Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: Friday Music: Back on the K https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-back-on-the-k/?p=364450#post364450 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-back-on-the-k/?p=364450#post364450 And fake tickets if need be
The perils of hand drawn tickets became clear at the reconciliation of tickets after The Fall's University gig – a completely hand drawn facsimile of Chris Knox's ticket design – all done in biro on matching coloured card showed up – How we laughed,…

]]> Fri, 29 Jul 2016 08:05:48 +1200 Mike O'Connell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-back-on-the-k/?p=364448#post364448 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-back-on-the-k/?p=364448#post364448 My memory serves me well! Great digging Ian to confirm that.

And Rob, yes, the 80s were the days when one could get in to gigs through toilet windows. And fake tickets if need be (my cousin did just that for Jonathan Richman at the Gladstone a couple of years…

]]> Fri, 29 Jul 2016 07:54:29 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-back-on-the-k/?p=364447#post364447 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-back-on-the-k/?p=364447#post364447 1984 would be right. Great gig.
11.04.84 at the Sandridge (from The Chills definitive gig list)
Looney Tours would've been acting as the NZ leg for Aussie promoter Zimblis
(I found this poster from Melbourne on line)
Lees and West did subsequent VF tours including the inaugural Big Day Out

]]> Fri, 29 Jul 2016 07:19:58 +1200 Rob Stowell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-back-on-the-k/?p=364446#post364446 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-back-on-the-k/?p=364446#post364446 Thu, 28 Jul 2016 23:15:34 +1200 Mike O'Connell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-back-on-the-k/?p=364441#post364441 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-back-on-the-k/?p=364441#post364441 Nice track, should be a good night Rob, I'm in...the event is Darkspace, 6 bands across two venues, Darkroom and very near neighbours across the road, Space Academy.

A pretty damn fine local lineup: Shaft + Minisnap, Dance Asthmatics, Nakey, Wurld Series plus the [[https://thesituations.bandcamp.com/ |…

]]> Thu, 28 Jul 2016 20:15:58 +1200 Rob Stowell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-back-on-the-k/?p=364426#post364426 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-back-on-the-k/?p=364426#post364426 New song from Shaft is kinda mellow 'indy-pop' Meteor in your mind
Should be something they play Friday night at the Darkroom?

]]> Thu, 28 Jul 2016 15:07:50 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-back-on-the-k/?p=364405#post364405 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-back-on-the-k/?p=364405#post364405 Does anyone recall who brought the VF out in ’84? It was about April/May.

It was Doug. I remember hanging out with them at the house in Summer Street.

When they returned in 1986 he even managed to get them into one-day cricket!

]]> Thu, 28 Jul 2016 11:31:18 +1200 Rob Stowell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-back-on-the-k/?p=364401#post364401 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-back-on-the-k/?p=364401#post364401 Their first tour here was in I’m pretty sure 1984.
1984 would be right. Great gig. I don't remember The Chills or Sneaky Feelings – for some reason I thought it might have been The Great Unwashed – memory can play odd tricks.
The Sandridge was a funny venue. We…

]]> Thu, 28 Jul 2016 10:50:47 +1200 Mike O'Connell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-back-on-the-k/?p=364394#post364394 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-back-on-the-k/?p=364394#post364394 I saw the Violent Femme's in the early 1990's

Their first tour here was in I'm pretty sure 1984. A blinder of a show at least at the Sandridge in Sydenham – with Chills and Sneaky Feelings supporting. I remember clearly the closing number – which brought the house down…

]]> Thu, 28 Jul 2016 09:58:19 +1200 Hugh Wilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-back-on-the-k/?p=364369#post364369 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-back-on-the-k/?p=364369#post364369 I saw the Violent Femme's in the early 1990's at Auckland Town Hall, but it might have been the tour after that for which you have the poster Ian (I have vague recollections of them coming out quite often for an OS band at the time) ..

And on the…

]]> Wed, 27 Jul 2016 16:30:02 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-back-on-the-k/?p=364148#post364148 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-back-on-the-k/?p=364148#post364148 as well as..
The Clean Boodle EP poster
http://www.trademe.co.nz/music-instruments/music-memorabilia/posters-prints/pop/auction-1129594042.htm
and The Fold and Tall Dwarves (sic)
http://www.trademe.co.nz/music-instruments/music-memorabilia/posters-prints/other/auction-1129597523.htm
and R.E.M.
http://www.trademe.co.nz/music-instruments/music-memorabilia/posters-prints/rock/auction-1129591502.htm

]]> Sun, 24 Jul 2016 22:11:17 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-back-on-the-k/?p=364146#post364146 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-back-on-the-k/?p=364146#post364146 AO.. AO…AO…
more paraphernalia going out the door..
see:
http://www.trademe.co.nz/music-instruments/music-memorabilia/posters-prints/pop/auction-1129582536.htm

and
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Members/Listings.aspx?member=1629586

]]> Sun, 24 Jul 2016 22:08:58 +1200 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-back-on-the-k/?p=364116#post364116 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-back-on-the-k/?p=364116#post364116 Some of us die-hard Cure fans went to see Robert Smith and his band on Friday. Seriously, whatever concert she was at, I only looked at my watch in the hope there was another encore.

In the middle of the set they played an unreleased song that friend Matthew and…

]]> Sat, 23 Jul 2016 09:07:01 +1200 Alan Perrott https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-back-on-the-k/?p=364096#post364096 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-back-on-the-k/?p=364096#post364096 fuck me I need some musical resuscitation after Trump's harangue-athon. waiting for the vocoder version over some doom metal now.

nurse, the wine, stat.

]]> Fri, 22 Jul 2016 16:22:08 +1200 Ken Double https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-back-on-the-k/?p=364094#post364094 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-back-on-the-k/?p=364094#post364094 Augustus Pablo! It's not even spelled properly on the sticker. Awesome. (Never gonna quibble about that apostrophe.) I think people cherish this stuff because slickness is so easy to come by these days.

In further news, anyone who watched Spray Tan Mussolini give his conquest speech this arvo needs to…

]]> Fri, 22 Jul 2016 16:16:33 +1200 Hugh Wilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-back-on-the-k/?p=364090#post364090 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-back-on-the-k/?p=364090#post364090 Fri, 22 Jul 2016 14:59:29 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-back-on-the-k/?p=364089#post364089 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-friday-music-back-on-the-k/?p=364089#post364089 Discussion from blog post.

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