Posts by Russell Brown

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  • Flying Nun Moments,

    Yes indeedy, Roger himself for one. I'm sure I was involved in holding him upright for the last quarter of a Canterbury Ranfurly Shield match on the terraces at Lancaster Park in 1984.

    There's a good story about Roger and Bill Direen attending a test match at the Park, and Bill - literate intellectual that he is - spending the game loudly abusing the French referee, in French. Classy.

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  • Speaker: Funny, sexy and ours,

    "Christ The Clean were a brilliant band"

    Goodness, that sentence really, really, really needs a comma.

    Nah. I thought about it when I was editing, but sometimes leaving out the comma gives you a certain punch. Try and imagine Brian Turner enunciating it as an opening line ;-)

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  • OnPoint: Who's the real Dick, then?,

    0.5% of the population vote for an arbitrarily allocated portion of an 800-member Election Committee which has no subsequent responsibilities or means of accountability to its constituents which then elects the head of government which has no subsequent accountability to the Election Committee.

    Inspired! Diabolical! Stole the idea off Babylon 5!

    Jesus. Do you and Baker have nerd-offs or something?

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  • OnPoint: Who's the real Dick, then?,

    I suppose everyone from Coruscant looks the same to you.

    Next you'll be saying that all Hutts are criminals. Seriously bro, you shouldn't let a couple of bad apples taint the reputation of an entire people.

    Can't we all just get along? Is this what poor old Ben Kenobi died for?

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  • Flying Nun Moments,

    Which reminds me - why has noone produced a new school production or re-edit of Sierra Leone?? That would be HUGE.

    So far off topic. Sorry.

    Yes, I'm afraid it is, and you'll have to leave. These two large men will see you to the door ...

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  • Flying Nun Moments,

    The other scene that needs documenting is the eighties post punk electronic one. Andrew White, Tevor Reekie and myself all talked about it at some stage, going as far as doing a track listing.

    And a remix disc!? I do think a lot of that stuff would be well served by maybe polishing up some of the sounds and backing off some of the vocals. Especially the Body Electric - their recordings sound amazing, but they're a bit spoiled by the rather dated vocals.

    But I recall you once saying, Simon, that Alan Janssen wasn't interested in a remix project?

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  • Flying Nun Moments,

    This is nice. Radio NZ has Liisa Macmillan's Flying Nun documentary up in its entirety: with all the music in it:

    http://www.radionz.co.nz/nr/programmes/fnr

    I gather that Warners took the plunge and agreed to it going out with the music. great call.

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  • Does One News want to send Asians back?,

    Russell, don't do what Martin Crowe did and try to fiddle one down to 3rd man for his triple hundred and get caught behind.

    Slam it straight through the covers!

    I'm not sure if I ever played a shot backward of square on the off side that wasn't basically a rank edge. Although I did once play a matching-winning hand of 28 not out that included some brutal hooks and pulls ...

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  • Flying Nun Moments,

    Not strictly Flying Nun... but another gig that really stood out for me: Toy Love at the British in Lyttelton, in about 1979. The British had a reputation as a "rough" pub. But just for once, the usual crowd of sailors, wharfies and ship-girls looked quite respectable- compared to the Chch student/punks who took over the bar. And Toy Love were so tight and ferocious- song after song after song. No hystrionics- ONE short scorching guitar break the whole night.

    Ah, the British ... never saw Toy Love there (although I wish I had) but we used to go over and see the Androidss play there (the management would open the doors to the back alley when the cops came looking to bust under-age drinkers).Perfectly seamy, especially when they played 'Sister Ray'.

    One night, Iggy Pop was taken over to see the Androidss play there. He pronounced them "a real fun band". True story.

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  • OnPoint: Who's the real Dick, then?,

    Does "Jedi" count as both an occupation and a religion for census purposes?

    Damn. I'm going to be thinking about that all day now ...

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