Posts by Simon Grigg
Last ←Newer Page 1 2 3 4 5 Older→ First
-
Don't cha hate it when this happens.
One of those sold to some crazy Dutch guy for US$200 in Australia. I get these people emailing me from all over the world after all sorts of things..if only I'd kept a box or 5.
S'funny how it all went around the world. A year or two ago Sylvio Soprano (the Brooce Springsteen one) went into Real Groovy to find Kerry Buchanan..he was a fan of The Terrorways and AK79
-
This item closed without being won
what, and you are surprised??? Who in gods name would put up $3 bucks for that.................
-
Australian soil is only a boat ride away from Indonesia.
agreed, but generally the asylum seekers, who don't seem to be in vast numbers, are from further afield. Australia is far more obsessed with Indonesia than the other way around and there seems little desire here to migrate south (the odd fisherman, and Papuan separatist excepted), with Malaysia and Singapore (with ethnic, language and religious affinity) being far more enticing to any Indonesian emigree.
That obsession included the spending of billions in defense in the NT for an enemy who was never going to come, or had any desire to come.
Quite odd really.
-
bah, D, you survived Harry The Bastard in NYC..Kabul is a cakewalk....
-
My nomination for dodgiest: the original name of Fetus Productions was Scraping Fetus Off The Wheel.
Different band, Rob, caused some confusion at the time though.
-
Its very much a fanzine and I admire the passion but have to make em down big time on the personal slant aspect of their retelling of history.
See that what I love about it. They were VERY opinionated times. You loved or hated everything, no nice middle ground. It reflects that. They do miss swathes but for every thing they miss they also toss up something that makes me go I forgot that.
Then again they get lots wrong. There are facts in various issues that are just plain incorrect. And The Features story could've done with a James Pinker interview as he was a powerful force in the band, instead it became just a Jed story (not that I'm belittling Jed, he deserves his own story, but The Features was more than than just him).
And the Chch story would have benefited from a scalpel excising 70% of it. But at least people are getting it down and I'd rather see the snarl of the era down as well as the cold facts.
There are a couple of quite reasonable toy love gigs availabel, and I've got a pretty decent screaming mee mees gig with a bunch of unreleased tracks (did I send you a copy of that yet simon?)
No, and I'd love to hear it. I've 20 minutes of good quality live video of the Meemees at Brown Trout Festival, Jan 83. It's mostly unrecorded tracks and is going well until a bottle hits Tony and he walks off. The milling mob members at the front are pretty threatening.
I've got a reel of the Meemees and Newmatics at Mainstreet early 1981 (Class of 81 gig) too, recorded by Radio B for broadcast. I guess it should get a release some day, it's good enough
I've also got a few Toy Love gigs, but none of them convey what it was really like..simple audio never can.
-
AK79? (Simon, any progress on the debacle you outlined on the Psecret list?)
yes..today actually, I'm told....but will wait and see
Anyone with an interest in post-punk in NZ owes it to themselves to get a look at Andrew Schmidt's new issue of Mysterex (#4).
Mysterex is an incredible piece of documentation and is a must read IMO. I'm not sure if I have exactly the same memory of some of the things as they appear in there (not sure if anyone does..they were muddled times) but Andrew is doing a hell of a fine thing in getting it all down.
The Flying Nun story is the current issue is pure gold, I just wish someone had been brave enough to put a name to it. I'm not sure if I agree totally with large parts of it, but like Grant's book, he's putting in black and white what was quite often said, but rather quietly.
And since we are patting backs.. http://www.failsaferecords.com is a mighty thing, documenting the Chch scene and beyond. I love passion like this.
-
PS: You've got the weekend to get your submissions in for the five copies of Soundtrack. After that, it's Word of the Year time ...
Ha...just got an offer of a freebie from Grant...made my day
Alms for children might have had a good post punk album in them. that single was pretty good and not really like their later band this sporting life.
This Sporting Life didn't have the snarl of AFC. I would've killed for a Herco Pilots album. I still love the singles.
Spelling Mistakes...dunno if I'd have gone for more than a series of killer singles with a hits collection to pull them together. They would've been a perfect iTunes type act..
The real shame for a lot of those acts is that their live acts are lost forever in those pre digital days. Now every shitty band gets it's live act released on DVD and it exists in perpetuity. The will never be any real document of just how good Toy Love or The Gordons were live, despite the odd surviving snippets.
Or then again, how bad (Suburban Reptiles, Swingers and, yes, The Gordons again) could be on a rough night
-
Skeptics..missing in action, the first EP, 6 tracks, the master being stolen from the Propeller offices and never appeared again. A true NZ rock'roll mystery.
-
Ok I'll add Freebass to that...long lost early jazz-punk (their live album doesn't count)
Oh, and the Features...we actually recorded another eight tracks for an album but they were never mixed. I gave the tapes to Jed a couple of years back and I think its underway.
But if you wanna go back that far...Suburban Reptiles (part recorded but never released but missing), Marching Girls...