Posts by Simon Grigg
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Not a bad idea, eh?
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all this Flying Nun speculation may be neither here nor there if Warner's stock price continues its downward spiral, and there seems little to stop it. Speculation seems rife in NY right now that deals are already being talked.
Bye Bye WMG seems the likely outcome. Somebody will pick up the choice bits and chances are it won't be a record company, or even someone in the record industry, although I guess Apple, Amazon and Microsoft must be in the running.
The upside will be that whoever it will likely bang much of it online everywhere for an easy return, DRM free. The downside is that they are unlikely to care much for obscure corners of the vast catalogue from NZ.
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Given the damage suffered in the subcontinent from the boxing day quake and resulting wave a few years ago, 'major damage' is a pretty relative term.
Having just got back from Jogja, my thoughts exactly. A year and a half out from that one (some 6000 dead and 1.5 million homeless) large parts of the poorer parts of the city remain either partially rebuilt or not at all.
Al that aside its still quite something to see how the world's biggest Muslim nation (which, its worth noting, also includes some 25 million 'Kristen') embraces Christmas. I guess they just like holidays.
Merry Xmas from Expatria.....
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Just a wee correction, The Newmatics track is simply Broadcast..the EP was called Broadcast OR..which meant Broadcast Our Record, because in those days, nobody would!
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I was only a 13-year-old Form 2 student at Gisborne Intermediate in '81, but I remember the tour extremely vividly
This thread kinda ties together. My tour was spent on the Screaming Blamatic Roadshow (**Screaming** Meemees, Blam Blam Blam, New matic s) and we followed the tour up and down the country. We found ourselves in Molesworth St (thanks to the direction of Geoff Ludbrook from punk revivalists, Riot 111) after a 17 hour drive from Dunedin and thence to Mt Eden. I received a hiding from a farmer's son at Lincoln because I tried to stop him hitting Tim Blam for wearing HART badge (and was told later I took it like a man).
Memories.....
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Diatribe were indeed on Banana Dominion. They made lots of comps including http://www.discogs.com/release/684642
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Other countries have done this, Canada for example, so the technology is out there.
third world Bali has just done this, and where no sewers are available they just ploughed ahead and dug. The whole island is now covered in a fibre network
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Cheers Simon.
A pleasure. It was great to finally get that re- mastered and out on CD (with thanks to Dylan Pellett and Jonathan Hughes at FMR) in 2003. Jerry Wise at Festival banged the original vinyl on CD in 1990 or so without talking to me and it was shocking in every way..and sold at twice the price of the vinyl.
Working towards a Propeller singles collection with Class Of 81 as a bonus disc (I get at least one email a week asking for it) for mid next year.
Doh! Sorry Simon, I hastily glanced at the cd to answer Stephen's art-work, etc, question and quickly jumped to a conclusion as after "P & C 1993" on the actual disc it says "Flying Nun." My bad.
The irony is that my partner in that CD release of the compilation is now Edgar Bronfmann..something went askew along the way.
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I've got a vinyl version of AK79. I bought it in about '91 or so, for what was then the bargain price of $35. About the same time, Records Records here in Dunedin sold two copies for $50 each.
About six months later, Flying Nun re-issued it on cd with umpteen extra tracks, sleeve notes, etc.
On the cd, tracks 4 to 15 are the original lp tracks, the rest are the extras.humph...Propeller and Flying Nun issued it together. It was really my baby and took months of tracking down tapes, redoing the sleeve etc. I had to remix the Suburban Reps Megaton (and the previously unreleased SR's track whatever it is) from the original 4 track unmixed tape I had.
The story is here if you are interested
The funny thing is I was going through things last month in Auckland and I came across a copy of the Flying Nun Saucer's comp and looked inside to find a copy of the vinyl of AK79. I have a couple of AK79s so i looked inside and found the FN vinyl in one. I remember swapping them in 92 when we sent the AK79 cover off for scanning for the sleeve. It took 15 years but they went home.
The original vinyl did have an inner sleeve with track and artist details but its all on the CD too
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courtesy of the edit by the, ahh, editor, the line
Don't cha hate it when this happens.
no longer makes sense.
Hmm... maybe the time is right for a vinyl reissue? he says thoughtfully.
Or perhaps not, the sleeve made every one of those a financial trainwreck