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Hebe

Sun, 06 Dec 2015 11:26:13 +1300

middle aged people excited about music that excited them when they were still young and excited about music – while I agree and share your sentiments let them have their fun and good times... yeah?

as a punk rock kid (not anymore) I really don't care about the (supposed) gravy…

Mike O'Connell

Fri, 04 Dec 2015 10:03:56 +1300

Touché! Local, local, knowledge is invaluable. Thx for that link too.

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 03 Dec 2015 14:35:37 +1300

Life’s rich taphouse history…
…the awfully named Club Tavern
Ummm… that was the original name of the pub on that site until some flash Harry styled it as Churchills FFS!!
;- )

Originally The Club Hotel (1882) then Club Hotel & Tavern in the ’70s .
I know ’cos I grew…

Mike O'Connell

Thu, 03 Dec 2015 10:14:40 +1300

An update on the Allen Street 'Rock Club' venue. Now seems to be called 'Allen Street Live". Name change is cosmetic as venue remains closed. All a bit messy.

Churchill's in Sydenham in the meantime is back and is picking up many of the bookings that were…

Rich of Observationz

Wed, 02 Dec 2015 12:55:07 +1300

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11554644

I would not be surprised if refunds don't turn up (where funds have already been paid by ticketing company to promoter). If the company hasn't funds to pay out all the creditors (suppliers, artists, venue cancellation fees, etc) then it would probably be illegal to refund ticket holders preferentially.

Sofie Bribiesca

Mon, 30 Nov 2015 14:04:36 +1300

Probably off the beaten track but I'm putting this in anyway.
To Alastair Thompson,
Thanks and so long, wish you well with tonnes of luck out there in the big whole wide world.
Your efforts ,I much appreciate and as Gordon Campbell noted in the tributes
let’s hope that someone…

Mike O'Connell

Mon, 30 Nov 2015 12:23:27 +1300

Aye, I saw that Ian... at least the Auricle next door and the Institution across the way remain viable. Fingers crossed we don't lose anything else in this part of town.

The Darkroom ownership has definitely changed. I suspect it was having troubles a couple of months back as things…

Ian Dalziel

Mon, 30 Nov 2015 08:48:26 +1300

Whisky business...
Sad to see that The Last Word went into (ironically) liquidation last week.
Hope it doesn't impact on The Dark Room, or has the ownership changed there?

DexterX

Sun, 29 Nov 2015 21:36:20 +1300

Great Song – Luv It.

Moz

Sun, 29 Nov 2015 13:14:41 +1300

Siouxsie Sioux ... History, eh?

I was a bit stunned to find she'd done a live performance of Nocturne at the Albert Hall not so long ago. Which, of course, I rushed out and bought.

Anyway, must dash off to be one of the 20 people reported in the media…

Moz

Sun, 29 Nov 2015 13:12:13 +1300

Interesting surveys. Apparently my musical tastes are very specific, in that none of the 25 samples covered the musical niches that I particularly like.

And Doug, yes.... but. Part of being a touring musician is sucking up the nonsense and delivering a decent performance. They didn't even try. Having seen…

Sacha

Sun, 29 Nov 2015 08:59:55 +1300

I'm pretty sure they won't be wanting the SJ Fits supporting them again – that bill turned out to be totally the wrong way round.

one of the most impressive things I witnessed, that.

Caleb D'Anvers

Sat, 28 Nov 2015 23:27:13 +1300

Went to see Phoenix Foundation up in Hackney earlier this month. Realized I hadn't seen them play since a theatre gig they did in Wellington with SJD back in ... 2006, maybe? I was expecting a purely Kiwi expat audience (and the bar beforehand was indeed a den of Kiwi…

Ken Double

Sat, 28 Nov 2015 18:46:15 +1300

Courtney Barnett was terrific when she played Bodega a few weeks ago. While I enjoyed the Split Peas EPs fine enough I wasn't prepared for the thematic and dynamic onslaught of the album. And all of that thrust was delivered live. Being the thick end of a three piece is…

Steve Barnes

Sat, 28 Nov 2015 17:52:48 +1300

epochsy reasons…

Ian...
That is so composite...
Well plyed Sir.

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 28 Nov 2015 15:04:20 +1300

Here's your Random Factor for the day...
working with epochsy reasons...
https://vimeo.com/146022717

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 28 Nov 2015 13:11:12 +1300

Hi Doug,
Goth... Siouxie and the Banshees...
from Roy Shuker's Popular Music: The Key Concepts
Presenting a comprehensive A-Z glossary of the main terms and concepts used in the study of popular music, this fully updated second edition covers...
...for a comprehensive A-Z you'd think they'd at least put the…

Doug Hood

Sat, 28 Nov 2015 12:49:18 +1300

https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=O7yAAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA155&lpg=PA155&dq=jesus+and+marychain+goth+deaths+nz&source=bl&ots=7_TT0eWdZa&sig=SL5ME3wXQ2A8Tp_c6CQpgkknREw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj3ndbA4rHJAhVEF6YKHZwmBeoQ6AEIMDAE#v=onepage&q=jesus%20and%20marychain%20goth%20deaths%20nz&f=false

Doug Hood

Sat, 28 Nov 2015 12:47:32 +1300

In their defence,they were pretty fed up with the NZ media chasing them for comments on a spate of goth/ youth suicides here that the media had played up as attributable to their music. But no doubt they were grumpy bastards both of them

kiwicmc

Sat, 28 Nov 2015 08:48:15 +1300

I wonder how many headline bands SJF blew away as the support act, I saw them wipe The La's (you may remember "There She Goes", or maybe you won't) off the stage in San Francisco once.

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 28 Nov 2015 08:00:17 +1300

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPPSYhEjOK8
Lofty sentiments from The Chills…
:- )

Rich Lock

Sat, 28 Nov 2015 01:33:22 +1300

Slightly off topic, but I suspect his might be of interest to more than a few on here:

Cambridge University is running an on-going on-line study which (and I'm reading between the lines) appears to be investigating the links between the way music perception/ability and Autism Spectrum characteristics.

The website…

chris chris mauger

Fri, 27 Nov 2015 21:10:33 +1300

the Tame Impala show in Auckland was wrecked by all the same Logan Campbell problems from the old days; couldn't get a drink without a massive queue, couldn't drink it in the room where the band were playing,general bad vibe...
Did anyone go in WGTN and have a great experience?

Eediot

Fri, 27 Nov 2015 18:19:52 +1300

I'd booked for Soulfest, Laneways, and Echo (once it was in AKL and I could book for just Flaming Lips and Jamie) and 1 out of 3 really isn't good enough.

Brent Jackson

Fri, 27 Nov 2015 18:14:09 +1300

I saw the line-up at Echo and was interested in going, but then saw it was at Vector and decided against it. I loathe that venue for gigs.

Robyn Gallagher

Fri, 27 Nov 2015 16:10:44 +1300

Elsewhere, John Seabrook in the New Yorker tries to convince Adele that she’s going to destroy Spotify (and thus the entire music industry) by not immediately releasing 25 for streaming. I think not.

Adele doesn't even need to bother about streaming because she's shifting so many compact discs. The people…

Robyn Gallagher

Fri, 27 Nov 2015 16:04:03 +1300

“All the promoters out there are struggling at the moment because of low ticket sales. It’s a massive issue. Every single one of them. People need to get out there and they need to start supporting their local promoters and their local shows,” Talbot said.

Going to a show to…

Mike O'Connell

Fri, 27 Nov 2015 15:23:08 +1300

Yeah, JAMC live in Christchurch were nearly as bad as Oasis in Wellington a few years later

I saw JAMC at Town & Country Club in London, 1990 or 91. Not memorable, just very ordinary.

Did anyone go to the Tame Impala shows? I went with the 18 yr old to…

Russell Brown

Fri, 27 Nov 2015 14:31:02 +1300

I was still keen on going and supporting it (after all, without promoters willing to take the risk, how would we get to see the bands)

This is true. Promoters do put their asses on the line.

so disappointed I now have to go through the laborious refund process (which…

Russell Brown

Fri, 27 Nov 2015 14:28:30 +1300

(I’m surprised the acts’ management didn’t know this, but I guess NZ is a nice place to maybe go and there aren’t that many other bookings on a Monday/Tuesday).

All of these acts will have been available for a NZ show to or from Australia or Asia and it's a…

llew40

Fri, 27 Nov 2015 14:26:45 +1300

To be fair to Talbot, I'm a little surprised about the slow ticket sales for Echo, given a lot of people in Auckland are still on leave at that time, and its a pretty awesome line-up. As you say, maybe the relocation eroded the trust.

I was still keen on…

Russell Brown

Fri, 27 Nov 2015 14:24:24 +1300

Joe Wylie also did the colour for Colin Wilson’s modern era NZ super hero Captain Sunshine

That's a nice thing to be reminded of.

Russell Brown

Fri, 27 Nov 2015 14:23:40 +1300

Songs like Nine Million Rainy Days are just so melodramatic and self-involved that it's hard not to take it as satire, but it works for me both ways. "all my time in hell is spent with you", yeah, yeah, angsty teen boy, I get it, you're sad.

And in Jim…

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 27 Nov 2015 14:06:41 +1300

Joe Wylie also did the colour for Colin Wilson's modern era NZ super hero Captain Sunshine

Great to see him get some more of the recognition he is due...

Rich of Observationz

Fri, 27 Nov 2015 13:50:59 +1300

It's not the same thing but Kiwiburn has sold out for the first time ever (1200 tix).

Generally, as any fule kno, a multiple of people will click "Going" or "Like" on Facebook than will actually buy tickets. I think a niche gig will get a fairly predictable level of…

Moz

Fri, 27 Nov 2015 13:43:28 +1300

Yeah, JAMC live in Christchurch were nearly as bad as Oasis in Wellington a few years later, drunk abusive lead singer, poor musicianship from the instruments, just meh. I recall Straitjacket Fits played before JAMC and were much better, even as someone who's not really into them. We left after…

Russell Brown

Fri, 27 Nov 2015 13:34:53 +1300

Echo Festival promoter Paxton Talbot talks to The Wireless about what went wrong.

Talbot wouldn’t reveal exactly how many tickets were sold, but said it was “nowhere near” the 12,000 capacity of Vector.

“Nobody came to the table. We had massive web traffic, loads of interest but nothing was turning into sales and it’s an extremely expensive project.

I think there ended up being a trust issue there. On top of all the marketing for the McLaren Valley going down the toilet.

“All the promoters out there are struggling at the moment because of low…

Marcelo Rodriguez Ferrere

Fri, 27 Nov 2015 13:33:51 +1300

And she and her Milk Records friends went even further recently when they performed Patti Smith’s Horses album for the Melbourne Festival.

ZOMG that was absolutely terrific! Thanks for the link – it's a must watch! Courtney Barnett really has had quite the impact on the scene – she's just…

Alan Perrott

Fri, 27 Nov 2015 12:42:26 +1300

regardless, I'm pretty sure they won't be wanting the SJ Fits supporting them again – that bill turned out to be totally the wrong way round.

Nick Russell

Fri, 27 Nov 2015 12:08:11 +1300

I saw JAMC in England when they toured Psychocandy at the time it was released. This was after their initial notoriety when the gigs would only last about 20 minutes because that was all the material they could play, and usually ended in a riot. They played a full set,…

bob daktari

Fri, 27 Nov 2015 12:00:58 +1300

middle aged people excited about music that excited them when they were still young and excited about music – while I agree and share your sentiments let them have their fun and good times... yeah?

as a punk rock kid (not anymore) I really don't care about the (supposed) gravy…

Grant McDougall

Fri, 27 Nov 2015 11:45:39 +1300

Warning – the following may contain traces of cantankerousoldgrumpitis:

I'm surprised at how many people are excited by the JAMC re-heating Psychocandy. It's the very antithesis of what it was about at the time: boring, retro, nostalgia for "classic" acts.

I thought it was – still is – a great…

bob daktari

Fri, 27 Nov 2015 11:43:39 +1300

Shoom 25... don't mind if I do

added bonus The Conjurors

musical fun sorted – cheers, day made!

Public Address

Fri, 27 Nov 2015 11:43:39 +1300

Discussion from blog post.