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Mike O'Connell

Sun, 17 Jul 2016 13:45:37 +1200

Phil, I've worked out what Martin's guitar is/was, this one, a 1970's
Yamaha FG 230.

Just a reminder too for those folk about to head along and see Lawrence Arabia and band in N Island – what a treat it will be. Get your tix quick, they were…

Jessica Rutheford

Fri, 15 Jul 2016 19:42:37 +1200

The Chills always give me chills but in a positive way. I am looking forward to the documentary.

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Hebe

Mon, 11 Jul 2016 20:42:48 +1200

Russell Brown

Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:08:17 +1200

Yes. I'm pretty sure the stand-in drummer will have been a mate of Craig Taylor, the future manager of The Chills.

Craig was working at the time with the Thompson Twins' publisher, which also had an interest in Point Studio. Wild guess: maybe it was former Thompson Twins drummer Chris…

Grant McDougall

Mon, 11 Jul 2016 10:56:25 +1200

Caroline Easther was drummer in the first half of the 80s for how long I don't know. (She was flatting with a friend.)

Er, second half, actually. She would've replaced Alan Haig who left in '85 after the 'Leather Jacket' single, then she would've joined in '86, played on __Brave…

Hebe

Sun, 10 Jul 2016 22:09:36 +1200

Who was the 'replacement' drummer in 1985?Caroline Easther?
Caroline Easther was drummer in the first half of the 80s for how long I don't know. (She was flatting with a friend.)

Hebe

Sun, 10 Jul 2016 21:59:01 +1200

others include PiL (album)
Damn; had that in the silver tin. Reading "Rise" has set off the internal jukebox.

Mike O'Connell

Sat, 09 Jul 2016 17:09:31 +1200

No, not that one. An earlier one, a Yamaha. Bro reckons it's on the 12" Dunedin Double. Martin used it up until about 1985 I think. I'm trying to find a pic.

Russell Brown

Fri, 08 Jul 2016 23:55:13 +1200

Posters: Toy Love

Oh, I love this.

Joe Wylie

Fri, 08 Jul 2016 23:17:28 +1200

Ahem – Straitjackets

Not to be confused with Dire Straights?

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 08 Jul 2016 23:09:02 +1200

sometime in 1988 with the Straightjackets
Ahem – Straitjackets – you're in good company though – the publishers got that wrong on the back of Roger's book, too!
;- )

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 08 Jul 2016 22:54:43 +1200

more treasures being freed up to market
Posters: Toy Love
http://www.trademe.co.nz/music-instruments/music-memorabilia/posters-prints/pop/auction-1120126668.htm

Wilko Johnson Band
http://www.trademe.co.nz/music-instruments/music-memorabilia/posters-prints/pop/auction-1120134518.htm

others include So So Modern , Beech & Faircluff (chchch 1975)

Vinyl: Charlie Mingus (1966)
http://www.trademe.co.nz/music-instruments/vinyl/lps-33-rpm/jazz-blues/auction-1120145598.htm

others include PiL (album); The Jam (this is the modern world); Mink DeVille (Le Chat Bleu); Arthur Brown (Dance).

Plus…

Philternz

Fri, 08 Jul 2016 21:20:43 +1200

This 12 string? Not sure of the venue, Windsor Castle maybe, sometime in 1988 with the Straightjackets. I do love The Chills!

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 08 Jul 2016 17:16:02 +1200

raucous Androidss number(s)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9M-PQ9CAnE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXPSjrjka8A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH-x97xkopo

Mike O'Connell

Fri, 08 Jul 2016 13:48:46 +1200

Oh, if anyone is at a loose end in Christchurch Tonight, the Androidss (sadly sans 4 original members) are set to perform their memorial gig at Churchills – doors 9pm, $10 on door.

I found this raucous Androidss number, Plasticene Babies – audio only, live at Gladstone,1981
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CV2crEixOg

Hugh Wilson

Fri, 08 Jul 2016 13:47:18 +1200

Spank is one of those songs which seems to pop up at garage sales and op shops a lot more than others – must have been huge back in the day. A quick refresh via the video reminded me of a Lee Dorsey 'Night People' remix which doesn't seem to…

Mike O'Connell

Fri, 08 Jul 2016 13:38:48 +1200

Apparently there were five attempts to record 'Oncoming Day'

i heard that too. I always thought Alan Haig was a great steady beat drummer but Martyn Bull certainly had a lot of subtleties as evidenced by the Mayfair Theatre clip. Nice seeing that 12-string again – my brother somehow acquired…

Russell Brown

Fri, 08 Jul 2016 12:58:24 +1200

The is the live version glimpsed in the Curse of the Chills trailer, recorded May 10, 1985. I was presumably there, and this how the song always sounds to me at heart – fast and defiant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO9TCdDZVYI

Don Reid

Fri, 08 Jul 2016 12:44:20 +1200

Well that's a huge chunk of my work day taken care of...

Russell Brown

Fri, 08 Jul 2016 12:41:19 +1200

Apparently there were five attempts to record 'Oncoming Day'. It says here ...

This is the first of five separate attempts to record the song "Oncoming Day", the fifth and final version being released on the Submarine Bells album in 1990. This particular version was recorded and filmed at South…

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 08 Jul 2016 12:33:05 +1200

Disparate Dan...
Martin Phillipps has always carried the weight of destiny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQSiHUhOzQc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmBeEgs8bk4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3c5rumiVBE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsyytZ1nQkc

Don Reid

Fri, 08 Jul 2016 12:15:55 +1200

Yes, Martin Phillipps has always carried the weight of destiny around. 'This is the way, this is the only way for me..." Not the anger against class or generation that pre-occupied the punks, but resigned recognition that this life on the road was going to be hard one. Will always…

Public Address

Fri, 08 Jul 2016 12:15:55 +1200

Discussion from blog post.