in early 1984 after a chance meeting in Dunedin student pub the Captain Cook, the soaring psychedelic trio of Andrew Brough (Blue Meanies), Jonathan Moore (Bored Games/ Newbergs) and Peter Bragan debuted at the Captain Cook’s Battle of The Bands in March. Putting initial doubts aside, in mid-1985 The Orange decided to “make a go of it.”

Fruit Salad Lives, the trio’s sole studio-captured record, has aged well. The five-song 1986 Flying Nun Records EP, recorded at Dunedin’s new Strawberry Sounds studios with Mike Pearce, is an eerie soaring epic. Brough was a big fan of psychedelia and it shows on ‘Fly’, ‘Walk Out On Your Own’ and the oft compiled ‘What’s In A Name’.

“Fruit Salad Lives (the EP title) doesn’t have any real meaning,” Brough told the Otago Daily Times. “It’s just an image of peoples lives – all broken up and splintered like fruit salad. It’s not an optimistic view of life. Rather than just being a straight poppy band, we try to put a bit of reality into our lyrics.