Nocturnal Projections were a post-punk band from Stratford,[1] near New Plymouth, New Zealand that began recording in 1981 and split up in 1983.
The band released its first records in 1982, a 7" ("Nerve Ends in Power Lines", backed with "In Purgatory") and the Another Year 12" EP.
Peter Jefferies later despaired of the over-produced sound the band achieved in its only work with a proper studio.
Two live tracks from this time would also make it to record: the expansive "Words Fail Me" (eventually reworked into a This Kind of Punishment song) on the 1986 Biding Our Time compilation, and the anthemic "Walk in a Straight Line" on the 1990 Xpressway Pile=Up compilation.
In 1995 Raffmond, a European label, released the Nerve Ends in Powerlines CD of eleven Nocturnal Projections tracks, some of which had been unreleased.