this is a post meant to be peaceful, because peace and love everyone, tell me about your joy and whimsy or special interests or ask me about mine

I know this sub doesn’t need to hear this but apparently the rest of the internet does.

it’s almost like I have a developmental disability that makes it hard for me to understand or might require someone just explaining it simply to me

Maybe we shouldn’t like, treat autistic people like that guys, I know novel concept, 👏👏👏, really shockingly woke with this one (this is sarcasm mocking the people who do things like calling autistic people brain dead)

please don’t be that mean about it, I’m starting to draw again after years of stopping, I did my best and I’m happy with it :)

I love The Kinks!!!

I didn’t follow the photo 100% like the facial expression is completely different and I missed some of the detail on his jacket but I did heavily base it off the picture I included :)

Hello! I wanted to request help on finding absolutely anything on the band Martian Picnic. This includes images, articles, band members names, audio (especially of the full song in the clip) or newspaper clippings mentioning their existence.

The Documentary

Found In: https://youtu.be/-UsFFK7agik?si=6xerPWZ5CzguMAYF at around 12:10. This is a documentary from 12:10 about bands and music coming out of Dunedin, it focuses on a few different things, however the only thing really important to Martian Picnic is Rational Records (see https://www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/rational-records-and-dunedin-music-circa-1985-88 as well as https://www.discogs.com/label/122701-Rational-Records-2) and the small amount of time they appear in it.

They would of been apart of the 80s Dunedin scene, which is notoriously pretty incestious musically. This means likely anyone who was in the Dunedin scene at the time might know who they are or even have been in a band with them later on.

From this documentary you learn they would of been 16 at the time of this recording, they had been preforming since 14 (meaning at the very least they would of been active 1984-1986) It is also mentioned they had original music, meaning obviously I also don't have song titles or anything.

What has been dug up thus far

I would like to thank both users u/CrimsonVixenPixie, my friend Slyvan and u/Excluded_Apple for helping me and I will be repeating information that I probably wouldn't have without the help (also my friend Dipper who is pushing me to keep searching)

- The Saxophonist and singer is Nils Olson. Younger brother to Cam Olson, the person behind the short lived Rational Records.

- It's possible Martian Picnic broke up later in 1986 and fused into another band. (Mentioned here, at the bottom https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/RIU19861101.2.62#text-tab)

"The Eskimoes, a conglomeration of such bands as the Idles and Martian Picnic, recently made their debut... Rational Records recently held a four-band weekend at the Oriental to celebrate the release of the new Dunedin compilation Art for Chart’s Sake which has been selling extremely well in the city."

Rational Records

Rational Records was a short lived record label run by Cam Olson. It was created in 1985 and ended in 1988.

The idea behind it was that the label was that they'd have bands preform to raise money which would all go towards recording and releasing local Dunedin bands.

Cam Olson is also the older brother of Nils. Nils Olson is credited under multiple Rational Records recordings, specifically Saxophone. __**Rational Records**__

Rational Records was a short lived record label run by Cam Olson. It was created in 1985 and ended in 1988.

The idea behind it was that the label was that they'd have bands preform to raise money which would all go towards recording and releasing local Dunedin bands.

Cam Olson is also the older brother of Nils. Nils Olson is credited under multiple Rational Records recordings, specifically Saxophone. ( https://www.discogs.com/artist/525944-Nils-Olsen )

Rational Records and people connected to it might have something related to Martian Picnic. I've already tried to contact someone credited with photos related to them, however I have yet to get a response (to be fair its been like a day, holding out hope) but as of yet I have not reached out to anyone else.

Rational Records and people connected to it might have something related to Martian Picnic. I've already tried to contact someone credited with photos related to them, however I have yet to get a response (to be fair its been like a day, holding out hope) but as of yet I have not reached out to anyone else.

Conclusion

I kindly request assistance, I am a broke 19 year old from the US, therefore I have a lot less access to New Zealand film and music archives. I am also not amazing at searching but I desperately want to be able to at least hear the full song, if not see more.

Whats drawn me so heavily to this is the fact that New Zealand typically has really good archives of music and film when I look up bands or movies. Even if I can't find anything clip or audio wise, I can at least find a mention somewhere, I knew the other bands so I tried looking them up. Nothing. Now if you look them up you will at best get the post I made. I really hope this can be found because I think this band deserves to be remembered like any other band.

Heres a link to the clip of just them, I uploaded so it was easily available: https://youtu.be/7GGbzFRxbQQ?si=rWnXaouOaqPWtgiS

autism brain likes patterns and consistency brrrrr

But in seriousness, yes this is a bigger community yet theres a few people who are so passionate and you an recognize them and thats awesome and I love being recognized and people being like "hey you're the record guy!!" or seeing others who I recognize! I think its cool we get our space to be unapologetically autistic and thats given space for a bunch of super passionate people to talk and share what they love

Also since I am posting this, I hope to see more passionate people who want to share everything about what they love!! Its good and its good for you to be yourself, I love this community

I posted this in a subreddit to find stuff, but I don't know where to ask and I desperately want to hear the rest of this song OR ANYTHING or SEE ANYTHING please if you are smarter than me, especially at searching the internet, thank you. I will copy and paste my original post, including links below. I am asking here since I find autistic people are really smart and good at searching for stuff like this. I have been so obsessed with finding this, so please if you can find LITERALLY ANYTHING please send me either here or in dm

Hello this is kind of a stretch, apologies if this is the wrong place but I was watching a like short mini documentary from 1986 called Funky Dunedin (they appear around 12:10) discussing a lot of the local music scene of the time, both highlighting more known and more underground bands active during this time. Around the end of this documentary they show a small amount of footage from this band called "Martian Picnic" which is a group of four 16 year olds creating and preforming their own music. Its mentioned they had been preforming since 14, meaning they would of been active from at least 1984-1986, if not longer (though obviously possible they broke up in 1986 I have no idea)

I thought the small clip of music was interesting to me, the documentary ends with a kind of bitter note that bands like them were in the hands of Rational Records (also see here to see the very limited amount of things they released) which was a label started by Cam Olsen, but it seems there was never anything done with them.

Please if anyone can find anything, I really want to hear this song in full. Thank you :)

Edit my friend found this https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/RIU19861101.2.62#text-tab so thought I should include it, vaguely mentions them, this too is dated 1986 and is much more focused on other subjects, even the section they are mentioned in, really is more focused on the The Verlaines releasing Juvenilia which would of come out in 1987, by how its worded we think maybe The Idles and Martian Picnic might of fused? Either way I really want to see anything, especially a uncut clip of that song.

Update: I likely have the name of one of the members, I won't say much since I am not sure, but I found a lot of information on someone would be Cam's brother (the person who ran Rational Records) who is a Saxophone player so I am going to use that to search and hopefully find more information

Lots of images of my own personal collection here, wondering what this is called...

Hello this is kind of a stretch, apologies if this is the wrong place but I was watching a like short mini documentary from 1986 called Funky Dunedin (they appear around 12:10) discussing a lot of the local music scene of the time, both highlighting more known and more underground bands active during this time. Around the end of this documentary they show a small amount of footage from this band called "Martian Picnic" which is a group of four 16 year olds creating and preforming their own music. Its mentioned they had been preforming since 14, meaning they would of been active from at least 1984-1986, if not longer (though obviously possible they broke up in 1986 I have no idea)

I thought the small clip of music was interesting to me, the documentary ends with a kind of bitter note that bands like them were in the hands of Rational Records (also see here to see the very limited amount of things they released) which was a label started by Cam Olsen, but it seems there was never anything done with them.

Please if anyone can find anything, I really want to hear this song in full. Thank you :)

Edit my friend found this https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/RIU19861101.2.62#text-tab so thought I should include it, vaguely mentions them, this too is dated 1986 and is much more focused on other subjects, even the section they are mentioned in, really is more focused on the The Verlaines releasing Juvenilia which would of come out in 1987, by how its worded we think maybe The Idles and Martian Picnic might of fused? Either way I really want to see anything, especially a uncut clip of that song.

hi so I don’t have much colored vinyl or new view but WOW I bought this recently and she’s gorgeous what the hell like I love you and want to eat you like a popsicle. stunning, gorgeous, beautiful. Holy shit I love records I love them so much it’s so amazing the greatest thing to ever exist I love them so so much wow

The Verlaines are a good band by the way if anyone’s curious, the best Verlaines album is Over The Moon which I am waiting for them to reissue (please) on vinyl 🙏 They have been doing a ton of reissues if the CD era of their music so I have hope They’ll bless us with such a amazing album reissued, I also hope it’s a similar blue color please

Hi I am trying to sell previous special interest items, I have like over 1k in items and its taking up to much room and overwhelming so I need to sell, only problem? I have never used paypal! I have heard that making a paypal invoice is easy but now I am kind of freaking out about it like how do you do that

Anyway someone who is much more calm and collected than me I need to be told that I should do this and that it is easy to do please and thank you

edit I should clarify I kind of need to do this because I have hoarding issues and my hoarding causes me to have meltdowns it is a major step for me to actually work on this but I have no idea what I am doing and severe brainfog right now so I am struggling to figure it out, thank you in advance I am just actually trying to get money for new special interest items and stuff I actually need and lower my stress and meltdowns

I walk like a hour most days to go see the geese so they are pretty used to me, so I got really close to this one. Just thought this goose was beautiful.

I am slowly bute surely building my collection of The Kinks, very happy to finally have these!

hi I’m 19 and autistic and my special interest is records and music stuff, so I saved up like 1k to do this 3 day record hunting trip through a few states and also see The Chameleons since it’s been something I’ve been wanting to do for awhile! I didn’t spend all my money but I got a amazing lot of records.

Only one not from the trip is The Mockers - Swear It’s True, but it had arrived right before so I felt like including it.

Both the Canadian Yardbirds release and Easter Everywhere are original first pressings, both still have the shrink on them too! Both crazy finds and honestly I am shocked to now be owning them.

Some of the records I am very excited about that are maybe “less cool” to others is The Motions - Electric Baby, the US pressing is super uncommon and has been at the top of my “hoping to one day run into in the wild” list for a long time and I did it! The other I’m very excited about is Plasticland - Salon. Plasticland is my favorite band, Salon is the only studio album I was needing and while probably the weakest of their albums, I still hold a ton of love for it and now I finally have another album from my favorite band!

I am really happy with everything I got and I am grateful I got to do all of this and I wanted to share.

I also went in hoping to finally get Preservation Act 2 as I have Act 1 on both CD and vinyl but have had no luck until now getting Act 2! So happy

ok so, I am considered “difficult” at my job, reason being is I fought for myself and my accommodations as a disabled person. I know I won’t get fired because I’m one of their best employees, I am looking for a better job but AHHHH

anyway basically my job keeps making more and more stupid rules, banning this, making us do that, changing this, everyone is pissed off especially with how even with making us do more the managers cannot seem to manage

The new rule.

My Work decided we are no longer allowed to carry bags around, great, only problem? I need my bag! They’ve tried to light ban it before but because I need my bag they just allowed me anyway. This I guess they decided was bad now???

Solution?: put my bag in a bigger “work appropriate bag, great! What is the bag? the “sensory inclusive bag” and I was told it might be good since then people know to be more patient with me because I’m autistic??? What???? In 2026 America ??

I was told there was a few other bag options but I’m not risking being seen as even more difficult and asking for one of the other bags they said I could put my stuff in since I don’t want to risk them taking away my safety especially since my bag has stuff I need in it, but what the fuck

God I hate my job. That’s the vent