Posts by Simon Grigg
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Didn't Scruff have that club?
That was later, after the Brat closed. The Brat was in the same place as The Foundry in 1986 was owned by Urlich and Philips, with myself spinning the records. I left to go to The Asylum, The Brat turned into Mantrap run by Daniel Barnes and a couple of others and Scruff took over the remnants for a while after that. In 87 it became The Playground which was me, Tom Sampson and Roger Perry (complete with the best DJ booth ever seen in NZ) and Le Bom, complete with Dean Martini Club, very dangerous, upstairs.
I'm not sure if it was the same trip to NZ (I was in London at the time) but courtesy of Sandra Bestall who was there here's a shot of Billy at Zanzibar. This was 1984.
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No, it was in 1985 I think, and the club was whatever club was occupying the floors under Toto at the time.
That would've been The Foundry them, a pretty heinous rawk club owned by Les 'Parnell' Harvey's family, and I think, run by Larry Morris (although I may be wrong about that last bit). You wouldn't want to be let in there.
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Jason
The Billy Idol story was, I think, a few years earlier, at Zanzibar, I'm really not sure but don't think it was us.
Funny, I had a request for a copy of The New Groove yesterday. I don't have a copy myself but it basically came about because I was given the catalogues of Talking Loud and London and told I could put together a comp. I'd talked to Gilles Peterson about it in 1994 and it went from there. We were, because of his say so, given access to various mixes that were supposed to be unavailable or compilations. I did a second volume, a double, which was about 50% local acts which did pretty well. I don't have one of those either....
I guess the band with Nathan was The Enforcers and the DJ would've been Manuel Bundy, as I don't think Freebass ever used one. I might be wrong though.
Incidentally, I've posted a track from that lost Freebass album here
I did enjoy Australian music culture as well but there wasn't much finesse to it at that time.
I went to Melbourne in early 88 to see James Brown. The support band were the excruciating Rockmelons, who were billed as Australia's hottest 'funk' band.
I mentally put them next to our "hottest 'funk' band", Ardijah...nuff said I think.
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Despite my years in student politics etc I've never been arrested or even cautioned. I was detained as a young fella when caught out applying the five-finger discount however...
I got bashed with a long baton once (although the police swore the whole incident never happened, that they were never there..those wags in the Team Policing Unit...)...does that count?
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I get completely different results from Google and Statcounter on my Blog. I have no idea why.
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if that is not evidence of the most lazy, bilious & dire exercise of a purely resentful imagination vastly divorced from all fact, fable, legend and tradition generating Culture then hey. see you in hell with Monty Python's Flying Circus, aye!
And you are living in what part of the nation to which I referred? Or are we making these claims from a warm and comfy room somewhere in god's own? Does it also serve as a self satisfying echo chamber? I guess so.
WHAT point?
that religion has never been used to control. You stated it..it was fairly easily shot down and the thread moved on.
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Seriously be happy when that lot die off, too.
There are more than enough replacements from the successive generations to keep the traditions of ignorance, suppression and intolerance that this lot call their wisdoms and teachings alive
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do be a good fellow and point me to at least some of your historical sources
Since the last time you wandered around this point it was flicked away with little effort by several people, be a good boy and do your own reading.
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I've just read through all 34 pages of this thread over the past two days, and I've found it both exhausting and one of the most enthralling threads on PAS ever.
If anything Tess, as polite as she may be, has underlined my distaste for the Catholic Church. The calm, often well argued face remains a front for what I regard as one of mankind's greater evils. The crimes of the recent years follow in a direct line from hundreds of years of years of pain, misery and the use of the church to control, often with violence a potentially unstable mass.
With the latter in mind I read a story on another forum recently (which I think was lifted from somewhere else):
A traveller arrived in a particluarly wretched Peruvian village and asked his guide where everyone was.
It's Sunday and they are in Church he said.
The traveller looked around and said 'But clearly the Church doesn't work'
But, said the guide 'They need to believe that someday it might'
Which had some relevance to me, in a very religious nation struck down by massive poverty in which the imams, many of whom are stupid old men, grossly out of touch (their national organisation tried to ban cellphone conversation between sexes this week after they issued a edict against Facebook last week) have a huge, often quite negative, voice.
But mostly I was just pissed off that someone, no matter how calm the voice, could tell me that my marriage was wrong, and, more, that the very right of others to do as I've done should be abolished by the state and marriage should only exist in her minority sect (a sect which has been a minority in the nation we derive our laws and common law from since 1540....the catholic view of how things should be has not held sway since then, far from the recent history she repeatedly claims, the Maori practice of marriage also being rather different to any Christian church).
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wicked bassline
We named the June night Take Me Back, after the Rhythmatic 12" of the same name on Warp in 1990. We'd had to stop playing it after we worked out that it was the massive subsonic bassline in that track, which was such an anthem that year, and the whoops it drew, that were drawing the noise complaints from the people a block and a street away on the other side of Queen St.