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Ian Dalziel

Tue, 13 Jan 2015 10:34:16 +1300

...next to Roger Gascoigne
Or perhaps Trevor Mallard with a face mask?
;- )

I remember Jane from those days in wellington, mostly at boozy lunches with Warren Mayne and the other NBR staff of the time...

Russell Brown

Tue, 13 Jan 2015 10:14:06 +1300

The Iggy clip appears to have a young Jane Clifton next to the man close-upped at the end. Or mebbe not.

It does look like her next to Roger Gascoigne.

Hebe

Mon, 12 Jan 2015 22:55:00 +1300

The Iggy clip appears to have a young Jane Clifton next to the man close-upped at the end. Or mebbe not.

Hebe

Mon, 12 Jan 2015 22:39:55 +1300

That makes me feel so fucking old!

I know, right?

Fuckit.

Hebe

Mon, 12 Jan 2015 22:36:31 +1300

It looks great. And New Years Day 1977 is as remote now as New Years Day 1939 was in 1977.

No need to be like that!

Russell Brown

Mon, 12 Jan 2015 18:40:20 +1300

One correction. Woodcock is on 14 February near Tauranga. Valentine’s Day.

D'oh! Well, I was only a month out. Fixed now.

My band Gold Medal Famous is one of the Top 10 Bands to Avoid at Woodcock 2015.

Congrats!

Chris Wilson

Mon, 12 Jan 2015 16:54:01 +1300

One correction. Woodcock is on 14 February near Tauranga. Valentine's Day. My band Gold Medal Famous is one of the Top 10 Bands to Avoid at Woodcock 2015.

Simon Grigg

Sun, 11 Jan 2015 20:19:54 +1300

Nice to see Mr Terence Hogan (graphic designer par excellence) leaning at the back there, by the Zappa heads…

Yeah Terry and Frank was a rather perfect coincidence. Also in the shot is my then flatmate David Herkt, my then girlfriend Yvette Parsons, future Oscar winner Kim Sinclair, RipItUp's Anne…

Grant McDougall

Sun, 11 Jan 2015 11:32:24 +1300

Oops ! Sorry David, shouldn't have assumed it was a leather jacket. Also, I'm clearing getting confused with some other clip that I'd heard was filmed on the Close To Home set.

Great story, you young punks must've been pinching yourself about getting to see the Igster in action.

David Maclennan

Sun, 11 Jan 2015 09:20:02 +1300

OK, let's set the record straight: it is me in the background, but the jacket was an old op-shop suit jacket, not a leather one. The indoor scenes for the clip were fimed in Wellington in July '79 (I could look up the exact date) at a posh restaurant called…

Ian Dalziel

Sun, 11 Jan 2015 07:28:53 +1300

tasty...
This pic...
Nice to see Mr Terence Hogan (graphic designer par excellence) leaning at the back there, by the Zappa heads...

Simon Grigg

Sat, 10 Jan 2015 21:54:09 +1300

Simon, would love to hear more about your night on the town with Mr Osterberg – perhaps an Audio Culture post beckons?!

Funny thing is Mike, is that various sources place the trip as July and given that it was the mid-winter ball I think that's right.

And, I talk…

Mike O'Connell

Sat, 10 Jan 2015 12:17:55 +1300

1988 was a bittersweet year for me but it was my first full year in the UK, based in Bristol. And the bands kept on coming through. I caught the Brix-era Fall in nearby Cardiff, blown away by Mr Pharmacist.

And Camper van Beethoven, perhaps they're a little dated now,…

kiwicmc

Sat, 10 Jan 2015 10:58:02 +1300

Heard this on the radio yesterday and was taken back to 1979…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5q-dPAHif0

Peter Darlington

Sat, 10 Jan 2015 10:23:48 +1300

Plastic People, the small, famous basement club in Shoreditch, London, closed down last week, after more than 20 years. Floating Points and Four Tet played the final night and have posted the recording of the whole evening (just shy of six hours of it) to Soundcloud:

Brilliant set list, that.…

Simon Grigg

Sat, 10 Jan 2015 05:36:31 +1300

Gah! Yes. I meant 1988, brilliant year that it was for me.

Same – brilliant, challenging, innovative and rather extraordinary 10 years that gets a bad rap from those that were not listening.

Simon Grigg

Sat, 10 Jan 2015 05:33:13 +1300

I've exchanged a few e-mails now and again with a bloke called David MacLennan who was a scenester on the Wellington punk / post punk scene and he was there, so I'll see if he can elaborate on this.

The next night a couple of us took Iggy to the…

Grant McDougall

Fri, 09 Jan 2015 21:38:50 +1300

Just remembered: David said it was filmed on the set of late '70s – early '80s NZ soap (!) Close To Home at TVNZ's Avalon studio. David's the young guy in glasses wearing the leather jacket in the background, btw.

Grant McDougall

Fri, 09 Jan 2015 21:31:28 +1300

If anyone can identify the venue, I’d love to know where it is.

I've exchanged a few e-mails now and again with a bloke called David MacLennan who was a scenester on the Wellington punk / post punk scene and he was there, so I'll see if he can elaborate…

Grant McDougall

Fri, 09 Jan 2015 21:26:15 +1300

The NZ charts weren’t quite so flash – top 10 songs of the year:

So what ? That doesn't negate the fact that there was a plethora of innovative, cutting edge music being made here in NZ, US, Britain and elsewhere. The charts have always been about commerce, not art.…

Ethan Tucker

Fri, 09 Jan 2015 21:00:57 +1300

I meant 1988, brilliant year that it was for me.

The NZ charts weren't quite so flash – top 10 songs of the year:

1. Holidaymakers – Sweet Lovers
2. U2 – One Tree Hill
3. U2 – Desire
4. MARRS – Pump Up The Volume
5. Billy Ocean -…

Russell Brown

Fri, 09 Jan 2015 18:59:26 +1300

I think you mean 1980’s, not 1980? Specifically 1988

Gah! Yes. I meant 1988, brilliant year that it was for me.

Mike O'Connell

Fri, 09 Jan 2015 16:24:44 +1300

I think you mean 1980's, not 1980? Specifically 1988 – there we go, 8 years younger already! I thought the year acid house started was 1988 but I read this may already have been the second Summer of Love? And then the Madchester / Baggy scene kicked in more into…

Russell Brown

Fri, 09 Jan 2015 16:22:14 +1300

I just tweeted this, but realised Twitter was probably the shittest place to put it right now and deleted the tweet.

Amid all the Charlie Hebdo talk about offence and expression, I think Home Brew's 'Good God' is an interesting thing to look at in a domestic context. It's extremely…

Russell Brown

Fri, 09 Jan 2015 15:08:16 +1300

That makes me feel so fucking old!

I know, right?

Gabor Toth

Fri, 09 Jan 2015 14:50:24 +1300

Something similar to emerge from the local archives recently is this cheap-as-chips RTP video dating from 1979 of Iggy Pop badly lip synching I'm Bored while on a promotional tour to Wellington. Again; this really is another world though with the Beehive under construction, Bowen Street looks remarkably similar to…

Alastair Thompson

Fri, 09 Jan 2015 14:44:02 +1300

That makes me feel so fucking old!

Russell Brown

Fri, 09 Jan 2015 14:38:09 +1300

There’s a comment early on in the film about 1977 having much more of a turn of the millennium feel to it than 2000 ever had – a damp squib in comparison.

Yes, I thought that was a really interesting observation.

Also, one thing I love about Britain and treasure…

Mike O'Connell

Fri, 09 Jan 2015 13:57:04 +1300

There's a comment early on in the film about 1977 having much more of a turn of the millennium feel to it than 2000 ever had – a damp squib in comparison.

Mike O'Connell

Fri, 09 Jan 2015 13:23:22 +1300

And I really cannot recommend this film highly enough

Thoroughly absorbing! One catches glimpses of a pre-Pogues Shane McGowan in the audience in places. The comments and thoughts from the audience of Smiths was fascinating; can just imagine what Mark E Smith might have said if he had been invited?!…

Russell Brown

Fri, 09 Jan 2015 13:18:03 +1300

Late-breaking: a murky, monochrome but awesome-sounding Talking Heads show from 1980, just emerged from some vault:

http://youtu.be/B-_PC6TlIhs

Russell Brown

Fri, 09 Jan 2015 13:16:23 +1300

And New Years Day 1977 is as remote now as New Years Day 1939 was in 1977.

Man. When you put it that way ...

Jonathan Ganley

Fri, 09 Jan 2015 12:19:10 +1300

So much is odd, teetering, a message from a world that changed

It looks great. And New Years Day 1977 is as remote now as New Years Day 1939 was in 1977.

Tim Michie

Fri, 09 Jan 2015 11:52:44 +1300

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p0sxmJKt_I
http://themuse.jezebel.com/turn-up-at-every-age-with-nordic-pop-star-rebekka-karij-1678072147/+katedries

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Fri, 09 Jan 2015 11:52:44 +1300

Discussion from blog post.