Zed were a New Zealand pop/rock four-piece band formed in 1998.New Zealand's top rock band of 2000, Zed was formed in 1998 while Nathan King, Ben Campbell, and Adrian Palmer were still attending Christchurch's Cashmere High School. Influenced by their parents' old Beatles records and adding their generation's Crowded House, Supergrass, Blur, and Radiohead, they started getting together in each other's bedrooms to practice the kind of hook-laden pop music they were listening to.