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Russell Brown

Tue, 29 Mar 2016 21:15:44 +1300

and a chap called Lance ‘Tribal Thunder’ Strickland

Ah, Lance. Lovely man. He had the room next to mine in Grafton Road when he was learning to play guitar. That last part wasn’t always lovely, but fair play.

Mike O'Connell

Tue, 29 Mar 2016 20:57:13 +1300

Yep, I saw that. Accurate down to Ringo's idiosyncratic ‘fly swat’ left hand style on a right hand kit. As he says himself, he was born left-handed but taught to write right-handed by his grandmother – as well as explaining how to pay Ticket to Ride, Come Together and Back…

nzlemming

Tue, 29 Mar 2016 12:21:13 +1300

The Beatles with a string section?

Ringo! Fabulous, Ian.

Mike O'Connell

Mon, 28 Mar 2016 22:25:49 +1300

Something odd with my attempts to upload – hopefully this is the Kilgour brothers, earlier on in the night

Mike O'Connell

Mon, 28 Mar 2016 21:28:56 +1300

And some here from the Thur night show in Lyttelton – not super quality but you get the gist...

Rob Hosking

Mon, 28 Mar 2016 15:55:08 +1300

In the spirit of many comments....'Born in the Wrong Time' from Peter Gutteridge, live in New York. Was originally a Great Unwashed song, circa 1984.

Vocal here is a bit rough, but.

https://youtu.be/e3N-MsP1_RU

Russell Brown

Mon, 28 Mar 2016 10:18:26 +1300

The Lontalius album launch show at the refurbished Las Vegas on Thursday evening.

As well as his own songs, Eddie did a sweet cover of Anika Moa's 'Dreams in My Head'.

Ian Dalziel

Mon, 28 Mar 2016 09:09:27 +1300

The Beatles with a string section?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0pfV3IUxlA

Russell Brown

Sun, 27 Mar 2016 09:29:04 +1300

My efforts. The light was a bit difficult for my iPhone, so I had to go hard on the filters.

The light did fall nicely on that well-travelled Fender amp though.

Jonathan Ganley

Sat, 26 Mar 2016 23:09:23 +1300

a night of legends!

Shayne Carter at Silo Park today, captured here playing 'Crystalator'.

Simon Grigg

Sat, 26 Mar 2016 19:46:17 +1300

Indeed. You could call it dilettantism given that they weren’t really involved in those other scenes, but the way they brought them to light was really important.

The whole NY No Wave scene at the cusp of the 80s was a real hothouse of the emerging sounds too of course.…

Simon Grigg

Sat, 26 Mar 2016 19:39:41 +1300

Wasn’t it Rule the Track? I can’t recall whether it was before after the Housequake parties in early 1989 (I was out of the country) but that was Grant Fell et al stretching the boundaries.

Rule The Track was late 1989 I think. The first dance parties in Auckland were…

Mike O'Connell

Fri, 25 Mar 2016 17:05:08 +1300

oops, closed the night with Lolita

Mike O'Connell

Fri, 25 Mar 2016 17:02:18 +1300

Indeed it was Ian, Yes, Paul said you were crook. Big crowd young and old-er. You're right, David M wasn't able to make it. Paul played 'bass' on Fish and Point that Thing – basically the top strings on an acoustic. It all went down a treat. Bruce Russell opened…

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 25 Mar 2016 16:41:05 +1300

Lyttelton ... full moon
In the end I got crook and weary and didn't make it – and apologies to those I enthused about David Mitchell's appearance, as apparently he also didn't make it to town to play – but a great night was had by all I hear, big…

Chrys Berryman

Fri, 25 Mar 2016 16:28:52 +1300

I was a teenager in the 60's ,living in a small country town.....there wasn"t any scene just boredom... and a love of anything that sounded new,like when I heard the lead break in "Green Onions "by Booker T and the MGS,and English R@B....black mans music at breakneck speed....it was so…

Isabel Hitchings

Fri, 25 Mar 2016 12:13:15 +1300

For me it will always, always, always, be Bowie. I became a fan in the later half of the 1980s when he had better days both before and behind him. I don't know if I would have spotted the potential in the folk-singing mime artist of the late 60s (though…

william blake

Thu, 24 Mar 2016 19:13:52 +1300

La Belle Époque does it for me, Satie, Debussy, but the scene would have been wild.

A link to one of the best musical things to come from the influence of French colonialism in the Congo.

https://m.youtube.com/results?q=pirates%20choice&sm=3

Dastardly Bounder

Thu, 24 Mar 2016 17:36:20 +1300

The 'I was born in the wrong age' response seems reasonably common. Like Russell I would loved to have been at the Loft for those seminal times (see Last Night a DJ Saved My Life by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton as a great insight into the history of dance…

Russell Brown

Thu, 24 Mar 2016 17:01:54 +1300

I think it might even be an Autumnal solstice full moon as well – propitious indeed!

My goodness. Were I in Christchurch, I'd be wth you.

As it is, I got given a ticket to the sold-out Lontalius album launch on K Road, so I'm going to be down with…

Russell Brown

Thu, 24 Mar 2016 16:59:40 +1300

Never been a scene person (probably too introverted) but if I were picking one, I’d go with 1950’s NY jazz scene around the 5 Spot in lower east side. Miles, Monk, Mingus, Coltrane + mobsters.

Yeah, that's a goodie – and one I wouldn't have been able to summon to…

Russell Brown

Thu, 24 Mar 2016 16:56:48 +1300

I think the On The Tracks gig at the Railway Station for New Years Eve 1988 (I think) was a great experience and Entrain in Golden Downs for New Years Eve 1995 was too. You felt that both gigs were ground-breaking – a new era dawning.

Wasn't it Rule the…

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 24 Mar 2016 16:33:17 +1300

Time ain't on my side...
I woulda liked to have been around mid '60s for San Francisco in full flowering at the Fillmore, Avalon Ballroom and other Family Dog events... The first Zap Comix, etc..
But I was about 8 at the time and in Chchch... sigh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt2W3mgekRo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myVzaR8cmDA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqVVnExlX9c…

Scott G

Thu, 24 Mar 2016 16:08:13 +1300

punk, dance music and hip hop – all appeared at once in an evolutionary flurry. But did anyone experience all of those, or was each largely inaccessible to the other?

Blondie ?

The Clash?

Never been a scene person (probably too introverted) but if I were picking one, I'd go…

Russell Brown

Thu, 24 Mar 2016 15:59:11 +1300

Me too.

It'd be great, wouldn't it? Sure, you'd have a bar open, but the focus would absolutely be on music. I'd pay a $20 cover charge for a night done right.

andin

Thu, 24 Mar 2016 15:56:24 +1300

I wish Auckland would follow the current London trend of audiophile listening and dancing nights, which often employ the same Klipschorn speakers

Me too.

Andre

Thu, 24 Mar 2016 15:24:25 +1300

Russell Brown

Thu, 24 Mar 2016 15:05:41 +1300

Blondie ?

Indeed. You could call it dilettantism given that they weren't really involved in those other scenes, but the way they brought them to light was really important.

Brent Jackson

Thu, 24 Mar 2016 15:01:21 +1300

punk, dance music and hip hop – all appeared at once in an evolutionary flurry. But did anyone experience all of those, or was each largely inaccessible to the other?

Blondie ?

Public Address

Thu, 24 Mar 2016 15:01:21 +1300

Discussion from blog post.