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Russell Brown

Mon, 05 May 2014 11:32:07 +1200

Hi all. Just leaving up the above spam while we sort out who's doing it. It doesn't seem to be the company themselves.

David Tpagency

Sat, 03 May 2014 17:11:18 +1200

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Sacha

Sun, 12 Jan 2014 20:15:11 +1300

Amazing documentary on New Order’s iconic Blue Monday

Wow. Thank you.

Russell Brown

Sat, 11 Jan 2014 12:23:45 +1300

Live TV in New Zealand in the 1980’s was grand. You could get away with some other remarkable things too once in a while.

That Billy T skit is amazing, because it actually feels like it is Playschool.

Manakura

Sat, 11 Jan 2014 01:42:44 +1300

does anyone remember the 89/90 nye music show, i think it was titled ‘and finally this’? a very young very long haired robert rakete was one of the hosts and they had a giant neon ice cream sundae sculpture – pressing the cherry on top caused a racey (for the…

Gary Elshaw

Fri, 10 Jan 2014 14:30:29 +1300

Was that the one when Karen was obviously stoned and Sam Hunt made an appearance? Sam had just been given some accolade for poetry and Karen asked what he got for it, he made mention of something and then spread his arms wide and said, "..and a really, really big…

Gary Elshaw

Fri, 10 Jan 2014 14:20:22 +1300

The introduction to Something Else has the same feeling as this classic. Coincidence? Nozin' Around

Danielle

Thu, 09 Jan 2014 23:24:12 +1300

Belatedly: I read that Dr Hook piece a few months back and was actually crying with laughter. It's so, so good.

Alan Perrott

Thu, 09 Jan 2014 14:53:12 +1300

just rumbled this piece of greatness from The Beat Club – they reckon it's the Walker Brothers, but I'm wondering if it's a rare Scott Walker duet with a very early doors Napoleon Dynamite.

Leggy Mountbatten would have loved the trousers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMkQ94tIcgM

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 09 Jan 2014 10:49:32 +1300

brothers ex-arms...
Here’s another Monks track
I'm not sure about their tonsure?
Are they shaved, or stuck on?

Gabor Toth

Thu, 09 Jan 2014 10:23:06 +1300

Here's another Monks track that caught my interest from the West German TV pop show "Beat Beat Beat" in 1966 . It's not so much the music but the introduction by the show's host as he effortlessly jumps between English and German (probably to cater for the large number of…

Russell Brown

Thu, 09 Jan 2014 08:18:37 +1300

BBC Synth Britannia.

Also very good. I've got a few things like this on my hard drive ...

JacksonP

Thu, 09 Jan 2014 07:59:54 +1300

Extending the meta-foray, Richard Ram posted this on twitter in response to the above.

BBC Synth Britannia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69Wjc6QYuKI

Russell Brown

Wed, 08 Jan 2014 13:58:18 +1300

Amazing documentary on New Order’s iconic Blue Monday was just posted on their Facebook page, made by Swedish National Television. Recorded last year, and includes interviews with the whole band, including the estranged Hook, and sleeve designer Peter Saville.

That's superb.

JacksonP

Wed, 08 Jan 2014 07:44:59 +1300

The best bit for me was when they explain all the…

JacksonP

Tue, 07 Jan 2014 19:29:08 +1300

Looking back through mainly Later with Jools Holland, you get an interesting insight into the evolution of one Polly Jean Harvey.

Dress – 1992
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgBMIchyaaU

This is Love – 2001
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAWCEO2flIg

Let England Shake – 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VezKCkW1o-E

As a late breaking fan (probably early noughties) it's cool to look back.

Russell Brown

Tue, 07 Jan 2014 15:09:33 +1300

Doctor Hook, live on German TV, you say? Oh yes.

I'm sold already.

paul mckessar

Tue, 07 Jan 2014 15:06:55 +1300

You want German music TV from the 1970s? Okkervil River guy Will Sheff's piece here on his personal website on Doctor Hook & The Medicine Show: Live 1974, is a lengthy essay with clips from a German TV performance by this strangest of groups. Sheff calls it his favourite music DVD…

Zac Arnold

Tue, 07 Jan 2014 13:44:27 +1300

Can't go past The Gorburger Show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B78HBfPgMg&feature=share&list=PLITGm4KdqbojU6lNjtj6HTYh5jcQOHbW3&index=1

or Soft Focus w. Ian Svenonius
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wfJE40znI0

Gabor Toth

Tue, 07 Jan 2014 13:04:49 +1300

German TV pop shows playing music which goes out on a limb seems to be as old as television broadcasting itself. Here are The Monks from 1965. They were a group of American GI's based in Germany who got together to form a band and then stayed on in after…

Ross McA.

Mon, 06 Jan 2014 21:12:35 +1300

Great stuff from Beefheart and The Magic Band. They're in top form there and playing excellent versions of songs from the poorly recorded Spotlight Kid. The real mothers of invention!

Geoff Lealand

Sun, 05 Jan 2014 10:58:41 +1300

This is a damn interesting interview, between Tavi,and Lorde. Two very intelligent young women in deep conversation about important things.

Ian Dalziel

Sun, 05 Jan 2014 09:12:04 +1300

Year we go again…
Grab your sacks,
When I get to the bottom
I go back to the top of the slide…

Oh, we’re 5 days in already…

To one and all,
good luck in the new year…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6_CnAg7vDM
Mimi Cat is fun, too..
from Singapore a-go-go

you want…

Hebe

Sun, 05 Jan 2014 00:00:25 +1300

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/david-bowie-thinks-lorde-is-the-future-20140103

Ethan Tucker

Thu, 02 Jan 2014 16:42:23 +1300

And the co-founders of Q Magazine too, which held my attention for a good 15 years or so. Bit too much Coldplay for my liking these days.

Geoff Lealand

Thu, 02 Jan 2014 13:45:29 +1300

This would be Mark Ellen and David Hepworth of the late--and much lamented-- The Word magazine?

Paul Rowe

Thu, 02 Jan 2014 10:55:07 +1300

Predates OGWT, Rockpalast etc here is Kraftwerk on German TV in 1970, performing Ruckzuck, off their first album. I believe it is Klaus Dinger (NEU!) on drums, but I could be wrong. He's not the drummer on the album version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbK1GulvSDQ

As a follow-on, here's a BBC4 dock on Krautrock:…

Ethan Tucker

Thu, 02 Jan 2014 10:39:15 +1300

If you've not seen the DVD version, the chummy insiders' intro by Mark Ellen & David Hepworth sets the scene nicely:

ME: This is fantastic footage, and a couple of things struck me about it. One was that this is 'The Wailers', before Island Records repositioned them as 'Bob Marley & The…

Ethan Tucker

Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:19:12 +1300

I sometimes record Letterman just to flick to the end to see who's playing live. And what about this NZ moment from 2008, when Liam Finn plays Second Chance with EJ Barnes? Love how Letterman sounds a bit concerned when Finn finishes his fantastic drum solo in a frenzy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJju07ge7o4…

Robyn Gallagher

Tue, 31 Dec 2013 11:38:09 +1300

I think they did NYE music video shows in subsequent years.

Yes! Just a countdown of the year in music videos. I was too young to stay up to midnight, but I’d record the show (on our fancy new Beta VCR) and then watch it over and over and over…

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 31 Dec 2013 10:25:38 +1300

...go-to rowdy songs
aaah, this must be that 'rowd sourcing'
phenomenon I've heard so much about!

Craig Ranapia

Tue, 31 Dec 2013 10:17:27 +1300

Ah, the special musical guest. I can't look at David Letterman without a yearning, burning hatred of unfunny white dudes but sometimes...

LCD Soundsystem, 'Daft Punk Is Playing At My House'. Perhaps the best cowbell solo, ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3NqGGDO-3E

Lorde kinda Kate Bush-y...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0dEuC_8YYQ

Kumara Republic

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 23:52:33 +1300

To add, no method acting there at all in the Something Else clip.

Kumara Republic

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 23:33:24 +1300

Watching it through gave me the shivers, TBH. Not sure the presenters had even the slightest clue of the significance. Then I guess they wouldn't.

It was made all the more startling by the fact Curtis really was suffering from epilepsy towards the end of his life.

Kumara Republic

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 23:15:48 +1300

Amusingly, here’s how Top of the Pops in the UK dealt with the Sex Pistols in 1977 (goes straight to just before the relevant moment):

http://youtu.be/zRo8VqZMxTQ

Russell Brown

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 22:19:04 +1300

My favourite of all the Whistle Test sessions is probably the Wailers' in 1973. It was a TV session tacked on to an otherwise failed visit to the UK, and they just owned it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSc_Z2wUzvU

Russell Brown

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 22:00:40 +1300

Apropos new year’s eve: I recall TVNZ ran a live music show to countdown midnight. T’was about early 1980s. On this particular show (mid-1980s), everyone got really pissed and Andrew Fagan and Karen Hay (host of RWP at the time) pashed. I think they did NYE music video shows in…

Hebe

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 21:27:44 +1300

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

Hebe

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 21:22:20 +1300

Live was good. Lots of this available on youtube now that I would have killd to see just once back then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZpBhi04IoI

Hebe

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 20:59:56 +1300

Dirty guitars because it's the Jim one’s birthday. (I may well have posted this before: it's one of my go-to rowdy songs.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGp47YwDZ48&list=RDvjUcpf3l52o

Ethan Tucker

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 20:44:17 +1300

LOVE the Whistle Test (b.1971 d.1987). These two favourites are both from the first DVD compilation, which has some great stuff on it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjEuws9-HTM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ikahWzM0mI

Sacha

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 20:06:32 +1300

Dead romantic

Ross Bell

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 19:48:39 +1300

Apropos new year's eve: I recall TVNZ ran a live music show to countdown midnight. T'was about early 1980s. On this particular show (mid-1980s), everyone got really pissed and Andrew Fagan and Karen Hay (host of RWP at the time) pashed. I think they did NYE music video shows in…

Sacha

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 19:14:41 +1300

Heavy heavy rhythm section

and they kept evolving

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Suk-Icg5IgY

Robert Fox

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 19:08:46 +1300

Anyway here is my favourite bit of German rock TV from the 70's. I had mate called Rhys who used to play guitar like this and at the time know one really understood why. I am Damo Suzuki!
http://youtu.be/8QLL2j8ZtxE

BlairMacca

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 19:08:12 +1300

permanent ad in Mt Cook helped

Sacha

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 18:40:20 +1300

Weather :)

Hebe

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 18:34:25 +1300

I read somewhere once that Wellington had the highest per capita sales of Joy Division albums in the world in the 1980s. Is this true?

BlairMacca

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 17:42:05 +1300

There comes a point in every older person’s life when you discover that music telly isn’t like it used to be in your youth, mainly because when all the videos being on YouTube, they’re not the special rare gems that they used to be. The kids of today aren’t going…

BlairMacca

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 17:40:11 +1300

That's the last televised performance byJoy Division and apparently the only one to be nationally broadcast at the time.

I remember seeing that clip of Transmission for the first time getting home drunk at about 3 in the morning on M2 (think thats what it was called) in the early…

Robert Fox

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 17:31:49 +1300

I remember tuning in to that edition of Something Else and being totally mesmerised by that now Iconic performance of Transmission. One of those life changing TV moments. He may have had an ego the size of a small planet but Tony Wilson was a pop genius who broke the…

Geoff Lealand

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 16:37:51 +1300

Ah, MTV. What a bloody disgrace it is today but I recall its beginnings, when I began my PhD studies in Ohio in late 1979. Seeing Prince and Little Red Corvette for the first time! Hearing Tom Waits The Piano is Drunken, which a local sleazy bar used to close…

Eediot

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 16:31:06 +1300

Does anyone know why I can't Like Soundcloud tracks in this blog on my iPad? Clicking Like takes me to a login page and then back to this page but doesn't actually register my Like.

James Butler

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 15:49:40 +1300

Look how hard Stephen Morris is working in that last one. No wonder he was so early on the drum machine bandwagon. And Curtis trying to get his dance on, but the audience is giving him nothing. Not that it would have helped.

Simon Grigg

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 15:49:17 +1300

Indeed. And every rip from the album that some kid chucks up on YouTube with a still photo. The music business has changed quite a lot

The same has also brought vast amounts of music back from the lost. So much 50s and 60s NZ music released by small labels…

peter mclennan

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 15:48:34 +1300

that Black Uhuru clip is wicked, thank you! Heavy heavy rhythm section. Saw Sly and Robbie with Michael Rose live at the St James, they revisited many of the tracks off that album, so good. Halfway thru the gig the PA died, but the band had onstage monitors so just…

Kumara Republic

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 15:47:22 +1300

He's a household name in the UK, the host of morning show This Morning, as well as hosting various light entertainment shows over the years. And he's quite the silver fox!

You could think of Schofield's time in NZ as an extended gap year of sorts.

Russell Brown

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 15:14:04 +1300

Shazam, series one episode one, Philip's TV debut. And the star interview subject is ... Cliff Richard!

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

JacksonP

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 14:40:41 +1300

That’s the last televised performance byJoy Division and apparently the only one to be nationally broadcast at the time.

Watching it through gave me the shivers, TBH. Not sure the presenters had even the slightest clue of the significance. Then I guess they wouldn't.

Robyn Gallagher

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 14:38:31 +1300

Phillip Schofield. I have no idea why, almost thirty years on, I remember that guy's name, but there you go...

He's a household name in the UK, the host of morning show This Morning, as well as hosting various light entertainment shows over the years. And he's quite the silver…

Russell Brown

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 14:35:14 +1300

And then there’s this hilariously earnest introduction of The Jam and Joy Division on Something Else.

That's the last televised performance byJoy Division and apparently the only one to be nationally broadcast at the time.

JacksonP

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 14:29:45 +1300

The Old Grey Whistle Test is a good source for many of my faves. Run from 1971 to 1987, according to the wiki.

Here’s a selection.

Siouxsie 1982.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QVEQ6XZ3V8

The Specials, & Madness.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3lLb-Ln-Sw

The Undertones.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6v_YJfj9Sk

And then there’s this hilariously earnest introduction of The Jam and Joy Division on…

Gareth Swain

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 14:23:01 +1300

Shazaam

Phillip Schofield. I have no idea why, almost thirty years on, I remember that guy's name, but there you go...

Russell Brown

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 13:44:54 +1300

It also means that James Franco and Seth Rogen’s parody of Kanye’s “Bound 2” video contributed towards the original’s chart position, as does every video of fat bastard licking a sledgehammer while the original Miley song plays.

Indeed. And every rip from the album that some kid chucks up on…

Russell Brown

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 13:43:28 +1300

BTW, NZ History has a good run down of most of the music television shows over 50 years or so of New Zealand telly.

Brilliant, thank you. And for the What Now tip.

Robyn Gallagher

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 13:29:36 +1300

BTW, NZ History has a good run down of most of the music television shows over 50 years or so of New Zealand telly.

There comes a point in every older person's life when you discover that music telly isn't like it used to be in your youth, mainly because…

Robyn Gallagher

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 13:18:25 +1300

That's Catherine McPherson interviewing the Fits, so I'd assume the show is the legendary What Now.

Public Address

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 13:18:25 +1300

Discussion from blog post.