Public Address | Cafe | Random Play: It's Kiwi music, but not as we know it Jim. https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Tim Michie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=222119#post222119 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=222119#post222119 Blue Smoke awarded x 3 ]]> Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:38:33 +1200 Just thinking https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=187074#post187074 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=187074#post187074 Sun, 24 Oct 2010 11:50:15 +1300 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=187072#post187072 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=187072#post187072 Jason Kerrison did bloody good. I've never been into OpShop but they supported Simply Red last Sunday, and I have to say that they were very good. Jason Kerrison was a great showman, and I have to say that a lot of the 12000 people (that appears to be the… ]]> Sun, 24 Oct 2010 11:39:04 +1300 Just thinking https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=187071#post187071 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=187071#post187071 Went to Band Together in Hagley Park yesterday.

It was great!

Chur to the Chur – was the T-shirt of the day.

Left the whiskey at home and didn't see much alky or dope, a bit but not much.

Really well run, oh and the bands were great. Kids having…

]]> Sun, 24 Oct 2010 11:32:58 +1300 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184365#post184365 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184365#post184365 Blam Blam Blam – There Is No Recession in NZ
Best viewed on a Giant Plasma Telescreen (TM) near you. Power station sold separately.

]]> Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:05:52 +1300 andin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184357#post184357 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184357#post184357

Ian Morris dies in Napier

Wow I liked him the best of Th'Dudes. Sad
He was the only one who stood with me in an unprovoked attack while on tour, some years ago.

A question
Anyone ever hear a Nun song "What the Fuck's He Going on About"
I think…

]]> Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:27:26 +1300 philipmatthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184352#post184352 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184352#post184352 Always liked this clip ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b7Z4GWClgk

]]> Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:44:08 +1300 philipmatthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184350#post184350 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184350#post184350 Forever Monday Morning
A catchy tune about a breakfast TV host who is forced to relive his moment of greatest public ignominy, again and again and again.

The Screwtop Letters
Shihad's CS Lewis-inspired concept album.

I Go Mild
The Bats pen a campaign tune for Phil Goff in 2011. Sadly,…

]]> Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:32:18 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184349#post184349 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184349#post184349 On a serious note
Kiwi music won't be the same after
the sad news that Tony Parker just posted
R.I.P. Tex – Ian Morris dies in Napier

]]> Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:27:59 +1300 philipmatthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184330#post184330 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184330#post184330 Cistern Virtue
Long before Chris Knox and Tiki Taane, Emma Paki sold her song to advertising — in this case, a short-lived toilet cleaner campaign.

Peking Man Alone
The Urliches rewrite John Mulgan's nationalist classic as an 80s rock opera. Margaret Urlich's follow-up attempt to form a Flying Nun-covering all-girl…

]]> Fri, 08 Oct 2010 10:03:00 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184313#post184313 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184313#post184313 bloody aftershocks
– a couple over mag4 got me up early today...
but they dislodged a few other songs, such as:

Stoned Euphonium
Human Instinct with Don McGlashan

Funny Boys
Flight of the Rubiconchords – all acting up a storm...

and some local covers of kiwi
and overseas songs, like:…

]]> Fri, 08 Oct 2010 08:48:45 +1300 Amy Gale https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184302#post184302 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184302#post184302 The Exponents: Airways Pies

Why should railway pies get all the press?

]]> Fri, 08 Oct 2010 06:30:03 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184288#post184288 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184288#post184288

The Clean's more boring unreleased early single

FN000

]]> Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:27:51 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184287#post184287 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184287#post184287 Gutter Bloke
by Paul Henry & Gray Ambrosia

Oil! Oil! Oil!
No Tag's slick reworking of their 1982 classic

12" of Hard Fish
Give the world the finger with Flesh D-Vice's
Cod-like debut release
(okay not a song per se...)

Subversive Free Radicals
If you are into the Void, and Roger,…

]]> Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:16:48 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184282#post184282 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184282#post184282 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 20:59:10 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184271#post184271 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184271#post184271 Blues Smoko
– by everyone's favourite Mammal, Rick Bryant

ToTally Ho Hum
– The Clean's more boring unreleased early single...

Beam Eye Friend
– Sneaky Feelings song about plucking motes from mates

Trouble with Pee
– Sneaky Feelings constipatedly skip through the alphabet (missing elemeno)

Heavenly Hip Hop Pit
-…

]]> Thu, 07 Oct 2010 19:25:15 +1300 Kyle Matthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184194#post184194 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184194#post184194 What ever happened to tracing. Jordan Luck reminiscing about the olden days before photocopiers made things so much easier. ]]> Thu, 07 Oct 2010 14:25:47 +1300 Robyn Gallagher https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184175#post184175 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184175#post184175 The Topp Twins, Untouchable Grills An early public service song promoting barbecue safety, featuring a 12-minute yodelling solo/fry-up. Jools and Lynda performed this on an ACC-sponsored tour of motorcamps in the early 1980s.

DD Smash, Devil You Grow A controversial song commissioned by Watties to make it "uncool" to grow…

]]> Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:48:26 +1300 James Littlewood* https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184164#post184164 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184164#post184164 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:02:32 +1300 James Littlewood* https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184162#post184162 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184162#post184162 The Gordons: Aspic and Ham
It's all about think pig in the 80s.

]]> Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:59:02 +1300 Tim Michie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184144#post184144 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184144#post184144 The Knobs – Culture (Ministry of Arts and) remix

When the Cat's Been Spayed – Black Billy TK

Pajama Party – Fetus Percussions

Satelitte Spies – Why Hope I?

]]> Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:28:09 +1300 ange wither https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184134#post184134 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184134#post184134 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:19:12 +1300 Tim Michie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184121#post184121 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184121#post184121 Great news, I've been looking forward to Blue Smoke ever since it was mentioned on RNZ especially for the ilk of Blue Smoke and its era.

Bring on a rediscovery of many a lost song..!

]]> Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:09:32 +1300 JP Hansen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184109#post184109 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184109#post184109 Tim Finn – Barry's Haka – The delightful tale of the elder Finn's classmate Barry. He was prone to stop and perform a Haka every time the school notices were read out and Te Awamutu primary teams had won a weekend sporting fixture. Years later when Tim brought The Herbs… ]]> Thu, 07 Oct 2010 11:54:17 +1300 3410 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184055#post184055 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184055#post184055

Phil Judd and the Bats.

A great group, they were.

]]> Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:13:02 +1300 Paul Campbell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184049#post184049 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184049#post184049 Salmonella Dub: "On the chemical make up of poorly made LSD samples and resulting public uproar and confusion" (Biochemistry Letters Apr 1993)

Before their success as a dub-step band this team of talented biochemistry researchers were well on their way to a Nobel, however an unfortunate food poisoning incident resulted…

]]> Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:00:38 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184048#post184048 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-its-kiwi-music-but-not-as-we/?p=184048#post184048 Discussion from blog post.

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