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nothingelseon

Mon, 16 Jun 2014 21:39:41 +1200

I'm just happy enough to be able to read these again, quality notwithstanding.

What would be nice is full OCR and quality scans, but I'll take what I can get with glee

Simon Grigg

Mon, 16 Jun 2014 07:04:44 +1200

NB: Simon Grigg, I’ll email you higher res versions of all these for Audioculture)

Whoa, yes please. I had no memory of that No Tag poster at all but I guess we did it.

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 14 Jun 2014 16:04:18 +1200

Wellington Gypsy Jazz fans rejoice
tonight at 10pm the cult beer bar Hashigo Zake, in Taranaki St. hosts Black Spider Stomp – (Free!) have a listen here.

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 14 Jun 2014 08:09:46 +1200

needs more 'flattering'...
...read the scanned copies, a more professional “digitisation project” is definitely order to make it more user friendly
Photographed rather than scanned, I'd say...
Wonder if they are missing any issues – let me know, I have a full set (or damn near) of the 20th century…

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 14 Jun 2014 07:59:43 +1200

Update on the Flying Nun '6 releases poster' I posted last 'page' – Lesley Maclean has confirmed that this was a Matt Campbell creation, he was in Ballon D'Essai and is now a designer illustrator in New York...

Sacha

Fri, 13 Jun 2014 23:53:48 +1200

An album on CD isn't often shorter than that

76 mins max, right?

Sacha

Fri, 13 Jun 2014 23:52:49 +1200

the Pitchblack guys

lovely talented men. danced atop the speakers at their first album's Ak launch.

Sacha

Fri, 13 Jun 2014 23:42:17 +1200

parties like Hura (I think that was it)

Hara – precursor to Splore

Matthew Littlewood

Fri, 13 Jun 2014 23:32:05 +1200

The people behind the Twitter and Tumblr-based “DIY Digitisation” project RIU Classic have beeen steadily scanning and posting pages from the bottom of what I presume is a big, found stack of back issues of Rip It Up magazine. They’re up to September 1979.

Just been ploughing my way through…

Hugh Wilson

Fri, 13 Jun 2014 18:37:04 +1200

I enjoyed the Entrain post Russell, having attended one of those south west of Nelson in 93 or 94 … don’t quite recall, but it was in the days of parties like Hura (I think that was it), labels like ‘Flying Rhino’ and shops like Cyberculture. Followed up my sole…

Russell Brown

Fri, 13 Jun 2014 18:00:29 +1200

this is a really great mix of NZ artists & remixes, put together by The Jewel School

Wow. That's quite a track listing. I'll get that.

Russell Brown

Fri, 13 Jun 2014 17:57:07 +1200

album of the year for me thus far, can’t see it being beat

Okay, you guys have sold me on that one.

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 13 Jun 2014 17:53:36 +1200

Sneaky Feelings at The Cricketers (or maybe the Clyde Quay)
Pretty sure it was the Cricketers…
I’m having stroboscopic flashbacks of a upstairs in a monolithic concrete building, no bits of Oriental Bay intrude, there is weaving…
… though what was I doing back in Wellington mid ’80s,
hmmm I…

Russell Brown

Fri, 13 Jun 2014 17:39:07 +1200

Pretty sure I saw The Bird Nest Roys open for Sneaky Feelings at The Cricketers (or maybe the Clyde Quay) in Welli sometime in the mid-80s – maybe Ian Dalziel has a poster for that to jog my memory!

That recording of 'Jaffa Boy' is from a gig in Wellington,…

Russell Brown

Fri, 13 Jun 2014 17:37:53 +1200

Thanks for all these, Ian — nice work!

Peter Johnston

Fri, 13 Jun 2014 17:24:54 +1200

Peter Darlington

Fri, 13 Jun 2014 16:09:49 +1200

album of the year for me thus far, can't see it being beat.

I can't get enough of the Robert Palmer cover/rework of Johnny & Mary with that Brian Ferry chap singing... added bonus of a cracking fan-made video featuring Cherry 2000 visuals

Ha, nice, hadn't seen that. Think the whole…

Mike O'Connell

Fri, 13 Jun 2014 15:43:15 +1200

Bird Nest Roys are one of the most intriguing fronts of Flying Nun fandom: a bunch of West Auckland oddballs who never played outside New Zealand, but who to this day have fans in far-flung places and among indie nobility like Pavement.

I remember arriving in Bristol 1987/8 and being…

Moz

Fri, 13 Jun 2014 14:57:42 +1200

Upper Hutt Posse

*love* Te Kupu is still around, but no releases since 2007 as far as I can see.

Alan Perrott

Fri, 13 Jun 2014 13:52:22 +1200

oops, where's the edit button? wrong Buffy link, was looking for the track name...

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

that's betterer.

Alan Perrott

Fri, 13 Jun 2014 13:50:55 +1200

hey Russell, I get what you're saying about the Roys, but I reckon their Ain't Mutatin' remains one of the – not as many as there should be – FN recordings that still stands up – and the vocals are more, ahem, tuneful...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3NdzqOZBEQ

on another kick, very happy to…

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 13 Jun 2014 13:23:01 +1200

and there’s a No Tag and a Johnny’s poster, plus this Chris Knox Stones Tall Dwarfs classic, too
(NB: Simon Grigg, I’ll email you higher res versions of all these for Audioculture)
;- )

bob daktari

Fri, 13 Jun 2014 13:20:03 +1200

album of the year for me thus far, can't see it being beat.

I can't get enough of the Robert Palmer cover/rework of Johnny & Mary with that Brian Ferry chap singing... added bonus of a cracking fan-made video featuring Cherry 2000 visuals

https://vimeo.com/91472389

original

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_SAMrDnXOE

dammit it now feels like…

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 13 Jun 2014 13:18:29 +1200

and I even found a video from the 1988 gig this Upper Hutt Posse poster advertises
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QVkdUIiG3o

and who can forget such UHP classics as:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnF2XEO64d0
and:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmHTB846Mv8

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 13 Jun 2014 13:11:43 +1200

Not to mention this Martin Phillipps Chills Kaleidoscope World poster

a Gordons poster

and a Verlaines one too

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 13 Jun 2014 13:06:21 +1200

Tall Dwarfs Easter 1985 poster by Chris knox
with support from The Fold and Birds Nest Roys
one of several fine old posters that have just put on Trade Me today…

including a silk screened 6 record release F Nun poster from '85

and even a fairly ordinary John…

Peter Darlington

Fri, 13 Jun 2014 13:02:15 +1200

You can rely on Vadim. He always comes correct.

How about the Norwegian mustachioed maestro Todd Terje bringing the jazz funk disco to warm up the winter chill?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEhge2_L9tI

Tim Michie

Fri, 13 Jun 2014 12:56:13 +1200

CD duration was set to carry Beethoven's Ninth. And speaking of Beethoven... whatever your thoughts of Classical, this will be quite a feat.

Che Tibby

Fri, 13 Jun 2014 12:54:45 +1200

hmmm... i need evidence, despite google telling me you're right :D

surely the longer CDs are the equivalent of double-vinyls?

Russell Brown

Fri, 13 Jun 2014 12:46:52 +1200

album length is an artifact of vinyl, CDs aren’t much longer or shorter

The arrival of CDs changed the nominal length of an album – and not generally for the better. A vinyl record is rarely longer than 40 minutes. An album on CD isn't often shorter than that.

tim

Fri, 13 Jun 2014 12:42:54 +1200

this is a really great mix of NZ artists & remixes, put together by The Jewel School

https://soundcloud.com/dan-aikido/the-jewel-school-new-zealand-music-mix-2014

free download at sound cloud

Che Tibby

Fri, 13 Jun 2014 12:41:49 +1200

A clutch of five or six songs is a nice place between a taster and conventional album length (which, let's face it, is an artefact of the compact disc) and the price is usually appealing

especially when so many albums are padded with b-list songs.

album length is an artifact…

Public Address

Fri, 13 Jun 2014 12:41:49 +1200

Discussion from blog post.