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Nora Leggs

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:38:49 +1200

Last one, promise.

Another sunblock substitute.

Parasol.

Nora Leggs

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:52:36 +1200

A sign of the (earlier) times....

Nora Leggs

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:43:36 +1200

I remembered I had some colour negatives from Nambassa too. An earlier year. Very spotty.
However this one will do – must be where the Double Brown comes from.

The picture of the enormous pile of sweetcorn, not too far from a big pile of rubbish is sadly too spotty…

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:40:09 +1200

Woodstock

Nora Leggs

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 10:18:00 +1200

I think you're right – funny how that knowledge reinforces my mental image of that tenty thing. A few years later I made a jacket for a friend from silk parachute fabric – no tie dying tho. Simple, off white with the parachute seams as features.

Joe Wylie

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 20:44:29 +1200

That was the one where the One Hundred Years of Solitude girl floated up, up, into the sky, right?
Remedios the beauty, and if I recall right the bedsheets went with her.

My recollection also is that the tenty thing is definitely a parachute, of the style that was once…

Nora Leggs

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 20:33:13 +1200

Or a recycled flouncy skirt?

Well spotted!

where the One Hundred Years of Solitude girl floated up, up, into the sky, right?

Maybe that's why it's tethered?

Hebe

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 20:17:29 +1200

That was the one where the One Hundred Years of Solitude girl floated up, up, into the sky, right?

Islander

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 19:59:31 +1200

Or a recycled flouncy skirt?

Nora Leggs

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 19:54:22 +1200

Another beaut bow Hebe : )

Rather than another bow in reply – here's a tenty thing from Nambassa.

Would this be the sunblock substitute?

Hebe

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:05:20 +1200

Time for another rainbow. (Colours unfiddled — this dawn was just like the picture)

Nora Leggs

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:13:18 +1200

Found it. I knew I had a bag somewhere….

To match the velvet bag – I spied these in an antique shop window this evening...

Nora Leggs

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:08:30 +1200

there is no such thing as a silly question on PAS

O I see that now! Who would've thunk? Just a can of Big Chunk!

Hilary Stace

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 17:46:52 +1200

Wet Ones were perfect for cleaning up when changing nappies. Were in widespread use in the early 1980s. (#trivia)

Russell Brown

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 17:12:01 +1200

Those big dogfood cans, 100mm dia, are perfect for making a Cantena to improve wifi gain.

Oh cool. We did wok-fi — worked absolutely brilliantly.

John Farrell

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:46:23 +1200

Pictures from the Ngaruawahia festival (Badly stored negatives, which I didn't leave long enough in the developer).

http://s122.photobucket.com/albums/o246/johnf_04/Ngaruawahia%20festival/#!cpZZ3QQtppZZ20

Steve Barnes

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:22:39 +1200

I’ll never forget the time I was.....Should read
"I'll never remember the time I was..."
Or your not really an old hippie.
;-)
And as to where all the old hippies went the answer is Northland where something happened once, or not.

Steve Barnes

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:06:39 +1200

Hippies? This thread needs a rainbow.
Paw, that haz justa single one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2EKUjgeIvY&feature=related

Steve Barnes

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:55:36 +1200

See, simple make-do. Can double-brown beer cans be used to increase internet speed?

Those big dogfood cans, 100mm dia, are perfect for making a Cantena to improve wifi gain.
(there is no such thing as a silly question on PAS)

Hebe

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:25:45 +1200

How else do you get melted ice-cream off your hands? The dog.

Lilith __

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:25:41 +1200

Lick them. Seriously, you needed to ask?

PAS: where I learn everything I need to know. ;-)

JacksonP

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:22:47 +1200

How else do you get melted ice-cream off your hands?

Lick them. Seriously, you needed to ask?

Speaking of minis, my first car was a 77 Mini. My hippie 'friends' once picked it up and carried it sideways into the gap between their house and the fence. I completed a…

Lilith __

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:21:16 +1200

Yeah, just one of those overlapping threads we often have around here, I didn't infer anything. :-)

Hebe

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:13:59 +1200

And: where have the (other) hippies gone! (and why did they all leave without telling me:)) We forgot where you live.

Joe Wylie

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:58:35 +1200

Even without the music- that is some stupid! :)
It certainly has that godawful authenticity.
While the Ramones'
Now I guess I have to tell 'em / That I got no cerebellum
is undeniably charming, it is NOT the real deal.

Hebe

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:56:09 +1200

Okay Lilith, that last post did not imply anything you might think it implied, it was a way of explaining the blur after I'd found the bag. Right? Cool.

Hebe

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:52:18 +1200

... Then the sky, like, flamed, and I shook all over.

Lilith __

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:48:16 +1200

Skinny-dipping is the best way to swim.

I'll never forget the time I was skinny-dipping alone, late at night, in the Sylvia Flat hot-springs, with only the moon for company. Unexpectedly, along came a lone male bather, who was overcome with bashfulness and cowered in the far corner in his…

Hebe

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:47:07 +1200

Found it. I knew I had a bag somewhere....

Lilith __

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:43:56 +1200

Who can forget the slogan ‘pop up a wet ones’!?

Unforgettable. Great to have in the car, especially on a car-camping trip! I don't remember that they were antibacterial in the old days, but perhaps I didn't notice.
How else do you get melted ice-cream off your hands?

BTW I…

Hebe

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:42:36 +1200

Would velvet do?

Rob Stowell

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:36:42 +1200

In fairness though they wrote two of the most genuinely stupid songs ever (Paranoid and Iron Man).
I had to check :)
Black Sabbath Paranoid Lyrics
Songwriters: ANTHONY IOMMI, WILLIAM WARD, TERENCE BUTLER, JOHN OSBOURNE
__Finished with my woman 'cause she couldn't help me with my mind
People think I'm…

Sacha

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:30:11 +1200

parsley garb, even

Nora Leggs

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:28:30 +1200

You're right! Need some flowing paisley garb as well.

Sacha

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:27:50 +1200

woah, man

Nora Leggs

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:27:23 +1200

Wet Ones®

Who can forget the slogan 'pop up a wet ones'!?

Hebe

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:24:29 +1200

Hippies? This thread needs a rainbow.

Joe Wylie

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:21:28 +1200

And you took anti-bacterial hand-wipes too?

I don't think such things existed back then! Early 90s.
Wet Ones®, which claim to be antibacterial, appeared in NZ in the late 70s, probably 1978. I'm certain of that piece of wretched trivia because it was in early '79 I quit working for…

Lilith __

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:09:53 +1200

And you took anti-bacterial hand-wipes too?

I don't think such things existed back then! Early 90s.
In our defence re: showers, it was Chch and cold and rainy. (topless was REALLY not an option!)

Lilith __

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:05:55 +1200

considered disrobing and joining the hippies who were skinny-dipping in the river.

Fortunately, I came to my senses.

So there’s no possibility of a career-advancing nude-pic scandal? :-)

Why is NZ so prudish now? Why does Stuff have to label pictures of nude mid-winter swimming "explicit"? [what is explained?]

Hebe

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:05:47 +1200

Panelbeater music, both of them. Still.

Russell Brown

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:05:32 +1200

Charlie I bet.

Either Neil or Frank, damned if I can remember which.

Hebe

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:03:51 +1200

Charlie I bet.

Joe Wylie

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:03:06 +1200

Your right Ian Black Sabbath were a bunch of wankers
The Sabs were never anything more than a knuckledragging knockoff of Deep Purple. In fairness though they wrote two of the most genuinely stupid songs ever (Paranoid and Iron Man). Compared to those the Ramones' best efforts to plumb the…

Hebe

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:56:53 +1200

The only time I went to a multi-day festival, we popped home for a shower. That was wimpy, right?Dearie, dearie me. And you took anti-bacterial hand-wipes too?

Hebe

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:54:30 +1200

Not with the windows open. But my 57 beetle did have mushrooms growing in it.Hah! Organic mushrooms naturally.

Russell Brown

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:54:17 +1200

Androids: always trouble.

That was why we liked them.

Hebe

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:49:23 +1200

At my first Sweetwaters I had too many shells of kava (having been gleefully urged on by one of the Androidss)Androids: always trouble.

Russell Brown

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:31:17 +1200

I either stunk or swam in preference to the showers.

At my first Sweetwaters I had too many shells of kava (having been gleefully urged on by one of the Androidss) and subsequently considered disrobing and joining the hippies who were skinny-dipping in the river.

Fortunately, I came to my…

Richard Aston

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:20:34 +1200

Your right Ian Black Sabbath were a bunch of wankers – I may have been too out of it at the time to realise that .

Russell Brown

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:14:50 +1200

Those are ‘double-brown’ cans holding up the mini.

There's a slightly confused bloke cradling a box of Double Brown cans in the Nambassa doco too. Bloody awful beer, truth be known.

Nora Leggs

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:09:55 +1200

But my 57 beetle did have mushrooms growing in it.

Mobile farming?

Nora Leggs

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:09:17 +1200

Capture needs a 70s, 80s festival post.

Or maybe Capture needs to hold a festival : )

Nora Leggs

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:08:19 +1200

Double-brown cans were definitely the best :)

See, simple make-do. Can double-brown beer cans be used to increase internet speed?

Rob Stowell

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:03:49 +1200

Those are ‘double-brown’ cans holding up the mini.
The aluminium was thicker than most cans, if I remember rightly. A flatmate and I once collected a bunch, cut the ends off, and made flat strips of aluminium which we used to fix rusted-out V-gutters in the ‘gables’ of our flat’s…

Lilith __

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:03:14 +1200

Stink or swim

standard multi-day festival maxim

The only time I went to a multi-day festival, we popped home for a shower. That was wimpy, right?

Nora Leggs

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:02:33 +1200

luddites

Refer to box-hat.

Nora Leggs

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:00:29 +1200

How could they not have seen it coming?

Hard to see much coming when you are using a beer carton as a hat.

Simple, make-do times.

Probably not a lot o sun-block being splashed around either.

Steve Barnes

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:44:09 +1200

Capture needs a 70s, 80s festival post.

Ah, the 70s and 80s. When men were men and women.

Sacha

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:38:29 +1200

Stink or swim

standard multi-day festival maxim

Sacha

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:38:01 +1200

luddites

JacksonP

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:30:19 +1200

And are VW Beetles watertight?

Not with the windows open. But my 57 beetle did have mushrooms growing in it.

JacksonP

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:26:48 +1200

Capture needs a 70s, 80s festival post.

Those VW recovery photos alone are photo-narrative gold.

Just sayin'.

Lilith __

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:19:18 +1200

I either stunk or swam

Stink or swim! Love it. ;-)

Hebe

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:15:33 +1200

mixed shower -They were vile. I either stunk or swam in preference to the showers.

Russell Brown

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:03:28 +1200

Predicting the subsequent development of electronic naked people image distribution networks ought to have been a no-brainer.

How could they not have seen it coming?

Sacha

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:58:52 +1200

Featuring Richard Von Sturmer painted blue

though not depressed :)

Rich of Observationz

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:50:47 +1200

Not sure anyone pictured would appreciate appearing on the internet in that state

Well, they should have told the photographer that. I mean, they were meant to be attuned to the planet and its future, like. Predicting the subsequent development of electronic naked people image distribution networks ought to have…

Nora Leggs

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:38:59 +1200

And it’s a mixed shower, right?

Yup, mixed shower – must say the only naked people in my picture are men – everyone else is in togs or undies.

Russell Brown

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:27:16 +1200

There is a picture of the showers full of people, naked and semi-naked. Not sure anyone pictured would appreciate appearing on the internet in that state.

And it's a mixed shower, right? I seem to remember that being the case.

Another thing you wouldn't get at Rhythm & Vines.

Nora Leggs

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:23:35 +1200

And the showers at Sweetwaters.
This was round about going-home time.

There is a picture of the showers full of people, naked and semi-naked. Not sure anyone pictured would appreciate appearing on the internet in that state.

Nora Leggs

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:42:08 +1200

And are VW Beetles watertight?

Nora Leggs

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:38:06 +1200

Then Sweetwaters.

Were beer cans stronger then, or were Mini's lighter?

Nora Leggs

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:24:22 +1200

Disclaimer. These are not great quality negatives. These are not great quality pictures. These are not great quality scans.

Jandals and cars at Nambassa 81

Stage and a few people Nambassa 81

Ian Dalziel

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:11:03 +1200

the hills are alive...
Black Sabbath kicked off with a huge burning cross on the hill that totally freaked out the Christians...
I remember thinking what tools Black Sabbath were – when they arrived (by helicopter IIRC) there was an announcement along the lines of "any girls who wanted to…

Richard Aston

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:01:51 +1200

( Dam the Dam )

Wasn’t that John Hanlon? Came across him working as an adman in Sydney in the mid-90s.

You are right about the songwriter but I am sure Corban Simpson sang that song at Ngaruawahia , mind you it was a while ago....

Joe Wylie

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 18:58:13 +1200

This is The Plague (an early version of what later became Blam Blam Blam) during their notorious naked performance.
Featuring Richard Von Sturmer painted blue.

Simon Grigg

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 18:35:48 +1200

I've found my negatives of pictures from Nambassa 1981. Will have to remove the paper that is stuck to them before I can scan them..

I was going through stuff at my parents' place the other week and found a box with about 100 slides of Nambassa. Since I wasn't…

Sacha

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 13:34:24 +1200

young folk are just more self-sufficient with their knowledge these days :)

Dinah Dunavan

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 13:30:00 +1200

I went in 1980, or was it early 1981. Between 4th and 5th form years. Dad wanted to see a jazz musician, or was it a band?

We arrived late so camped amongst the cars, which would have been a relief to my parents. Ensuring their innocent children avoided the…

Nora Leggs

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 10:08:54 +1200

I've found my negatives of pictures from Nambassa 1981. Will have to remove the paper that is stuck to them before I can scan them....

Most memorable – great beach and playing 500 a lot of the time.

John Farrell

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 09:02:32 +1200

A bunch of us drove up from Dunedin to the Ngaruawahia festival in a friend's clapped out Austin van. Two of us drove back down in an even more run down Vanguard, which was made up from at least 2 wrecked cars. Great days.

Danielle

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 23:13:06 +1200

"Workshop demonstrations and lectures on crafts, self-sufficiency, healing, & alternative life styles". Take THAT, Big Day Out, you dilettantes.

Russell Brown

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 22:05:33 +1200

Hey, thanks for those.

Hebe

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 21:13:07 +1200

Ta. I was there for the full sentence, a couple of days before and after as well, and it occurred that I could remember nothing about what the place looked like, only Toots and the Maytals and a verry weird road trip home.

Lilith __

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:21:19 +1200

the 1979 Nambassa poster

Man, that font's hard to read!

Nora Leggs

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:20:57 +1200

Here’s the 1979 Nambassa poster

Looks like that's been stored carefully, away from light and small creatures that make little paths through paper.

Nora Leggs

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:19:27 +1200

midnightblue/scarlet/gold/pinegreen/duskgrey/whatever!

All those colours in a paisley mix...

Joe Wylie

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:17:27 +1200

close up of NZ artists
Presold $13. Same as it cost for Tom Waits at the Ak. Town Hall that same year.

Islander

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:10:29 +1200

Flouncey widebottom black*-silk trou do good as well-

midnightblue/scarlet/gold/pinegreen/duskgrey/whatever!

Nora Leggs

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:02:04 +1200

I’m thinking I need a flouncey skirt

Essential!

Jos

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:52:39 +1200

close up of NZ artists

Jos

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:51:42 +1200

Here's the 1979 Nambassa poster

Lilith __

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:39:38 +1200

Ah probably slowly. swaying ….

I'm thinking I need a flouncey skirt.

Nora Leggs

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:38:06 +1200

Ah probably slowly. swaying ....

Lilith __

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:34:46 +1200

OK this is something I just discovered, how addictive! I think I should be dancing to it but I have no idea how...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnyYdiGmIsM

Jonathan Ganley

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:28:16 +1200

As an aside, does anyone know where I can look at photographs of Sweetwaters 1983?

Here’s a couple of scene-setters. Or perhaps the Psychedelic Furs? Over here.

Jackie Clark

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 13:30:00 +1200

I had dinner last night with a couple of newish friends, and John had an album playing which was David Byrne and Caetano Veloso. Pretty amazing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARhmeG691Xg

Sacha

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 13:02:41 +1200

80s suits and growing old, you say..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPQcnjlwtE4&ob=av3n

Joe Wylie

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 12:58:22 +1200

( Dam the Dam )
Wasn't that John Hanlon? Came across him working as an adman in Sydney in the mid-90s.

Richard Aston

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 12:33:41 +1200

And before Namabassa was the The Great Ngaruawahia Music Festival
I was there for that one – Corban Simpson ( Dam the Dam ) going naked for the first act – Black Sabbath kicked off with a huge burning cross on the hill that totally freaked out the Christians .…

Hebe

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 12:29:18 +1200

As an aside, does anyone know where I can look at photographs of Sweetwaters 1983?

Russell Brown

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 12:07:21 +1200

Simple Minds makes me think of Judd Nelson’s capacious nostrils, for which we can blame John Hughes. (I have never heard the early stuff.)

I think you'd like it, actually. There's certainly more to them than that Billy Idol song.

Hilary Stace

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 11:18:27 +1200

As an aside, good old nzhistory.net has documented the rise of NZ rock music festivals (including Redwood 70 which I attended and which seemed huge, but only had 9000 people).

Danielle

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 09:54:47 +1200

Are we not men?

That is exactly how I announced the news to my husband. He responded "We are (going to) Devo!"

Simple Minds makes me think of Judd Nelson's capacious nostrils, for which we can blame John Hughes. (I have never heard the early stuff.)

Jackie Clark

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 06:50:28 +1200

Loving the Simple Minds love. How about this for some great use of gold foil? And where did mascara for men go, eh?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucw0twciNGk

DexterX

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 06:45:38 +1200

Now that is good.

Biobbs

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 03:43:42 +1200

The music, it must be said, is mostly pretty poor. Golden Harvest and Schtung sound indifferent

Heh. The guitarist from Schtung came and gave a lunch-time solo concert at my school, around about that time, 78 or 79. Several teachers (all of that generation) told us how this guy was…

Hebe

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 23:40:01 +1200

This one. The best.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veLOZMrCViY

Kumara Republic

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 23:21:05 +1200

PS. I like them a lot too.

For me, nothing tops their breakout hit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX55HEX0hb0

Jonathan Ganley

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:59:11 +1200

PS. I like them a lot too.

You would have loved them on this night: Simple Minds at Mainstreet, sometime in 1982. It was packed to capacity in there, very hot and sweaty.

Hebe

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:47:48 +1200

And Simply Red.I nearly mentioned them but I think they may be a girl thing rather than general interest.

Jackie Clark

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:39:08 +1200

I also love Simple Minds. And Simply Red. I'm a Simple Girl.

Hebe

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:29:10 +1200

Wow thanks. Press any button on PA and out comes the answer. That is the video. Maybe you're right about the lighting, or the colour is way gone on our TV (an old 29 inch CRT that has fallen flat on its face three times in the shakes).

I like…

Lilith __

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:08:01 +1200

I’ve just been watching a DVD of New Order. Took me back!

On the subject of anachronisms, love today's xkcd.

JacksonP

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 21:49:42 +1200

I don’t know the name of the video to give a hint other than it’s one of the well-known songs and he ’s got ginger hair and wearing a baggy suit

Must be forgettable after all.

Not sure it's ginger hair though. The lighting?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdqoNKCCt7A

PS. I like them a…

Steve Barnes

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 21:45:46 +1200

Russell Norman always reminds me of Harvey Norman but without the washing machines. Don't know about the baggy suit.

Hebe

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 21:42:40 +1200

I don't know what Jim Kerr looks like.The very idle thought comes from late-night music-channel grazing so I don't know the name of the video to give a hint other than it's one of the well-known songs and he 's got ginger hair and wearing a baggy suit (not that…

Steve Barnes

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 21:28:51 +1200

has anyone else noticed the likeness of ginger-period Jim Kerr to the Greens’ Russell Norman?

I haven't but then I don't know what Jim Kerr looks like.

Hebe

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 21:23:29 +1200

Nothing to do with anything musical, I'll say it anyway: has anyone else noticed the likeness of ginger-period Jim Kerr to the Greens' Russell Norman?

DexterX

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:24:29 +1200

My daughter Geena "Real Life" as one of her presents for her second birthday – it was a three disc collectable released to coincide with the American Tour – two of the discs having extended versions. She would make us play “Let it be love” and “See the Lights” over…

Dave Patrick

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:05:14 +1200

My name is Hebe and I like Simple Minds. I suppose I'm banished now.
My 9 Simple Minds LPs would argue otherwise

DexterX

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:03:25 +1200

Awesome – The Fales Collection at NYU being remastered and released:

http://eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com/2010/12/20/on-video-preserving-punks-past/?smid=fb-share

Bruce Wurr

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:58:24 +1200

Which I clearly got wrong again.....

Bruce Wurr

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:58:00 +1200

And the wonderful Ian Svenonius at Ponsonby Intermediate......(hope I get this linking thing right!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyy4JL5BB1k

Nice to see Big Matt remembered too.

DexterX

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:56:37 +1200

. I think the Hare Krishnas are cool: invariably friendly and calm.

A great thing to witness is the Hare Krishna men going on waht I call the misogynist power march, chanting with the women and children following a dutiful number of paces behind – part of a divine order…

Hebe

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:32:51 +1200

My name is Hebe and I like Simple Minds. I suppose I'm banished now.

Lilith __

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:45:40 +1200

The human slinky owns Friday

That is the strangest thing I've seen for a long time!

Russell Clarke

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:22:33 +1200

played her B52s stuff on a loop. She survived.

Against all the odds, it would seem.

Russell Brown

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:22:00 +1200

I’ll take a pic of it and post it tomorrow.

That's the spirit.

Jolisa

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:20:26 +1200

Devo, a winery act… my 13-year-old self just turned in his velcro-and-domes geometric shirt.

I'll go if you go, bro. And I'm sure we can source you an excellent replacement for that excellent shirt. I'll be wearing this.

Jackie Clark

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:10:59 +1200

My friend Carol had a cardiac arrest at 29. Whilst in intensive care, in a coma, her then husband played her B52s stuff on a loop. She survived. Just saying,

Jolisa

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:08:38 +1200

Also: bugger it, we’re going to see Devo, winery or not.

Are we not men? And, uh, women, and also babies?

andrew r

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:02:48 +1200

Yeah i'm tempted to drink two flagons of wine for Devo and agree early Simple Minds would be interesting, the Curch ..nah. 2012 albums – I should like Patty Smith but I tend for some reason to find her slightly annoying. Hotchip – yes . Spiritualized's Sweet Heart Sweet light…

Yamis

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:56:33 +1200

The human slinky owns Friday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbfJYP-Ilog

Jos

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:53:34 +1200

I found the original poster for Nambassa the other day, an old photography mate of mine had gone purely to photograph the toplessness! He gave me the poster.
:)
I'll take a pic of it and post it tomorrow.

Dave Patrick

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:05:29 +1200

Although I would like to be assured that Simple Minds will be playing their early stuff. I could definitely go a round of 'Theme for Great Cities'.
If they restricted themselves to Sister Feelings Call and Sons and Fascination I'd be tempted myself.

JacksonP

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:05:09 +1200

I could definitely go a round of ‘Theme for Great Cities’.

I’d settle for the opening of Love Song and In Trance as Mission.

Although this video of above is pretty special.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBSotxpthXQ

ETA: 1980.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6MwzSaBBQY&feature=related

bob daktari

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:04:36 +1200

I saw Simple Minds 2 or 3 (?) years back at the civic... they played just enough of their old (good) material for me to be well happy... (Chelsea Girl, Love Song, Sons & Fascination) – Jim Kerr didn't even come across as a cock

not sure I'm middle class enough…

Russell Brown

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:58:48 +1200

Why the hell not I say. B-52s were a lark. Although Simple Minds and The Church arguably better support than Proclaimers or Dave McCartney and the Pink Flamingos.

I'm certainly thinking of going. Although I would like to be assured that Simple Minds will be playing their early stuff. I…

Rich of Observationz

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:24:01 +1200

According to this rigorous reference (and to rumour when I was a teenager) Devo had success in playing the 'brown note' during the 70's.

Your toddler may be able confirm this.

JacksonP

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:17:44 +1200

Also: bugger it, we’re going to see Devo, winery or not. Our party may or may not include a baby in a backpack, wearing earmuffs.

Why the hell not I say. B-52s were a lark. Although Simple Minds and The Church arguably better support than Proclaimers or Dave McCartney and…

Jonty

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:02:31 +1200

Met up with Pete Terry, the organiser of Nambassa, a couple of months ago. He now lives in Oz and is creating a website <http://www.nambassa.com/> for anyone fancying a nostalgia trip.

Danielle

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:37:12 +1200

Also: bugger it, we're going to see Devo, winery or not. Our party may or may not include a baby in a backpack, wearing earmuffs.

Danielle

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:34:16 +1200

There’s also a surprising amount of baking.

Whether that's a euphemism or not, in NZ one should never be surprised by the amount of baking.

Russell Brown

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:08:00 +1200

Here we go! Thanks for the exclusive, Graham!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33wAXOmgCo0

Aidan

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:59:07 +1200

The kid's water bottle at -9:21! I had one of those .. instantly tasted the Raro .. memories are funny eh?

Graham Dunster

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:53:23 +1200

And here are The White Stripes with the artwork presented to them by Freemans Bay School. (If I were technical enough to upload my one minute of video I would...)

TracyMac

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:50:41 +1200

They certainly charge like wounded bulls in their restaurants now (for the quality and range of food), although I did like the $2 all you can eat jobbies at uni 20 years ago.

However, they really aren't so calm if you tell them "no", you are not going to give…

Lilith __

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:35:58 +1200

It was like the fucking Nuremberg rally!"

Sometimes we really need a “like” button here on PAS!

Re: hare krishnas: I’ve certainly been wildly irritated by some of their proselytisers on the street, especially when I’ve had places to be and they’ve been all determinedly serene at me.

But they…

Peter Darlington

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:56:08 +1200

terje makes you love music you hate with his edits... pure genius

Ha, yes. Great definition!

Peter Darlington

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:55:02 +1200

My Friday recommendations are the album Hierlooms by Dave Aju. Funk, house and electronic niceness, He constructed it from his jazz player dad's basement tapes of unreleased music. It's a joy to behold and my current favourite tune off it is "Until Then"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRK2ZnflvcI

Also, everyone needs to check out…

bob daktari

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:53:03 +1200

smoking in a music video... wouldn't happen here :(

terje makes you love music you hate with his edits... pure genius

Peter Darlington

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:46:58 +1200

one of the best tracks doing the rounds over the past year gets an official video and its ace

Been loving that Todd Terje tune for the last few months. Roll on summer!

Roger Lacey

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:45:28 +1200

I went to Nambassa the year before when Skyhooks headlined. I went along after seeing a poster at the Island of Real Cafe in Airedale St.
The venue was perfect with the natural arena, surf beach and waterfall to wash off after. I also remember Living Force were there too,…

Joe Wylie

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:36:48 +1200

Only thing I recall about Nambassa was the outraged first-hand account from a righteous punkette of Living Force's set: "20,000 guys all dancing with their dicks flopping. It was like the fucking Nuremberg rally!"

bob daktari

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:25:56 +1200

doesn't post anything to my fassbok (which is how I registered) – unlike spotify, which both bugs me and doesn't

there's a reason this stuff is called 'social'

Phil fryer

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:20:04 +1200

I was at Nambassa,dont remember that much,perhaps everyone was seeing double,
I thought 30,000 would be closer, my ol Da said he put the tent in the car,
we had to laugh,when it turned out to be a childs's teppe,but no one minded –
feet poking out,& it provided the laffs…

Nora Leggs

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:15:39 +1200

Devo are a winery act now?

That's just the weirdest effect of time!

Russell Brown

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:08:23 +1200

But WTF with this The Audience bullshit that you can only log in to download/vote etc with Fbook etc? That is a bunch of arse… restrictive and counter-productive. Muppets.

I guess the theory was that letting people log in with an existing profile was a lower barrier to entry. I…

Richard Wain

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:03:36 +1200

That Suren Unka sure is some nice business. But WTF with this The Audience bullshit that you can only log in to download/vote etc with Fbook etc? That is a bunch of arse... restrictive and counter-productive.

And it's a fcken app. So it broadcasts whatever it is you're doing with…

Russell Brown

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:59:04 +1200

And this comment isn’t banal? I enjoy the Hare Krishna mantra, and they actually have many other songs. I think the Hare Krishnas are cool: invariably friendly and calm.

Fair enough. My brief experience back in the day with a couple of male members is that they were overbearing dicks.

Russell Brown

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:57:38 +1200

You missed one. Little River Band.

Thank goodness punk rock came along.

Robin

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:57:24 +1200

Interesting Nambassa video and love the Scratch 22 remix.

... the banality of the Hare Krishna acting-out. I’m quite partial to some spiritual music, but Hare Krisha only ever had one song. And it’s rubbish.

And this comment isn't banal? I enjoy the Hare Krishna mantra, and they actually have…

Ross Mason

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:52:13 +1200

Nambassa. 1929 Austin 16/6. Tent. Togs. Tan. Swimming and rescuing two people in jeans outside the breakers. Nutters. There was a drowning just after we left the beach.
Even the girlfriend (now wife) went topless. Surprised!

You missed one. Little River Band.

Greg Wood

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:45:03 +1200

Devo, a winery act... my 13-year-old self just turned in his velcro-and-domes geometric shirt. Speaking of younger selves: I might just have to pop in to PSC on Sunday for a wee dram to say, I dunno, "thanks" to Big Matt for Being There, back in the day.

bob daktari

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:39:21 +1200

one of the best tracks doing the rounds over the past year gets an official video and its ace

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHiqPG0526U

Jan Farr

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:36:31 +1200

Numbers at Nambassa, Russell: – I was there and topless (you drew more attention if you weren't) – and there were certainly thousands of people there. I seem to remember hearing that there were 70,000. In an enormous and tightly packed space, we were so far away from the stage…

Russell Brown

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:35:57 +1200

Huzzah! The legendary video of the White Stripes playing at Freeman's Bay Primary School in 2003 is going to be screened in Auckland next week.

Russell Brown

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:57:33 +1200

Also, anyone who admired that lovely man DJ Big Matt may care to pop along to a little show marking five years since his passing. Sunday from 5.30, Ponsonby Social Club.

Russell Brown

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:26:35 +1200

In other news ... Devo are a winery act now?

Public Address

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:26:35 +1200

Discussion from blog post.