Colour TV in…

I was only a 13-year-old Form 2 student at Gisborne Intermediate in '81, but I remember the tour extremely vividly

This thread kinda ties together. My tour was spent on the Screaming Blamatic Roadshow (Screaming Meemees, Blam Blam Blam, New matic s) and we followed the tour up and down…

My theory is that it IS the people, or rather their distribution.

Specifically, Wellington's compact central space and its well-heeled young demographic make it possible for nichey…

It's available on The Complete Blam Blam Blam (which is an excellent collection), but I certainly wouldn't say no to a blam-blam-bootleg of the night...

We may get access to some high-quality live recordings of the current incarnation. Stay tuned.

The Tour: the Gisborne game was the first. It was my last year at school and I was one of only two blokes in the 7th Form who thought the Tour should not go ahead.

A mate who had a brother at AK Uni reckoned a…

Gisborne if I remember – against Poverty Bay – the next game was in Hamilton against HART and was called

It sure was – and I presume you mean "Waikato" not "HART" and "called…

I wouldn't be surprised if that was true of most of their catalogue!

That isn't as silly as it sounds. In their later incarnation as Bailter Space they did actually learn how to play "Splat"…

because i'd pay for a copy of that dr. who number...

It's available on The Complete Blam Blam Blam (which is an excellent collection), but I certainly wouldn't say no to a blam-blam-bootleg of the night...

(oh, and BIG SHOUT OUT to robyn. great to meet you)

(Lovely to meet…

Does that mean you're excitable, don't tire easily, are smart but easily distracted by nice smells, start howling if left alone for any length of time and have a tendency to go to fat?

And are useful for medical experiments on smoking.

any chance that the blams were recorded?

because i'd pay for a copy of that dr. who number...

(oh, and BIG SHOUT OUT to robyn. great to meet you)

a Legal Beagle. That person was me.

The name wasn't pretentious, and I quite liked it, so I stuck with it.

Does that mean you're excitable, don't tire easily, are smart but easily distracted by nice smells, start howling if left alone for any length of time and have a…

Why are Wellington bars so much better than Auckland bars, on average?

Yeah, in the last couple of days I have been to more excellent bars in Wellington than I ever have in Auckland.

Tonight I had the Wellingtonista-nominated poached pear punch from Superfino, and it was deliciously fresh and…

I was a young aspiring muso learning trumpet in fourth form (someone can do the conversion if needed) and we…

Screaming Meemees' 'See Me Go'?

(Which, BTW, you may soon be hearing in a version style ...)

It was on TV last night…

BTW: Sigh ... Why are Wellington bars so much better than Auckland bars, on average? My good-bars-in-Auckland conversation tends to run out at the Wine Cellar and Family ...

It's the people, Russell.

Screaming Meemees' 'See Me Go'?
(Which, BTW, you may soon be hearing in a version style ...)

Yeah. Told you it wasn't that hard....

Here's a question you may have had: which NZ band had a song go to number one the first week of release with no commercial radio airplay?

Screaming Meemees' 'See Me Go'?

(Which, BTW, you may soon be hearing in a version style ...)

Own fault, I know, but I am a tad envious reading these posts...I was invited, and I love trivia quizzes, and the Blams were the first band I ever saw live, back at Welly Polytech in '82.... but even if I'd gone I'd have folded by about 9pm.

Which would…

Was it Head Like A Hole with "Fish Across Face"?

Ahh, Muldoon era, folks.

Here's a question you may have had: which NZ band had a song go to number one the first week of release with no commercial radio airplay?

Was it Head Like A Hole with "Fish Across Face"?

I'd have picked the 1480 Kr[oo]zers being something to do with Radio Hauraki

They were the sponsors.

They smell?

Well, maybe. I had in mind "better when mature".

Own fault, I know, but I am a tad envious reading these posts...I was invited, and I love trivia quizzes, and the Blams were the first band…

I think in retrospect that "24 hour diner" should have been higher up the list of things Wellington needs, after the last bunch of us got kicked out of a kebab shop at 4am.

Even Taupo has a 24-hour diner! There should be a place where you can just go…

A digital voucher for I Want That is on its way to your email address Grant. Don't say I never do anything for you.

Great night though and Blam Blam Blam are like a fine cheese.

They smell?

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POLITICS

The 1975 election was also remarkable for the fact that a Maori candidate was elected to a general seat for the first time since 1893. In fact,…

Me too. I'm seeing them everywhere. I'm a bit worried about what that says about me though.

big congratulations to all the wellingtonista to worked so hard on this.

ditto. work kinda took me awol about 4 weeks ago, but yous all did a grand job. roll on 3AWA-2008.

the Gordons' 'Coalminers Song' sounds almost exactly the same backwards as it does forwards ...

I wouldn't be surprised if that was true of most of their catalogue!

There was a wonderfully surreal "Soup Nazi" moment though:

"You eat here or take away?"

"Eat here, please"

"No! We closed! You take away!"

I'm totally going to add that to my Kebab Shop Guy routine.

Plus ... I walked past this guy on the street yesterday who was a dead ringer for Hiro from Heroes. Even the same glasses. I…

And wow, what a night! I think in retrospect that "24 hour diner" should have been higher up the list of things Wellington needs, after the last bunch…

And also decide who gets a $50 digital voucher to spend with our current advertisers, I Want That.

Who also have a bunch of specials until midnight Sunday, including 33% off thinking putty and 10%…

It has been revealed Graham Henry was unanimously reinstated as All Blacks coach by the New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU). Henry was reappointed as coach for two more years today with the NZRU board voting…

I really should have said hello to Robyn as well!

There's another big Wellington event tonight, when the Phoenix take on Perth at the Stadium, 7.30.
(No, Jo, I wasn't…

big congratulations to all the wellingtonista to worked so hard on this. (all i contributed was the toby jug, which i now see is firmly in the possession of mr. farrar)

and huge regard to blam blam blam.

maestros!!

(And yes, I have an idea about refreshing our gender and ethnic balance too.)

I wonder (either fulfilling one or both of those roles), or in addition to, there is a space and a person to fill it from a NZ indigenous perspective, or at least active in those issues.

keep them coming...

The cutting edge?

Postcards from Edge-Comb?

Unless you're going seriously fast, stopping a skateboard is as easy as jumping off and running for a little bit. Over 30km/h your legs just can't…

"Joe 90" is by Bored Games.

True. I genuflect before your greater knowledge of Shayne Carter's
works.

Anyway... I demand that 'No More Heroes' be screened on free-to-air television. The kids need to see it.

Was it Kelly Johnson and Don Selwyn that were in both 'Utu' and 'Goodbye Pork…

Although I personally dont like speed without the protection of a vehicle around me, I know that others do, so I can see how that might appeal..... its just the fact that at the bottom, theres…

Scribe, Che Fu and Nesian Mystik's Feleti Strickson-Pua are all, of course, local rap artists. But what did their fathers have in common in the late 70s? Brown Panthers

I think the local variant was Polynesian Panthers. The Brown Panthers were the... Mexican version of the Black Panthers in USA…

Ah yes, I saw 'No More Heroes' (excellent flick about pioneer Kiwi skateboarders). Amazing use of Doublehappys' 'Joe 90, kids skating at the Hunua dam, Muldoon giving his seal of approval to skateboarding...

Indeed. It's the work of my homeboy Andrew Moore. The Auckland Star ran a picture of him…

The quiz was fun – I totally pwned my table by knowing what the 1480 Kroozers were and the bonus question with that one.

There was a woman sitting down by the bar who apparently knew the answer to everything. I talked to her friend who said "It was freaking…

If in the early 1980s you have been a member of the 1480 Kroozers, what would you have been?

A skateboarder.

Ah yes, I saw 'No More Heroes' (excellent flick about pioneer Kiwi skateboarders). Amazing use of Doublehappys' 'Joe 90, kids skating at the Hunua dam, Muldoon giving his seal…

The trophy is safe Russell. :-)

Jolly good — we'll work out a way to get it back to Che. You did look great with it though. And thanks for being such an able contestant at such short notice.

And well done for a damn good night.

It was bloody…

The quiz was fun – I totally…

Gisborne if I remember – against Poverty Bay – the next game was in Hamilton against HART and was called

And well done for a damn good night.

if you need an alternative please consider: 'Postcards from the Edge'

Well I certainly still need taglines – like 'Fiona Rae from the couch' or 'The irony is not lost on Keith Ng', so if you want to keep them coming...

One of the reporters who was involved in the story, the late Fraser Folster, confessed to another journo, just before he died earlier this year, that one of the pies was still warm and he was hungry.

I have…

5. Which of the following was not the acronym of a interest group active in the 1970s?

(b) SPUC

I'm pretty sure the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child were fairly prominently opposing abortion around then?

But if you need an alternative please consider: 'Postcards from the Edge'

[shuffles off]

If in the early 1980s you have been a member of the 1480 Kroozers, what would you have been?

A skateboarder.

He'll start as soon as we've knocked up a masthead for him.

And there was me thinking I'd start when I'd actually written my inaugural post :-)

If he posts as Legal Eagle I'll puke

Nothing quite so pretentious.

When Keith moved from Poll Dancer to OnPoint, his first post,…

Can we look forward to a Robbie Deans v Graham Henry World Cup Final in 2011?

For us non-rugby fans ... YES!

For the rest of you ... not so sure.

The scrapping/second guessing should start right about ... 5 minutes ago.

For a bonus: Three years later, another Maori was elected to a general seat. Who was that? Win Peters

In 1978, the Westland MP Paddy Blanchfield retired and made his farewell speech in Parliament. What was unusual about the speech? He was drunk/singing/irish??

For a bonus: In 2002, one…

"This is The Edge"

The site of Russell ....

Is this an eggcorn?

POLITICS

__The 1975 election was also remarkable for the fact that a Maori candidate was elected to a general…

Great night though and Blam Blam Blam are like a fine cheese.

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