Straitjacket Fits - Topic

Straitjacket Fits were a four-piece alternative indie rock band that formed in Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1986 and broke up in 1994. They released three studio albums, Hail, Melt, and Blow, and several EPs. Their line-up for their first two albums consisted of Shayne Carter, John Collie, David Wood, and Andrew Brough. Brough departed the band in 1991 and was replaced for the band's final album by Mark Petersen.
Straitjacket Fits were a prominent band in the Flying Nun label's second wave of the Dunedin sound. They were inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame in 2008 and have three songs in the APRA Top 100 New Zealand Songs of All Time list, "She Speeds", "Down in Splendour", and "If I Were You".
In 2025 the film Life in One Chord was released, directed by Margaret Gordon and covers the lifespan of Straitjacket Fits.