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Chris Familton

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:47:37 +1300

Listening to two Melbourne bands a great deal at the moment – Twerps and Dick Diver – both on Chapter Music and both with a strong Bats/Clean influence woven into their sound. Highly recommend you check them out.
http://youtu.be/pg6KlXnrNsE
http://youtu.be/EtKDKEngz2w

dyan campbell

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:43:50 +1300

Howdy, Dyan!

Hey Alex. As you can see, I'm not the only Flying Nun fan here.

To those who find my New Zealand piece inadequate, I plead guilty. I wrote it back in 1995, and had never been to New Zealand. (I've still never been, alas, though I've spent a…

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:58:19 +1300

Paul sent me the links for his High Street Manchester cnr clips (the one Lilith posted was from Pine's Stephen McCarthy, I think) these are from the High street side of that same block.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hT9nZLcGok&feature=youtu.be

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVOiVdzhnVc&feature=relmfu

...and yes, The Bats were in fine form last Saturday in Chchch, tight, crisp…

Stewart

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:02:41 +1300

Ah Peter, you have made me a very happy chap. Since my Hallelujah Picassos cassettes stretched & became unplayable (some years ago) I have had an occasional fossick for outlets that might allow me to buy a CD. And here you are with a 'compilation' re-issue that ticks plenty of boxes…

Joe Wylie

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:17:22 +1300

Doug Hood . . . took so many bands and
budding sound men under his wing and gave them a chance to fly...
. . . and if he'd happened along a few centuries earlier he just might've given a vital boost to those thirteenth century [[http://www.therestisnoise.com/2008/04/nothings-going-to-happen-the-story-of-new-zealand-rock.html| decadent birds incapable…

Ian Dalziel

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:52:20 +1300

Kiwipedantia...
...because I didn't think it was all that great. But I decided it might be good for something.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXeGVEx9-t8
...come back all is forgiven, Alex no malice was intended and I applaud the spirit in which it was originally written, we is just crowd source pedants, every little bit…

Russell Brown

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:12:18 +1300

And yet: I'm writing about the "big band" version of "Nothing's Going to Happen," which is indeed a Flying Nun song (from That's the Short & Long of It). So, either way, there you are. Thanks for reading, and apologies again for all I left out.

Aha! That's a correct and…

Alex Ross

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:55:28 +1300

Howdy, Dyan! I saw your comment linking to my blog, and found you here. Hope all's well.

To those who find my New Zealand piece inadequate, I plead guilty. I wrote it back in 1995, and had never been to New Zealand. (I've still never been, alas, though I've spent…

Simon Grigg

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:07:55 +1300

- just sayin', credit where credit's also due...

Word, Ian.....

Doug & Victoria's annual Chrissy BBQs were notorious for all the right reasons too.

Ross' paragraphs about the immediate pre-FN era are equally skewered as is his very narrow overview of the scene thereafter.

And 'Nothing’s going to happen—the unofficial anthem…

Ian Dalziel

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:31:25 +1300

Alex Ross – New Zealand Music
this touches many bases, and is a tidy overview for foreigners,
but once again it is a history of Flying Nun that omits the contribution
of Doug Hood (who did more of the production of Pink Frost
than Chris, as Alex Ross asserts) aside…

dyan campbell

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:33:42 +1300

we all like and what we like, and I never took to Flying Nun and her progeny.

I had the opposite reaction to the Flying Nun stuff when I first came here (in the late 80s). I absolutely loved the sound – it was alway being described as "weird" or…

Lilith __

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:43:58 +1300

High St/Lichfield/Manchester really was the heart and soul of Christchurch for me

I lived in an upstairs flat on High St one summer when I was at Uni. My boyfriend lived on Lichfield, and a good friend above Reuben Blades. We liked to go to Caffiends in the middle of…

3410

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:37:40 +1300

Hey, I love Emitt Rhodes. Basically, people ripping off Paul McCartney is what I live for!

Yes!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eysEjjbbYPw

Danielle

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:56:22 +1300

Hey, I love Emitt Rhodes. Basically, people ripping off Paul McCartney is what I live for!

Biobbs

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:36:05 +1300

I would argue that there is dancing and then there is ...........dancing.

I wasn't meaning to dis Aretha, by the way. I have been known to dance naked around my flat screaming along to Respect at 1 am (sorry, too much information).

Biobbs

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:31:35 +1300

Comparing those videos, makes me think the Block of Wood one should be preserved as some kind of nationally significant reminder. Not just because it shows the buildings, but also because those few seconds of footage of Paul up on the balcony there, and the pan shot around him, caught…

Samuel Scott

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:43:20 +1300

You don’t think Paul McCartney may at some stage want the bits of Magical Mystery Tour and Hello Goodbye back?

...or indeed Cinematic's 'Hello Like a Goodbye'... It's a fairly common songwriters trope I guess. I'm very keen to hear the whole album, people are saying good things.

Samuel Scott

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:40:38 +1300

HDU were really really good last night. And my AIRplugs worked great thank you very much. They impede the flow of air into my ears so I call them airplugs!

Umm, eerrr anyway. So yes HDU were on top form. And Glass Vaults were really great too. I was quite…

Simon Grigg

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:55:38 +1300

3. She is such a wonderful pop songwriter that I find it difficult to say anything about the music but get all swoony. That shit is right in my wheelhouse.

You don't think Paul McCartney may at some stage want the bits of Magical Mystery Tour and Hello Goodbye back?…

Sacha

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:20:30 +1300

They're not miles away from your brother's stuff. Certainly compared with the harder end of FN's roster.

Jackie Clark

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:17:04 +1300

To be fair, apart from videos, no I haven't. But I can think of none of the Flying Nun music that I ever connected to. It's just one of those things.

Sacha

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:09:29 +1300

They were awesome alongside peers at that Nun anniversary gig at the Powerstation with Chris Knox MCing.

Russell Brown

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:03:52 +1300

I would argue that there is dancing and then there is ...........dancing.

I am expert at both sorts, and I endorse The Bats.

And really, if you think The Bats are dreary, you have not heard The Bats :-)

Lilith __

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:30:39 +1300

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teicHEyJbf0

Jackie Clark

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:18:55 +1300

I would argue that there is dancing and then there is ...........dancing. But then, we all like and what we like, and I never took to Flying Nun and her progeny.

Lilith __

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:18:13 +1300

It’s just as well YouTube has so much John Barrowman, to ease the Torchwood withdrawal. :-)

re: that post-quake footage of Lichfield and High St, I’m pretty sure I know the one you mean. I’ll check my email archive and see if I can find it.

Lilith __

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:06:38 +1300

Loving the dancey Bats videos. And some with bonus local scenery! If I'm not mistaken, Boogey Man was shot by Lake Pearson and around Craigieburn?

And thanks, Danielle, that is very reassuring. :-)

JacksonP

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:51:46 +1300

I Wish I Had an Evil Twin
I’m liking them more and more.

In related news, I just listened to the lyrics of The National song, Conversation 16. It’s… disturbing?

But I’m more compelled by this Maya Jane Coles remix of Little Dragon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ntKZMduguc

Sacha

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:50:40 +1300

Anyone who can't dance to The Bats can't dance

However, evidence would suggest that the converse is not necessarily true. :)

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:41:05 +1300

here's one for the Doctor Who (& Torchwood) fans:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID0KOoS2qI0&feature=related

was it just me, but did any one else think the Torchwood finale was a bit rushed and once over lightly – while setting up the premise for a US sequel...

another glorious Bats song with a video preserving part of…

Biobbs

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 04:09:15 +1300

And to celebrate ChCh re-opening, another glorious Bats song with a video preserving part of the town we lost in February...

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

Biobbs

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 03:38:03 +1300

Anyone who can't dance to The Bats can't dance. So there :-).

Danielle

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:31:04 +1300

I know several Magnetic Fields fans in Auckland alone. Fear not!

Lilith __

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:45:27 +1300

Beware the Evil Twins.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO6R276hBeM

Lilith __

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:17:58 +1300

Here's an example of Stephen Merrit's excellence.

Oh, lovely!! Thank you.

Love them.

Well that makes 2.5 of us. Enough for a NZ fan club? ;-)

Andrew E

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:06:23 +1300

I’m always trying to interest people in The Magnetic Fields. It’s the sort of thing you either love or hate.

Love them. Here's an example of Stephen Merrit's excellence.

JacksonP

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:54:50 +1300

Beware the Evil Twins.

It's kind of thematically appropriate for Nunvember.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6smGN9BdF74&feature=related

Sofie Bribiesca

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:47:29 +1300

I prefer earplugs.

I look forward to ears wide open at the Civic tonight. Eddie Izzard is in the House. I am going to laugh.

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:27:17 +1300

Life in one cord...
We have airplugs!
I prefer earplugs.
No, no, the air plugs are
for the air guitar...

You'll be bop deluxe...
Oh good, another discussion about bands I have never got. Keep your drear. If you can't bop around frenetically to it, I'm not interested.
aahh, don't…

Lilith __

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:38:20 +1300

Photo-shopped?

One hopes so!

Lilith __

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:33:57 +1300

here's one for the Doctor Who fans:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giaMRyn47Xg&feature=feedlik

JacksonP

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:32:16 +1300

[embed, damn you!]

Brackets are not your friend.
The Magnetic Fields.
More listening required. I might like them. ;-)

Haven't seen this video before. It turns me... Oh right.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7C52UlwiNI&feature=related

Photo-shopped?

Lilith __

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:18:39 +1300

Oh thanks Jackson. I like it!

I’m always trying to interest people in The Magnetic Fields. It’s the sort of thing you either love or hate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=ZX8xHXcAEiY

[embed, damn you!]

Joanna

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:03:14 +1300

The acoustic tour is targeted at affluent middle-aged types from places like Thorndon and Oriental Bay, who wouldn't go to a gig in a downtown pub.

Oh yeah, you've just totally described me in a nutshell there!

I would have gone to the Bodega gig if I'd heard about it.…

Rich Lock

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:52:10 +1300

And not to rain on the parade, but Anthrax have just done a Metallica and dissed their fans for file sharing.

Et tu, Anthrax?

Oh well. Happy Nigel Tufnell day, everyone!

JacksonP

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:38:33 +1300

This has been out a while, but it only just made it to my ears, via 95bFm as usual.
It's growing on me. Remixes galore out there for those who care.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h91V4d9lA6c&feature=relmfu

Andrew E

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:18:02 +1300

Was at the Bic Runga gig at Bodega last night. Great stuff, and lovely to see her in an intimate venue like that, although

Two women somehow managed to talk to each other constantly, rapidly, loudly – and at the same time.

rings a bell, except this time it was…

Jackie Clark

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:56:37 +1300

And if we're talking about music that never lets you down, here's my go-to.

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

Jackie Clark

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:42:22 +1300

Oh good, another discussion about bands I have never got. Keep your drear. If you can't bop around frenetically to it, I'm not interested.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pu0Fn1oRN4

Kumara Republic

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:31:20 +1300

And not to rain on the parade, but Anthrax have just done a Metallica and dissed their fans for file sharing.

Sacha

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:18:00 +1300

roflnui

3410

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:16:40 +1300

I prefer earplugs.

and yummy deer innards? ;)

'Get Some Sleep' was a numble delight

Russell Brown

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:14:25 +1300

#blatantselfpromotion

Onya.

peter mclennan

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:11:25 +1300

De La Soulveit, cool mashup bizznizz http://dubdotdash.blogspot.com/2011/11/de-la-soulviet.html

and if you need some antidote to all the F Nun nostalgia (cos they weren't the only thing going on in indie music here in the 90s), try this, my old band Hallelujah Picassos retrospective reissue http://picassocore.blogspot.com/

#blatantselfpromotion

Russell Brown

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:10:37 +1300

HDU tonight in Wellington. We have a baby sitter, we have airplugs!

I prefer earplugs. And yes, I'm definitely taking them to the KA tomorrow night.

Samuel Scott

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:07:43 +1300

HDU tonight in Wellington. We have a baby sitter, we have airplugs!

Rich of Observationz

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:54:55 +1300

Segmentation. The acoustic tour is targeted at affluent middle-aged types from places like Thorndon and Oriental Bay, who wouldn't go to a gig in a downtown pub. The Bodega gig is for the rest of us.

Russell Brown

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:54:18 +1300

3. She is such a wonderful pop songwriter that I find it difficult to say anything about the music but get all swoony. That shit is right in my wheelhouse.

I suspect you would have liked Indie Bic a LOT. Like I say, let’s hope it’s not the last of…

Robyn Gallagher

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:39:19 +1300

Duran Duran! They have a new song and it's quite good, but more importantly, it comes with a brilliant video. Directed by Jonas Ackerlund, it stars five '90s supermodels who play the band, complete with complex interviews (and actually quite good acting) about the band's history. It looks brilliant, and…

Danielle

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:38:11 +1300

Anyway, here's the video for 'Hello Hello'

1. You know what would really help Bic in her particular 'hiking through New Zealand with a donkey on windswept country roads and beaches' situation here? A HAIR TIE. Jesus lady, break out a scrunchie if you have to.
2. Not revealing what's…

Rich Lock

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:29:27 +1300

I think they were from the North of England

No judge would convict you ...

Anonymous Author

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:14:41 +1300

The funniest thing is they will be followed by these guys. Seems almost impossible.

Doesn't it though. It will be sublime if both become a complementary and seamless excess of quality.

Russell Brown

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:06:27 +1300

Loving this now and will be loving it even more live tomorrow night.

Just bought my ticket.

JacksonP

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:03:02 +1300

Loving this now and will be loving it even more live tomorrow night.

The funniest thing is they will be followed by these guys. Seems almost impossible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QevFHD6RpZ8&feature=related

Two women somehow managed to talk to each other constantly, rapidly, loudly – and at the same time.
I wonder if they…

Joanna

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:02:43 +1300

I'm actually a bit ticked off at Bic Runga right now. I forked over $72 for her acoustic tour ages ago and am looking forward to it, and then yesterday I found out she was playing THAT very night at Bodega for much cheaper, and without any fanfare. And by…

Anonymous Author

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:57:47 +1300

Loving this now and will be loving it even more live tomorrow night. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQaNytQFZjs

George Darroch

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:54:56 +1300

Via our gracious host, Drinkify. Pairing music with concoctions. Just save the Slayer until after work.

Bart Janssen

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:54:25 +1300

Two women somehow managed to talk to each other constantly, rapidly, loudly – and at the same time.

No judge would convict you ...

Bart Janssen

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:52:04 +1300

Thank you!

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