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LIISA

Mon, 02 May 2011 11:45:28 +1200

Oh, and we're planning to record the 'Last Train to Brockville' AK show too.
I'm excited.

LIISA

Mon, 02 May 2011 11:42:44 +1200

Hi Paul,

We did try to get a second Live At Helen's CD produced, but unfortunately it didn't stack up financially – as RNZ is funded to make radio, we could not risk it not covering its costs.
Cheers to those of you who remember and appreciate that golden period…

recordari

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:06:39 +1200

Speaking of champ ladi(es) (no offence meant), RIP Poly Styrene.

The story...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e_aaoqwZ2Q&feature=related

... and the song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogypBUCb7DA

linger

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 01:13:03 +1200

Haven’t found Submarine Bells; still, its thematic mirror image is on YouTube. (Dunno the provenance of the video used here though.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=endqjZPATsc

Paul Williams

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:36:58 +1200

Recordari, thanks for those links; wonderful stuff. I try to catch any NZ bands touring Australia to hear that distinctive sound in person.

Beached is another highlight from that album. Was there ever another album released, I understood the studio was heavily used?

Matthew Littlewood

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 19:53:52 +1200

On a music tip, I was saddened to hear of TV on the Radio's bassist Gerard Smith's passing this week. Lung cancer. At 34. That's an awful way to go. No matter, here's the five-piece giving it their all in a Letterman performance a few years back:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73qBnuzrjx0

Also, here's…

dyan campbell

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:05:46 +1200

I should've gone to Byron Bay festival.

Here's Son Veneno and the glamorous Merenia, burning up the stage there a couple years ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRTgBNwN-v0

Matthew Littlewood

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 16:53:26 +1200

Bob Mould's authorised "autobio" hopefully comes out pretty soon, I believe it's written by Michael Azzerrard who wrote "This band could be your life". Saw Grant Hart last Saturday and he was ramshackley great.

Sounds promising, Our Band Could Be Your Life is a superb book, and I think Mould…

recordari

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 15:59:44 +1200

Just remembered Internet Tethering. Works surprisingly well.

(Live at Helen's version is particularly brilliant – actually that entire album is).

Just got it out and played it, so thanks for prompt. Beached by David Kilgour also good.

Kyle Matthews

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 15:37:37 +1200

Hmmm Brockville –
well he's not over the hill yet, then...

My partner grew up along the road from Shane Carter. She tells a good story about him wandering along the road with no pants on as a toddler.

(Live at Helen's version is particularly brilliant – actually that entire…

recordari

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 15:28:45 +1200

While hunting I found these. Some interesting history and luminaries in attendance, including Chris Knox in part 2. The Chills really were exceptionally brilliant. Hope links work. I'm pushing the mobile envelope.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCNqvj9P-uQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8raTVhXJkSI

recordari

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 15:11:36 +1200

Wow Paul, that sounds amazing, wherever it happens. Was bit annoyed I missed Paul Kelly here not long ago. Don't think quite in the Dylan league, but Gary Numan next month should be interesting.

Limited to iPhone by Vodafone outage, otherwise I'd try assist in the hunt for the submarine…

Paul Williams

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 14:36:49 +1200

I'd hoped to post Submarine Bells, but can't find it anywhere online (Live at Helen's version is particularly brilliant – actually that entire album is).

Recordari, I'm seeing Dylan next week with Paul Kelly. Will be good although the venue, Entertainment Centre, Darling Harbour, is not one I like. I…

recordari

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:09:23 +1200

Heck, Shayne should be inducted as a bona fide Master of the Universe, any way!

I don't get it. Well, maybe I do. ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ImtHlQ8z4Y&feature=related

ETA: We all love a happy ending. That song is so iconic you almost forget how much so until you listen to it.

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:11:34 +1200

and just so ya know, the last bus to Brockville
leaves at 11.10pm (except Sundays & Public
Holidays, when it leaves the Octagon at 6.15pm!!)

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:43:25 +1200

Railing against the Machine...
The Brockville tunnel with a train in it.
Ya gotta love those wacky Canadians!!

That tunnel looks like Arkham Asylum!
and what with all these Subway Sects
and downing a few tubes at midnight
I'm outta my brain on the train ...

...as ably demonstrated here…

Russell Brown

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:18:27 +1200

I am really excited about this upcoming album (actually I've heard it, but I wont to OWN it...i need to own it...on expensive smelly vinyl).

As a Fleet Foxes fan, what do you make of this dubstep remix?

Grant McDougall

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 09:14:01 +1200

Ian Dalziel, you're on the right track and your train of thought is spot on. (Although the Burnside tunnel you refer to has been closed for decades).

Samuel Scott

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 22:46:09 +1200

I am really excited about this upcoming album (actually I've heard it, but I wont to OWN it...i need to own it...on expensive smelly vinyl).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgv6dKV03dA

Biobbs

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:42:05 +1200

The introduction to that clip on the Whistle Test DVDs points out that for Marley & the Wailers it must've been one of the hardest gigs they'd played. A freezing cold BBC hangar in Birmingham, with no audience apart from middle-aged pipe-smoking brown cardigan-wearing cameramen. Soon afterwards they would can their…

Ethan Tucker

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:41:13 +1200

It's from the Wailers' incredible 1973 performance for Old Grey Whistle Test. Peter Tosh stars as The Coolest Man on Earth, and harmonises like a Beach Boy.

The introduction to that clip on the Whistle Test DVDs points out that for Marley & the Wailers it must've been one of the…

Sacha

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:36:56 +1200

Result :)

Bruce Wurr

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:06:07 +1200

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1pqavJLJDI&feature=related

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

Sacha

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:02:48 +1200

Bruce, you just paste the whole link including the http into what you are typing and the site handles the rest. Don't need to do what you normally do with other links here – no square brackets. Give it a go.

Bruce Wurr

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:49:09 +1200

Here's a Tackhead clip from their German show two weeks ago......(hope I get this right!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1pqavJLJDI&feature=related.…

recordari

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:46:54 +1200

Here you go. The Brockville tunnel with a train in it.

Is Shayne going underground?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE1ct5yEuVY

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:23:00 +1200

Hmmm Brockville –
well he's not over the hill yet, then...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWRawTxpD4E&feature=related
perhaps Shayne doesn't want to become Stipe-cast – REM (Random Elvis Moves?)
– Pig Flat Elvis anyone?

and best to go by road anyway, as far as I can work out the train doesn't get any closer than Burnside…

3410

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:26:01 +1200

I'm going to guess this.

recordari

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:12:08 +1200

There’s at least one obvious pun in the tour title, but what is the other one ? I know it, do you ? Answers on a postcard to the usual address, etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v6MBHpzZg8

and… ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMea-eGmd8c

EAT: Yes, I know it was the Monkees, but playing ELO seemed punnier.

peter mclennan

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:04:54 +1200

George Clinton is planning on fitting TWENTY SIX musicians on the Powerstation stage. Seriously.

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

Grant McDougall

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:15:25 +1200

Shayne Carter’s back-pages special Last Train to Brockville

There's at least one obvious pun in the tour title, but what is the other one ? I know it, do you ? Answers on a postcard to the usual address, etc.

Grant McDougall

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:08:27 +1200

Saw Husker Du live in the Powerstation sometime in the early nineties. Magical.

No you didn't. Husker Du split very acrimonously in 1987 and have never reunited. Bob Mould played the Gluepot solo in '89 and Grant Hart came through NZ early last year, that's the closest.

I suspect you're…

Ray Gilbert

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:06:26 +1200

Saw Husker Du live in the Powerstation sometime in the early nineties

No you didn't sorry – they split in 87 and never toured here. I was a huge fan so if they had come I'd have crawled over broken glass to see them.

You probably mean Sugar – Bob…

Shaun Scott

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:45:06 +1200

Ladi 6 is fantastic, and thoroughly deserves the win.

I am guessing most of you will have already seen this superb track from "The Adults"- Ladi 6, Jon Toogood, Shayne Carter and Gary Sullivan. Gorgeous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx6G0NGZJxU

Geoff Lealand

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:21:22 +1200

At $20 bucks the Kings Arms is often the best ticket in town.

A damn pity that the Felice Brothers gig never happened there.

3410

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:20:15 +1200

Soße-Regenbogen

Das ist kühl.

Tom Beard

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:00:57 +1200

This may be late to the party, but just in case anyone's not yet had their Gravy Rainbow fix:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-LKa1Y9_ok

Warning! Earworm alert! But most intriguingly, among all the cover versions, response clips and general WTF?-ness of the reaction, comes the suggestion that it was influenced by an obscure, icily-minimal…

recordari

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:40:57 +1200

their ban hammer
"Intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism".

If you started a political party with that as the slogan right now, you might even win an election. Well, if the Doctor was your leader.

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:37:01 +1200

-- although I fear that the people at the back missed my killer musician jokes.
John Simon Ritchie is such an easy target ...
"His name, "Sid Vicious," was originally a joke, because he was so mild-mannered and shy. "
what were the Claudine Longet, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_Belly#Prison_years|Lead…

Sean Murgatroyd

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:35:47 +1200

Saw Husker Du live in the Powerstation sometime in the early nineties. Magical.

BlairMacca

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:34:37 +1200

Somehow, I have only just started listening to Husker Du after really getting into the Replacements last year. Two incredible bands. Also reading "This band could be your life" at the moment, brilliant read.

MikeE

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:34:14 +1200

big up for including tanya/silva mc in there.. she's awesome on the mic

David Ritchie

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:31:44 +1200

Craig Ferguson + Doctor Who = the cold open which got canned once the lawyers came along with their ban hammer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9P4SxtphJ4

Included puppets and (surprise special guest star) and a super rundown of what the show is about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thjWMWzUa30

'Til we meet again, Sarah!

Hadyn Green

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:21:21 +1200

Was so good watching Nas and Damian Marley, The Strokes and others live at Coachella on YouTube this week. And so incredibly suckful (yes, suckful) when the videos YouTube posted of various performances later were geo-blocked

Marcus Turner

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:13:57 +1200

Something very classy, with ukuleles:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzWJA_q9qdg

recordari

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:08:25 +1200

Choice.

Indeed. Going to both as it happens. Why wouldn't you? At $20 bucks the Kings Arms is often the best ticket in town.

Russell Brown

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:52:38 +1200

Last month’s Kings Arms concert was pretty much the thing of legends

Speaking of which, there’s Shayne Carter’s back-pages special Last Train to Brockville at the same venue on May 14.

I had a chat to his manager last night and hopefully we’ll have some ticket giveaways and a guest…

Russell Brown

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:48:06 +1200

damn ..must learn to embed properly

I fixed it — you need just the URL of the clip.

Richard Kyle

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:42:34 +1200

For the back drop and Nick’s suit …but hey the song is a beaut too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQwr7OnPKH8

damn ..must learn to embed properly

recordari

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:29:43 +1200

I think it is worth mentioning that David Kilgour appears to be one of, if not the, busiest boys in New Zealand music at the moment. Last month’s Kings Arms concert was pretty much the thing of legends (see below) and then there’s the previously covered [[http://www.undertheradar.co.nz/utr/more/NID/3351/Album-Preview-David-Kilgour-and-The-Heavy-Eights—Left-By-Soft.utr|DK & the Heavy Eights…

Public Address

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:29:42 +1200

Discussion from blog post.