{"id":214,"date":"2025-05-25T13:10:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T01:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/upthepunks.co.nz\/?p=214"},"modified":"2026-10-12T16:47:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T03:47:50","slug":"dimestore-skanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upthepunks.co.nz\/bands\/2025\/05\/dimestore-skanks","title":{"rendered":"Dimestore Skanks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dimestore Skanks are a Wellington ska-punk band who have spent more than a decade playing festivals, bars and house parties around New Zealand. They call their sound “third and a half wave melodic skacore.” The band began in 2011 while Peter Harrow (guitar, vocals) and Tim Posta (lead vocals) were already playing together in the Wellington punk band The Dead Scene<\/a><\/strong>. Wanting to set up a ska band they roped in Rowan Miller (trumpet, vocals) from Colonel Mustard <\/strong>and Nick Grinter (drums) from Nonetheless<\/strong>. Sammy (bass) and Al (trombone) rounded out the original six-piece, and Baz (keys) and Tommy (sax) soon took the band to eight. Dimestore played their first gig at a house party on 3 September 2011 and a couple of weeks later they joined The Dead Scene<\/strong> at Bar Medusa<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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