NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Roy Montgomery on 7 June 2024. Roy Montgomery has been played on NTS over 150 times, featured on 130 episodes and was first played on 13 April 2014.

Experimental guitarist Roy Montgomery was born in London but raised in Christchurch, New Zealand, forming his first band, the teen garage combo the Psychedeliks, in 1971. After serving out the remainder of the decade in similarly obscure outfits including Compulsory Fun and Murder Strikes Pink, he co-founded the seminal Kiwi post-punk trio the Pin Group in late 1980; their debut single, "Ambivalence," was also the first record ever…