Max Merritt And The Meteors has been played on NTS in shows including Diddy Wah, featured first on 3 August 2020. Songs played include I Just Don't Understand.

Max Merritt & The Meteors was a New Zealand rock'n'roll band formed in 1956 in Christchurch NZ, by the then 15 year old Max Merritt (born Maxwell James Merritt in Christchurch on 30 April 1941; died 24 September 2020). The band's early recordings have provided an source of inspiration for several generations of New Zealand garage bands

Singer-songwriter and guitarist Merritt became renowned as an interpreter of soul music and R&B. As leader of Max Merritt & The…