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Mon, 26 Nov 2012 02:05:02 +1300

Discussion from blog post.

Robyn Gallagher

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 02:05:02 +1300

Fave thing – the audience at the Screaming Meemees gig, including the alarmed-looking punk chick and the very sweaty man in a suit. These are quality photos. Thanks for sharing them, Murray!

Lilith __

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 07:57:37 +1300

What an amazing collection! Thank you for sharing it.

Russell Brown

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:00:24 +1300

Siouxsie the punk was "pretty" at the low-key motel press conference.

I did that interview, one of my first as deputy editor of RIU. She was nice and quite forthcoming, as was Steve Severin.

Robert Smith was guesting on guitar for that tour and I talked to him too, but?

JacksonP

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:23:55 +1300

The Screaming Blamatics tour
If this is the tour they played the all ages at Whakatane Memorial Hall, then that was pretty much my first gig, at the ripe old age of 13. Good to have older siblings with taste, who didn't mind me tagging along.

andin

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:39:52 +1300

Great pics Murray. Are there more?
I learnt that the music business was a hard grind
Funny I havent heard Rachel warn the contestants on that piece of shit show about this yet. But one look at Ali C and you can tell those long hours waiting around...... well. Or?

Russell Brown

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 09:18:59 +1300

Note a Mr S Grigg in that Screaming Blamatics tour pic.

Aidan

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 11:40:49 +1300

the very sweaty man in a suit.

Rhys Darby surely!

(clearly he is very well preserved)

Awesome pics.

I love

.. the energy and Knox/audidence rapport in the first shot
.. the "butter wouldn't melt" expression on Graham Brazier's face
.. the way Bob Marley is looking right at me

Paul James Taylor

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:06:19 +1300

These are magnificent. I have personal fave that's not here – (I think it's one of Murray's) – the portrait of the Meemees that was a RIU cover, taken in front of the Farmers Santa. For me, an iconic shot of NZ rock n roll.

Simon Grigg

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 18:23:01 +1300

Note a Mr S Grigg in that Screaming Blamatics tour pic.

Forgotten Mo took that! It was unbelievably cold if memory serves. However, it got waaayyy colder as we drove south without adequate heating in the vans.

As we all know these are but a minute fraction of the extraordinary?

JacksonP

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:03:11 +1300

I thought more than just Meemees, and did see The Newmatics. But they also played Ohope hall around then, I think. 30+ years is a long time ago. ;-)

Graham Dunster

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:05:06 +1300

Aaah, the NZ telephone with the reversed dial.

FletcherB

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:24:25 +1300

Rumour has it, this was to avoid paying royalties to British Telecom (or whatever it's pre-cursor was named)?

Janet Dawes

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:21:23 +1300

I am not in Auckland but if I was, I'd be at the ACA Gallery on Sunday. Will some one record it, and post it for the rest of us? Murray?

kiwicmc

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:21:18 +1300

Hey Murray, looking at these photos it occurred to me that I wanted to thank you for your sterling work with Land of the Good Groove at Zanzibar – those nights remain, however many years later, some of my fondest memories. You reckoned we couldn't dance to Shake by Otis?

Jackie Clark

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 08:16:08 +1300

Thank you for sharing those beautiful photos with us, Murray. I particularly like the one of Graham. I never knew him in those days, but I know him well now. He was a beautiful young man.