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  • st ephen,

    ...the main creative ain't there.

    Good. The last thing you want when old farts have a reunion is New Material. Just need someone left who's creative enough to synchronise the skanking.

    dunedin • Since Jul 2008 • 254 posts Report

  • Danielle,

    Reminds me of the time I saw the Beach Boys without Brian, Carl, Dennis, Al, Mike (who'd quit again, a few days previously) or Bruce

    Who needs any of those guys when you've got John Stamos?

    Charo World. Cuchi-cuchi!… • Since Nov 2006 • 3828 posts Report

  • Danielle,

    The Attractions without EC

    I am so annoyed with EC (the person) at the moment that I'd probably be happy with the Attractions and some dude who does a killer imitation of EC (the singer). Heh.

    Charo World. Cuchi-cuchi!… • Since Nov 2006 • 3828 posts Report

  • JP Hansen,

    ^ Have you heard Dave Dobbyn's "Lament for the Numb" CD? Dave doesn't sound like Elvis of course, but Bruce & Pete are the rhythm section. It's an astounding album.

    Old Listener Review

    Waitakere • Since Nov 2006 • 206 posts Report

  • Rich of Observationz,

    Have a geek question:
    discuss the usefulness or otherwise of the reference operator in the C++ language

    If you can't answer that, or don't know what it means, you aren't a geek, you're a fanboi.

    Back in Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 5550 posts Report

  • Simon Grigg,

    Good. The last thing you want when old farts have a reunion is New Material. Just need someone left who's creative enough to synchronise the skanking.

    Sadly that's exactly what they're doing at the moment..writing a new Dammers free album, as Russell pointed out:

    On 4th May 2009, Lynval Golding and John Bradbury expressed their intentions to release further original Specials material at a later date.

    These two are the guys who didn't have the talent. Mostly the Specials was a Damners project from beginning to end, with everything after the first few singles being essentially Dammers and guests, hence the disintegration around the second album.

    If it's skanking you want, Bad Manners are still touring I believe.

    I really don't like this sort of rather desperate stuff.

    I am so annoyed with EC

    He always had the personality issues, it's just he had the tunes to cover them.

    I like some of his recent tunes too, but I know what you mean.

    Just another klong... • Since Nov 2006 • 3284 posts Report

  • Simon Grigg,

    The last thing you want when old farts have a reunion is New Material.

    Sounds like a Paul McCartney gig...every time he says "here's a song off my new album" the queues get very long at the loos and hot dog stands

    Just another klong... • Since Nov 2006 • 3284 posts Report

  • Kim_Wright,

    If it's skanking you want, Bad Manners are still touring I believe

    hard to believe Buster B is still going he looked like heart attack material all through their gig at the Paekakariki Hotel earlier this century (2001?), was a fantastic gig, but.

    Now that was a skank-fest (the good sort)

    Wellington • Since May 2009 • 57 posts Report

  • Russell Brown,

    If it's skanking you want, Bad Manners are still touring I believe.

    They never stopped -- partly because Buster has had some bad luck financially.

    I worked for Buster as the world's shittest press officer for a while after he bought the rights to use the Blue Beat label name (but not, sadly, the back catalogue). He's yer classic geezer with a heart of gold. But he lost his house on the label venture in the end ...

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report

  • Kim Sokolich,

    The Dammer-less Specials last month on Later with Jools Holland:

    Terry Hall looks less than impressed (he's hardly getting into it) or does he always have a grumpy demeanour on stage?

    Since Oct 2008 • 47 posts Report

  • Simon Grigg,

    Courtesy of Peter McLennan, here's Jerry doing Ghost Town 2009. I think this is more me

    Just another klong... • Since Nov 2006 • 3284 posts Report

  • Danielle,

    Have you heard Dave Dobbyn's "Lament for the Numb" CD?

    I am one of the three people in New Zealand who bought that album when it came out. I await the critical rediscovery of the Dobbo on that one. When will 'Love Over All' get its due? (I'm sort of pleased it was only Bruce and Pete as the band, and not Steve. I love Steve, but he can be a little frou-frou.)

    [EC] always had the personality issues, it's just he had the tunes to cover them

    I don't mind 'bitter, revengeful fuck'. It's 'whiney, hypocritical ass' I'm not so keen on. The man suffers from what I'm now calling lawnism (as in 'you kids get off my...') when it comes to filesharing, iPods and intertubes generally. Plus that US tour where only Visa cardholders could buy tickets took the absolute biscuit.

    Kind of excited by the new bluegrass-influenced album, though. :)

    Charo World. Cuchi-cuchi!… • Since Nov 2006 • 3828 posts Report

  • Geoff Lealand,

    I am so annoyed with EC

    What's he done now? I can pretty much excuse him anything, if I get a dose of "Alibi" (off 'When I Was Cruel") first.

    Screen & Media Studies, U… • Since Oct 2007 • 2562 posts Report

  • Geoff Lealand,

    Completely off topic but I have started writing a paper today, for the Future of Journalism conference at the Cardiff School of Journalism (Wales) in September. The title is "Will Media Studies be the salvation of journalism?".

    Pithy comments, startling insights and old-timey wisdom welcomed--either here or via my email address <Lealand@waikato.ac.nz>

    Screen & Media Studies, U… • Since Oct 2007 • 2562 posts Report

  • Danielle,

    What's he done now?

    My problem is that because I subscribe to costello-l, I get to read everything the man ever says in any interview anywhere in the world. So his most recent obsessions are repeated and amplified to the point that he totally annoys me. I should just stop reading all the links and then I'd like him more.

    Charo World. Cuchi-cuchi!… • Since Nov 2006 • 3828 posts Report

  • Simon Grigg,

    Kind of excited by the new bluegrass-influenced album, though. :)

    The single, a remake of Complicated Shadows, is on iTunes, is ok. I loved Momofuku in the end. Noisy.

    I'm never disappointed in him as a man, because I'm not expecting too much. A little like James Brown was.

    But I still buy the rekkids.

    Just another klong... • Since Nov 2006 • 3284 posts Report

  • Simon Grigg,

    I subscribe to costello-l

    Still? Wow...

    Just another klong... • Since Nov 2006 • 3284 posts Report

  • LegBreak,

    EC’s probably just finding strange hands on his sweater.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 1162 posts Report

  • Russell Brown,

    Courtesy of Peter McLennan, here's Jerry doing Ghost Town 2009. I think this is more me.

    'Ghost Town' mashed up with Sun Ra's 'Nuclear War'!

    By an orchestra!

    And apparently he's been doing this stuff for several years. Why didn't I know?

    Here's another one, combining an old Coxsone Dodd tune with another Sun Ra piece:

    I saw the actual Arkestra twice, and it was beyond special. From what I tell from these clips, I'd gladly queue to see the Spatial Orchestra too.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report

  • Danielle,

    Still? Wow...

    I know, I know. It's almost like a retro-90s thing at this point. Who uses listservs any more? The longtime subscribers are all on Facebook now anyway.

    I guess my dreamboat turned out to be a footnote, LegBreak.

    Specials-related fact: EC produced their debut album. But y'all knew that.

    Charo World. Cuchi-cuchi!… • Since Nov 2006 • 3828 posts Report

  • Simon Grigg,

    I'd gladly queue to see the Spatial Orchestra too.

    As long as they don't skank in pork pie hats.

    This stuff is very cool. I can see why Jerry had no desire to go back and I guess the ongoing income from the publishing of Free Nelson Mandela (which you hope these 'Specials' don't do as it had nothing to do with them) and the rest would keep him comfortable.

    Just another klong... • Since Nov 2006 • 3284 posts Report

  • Alan Perrott,

    costello-related fact: Huey Lewis appeared on his debut album.

    there's gotta be a kevin bacon connection there somewhere...

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 438 posts Report

  • Kyle Matthews,

    Courtesy of Peter McLennan, here's Jerry doing Ghost Town 2009. I think this is more me

    Heh.

    The band look like they couldn't decide whether they were going to do the gig or be extras for Mad Max II.

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

  • Simon Grigg,

    The band look like they couldn't decide whether they were going to do the gig or be extras for Mad Max II.

    Sun Ra lived somewhere on the edge of another galaxy, although his alter ego, Herman Blount, lived in Philadelphia

    I'm more concerned about these jumpers:

    Just another klong... • Since Nov 2006 • 3284 posts Report

  • Kim_Wright,

    Maybe it was a cold day and there mum's made them put them on......

    Wellington • Since May 2009 • 57 posts Report

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