Posts by Simon Grigg
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yeech: through at us ==> threw at us
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Hard News: Friday Music: More Finding, in reply to DexterX,
In the British Punk Doco I like how Mick Jones makes a point of saying he speaks of what it “it” was for “him” and what "he" was watning to do and not anyone else. His point is my point.
If any band embraced disco it was The Clash. Same with Talking Heads...
The renascence of live music in my viewfinder through what I saw at local halls, pubs and small gritty inner city cafes was bought about by the advent of Punk Rock and the flourishing of local bands.
Dunno - I wasn't there.... :)
Mostly I think you're confusing the aftermath of the embrace by the mainstream of the commercialisation of the black/gay dance movement that is more correctly called disco with its original form as above.
The movement was in its own way as fiercely radical as anything punk through at us in its pre-77, pre-Sat Night Fever phase. And the influence of the original disco pioneers is still as strong today as it was when they were inventing the future in the mid 70s.
We had to go outside it was disturbing to others and me. Lines of people all doing the same moves. My thoughts then, there and now - brain-dead mass conformity
TBH that sounds like the Auckland punk scene after about late 1978.
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Hard News: Friday Music: More Finding, in reply to DexterX,
The gift Punk Rock gave the world was that it killed Disco
Wot Russell said, plus punk didn't kill disco.
What killed disco was overkill, countless bandwagon jumpers coupled with a good old fashioned wave of racism in the United States where punk wasn't even a glimmer in the mainstream.
Effectively Saturday Night Fever and Grease killed disco and handed the US radio market back to the pomp rockers.
Punk, on the other hand, absorbed much of it and became post-punk, no-wave etc. And then of course disco (the real stuff, not the Andy Gibb/Barbra Streisand variety) gave us hip hop, house and techno.... and the future.
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We have news: Alan (Blondies - we used to all drink Irish coffees there late at night in those pre-licensed days if you recall) Lindley tells me he moved to Brighton UK after Quays and hasn't be heard of since....
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Hard News: Friday Music: More Finding, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I asked that question on Facebook, nobody knows. Went back across the bridge?
I was more an Alms For Children fan tbh - that EP on Ratbag's label was the biz.
Harry may know where Gary is.
Somebody else suggested Bob Sutton for that - makes sense.
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Hard News: Friday Music: More Finding, in reply to Russell Brown,
presumably at Avalon.
Yep, it looks to be, and I'd (wildly) guess it was a Brent Hansen vid.
Making a video at Avalon would usually consist of standing around a bit of the Close to Home or Glide Time set and miming for an hour or so. When you you'd done that they say please go home (feel free to grab a pie from the canteen on your way out) and we'll throw some awful effects on the images, edit off the beat and then claim we own all rights.
Then it kinda came right (aside from the rights bit which is still not 100% sorted) and for while you had several directors including Simon Morris, Peter Blake and Brent who kinda got it. We even managed to get location videos made which was unheard of before.
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Hard News: Friday Music: More Finding, in reply to Hebe,
The clips don't do the rooted-to-the-spot sonic experience.
No they don't come at all close - and neither really do the Toy Love clips (unless my memory is skewered) or the recent live album.
For all that, I'm thrilled we have both (and I know there's a lot more like that out there - I've got a bunch of stuff which needs to be transferred at some stage and there's a heap more in private archives that I know of).
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Hard News: Friday Music: More Finding, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
This Sporting Life at the Rumba Bar 1982
Wow - just wow. I had no idea that was up there. Gary Rodent!
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Hard News: Friday Music: More Finding, in reply to Greg Wood,
Meantime, up here in Singapore: no iTunes Music Store, no Apple TV on the shelves - in case someone's Aunty has a VHS recorder, apparently.
Each of the SEA territories has it's own local stores, all licensed but with local pricing. Lets face it, nobody up here is going to pay $18 for an album....
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There's a brilliant period interview in Punk Britannia where Wilko Johnson declares that rock 'n' roll isn't "songs about hobbits".
Wilko is absolutely great in that (as he always was) but I was taken aback by how he's aged (especially since the rest of us haven't at all).
I was please to see how coherent Adam Ant was too.