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Geoff Lealand

Thu, 27 Jul 2017 13:06:43 +1200

A bit off the track but I did a Bookmarks session on RNZ with Jesse Mulligan yesterday, found at http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/201852471/bookmarks-with-geoff-lealand
Didn't get a chance to play all the music I had lined up (Elbow, The Felice Brothers) but I did get Al Green's "Belle" in there.

Hugh Wilson

Thu, 27 Jul 2017 11:39:03 +1200

Cactus Jack's! For at least some of the time it was open… the door-man was Richard O’Brian (who wrote “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and appeared as Riff-Raff in the movie) some decades earlier.

I think Cactus Jacks was adjacent to the club. A bit of curious googling has thrown…

Paul Campbell

Wed, 26 Jul 2017 22:08:34 +1200

What about bulletin board services? Or was that more an early 1990s thing?

there were BBSs in the US in the early 80s (when I moved there in '84), none I knew of in NZ when I left. Buying stuff from overseas, especially computers, modems was hard in the Muldoon…

FletcherB

Wed, 26 Jul 2017 21:10:18 +1200

go to that club located in Chase Plaza (as it was known) – I can’t remember the name of it, but you went up a travelator from the odd mid building forecourt, and the DJ booth overlooked the dancefloor.

Cactus Jack's! For at least some of the time it was…

Shawn Marie Hardy

Wed, 26 Jul 2017 19:04:21 +1200

Thanks for this lovely article. I met Roi in 1994 on my first trip to New Zealand. I promptly went into Records Records, bought a ton of vinyl, and got a job. Roi hired me to work on days he was off--I'm sure he used the opportunity to take time…

Hugh Wilson

Wed, 26 Jul 2017 18:51:31 +1200

On the KLF, I used to sneak out of the folks place in the early 90's and meet up with some older mates and go to that club located in Chase Plaza (as it was known) – I can't remember the name of it, but you went up a travelator…

Russell Brown

Mon, 24 Jul 2017 12:50:40 +1200

Contrived contraptions combining electrostatic resistance, methylated spirits and revolving drums had a brief vogue – but mostly it was mail, large canvas sacks and railway carriages, ferries and bikes.

When I spent a summer back from London in 1988-89, home fax machines had become all the rage. Doug Hood, as…

Blair

Mon, 24 Jul 2017 10:55:12 +1200

What a genuinely lovely man. I spent most lunchtimes in 1980 and 1981 traipsing up and down the hill from Otago Boys' High School to find rare and not-so-rare musical treasures at Record Records. Roi was always happy to share his wisdom with the scruffy school kids who flocked to…

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 21 Jul 2017 21:12:13 +1200

What about bulletin board services?
... The veritable dawn of time.
After the last Carrier Pigeon was shot on the roof of the Tinwald Railway Station in the late ‘70s, inter-island communications entered a ’sketchy’ phase.
Marvellous results could occasionally be achieved with a Stenographer and Ham Radio Operator. (CQ…

Russell Brown

Fri, 21 Jul 2017 18:52:08 +1200

Aaaaand Audioculture has published some more of Roi's Rip It Up reviews.

Russell Brown

Fri, 21 Jul 2017 18:51:23 +1200

What about bulletin board services? Or was that more an early 1990s thing?

This was the early 80s, Matthew. The veritable dawn of time.

Kumara Republic

Fri, 21 Jul 2017 18:44:05 +1200

In the days before email, when even toll calls were prohibitively priced, we would write each other letters. Rambling affairs, typed single-space (yes, some of us had typewriters – we weren't cave people) and full of news, gossip and extravagant ironic abuse. I wish I'd kept my letters from Roi…

Russell Brown

Fri, 21 Jul 2017 18:20:21 +1200

Murray Cammick posted Roi's review of the Enemy's first ever gig. Amazing.

Mike O'Connell

Fri, 21 Jul 2017 17:36:08 +1200

Here's a piece from Roi going back to 1972 – review of the Led Zeppelin show at Western Springs. Roi and friends got primed for the show on laughing gas!

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 21 Jul 2017 15:42:06 +1200

Here’s Roy’s wonderful Clean piece from Rip It Up used in the limited edition ’Boodle Boodle Boodle’ fold out press kit…
(large file size)

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PS: I’ve also popped a couple of Progressive Studio RIU ads (by Chris Knox) on last week’s Friday Music Post as well…

Russell Brown

Fri, 21 Jul 2017 15:21:57 +1200

Simon Ogston has just posted a trailer for his Bill Direen film (see last week's Friday Music) A Memory of Others:

https://vimeo.com/226229407

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 21 Jul 2017 15:16:57 +1200

Bressa Creeting Cake – must qualify for The Worst Band Name Ever Award.
Mushroom Records (then Flying Nun's parent company) made them change to that from Breast Secreting Cake
– Aussies, eh!
What are ya gonna do?

Geoff Lealand

Fri, 21 Jul 2017 15:01:12 +1200

I like the little of Bressa Creeting Cake I have heard but they must qualify for The Worst Band Name Ever Award.

Mike O'Connell

Fri, 21 Jul 2017 14:53:55 +1200

Wonderful reminder Ian. The 'ghost' of Snapper ( as I like to think of them) Colt 45 happen to be playing tonight at New City Hotel with The Terminals. I'm sure there'll be a story told, a beer or two drunk and tears shed in Roi's memory tonight.

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 21 Jul 2017 14:03:52 +1200

R.I.P. Roi...

Doug Hood

Fri, 21 Jul 2017 14:00:51 +1200

End of an era

Carol Stewart

Fri, 21 Jul 2017 13:52:38 +1200

I treasured an article that Roi wrote in a 2003 edition of The Listener, about the amazing musical career of Wing. I couldn't find a link to that story, but he wrote another lovely generous story about her here.

Russell Brown

Fri, 21 Jul 2017 13:48:33 +1200

He was, of course, a font of knowledge about music – and often hilarious anecdotes about various NZ musicians – but also about sport, too.

Yep. He was a funny bastard on a whole panorama of topics.

Grant McDougall

Fri, 21 Jul 2017 13:46:57 +1200

It's a sad day here in Dunedin, Russell. I first met Roi in the late '80s and last spoke to him only late last week in George St.

The first words he ever spoke to me were "Are you going to Snapper tonight ?". I was and they were superb,…

Public Address

Fri, 21 Jul 2017 13:46:57 +1200

Discussion from blog post.