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Hebe

Tue, 13 Aug 2013 19:56:01 +1200

Because it's the music thread: sent on Facebook from a friend in Australia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpdCvBOwuFg

Kyle Matthews

Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:20:45 +1200

But what Chch had was Tony Peake, who was running the UBS record store and using their academic exception to by-pass Muldoon's restrictions. Used to get Tony to send up parcels of stuff that we couldn't dream of getting in Auckland.

My partner left school in... 77? and got a…

81stcolumn

Thu, 25 Jul 2013 16:02:05 +1200

I suppose this wouldn't be out of place then?

http://youtu.be/kFuTzcQbsHg

ange wither

Tue, 23 Jul 2013 23:16:45 +1200

I had "That Summer" – the one with the Swimming Pool – was a great party dance album, we thrashed it in our flat, new all the words, excellent combination of tracks, led me into lots of new music.

Hebe

Mon, 22 Jul 2013 21:48:23 +1200

My filthy old man asks if you've never heard of a whore frost eh?

Ian Dalziel

Mon, 22 Jul 2013 18:29:14 +1200

Love in a cold climate...
No one ever declared the Winter of Love, did they?
what about that bleedin' loved-up Shakespeare geezer then?
"Now is the winter of our disco tent..."
But 'e did 'ave 3 'e's and some 'p' innim, dinnee?
Dance? could 'e dance, what!

Simon Grigg

Sun, 21 Jul 2013 21:44:23 +1200

Is that common? Guess I’d always assumed they were long-term contracts.

It depends on the deal but a thing like this is usually 2 or 3 years. Either way, it would have most likely expired before CDs arrived.

I've always tried to clear stuff for the duration of the release…

Hebe

Sun, 21 Jul 2013 20:08:15 +1200

But what Chch had was Tony Peake, who was running the UBS record store and using their academic exception

Peake's academic exception didn't do much for my studies! Changed my life though.

Sacha

Sun, 21 Jul 2013 16:41:43 +1200

the licenses just ran out

Is that common? Guess I'd always assumed they were long-term contracts.

Simon Grigg

Sun, 21 Jul 2013 14:13:29 +1200

And, of course, it was never released as a CD.

I guess the licenses just ran out.

It arrived at a perfect time in NZ. EMI (who distributed Arista then) were taken by surprise and it used to go in and out of stock all the time as I (vaguely)…

Russell Brown

Sun, 21 Jul 2013 13:22:46 +1200

That Summer! was probably bigger (the album anyway) in NZ primarily because large parts of it were not available anywhere else because the record companies hadn’t bothered to release it here.

My old mate Andy Fyfe, who writes for Record Collector, says it's crazy rare in Britain — even many…

Hebe

Sun, 21 Jul 2013 13:21:46 +1200

home taping, killing music :)

since 1977

Sacha

Sun, 21 Jul 2013 11:03:52 +1200

Tape recorders were a wonderful thing: you could put a record on, sit a tape recorder on record jammed against to a speaker, and magically get a (slightly blurry) copy.

home taping, killing music :)

Simon Grigg

Sun, 21 Jul 2013 04:39:02 +1200

We seemed to have a copy of the first Cure record when they played in Christchurch in 1979 or 1980.

It came out early in 1980 in NZ. We were lucky because it was on Fiction, a label owned by Chris Parry who used to be the drummer in The…

Hebe

Sun, 21 Jul 2013 00:57:00 +1200

If 1989 would do, just the song for a wedding: Texas 'I Don't Want a Lover'.

Hebe

Sun, 21 Jul 2013 00:50:28 +1200

We seemed to have a copy of the first Cure record when they played in Christchurch in 1979 or 1980. And Joy Division wasn't too hard to find. Tape recorders were a wonderful thing: you could put a record on, sit a tape recorder on record jammed against to a…

Simon Grigg

Sat, 20 Jul 2013 19:01:04 +1200

Really? Didn’t know it was that restricted, but it doesn’t surprise me.

PolyGram put out a compilation called New Wave in January 1978 but almost instantly lost the rights to half the tracks and deleted it. In 1978 WEA said they were doing a big push on the newly acquired…

Rob Hosking

Sat, 20 Jul 2013 17:09:55 +1200

I was working in a record store at the time and we sold truckloads of it for that very reason. Things like Richard Hell's Blank Generation were deemed unworthy of local release. The first three Jam albums were not released in NZ until 1980 and then only after extreme retailer…

Alan Perrott

Sat, 20 Jul 2013 15:20:06 +1200

hy Rich, might be a bit late if you're strictly 90s (2001), but Lisa Stansfield's 8-3-1 might fit the bill...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJVBHMvIGdo&feature=player_embedded

Rich Lock

Sat, 20 Jul 2013 09:32:06 +1200

Weather here very nice indeed, thanks for asking. At the moment the beer supplies are holding steady, so no need to declare that emergency yet.

I shall, however, be DJing a large gathering of friends and family in a couple of weeks somewhere in a field in Herefordshire. We are…

Simon Grigg

Sat, 20 Jul 2013 03:29:51 +1200

That Summer! was probably bigger (the album anyway) in NZ primarily because large parts of it were not available anywhere else because the record companies hadn't bothered to release it here.

I was working in a record store at the time and we sold truckloads of it for that very…

Danielle

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 22:31:18 +1200

Even the 30 for 30 doco’s with a topic that I knew nothing about or thought I wouldn’t be interested in I found totally engaging.

I agree. I've watched a few of them kinda by mistake and they're usually very good.

I would like to buy Chic tix now pls.…

Yamis

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 22:25:14 +1200

Predictions on the Ashes series????

I think Aussie might win one test. Maybe 3-1 to England. The series back in Aussie will be far more even though. I wouldn't be surprised if it's a 2-2 type result. They will want to make sure they have result pitches if England retain…

Russell Brown

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 18:34:29 +1200

I’m imagining living in a country in which the national TV broadcaster commissions and broadcasts documentaries about popular music that both celebrate and grow our understanding of what it is to be New Zealand music fans. Until that happens, there’s always the VHS-sending auntie.

What's awesome about the Imagine strand…

Ethan Tucker

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 17:33:52 +1200

the new BBC Imagine documentary on Rod Stewart is a highly engaging film

I'm imagining living in a country in which the national TV broadcaster commissions and broadcasts documentaries about popular music that both celebrate and grow our understanding of what it is to be New Zealand music fans. Until…

Jeremy Andrew

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 14:32:39 +1200

For you Patti Smith fans – check Garbage & The Screaming Females' cover of Because The Night http://youtu.be/IKQTHwkT9JU (live in Texas, but the studio version rocks too)

Ross McA.

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 14:11:19 +1200

Fantastic opening for La Freak. Not a note played, just, Awww.... and the crowd starts singing. Amazing. Nile Rodgers playing la freak riff solo was also brilliant.

Brent Jackson

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:54:33 +1200

That's a great line up songs. Must look up the two I don't know.

I was in London for the summer of '88, and it truly was a glorious time.

Alan Perrott

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:27:01 +1200

from what Baker's been telling me, that was possibly the least of experiences – he's having quite the time.

be interesting to see what condition he's in when/ if he gets back.

Hebe

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 12:54:31 +1200

$15 from the Uni Bookshop though, sucker didn’t come cheap!

Someone I knew paid $40 for a Clash new release in 1979; I thought they were mad or Rockefeller-rich.

Peter Darlington

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 12:20:01 +1200

Ooh! Alternative sleeve!

Yeh, Arista Records NZ pressing 1979. Mine and yours are the 2 sleeves I remember. Wonder if there were any others?

$15 from the Uni Bookshop though, sucker didn't come cheap!

Russell Brown

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 12:11:00 +1200

Maybe we should all throw up our copies of That Summer in a salute?

Ooh! Alternative sleeve!

Peter Darlington

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 12:08:35 +1200

Maybe we should all throw up our copies of That Summer in a salute?

http://strikeboy.tumblr.com/

Sadly, I was in the UK That Summer and a glorious one it was. As an 11 year old though, all I remember tooling around in a van with my parents was endless radio playlists…

Hebe

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 12:02:03 +1200

Endless Summer was great. I shall recommend it to my teens, who are rekkid nerds. The LP was a casualty of OE: my former mother-in-law decided the pile of old records we left in her garage should go to the dump. Actually they were the favourites, well-played and over-loved, lovingly…

Russell Brown

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:45:16 +1200

Oh, and one more video. Chic’s whole set from Glastonbury 2013. Look for the man in the cap giving it heaps to the side of the stage during ‘Good Times’. That’s NZer John Baker.

Whole set:

http://youtu.be/U2PKKtphurc

And just Good Times — John Baker at 2.40. and again thereafter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7h0yYT8U3E…

Public Address

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:45:16 +1200

Discussion from blog post.