[3] Koke was impressed with her abilities and suggested they start a band, which became Puberty, a post-punk group with guitarist Nicole Brunel.
Twynn Payne and Loove met and formed a synth-pop duo called Girls in Love, which quickly disbanded.
[6][7] Koke dropped out of Duke and moved to Vancouver to start a new band with Twynn Payne, who suggested they enlist Loove as the guitarist.
After she returned eight months later,[1] they became more serious, playing their first official show in 2011 as The Courtneys at Pat's Pub for a friend's birthday party.
[18] They are most commonly associated with the Dunedin sound, particularly Flying Nun artists such as The Clean;[1][16] they became the first non-New Zealand band to sign with the label after thirty-five years.
Reeves", about Keanu Reeves), movies and television shows (including "Lost Boys"[24] and "90210"), and other musicians (the "mandatory suicide" refrain from "Manion" is a reference to the Slayer song of the same name;[25] "Nu Sundae" is an oblique reference to Vancouver band Nü Sensae).
Their video for "90210" is an homage to Eddy Current Suppression Ring's "Which Way to Go,"[27] while "Silver Velvet" is a remake of Bailter Space's "Splat.