Public Address | Cafe | Speaker: Peter Jefferies: Time and the singular man

Campbell Walker

Sat, 12 Jul 2014 17:58:26 +1200

Thanks Mark. Yeah, I have to say I have no especial fondness for Capital Times – I was a longtime City Voice contributor, and felt it was a much more meaningful project to be part of... and never really appreciated CapTimes' fairly hardball tactics in terms of advertisers, which did…

Mark Amery

Sat, 12 Jul 2014 05:02:29 +1200

Beautiful piece from Campbell, and kinda interesting how influenced we have all been by Peter J! The connection with Capital Times? Well I guess what's interesting about the reunion idea is that we weren't there together – i.e. its more about finding one of the few slender vehicles for being…

Don Reid

Fri, 11 Jul 2014 16:14:11 +1200

I remember drinking at a neon monstrosity on the corner of Kent Tce and Majoribanks St – the ground floor of the Clemenger Ad agency I think. Plastic palm trees and blue cocktails – just the place for arts reporters who wished they were tough.

Renee Jones

Fri, 11 Jul 2014 15:22:57 +1200

That is a really interesting read. People might like to know that Peter Jefferies will be visiting my radio show tomorrow for a chat – and he'll be bringing his band and playing a song! Very exciting!!! It'll be around 3pm Saturday, on 95bFM.

Alan Perrott

Fri, 11 Jul 2014 15:16:23 +1200

sounds like a mighty night to me.

philipmatthews

Fri, 11 Jul 2014 15:10:40 +1200

We'll need Braunias, Paul Shannon, Simon Vita, Dan Slevin, Mark Amery, David Cohen, Bronwyn Trudgeon ...

Alan Perrott

Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:49:21 +1200

nice, it's a Capital Times reunion. which pub are we meeting in?

Grant McDougall

Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:32:29 +1200

Seeing Peter solo and drumming for Cyclops around Dunedin in the late '80s and early '90s was one hell of a privilege – he always delivered.

He was one of the first musicians I met down here in early '89. At a party at Bob Scott's place I drunkenly told…

Campbell Walker

Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:30:37 +1200

Yes that's great! And yes, the wayward influence on Chris that can no doubt be traced all the way through to the Headless Chickens...

Campbell Walker

Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:24:27 +1200

Hi Paul, cheers, I was at a bunch of those gigs too. I remember talking to Alastair at Palmerston as well – I bought a copy of the very short, very beautiful Cluster 7" off him in exchange for a double whisky, at his request ($5). The piano-drum turned up…

Russell Brown

Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:09:31 +1200

I finally have a moment to tell the story. Yes, I helped put Amanda Palmer in touch with Peter Jefferies.

She and I were both part of Webstock in 2012 and the moment I arrived at the speakers' dinner the night before the conference, Keith Bolland rushed up to me…

Campbell Walker

Fri, 11 Jul 2014 13:38:18 +1200

Hey Diane! Yeah, Peter said he'd talked to you during the interregnum. We talked about the possibilities of looking again at what we had shot sometime, so there are conversations to be had...

Hmmm, I think I still find introspective self-interrogation pretty rewarding at times too, but I see your…

Paul Rowe

Fri, 11 Jul 2014 12:49:59 +1200

Thanks for this reminiscence and reminder about such a great musician, and thanks to Peter for getting back on the performing horse.

My brief Xpressway period coincided with what seems to be one of Peter's most active times as a performer, back in the mid 90s. I saw him play…

philipmatthews

Fri, 11 Jul 2014 11:23:33 +1200

Feels like it was only yesterday.

Don Reid

Fri, 11 Jul 2014 11:18:17 +1200

Wonderful piece, thanks for writing. Peter (and Graeme)'s music has been seriously undervalued for 30 years. Before I left NZ in April I did my bit with a TKP song in the 'Best Song Ever' segment of Jim Mora's RNZ show. But it's great to hear Peter's later work also.…

Diane McAllen

Fri, 11 Jul 2014 08:30:15 +1200

Great to hear that Peter Jefferies performing again. Like you, Campbell, I often listen to his songs. Fantastic that Amanda Palmer has had such an influence on persuading him to get on stage again – not an easy feat I imagine. I have often wondered whether his new life -…

Campbell Walker

Thu, 10 Jul 2014 23:40:19 +1200

Thanks Philip. Been a while since I was writing for you at Capital Times... and delivering the damn thing some weeks too.

Barnard

Thu, 10 Jul 2014 21:25:38 +1200

Thanks Campbell, lovely piece.

Great to see Peter back playing, & I hope he makes it to Wellington at some point.

philipmatthews

Thu, 10 Jul 2014 17:17:11 +1200

Really great piece, Campbell.

Public Address

Thu, 10 Jul 2014 17:17:11 +1200

Discussion from blog post.