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Martin vandem

Sat, 14 Nov 2015 12:05:02 +1300

8th Dec Vic Uni show here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFnbxTsGScQ

Robyn Gallagher

Fri, 13 Nov 2015 23:51:11 +1300

A rundown of 50 years of Best Singles.

So good! I'm struck with how hopeful and poppy the winners from about 1992 to 2002 are, before things got more serious in the years after.

Peter Johnston

Fri, 13 Nov 2015 19:00:07 +1300

Vic uni show soundcheck was the first time I heard Blue Monday.
New Order played Blue Monday on their second Vic Uni show (much better than the first night, featuring a swag of songs from the yet-to-be-released Power, Corruption & Lies LP). The song was so new it was titled 'How…

Russell Brown

Fri, 13 Nov 2015 17:27:53 +1300

Just clarified this with Andrew. The dates were listed in Rip It Up but clearly didn't happen. RIU had 1 & 2 December in the schedule.

Shame, really. It would have been good to be able to say: "That time I saw New Order at the Hillsborough ..."

Russell Brown

Fri, 13 Nov 2015 16:59:06 +1300

Two perspex swirls that have survived against the odds and are enjoying retirement on a suburban piano. Impossible to photograph, still.

Bravo!

Rich of Observationz

Fri, 13 Nov 2015 16:48:56 +1300

Neville Chamberlain – a piece of our time?

Simon Grigg

Fri, 13 Nov 2015 15:51:38 +1300

Hillsborough

Just clarified this with Andrew. The dates were listed in Rip It Up but clearly didn't happen. RIU had 1 & 2 December in the schedule.

Martin Brown

Fri, 13 Nov 2015 15:22:43 +1300

Two perspex swirls that have survived against the odds and are enjoying retirement on a suburban piano. Impossible to photograph, still.

Doug Hood

Fri, 13 Nov 2015 13:53:24 +1300

Main street and Vic uni yes.Vic uni show soundcheck was the first time I heard Blue Monday. The final mix had just arrived by courier from the UK and they gave it a hammering over the PA, The performance of it that night was very ordinary, the technology was in…

Doug Hood

Fri, 13 Nov 2015 13:47:46 +1300

Russell Brown

Fri, 13 Nov 2015 13:46:00 +1300

kick off at 5pm. just hoping the sun stays with us, it's rather glorious outside.

Ideal little ride over for me, then.

pity the cricket will probably ruin everything.

It's going to be fine. Oh, all right, it probably isn't ...

Alan Perrott

Fri, 13 Nov 2015 13:43:39 +1300

kick off at 5pm. just hoping the sun stays with us, it's rather glorious outside. pity the cricket will probably ruin everything.

Russell Brown

Fri, 13 Nov 2015 13:42:31 +1300

From my friend Andrew Boak on FB:

I was stage manager for a "Songwriters Showcase" tour of the US that he was on. He was such a polite southern gent and an amazing piano player....

Russell Brown

Fri, 13 Nov 2015 13:41:54 +1300

Also, LaBelle's "Lady Marmalade"? He produced it.

Ah. Someone was telling me he wrote it, but I looked it up and he hadn't.

Danielle

Fri, 13 Nov 2015 13:27:32 +1300

Funky 16 Corners has a downloadable Toussaint mix here , which I declare to be All Killer, No Filler.

As I was going through Toussaint internet song lists after he died I realised that most of them are heinously incomplete. The albums he did with Betty Harris are filled with…

Russell Brown

Fri, 13 Nov 2015 13:25:37 +1300

I’ve got that Golden Harvest 45, but being technologically challenged you’ll have to pop along to Golden Dawn on Sunday to hear it. heh.

What time!?

Russell Brown

Fri, 13 Nov 2015 13:25:16 +1300

New Order played the Hillsborough Tavern? eh?

That's what I thought. But it says they did in Andrew's story.

Alan Perrott

Fri, 13 Nov 2015 13:17:16 +1300

I've got that Golden Harvest 45, but being technologically challenged you'll have to pop along to Golden Dawn on Sunday to hear it. heh.

Doug Hood

Fri, 13 Nov 2015 12:55:20 +1300

New Order played the Hillsborough Tavern? eh?

Russell Brown

Fri, 13 Nov 2015 12:43:32 +1300

Another passing this week: Phil(thy Animal) Taylor, the legendary Motorhead drummer, aged 61.

He will always be the master of the double kick drum ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Y0tsmx87U

Public Address

Fri, 13 Nov 2015 12:43:32 +1300

Discussion from blog post.