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Ian Dalziel

Mon, 16 Sept 2013 08:47:47 +1200

the perfect thing for the great unwashed...?

Nora Leggs

Mon, 16 Sept 2013 08:12:35 +1200

never mind the trickster memory..... in a parallel universe – a Clean sideline?

Alan Perrott

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 14:24:07 +1200

gotta post this clip – the music's not my bag at all, but stick with the video, it's pretty cool...hurrah for Japan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tblx00nIZB0#at=205

Jonathan Ganley

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 22:49:02 +1200

Sandmere Road, Brixton

Flashback!

Jonathan Ganley

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 22:47:09 +1200

as much as any of the excellent Clean gigs I have seen

But do you remember the first time? Definitely. Two shots of the Clean at the Gluepot, 1990.

Russell Brown

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 22:35:40 +1200

I appreciated it as much as any of the excellent Clean gigs I have seen

I feel terrible, but I was hunting for the ‘like’ link on that.

It is such a nice story.

Russell Brown

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 22:35:03 +1200

Awesome to see Martyn Bull (RIP) on drums for “Oncoming Day”

Indeed. I gather Chills drummers ever since have been challenged in following his drum part in that song.

Kerry Thornton

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 22:18:46 +1200

Awesome to see Martyn Bull (RIP) on drums for "Oncoming Day"
I grew up with Martin in Masterton and he has always been a talented musician taking out intercollegiate music competitions reguarly.
We used to go to his pad,smoke pot and he'd play his guitar to chill us out..
Sadly,…

Simon Grigg

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 21:36:21 +1200

I appreciated it as much as any of the excellent Clean gigs I have seen

I feel terrible, but I was hunting for the 'like' link on that.

Samuel Scott

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 20:43:24 +1200

Really top piece of writing Russell, I loved it.

All three members of The Clean are such vivid lovely people. Every New Zealander seems to have a great night out/yarn/tour with at least one member.

I had a really pleasant evening chatting with Hamish and my friend Andy Harris (who…

Hebe

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 19:50:19 +1200

Man, they are getting hammered up there in Seddon
poor buggers, my heart goes out to them…

++++1 I feel sick in the heart: it’s an indescribable form of mindfuck for Marlborough people, Nelson and Wellington people. I hurt for them, for me, for my family and friends. Beloved and…

Tim Michie

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 16:56:08 +1200

Unsure how the brain wired this as my earworm for this post but http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6WHHDN-aYQ
with appropriate image too...

Mike O'Connell

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 16:42:30 +1200

Never thought Bedminster was that bad. But Hartcliffe or 'Artcliffe as the locals would say was right down the list with its white trash 'Bristow' City lager louts!

Mike O'Connell

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 16:38:25 +1200

I may well have been at this one too, about May I recall? With Alpaca Brothers in support? Oncoming Day was always a Chills' crowd fave as was Night of Chill Blue at the time.

BTW no Audioculture posting yet for Alpaca Brothers though a 'link' to Snapper. They were…

Nick Russell

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 16:34:12 +1200

There are much worse places in Bristol than Filton. Bedminster or Knowle West for starters.

Mike O'Connell

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 16:12:43 +1200

Aah yes Filton – at least it had a Concorde!

ChrisW

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 16:07:25 +1200

Man, they are getting hammered up there in Seddon
poor buggers, my heart goes out to them...
Indeed. These shallow and centred on land, main shock and many of the aftershocks around the Lake Grassmere (saltworks) not out in the middle of Cook Strait like that and those last month.

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 15:56:28 +1200

...is still resonating.
Man, they are getting hammered up there in Seddon
poor buggers, my heart goes out to them...

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 15:53:51 +1200

And a later version of the band plays the same song at the Windsor Castle in 1985.
Is that Alan Haig on drums?
I see he has a fine photography website these days.
(and nicely constructed by Jay Clarkson's son, Sam, no less)

ChrisW

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 15:44:35 +1200

Drums roll, for this is a significant-to-a-few moment:
PACIFIC SKILLS

I'm doubly impressed. Your post at 2.31pm, cf. Geonet tells us:
Public Id: 2013p613797
NZST: Friday, August 16 2013 at 2:31:05 pm
Intensity: severe
Depth: 8 km
Magnitude: 6.2
Location: 10 km south-east of Seddon
and the drum…

Hebe

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 14:31:45 +1200

Also folks don’t forget the Free Poetry day event tonight in Chchch.
Here's a new pome from my beloved that he has put out in honour of the day. He's planning "A Hundred Days of Poetude", starting today, because some peoples like Jeffrey Paparoa and me have finally convinced him…

Nick Russell

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 14:08:50 +1200

Goodness. I was at the Chills gig at the Fleece & Firkin in Bristol too. I think that must be about 75% of the crowd accounted for.

I seem to recall Andrew Todd trying to play Summertime at one point when an amp failed.

Russell Brown

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 14:07:55 +1200

Um, yeah, you’re gonna have to forgive me here. I’m on a roll. Another pic inside The Trip and one outside afterwards. I think the outside one may have been from the night the Kilgours came along.

Alan Perrott

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 14:06:38 +1200

well, I wasn't in Bristol but I was at that Windsor Castle gig – that too and fro surge at the front was always a pain in the arse. but I don't recall seeing so many moustaches.

always thought the Chills were a way better live act than anything else.…

Rob Hosking

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 13:52:41 +1200

Keeping with the Chills....at the Gluepot. Around the time of Cyclone Bola.

One of my favourites of theirs (I remember singing the chorus atop of Angelus ridge in Nelson Lakes, one tramping summer holidays.....)

And isn't the drumming on this just superb???

Russell Brown

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 13:50:29 +1200

I like the sign in the background
– a world where there is a PYMCA…
that’d be the by Village Provos, right?

Ha! It’s actually a watermark put there by the gallery that posted the image to plug an exhibition by a photographer called Dave Swindells.

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 13:47:36 +1200

Also folks don't forget the Free Poetry day event tonight in Chchch.

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 13:45:46 +1200

There are a few pictures from The Trip...
I like the sign in the background
– a world where there is a PYMCA...
that'd be the by Village Provos, right?

Russell Brown

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 13:32:30 +1200

Day given over to reminiscence now. I think ‘Oncoming Day’ is my favourite Chills song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4HZB_OPrn0

And the nerd words:

This is the first of five separate attempts to record the song “Oncoming Day”, the fifth and final version being released on the Submarine Bells album in 1990. This particular…

Gabor Toth

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 12:52:54 +1200

The Clean never came to Bristol in 1988 however the Chills and Sneaky Feelings did make it to the Fleece & Firkin pub where incidentally Ali Farka Toure and band also played a mind-bending set.

Gad! I was at that Chills gig too! I was living in a dump in Filton…

Russell Brown

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 12:41:43 +1200

I was working in an indie record shop at the time of release and had a Vehicle t-shirt, which I’m assuming was a Rough Trade promotional item rather than official merch. It featured the album artwork on a white t-shirt and was much loved for many years but has long…

nickpeters

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 12:33:46 +1200

Nice piece. I've loved all the coverage of the re-release and was pleased to know that others held this album in as high regard as I did, it's often seemed like the band were mainly remembered for their early 80s work. I was working in an indie record shop at…

Russell Brown

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 12:32:58 +1200

One more from The Trip. Mad, mad, mad fun.

Russell Brown

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 12:32:19 +1200

It was the most amazing, unprecedented time. There are a few pictures from The Trip on the internet. We don't seem to be in any of them, but I definitely remember this girl, and looking at her, thinking she looked like Madonna.

David Herkt

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 12:15:53 +1200

Lovely evocation of the E Years, Russell.You reminded me of many things. Sometimes I get the feel of things again through a bit of a track and I suddenly remember the dancing, the heat, the smear, and the surges of things. Wouldn't have missed it for the world...

bob daktari

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 12:14:25 +1200

I fondly remember seeing the Clean for the first time on their reunion tour in the tron, 1990 having thought youse bastards on your OE's would be the only lucky ones – I thought it would be the one and only time I'd ever get to see them... they ruled…

Russell Brown

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 12:02:42 +1200

The Clean never came to Bristol in 1988 however the Chills and Sneaky Feelings did make it to the Fleece & Firkin pub where incidentally Ali Farka Toure and band also played a mind-bending set.

I think that was the Chills show in Bristol that I tagged along to. Although I'd…

Mike O'Connell

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 11:47:36 +1200

Oddly enough, I can’t recall much of the gig at the Fulham Greyhoud

I was living in Bristol at the time an a couple of colleagues headed down the M4 with me to London that day. I think they played the same venue a year later – with The Bats…

Public Address

Fri, 16 Aug 2013 11:47:35 +1200

Discussion from blog post.