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The majority of our Wellington CD collection is available from our Te Awe Branch in Brandon St, or able to be reserved for free from our Distribution Centre in Johnsonville.

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One of the hardest working bands of the early 90’s pulling huge crowds where ever they went, ‘Chicago Smoke Shop’ (later just ‘Smokeshop’) played a stonking mix of Blues , R’n’B and Stax based dance music .

Emerging from Lower Hutt, they went on to support everyone from George Thorogood to Robert Cray (who personally requested them), and over the years delivered 3 great albums containing the hits ‘Another Man’ and ‘I Can’t Live Without Your Love’. The 3rd album was a Best of compilation called ‘Fusion at Room Temperature’.

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Chicago Smoke Shop – (You Want) Another Man
The 7″ single version of Smoke Shop’s Another Man from 1989. Synced to a live performance a few months later on live TV.

Chicago Smoke Shop – Mind On My Sleeve (Original Music Video), 1989

Cover/text sourced from Amplifier. Used with permission.

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