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Nobody Important

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:11:02 +1200

he was severely beaten to near death by the Mongrel Mob following a mis-understanding

Ah yes, it's always a 'mis-understanding' isn't it? Beatings are normally only administered to those that deserve them, and being the professionals that they are the gangs are always remorseful when a 'mis-understanding' occurrs and the…

Tony Kennedy

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:23:39 +1200

Oops – apologies to both christie's – It was a long day at the office as I was off to Womad (which was great) the next day

Don Christie

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:21:43 +1300

Tony, for it must be you, more than one Christie posting on this site. Fortunately for Damian I don't think we are related and I was never cool or young enough to be "goth" anyway. I did pogo quite nicely though.

Tony Kennedy

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:27:00 +1300

Finding it hard to reconcile the image of the "goth" with the picture in Computerworld. :-)
RIU, at least its hayday was before my time in NZ. In Ireland it was Hot Press and I have a Dictators album to prove it. Avid Hotpress readers from 1977 to 1985 will…

Jason Kemp

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:49:23 +1300

RIU indeed made a huge contribution to not just the music industry but the numbers of aspiring writers like myself at the time. Even though as I recall most of the time enthusiastic and obscure reviews were often turned down. It did however offer a very wide ranging platform for…

Damian Christie

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:32:10 +1300

For a goth stranded in Upper Hutt (in the late 80s) RIU helped me waste countless dollars bidding for obscure 12s via the Silvio's auctions.

I guess now it'd be dealt with summarily via Trade Me, much more effective, but only a fraction of the excitement.

Simon Grigg

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:25:34 +1300

Yes...Tony...I should've known that but the braincells are not what they were.

Soulmine was, for years, one of the best shops in the country too. and his enthusiasm was the key to that...I always enjoyed talking music to him. I can see him now extolling the virtues of some obscure…

Grant McDougall

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:15:09 +1300

Tony Murdoch!! To this day, I'm still grateful to Tony for getting me into music.

It was Tony's rampant enthusiasm for all things Propeller that led to some of my earliest purchases.

He did indeed go on to own the Soul Mine, which I understand is still flourishing.

Tony was…

Simon Grigg

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:48:53 +1300

I got my first ever copy (Penknife Glides cover) from Vibes sometime in '81 and never missed a single issue for the next 10 years

who was that guy who ran Vibes? I think he went on to Soul MIne in Wellington.....a lovely guy but, shall we say, very very…

Grant McDougall

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:22:21 +1300

When I was a school-boy in provincial NZ (Gisborne, to be exact) in the early-mid '80s, Rip It Up was something of a life-line to the musical happenings and excitement of the big smokes.

That, Russell, is RIU's chief legacy of that era: yes, the features and reviews in themselves…

Simon Grigg

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:20:13 +1300

Hi Russell,
God i wish I could've been there, but geography got in the way. Although I was never on the the RIU pay list as such, I think flatting with Murray for four years (1980-83) plus countless inches of ink made me feel like part of the family. Murray…

merc

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:18:55 +1300

You are cleared on that basis only, and because a mandolin was involved.

Michael Savidge

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:46:10 +1300

Confession – I once faked being a RIU freelancer to get behind the scenes at the Apollo Bay music festival......in all fairness, I was in hot pursuit of a smoking hot mandolin playeress....

Nais

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:37:32 +1300

Dunedin in the 80s:
music at the Cook, eep fried moro bars, hot ribena in the Stuednet Uniin building, cold student flats, great gigs and RIU – God, RB what a nostalgia trip you've started....

Public Address

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:37:32 +1300

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