Posts by Simon Grigg
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Hi Russell,
What a wonderful piece. I lost my grandmother just before Xmas whilst I was living in Sydney 27 years ago. She was a wonderful, strong woman, and like you I didn't get the chance to say good-bye.All the best of the season to you and your family from Sanur Beach (where NZ doesn't seem quite so far away now thanks to this forum...I might be a few thousand kms away but, like some others on here I guess I'm always a New Zealander)
Merry Xmas
Simon
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A few weeks after I went back to London I discovered that Simon Laan was selling Housequake t-shirts ...
Now why does that not surprise me....
The House Party single, on Southside, "Dangerous Love" is a total classic though. It sold nothing, got no support, so Murray Cammick gve me about fifty which I proceeded to hand out to every touring DJ over the years. Norman Jay played it several times on the radio and still rates it, and its been mentioned more than a few times in the press abroad as a "rare groove". It got a rave in Urb at one stage too.
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railway station?
no The Powerstation. The Railway Stn was Across The Tracks I think...put on by Grant Fell, Roger Perry and a few others...and there was another called Unity.
The first dance parties in AK were a couple put on by Peter Urlich and Mark Phillips,in conjunction with Joseph from VBG, in a couple of old warehouses. Both got closed by the cops. Russell was involved in the first legal one, at the Powerstation
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Che mate, it wasn't really disco. We'll have to get you out dancing sometime. You can dance, can't you?
nah, bugger it, it was and is disco...with machines...its just that disco, the real stuff (not the Bee Gees, John Travolta, Grease stuff....that wasn't disco..the real stuff was the black urban dance music) went back to the gay clubs for a few years...it never went away, it simply mutated in Chicago and Detroit
When we first started playing house records in 86/87 at The Asylum, disco was a badge of honour.
Which brings back fuzzy memories of that huge dance party you put on in 88 or 89, Russell...that was a hell of a night....
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It bugs me a lot that there's so much formal and informal knowledge available and no institutional vision for capturing it.
on a similar slant, an approach to the government', via a couple of channels for an audio library of New Zealand master tapes and the like was soundly rebuffed by the present government two years ago.
That these are disappearing at an alarming rate is of great concern to me. For example, virtually everything recorded for Phonogram / Polygram / Phillips / CBS prior to 1985 was tossed into Wellington harbour when the pressing plant was closed and they moved to AK. Similarly most of the independent label mastesr eventually disappear, or in the case of tape, disintegrate. I've transfered most of mine to digital but it still sits in a cupboard at my parents, although I have reels of 24 trick masters rescued from closing recording studios etc that have never been transfered.
We are, slowing...actually not that slowly, losing this part of our heritage.
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Or perhaps she's got lifetime free downloads from the iTunes store as a kickback?
don't forget its Xmas party season....you don't want to be the one not invited to the RIANZ party.
Actually that's not fair..I think Judith, who has, in my experience over many years, fairly strong ethics, is doing, in this case, the wrong thing, for the right reasons.
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And here is an ironic giggle. NZ 's official tourism web site still has FN listed as with Warners in Newton, as per the time of their fairly disastrous initial liaison with the company back in the eighties. The PO Box and the fax number are WEA's
Since 1981 the typically New Zealand sound of bands such as The Verlaines, The Chills, The Clean, The Headless Chickens, Straitjacket Fits and Chris Knox have been taken to the world by independent record label Flying Nun. Flying Nun was formed by Roger Shepherd in Christchurch, in typical kiwi DIY (Do It Yourself) fashion. The label’s second release was the single ‘Tally Ho’ by The Clean,.......snip...... When CD technology began, Flying Nun teamed up with WEA records to enter the digital age and the record company is still going strong today, .... Flying Nun is now based in Auckland, but its heart remains in Christchurch and Dunedin.
Further InformationFlying Nun Records
PO Box 677
Auckland
New Zealand
Fax +64 9 376 1859And I guess Doug Hood and John Pitcairn are still down the hall...
How odd...
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Illegal in the US and several Australian states, and not that many other places, I think. Mr Bowden has done quite well producing BZP for export.
legal here in Indonesia and you know how they treat drugs. You could import a boogie board bag full of party pills without any problem.
I think, but could be wrong, even Singapore, the island where you can only enjoy yourself if you have a permit, hasn't banned them.
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no...its all yours Russell...it will cost you a link to my blog on your site :)
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One of the problems that's come up with the blanket performance fee across all media types is that it would mean the porn industry getting most of the money
Ha, ha, I guess so. But that said, it is, in some form the only way forward. The collection and distribution agencies are already there, and the move from the treatment of the song as a firm sale to a performance is in some ways inevitable.
Peter Jenner, one of the wisest men in the music industry for decades, is absolutely right in this. The mindest that RIAA and the likes of RIANZ have, that this is all about sales, and sales lost, has to change, its outdated and doesn't work anymore...and it won't in the future. This is about performance of a recorded work which has always been covered by levies and fees.
Its ironic that the digital revolution has in some ways turned the clock back 70 or 80 years to the era when the performance royalty ruled.