Hard News: Friday Music: I'm Over The Edge
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
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Unrestful Movements (in the Vegetable Patch)
Wellington punk band early 80’s
Single “Anti-Trend” got some playPlus 2 EPs now on one CD through Jayrem
I remember Grenville, who was in UM, from back in 80s Wellington, I think he went on to found DNA design... -
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Hebe, in reply to
Ta: that’s it: Grenville. Tried to be boot boys but they weren’t really mean enough to compete with the Wainui boot boys. Music was noisy; I preferred the Gordons, who once played an epic weeknight at Thistle Hall when it was just an empty old Kiwi hall: hardly any people there and a wall of sound that pinned me to the spot. Best Gordons gig I ever went to. Must have been winter 1981.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
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Thistle Hall
Do ya remember the great wholefood cafe that was below Thistle Hall, Phil Bowering from Low profile – of Elephunk in my soup fame – used to manage it, IIRC…
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...and while it is still Sunday morning I'll post this link to the song of the same name by the Velvet Underground , that I found on the diverting Presence Zine site.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
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Hebe, in reply to
the Velvet Underground
Very Welly.
Do ya remember the great wholefood cafe that was below Thistle Hall
Amrita?
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
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capital, my dear...
Very Welly.
also Welling up from the past
nice to hear Mutants (as a result of nuclear fallout) from the days of the USS Truxtun visit...Amrita?
Tentatively, yes... part of the Lotus Yoga Centre , which was upstairs, maybe... and you can still get the cookbook!
- but they've moved things round quite a bit up there since then
and I think there is a road thru some of it...
I think that building might now be the Powder Room
- I wonder if that old shabby Haberdashery (JH Moron & Son? or summat, looked like someone had walked out in 1950 and never went back) is still there?
Thistle Hall apparently still thrives though.
(another 'heirloom' institution saved by citizen action - like the Arts Centre here was ...) -
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Retro fun
Here's a great local Vintage style lovers magazine Glory Days. -
Alan Perrott, in reply to
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ha, well done that man - clearly one hell of a collection you've got.
as far as Unrestful Movements were concerned, the singer was a bloody giant in megaheeled boots - only served to make their scrawny, if loose of limb, drummer look even more emaciated. good night if a little heavy on anti-flying nun banter. we kind of got after the first six or seven put downs.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
as far as Unrestful Movements were concerned, the singer was a bloody giant in megaheeled boots – only served to make their scrawny, if loose of limb, drummer look even more emaciated. good night if a little heavy on anti-flying nun banter. we kind of got after the first six or seven put downs.
They were serious folk.
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Pete,
Yeah saw them at a gig in Newtown Hall - 8 bands for 8 bucks
Cops surrounded the place halfway through the night
One skinhead lurched past me with a bruise on his face that had swelled up just like on the cartoon showsMan the 80's were shit for violence - not many places to go and lots of aggro compared to today - kids these days can drink til all hours and the worst thing is the hangover and an empty wallet. Back then you'd get smacked over for looking a bit different - these days I go out and there's people in goddam furry suits.
Bless.
Fuck the good old days - the only thing I miss from back then is that the bush was chocka with deer -
Hebe, in reply to
They were serious folk
It was a serious business being unfashionably cool. Hard work. A feared Wainui bootboy appointed himself my protector after I chucked pots of chocolate mousse at him one night. It touched his stony little heart, and for years afterward if I found myself in a dodgy situation, he would pop out of the shadows and threaten the offensive party. Angels come in strange guises.
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