Posts by Mike O'Connell
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Getting back to the theme of this post, Penny Lane in Sydenham was absolutely humming yesterday. Armfuls of stuff, all vinyl half price (except DD's Diamond Dozen), heading out the door. Nice that the sleeve artists Scott Jackson and Sam Harrison happened to be on hand with Delaney during the signings.
I picked up a European pressing of Nina Hagen's Unbehagen. When I listened again to 'Herrmann hiess er' (Hermmann was his name), I thought, I've heard this before, and checked the archives of Radio With Pictures. The only opening title they appear to have is this later one ca 1984, Marginal Era's 'This Heaven. I was right - looking down the list of comments, 'Thee Trev Ov Palmerson North' (sic) noted the Nina Hagen sequence was his favourite
And from the same 'Era' (Fraserhead from The Joint, if you're tuning in) something that I thought was lost but captured by NZ On Screen is Iggy Pop's 'I'm Bored' filmed on his 1979 promotional visit.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Record Store…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Cool! BTW I couldn't help but notice the counter for your posts appears to have been 'stuck' at 5466 for while now.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Record Store…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
While I’m freeing old frozen photons – here’s a couple of shots of Naked Spots Dance
Keep freeing up those photons! NSD eh. Saw them at the '83 Punakaiki Festival - a bizarre night when they played, Two perhaps three mud or body painted topless dancers - very King Kong-Skull Island-esque - and as I write realising Fran Walsh later married Peter Jackson!
It was a prelude to the Stones and their set - Andrew Schmidt on Audioculture description matches my recollection:
“We want to be God,” guitarist Wayne Elsey told the indie masses at Punakaiki festival near Greymouth in April 1983, before chopping out “a stunning version of ‘Fad World’, crammed with guitar improvisation.
I note on the Three Blind Mice the live recordings from venues like Rhumba and Victoria Uni. I'm pretty sure Rex Visible (whose Not Really Anything, in an early noisy VU form also played) and David Merritt recorded many of the band sets including the Stones. Coz they played Fad World the following week on RDU when they both (for while) hosted what became Sheep Technique.
I don't know what happened to those recordings. And I don't think I've ever seen captured photons from that event - but perhaps someone somewhere does?
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Hard News: Friday Music: Record Store…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I get a sense that there might be more photos taken inside the Gresham than inside the Gladstone! I didn't realise Alister Parker was in the BC/DH.
BTW what was the camera Ian? One of those 'click and print' Instamatics? Many of my family's prints from that era came out with that infamous pinky-orangy hue.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Record Store…, in reply to Alan Perrott,
This is a great track, can't wait for the doco.I really dig Bombino from neighbouring Niger. He played at our WOMAD festival this year. Here's Tar Hani, live from, I think in his home town of Agadez:
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Hard News: Friday Music: Record Store…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Fall in Hole tour is legendary. Though a recording of the Mainstreet show, FiaH pretty well encapsulates the Canty. Uni Ballroom show too. I believe Chris Knox attended all the NZ dates and of course copped a lot of strife from MES for recording Mainstreet shows. Does anyone know if the Clean and This Sporting Life were also recorded? They we're a pretty damn good entree on both nights.
I picked up FiaH at Slowboat about 5 years ago. $90. But well worth it . I believe there was a second pressing so it may not be an original .
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Hard News: Friday Music: Record Store…, in reply to Kebabette,
Cheers! And in my previous post, I linked to Vicki's article, now online.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Record Store…, in reply to Peter Darlington,
I was in Nelson last Saturday, damn, out by a week... meanwhile there are indeed RSD events in Christchurch
Penny Lane in Sydenham will host Delaney Davidson (signing copies of his new vinyl release, Diamond Dozen - hopefully playing a small set too) before he jumps on plane headed for Southbound in Symonds St.
At Galaxy Records, Bad Evil (don't know them yet) will perform in-store and Dave Imlay will I gather be 'dusting off a treasure trove of rare and collectable records from his vault and adding them to the shelves of his boutique store.' Handily, The Darkroom next door will be open for ales to toast RSD. Cool!
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All the action's in the north - nothing I'm aware of in Chc :-( Penny Lane or Galaxy may host something but when I last checked there was nada on the radar. Whoa, that will be a treat in New Plymouth!
We're also supposed to be over May as NZ Music Month - but in May we're getting a range of events down this way including first off on May 1, Minisnap + Martin Phillipps playing a rare solo set at the main library. Get it in ya diaries for May 23 the Axemen and Dark Matter at the Darkroom
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Hard News: The other kind of phone tapping, in reply to Alfie,
I worked for a team of people in the late 80s who became privatised after the break up of of (Red Ken's (Livingstone) Greater London Council. While clearing out equipment from their former HQ, County Hall (on the Thames), had the privilege of roaming the vast spaces and corridors of CH, which still had oodles of dial phones connected - so made the most of it through the hot summer of '89.