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Thela

Rock band from New Zealand

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 8, 2025
Entity authorityQ7780999 ↗
Source-derived summary

Thela was a short-lived noise rock band from New Zealand. It was formed in 1992 and consisted of Dion Workman, Paul Douglas (Rosy Parlane), and Dean Roberts. They released two LPs on Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace! label: Thela in 1995 and Argentina in 1996. Following the band's demise in 1996, all three members undertook solo projects. Parlane and Workman also worked together under the name Parmentier.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992, 1995, 1996—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Thela, Rock and band is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 8, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7780999. The Library of Congress control number is no2007060428. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1992, 1995 and 1996.

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This entry incorporates text from “Thela” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.