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Mike O'Connell

Fri, 03 Jun 2016 12:17:31 +1200

Meanwhile, here’s ‘Alien’ in its anxious fucking glory. That’s Chris Knox on climactic backing vocals:

Must have missed it – only just listened now. Fantastic. Mike Dooley on the drums?

Here's a version of Alien by Bill Direen aficionado TT Gegenschrey and the 'Berlin Bilders' – it's a bit messy…

Mike O'Connell

Tue, 31 May 2016 10:29:29 +1200

This might be a little out of left field but better here than not. I mentioned a couple of weeks ago a performance by John Chrisstoffels (Terminals, Dark Matter) and Anita Clark (Devilish Mary, Motte, Spudgun, etc). Well here it is, well half of it, recorded by someone else who…

andin

Mon, 30 May 2016 13:36:56 +1200

nostalgically pogoing to Citizen Band
Yeah thats funny 'cause them and punk were uneasy bedfellows.
I just wish they're paid me more, no misty eyed nostalgia for me.
And the dumb arses went to Oz of all places, when they found NZ too small and wanted to spread their musical…

Ian Dalziel

Mon, 30 May 2016 13:33:08 +1200

just sounded so far in the future to us all back then.
That bloody Bowie, always one or two jumps ahead of the field...
... but yes I shoulda twigged from the lineup and clothes.
Doh!
:- )

Geoff Lealand

Sun, 29 May 2016 22:01:00 +1200

I was part of an excellent Pechakucha at The Meteor in Hamilton on Thursday night, with a theme aligned to NZ Music Month. Included Matthew Bannister, and Graham Cairns of the Magilicuddies (on the topic of edible kazoos).

Simon Grigg

Sun, 29 May 2016 21:35:01 +1200

For Bowie fans from 1980

1973 I think. 1980 just sounded so far in the future to us all back then.

Sacha

Sat, 28 May 2016 20:32:42 +1200

Lontalius dropped a cover of Anika Moa's 'Dreams in My Head'

Like the Silver Scrolls, it's a testament to the quality of the writing when it can be interpreted so well.

Sacha

Sat, 28 May 2016 18:54:49 +1200

But if the reveal of Volume: Making Music in New Zealand comes as news to you, you should regard it as happy news.

Stoked.

Brent Jackson

Sat, 28 May 2016 13:47:39 +1200

And the support act, Telling Tales, were great too. Loved Tracey Collins Piano Accordian, Kim's counterpoint violining, and Stephanie Crawford's sublime vocals. Well done Andrew, you got a great group together.

Brent Jackson

Sat, 28 May 2016 13:42:08 +1200

Well I spent my Friday night nostalgically pogoing to Citizen Band at the Tuning Fork.

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 28 May 2016 12:23:54 +1200

While I'm sharing (far too much, probably)
I am really enjoying the treasures to be found on this site:
Crying all the way to chip shop
including this cover of XTC from a Brit kid's show Crackerjack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5LrRlR2Epo
and Dream Sequence from Pauline Murray & the Invisible Girls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2SUs_vxX4o

Katita

Sat, 28 May 2016 12:22:15 +1200

I'm loving Soundbreaking on Prime

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 28 May 2016 11:29:51 +1200

For Bowie fans from 1980
The 1980 Floor Show extravaganza
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvwySPk6IB0

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 28 May 2016 08:31:29 +1200

I may have mentioned this before – but I was most pleased to see that Barry Linton's brilliant Lucky Aki – in the new stone age has been published by Pikitia Press – last year I think.
I hope they do the whole epic and some of his other works…

Russell Brown

Fri, 27 May 2016 18:41:00 +1200

I'll blog this proper next week, but just got this from Luke Buda ...

I have a new band with Tom Callwood (Phoenix) David Long (Muttonbirds) and Anthony Donaldson (primitive art group, Six Volts etc). We're called Teeth. Here is our first single, a quiet-violence, easy-listening-noise, bi-polar glam fanfare called…

Russell Brown

Fri, 27 May 2016 17:05:04 +1200

where he talks about working with Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin is some kind of savant I think.

Russell Brown

Fri, 27 May 2016 16:05:34 +1200

Remember DCC? Coulda been a goer. I would have preferred DAT, and a housemate actually had a DAT tape deck in the early 90’s, but OMG the cost.

When I worked at the Virgin store on Marble Arch in 1988 there was a handful of actual DAT releases. One was…

Moz

Fri, 27 May 2016 16:02:37 +1200

elsewhere even, you might say...

I was half expecting a BaseFM reference, but you went one better.

Mike O'Connell

Fri, 27 May 2016 15:18:19 +1200

My buddies The Onedin Line play ...in Dunedin tonight.

Aye Mr Baines...and in Chch we have a couple of goodies lined up. Tonight at Log Recordings there's the second installment of the Civil Union Album Release Tour, Until now I think, all bands on the Melted ICe Cream…

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 27 May 2016 14:31:45 +1200

Graham Reid – My mental image of him is way off base.
elsewhere even, you might say...
:- )

Moz

Fri, 27 May 2016 14:15:20 +1200

DJ Kush Boogie's "eBooks" has this really annoying printer-like noise in the background. I'm certain it's a deliberate inclusion, but it sounds like an unhappy laser printer so I keep looking round at our (old, sad, much-abused) laser printer to see if it's dying. https://marginslabel.bandcamp.com/releases

Also, seeing Grahame Reid in…

David Hood

Fri, 27 May 2016 14:02:33 +1200

I assume everyone is obsessively watching Soundbreaking on Prime, which in the first episode some weeks back there was a long segment on Rick Rubin working with Johnny Cash.

Of relevance to this post, the other day there was a Rolling Stone interview with James Blake

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/james-blake-how-rick-rubin-frank-ocean-helped-singer-overcome-obsession-20160525

where he talks…

Moz

Fri, 27 May 2016 14:01:17 +1200

Also: lol, the kids and their cassettes.

Remember DCC? Coulda been a goer. I would have preferred DAT, and a housemate actually had a DAT tape deck in the early 90's, but OMG the cost.

In the middle of re-hearing Moana and the Moahunters as I read this, so here's…

Russell Brown

Fri, 27 May 2016 13:40:58 +1200

In this-looks-better-than-Vinyl news, Baz Luhrmann is helming The Getdown, a story of disco/early hip hop-era Bronx:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zejyzr5vW3A

Nelson George (who also worked on the show) interviewed Luhrmann at the Tribeca Film Festival.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ4N1PxVRoc

It debuts in August on Netflix US, so you'd think we'll get it then too.

Russell Brown

Fri, 27 May 2016 13:20:35 +1200

its real good

Just listening now and it sounds tasty.

Also: lol, the kids and their cassettes.

bob daktari

Fri, 27 May 2016 12:48:01 +1200

I've been enjoying this compilation from a bunch of kiwi dance/electronic producers -comes on cassette for those that don't want to listen but do feel the need to show it off and digital for those that want to exercise their ears and feet (name your price or free in exchange…

Public Address

Fri, 27 May 2016 12:48:01 +1200

Discussion from blog post.