Posts by Mike O'Connell
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Hard News: Friday Music: Artists gonna…, in reply to Hebe,
Look forward to seeing those LEDs live again sometime soon. BTW, while on Chch music, RIP Stephen McIntyre, former Chch-based musician who died recently in Auckland. He was in early 80s Flying Nun combo Ballon D'Essai and was for a time in Blair Parkes' All Fall Down.
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Capture: Going LA LA at Auckland Town Hall, in reply to JacksonP,
I went la la in Chch the week earlier - at the fabulous St Michael's wooden church. But no photos and alas, no organ, but everything else was right there in perfect measure. The audiences in the N Hemisphere are in for a real treat>
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Love the Home Brew video. Not one I'd show my mother or maiden aunt though!
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Aah, who can ever forget the Double Happys' magic...and Opossom video is pretty cool - I had visions of Liquid Sky, the cult 80's sci-fi movie with the miniature flying saucer and the invisible aliens (looking for heroin as it happens!). Opossom set to play two shows in Chch/Lyttelton today / tomorrow btw.
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My favourite Flying Nun moment…when 6 of us went from Christchurch one night in 1985 in a Vauxhall Victor down to a back blocks booze barn in AshVegas to see The Chills - when the Phillipps, Moore, Allison and Haig lineup was in full flight. These were the days of ‘Juicy Creaming Soda’, ‘Silhouette’, and many more gems that never made it to vinyl. Well, it took some prompting to get action from the leaden-footed locals – they were interested but introverted. I enquired of Terry Moore can you play ‘Shake Your Shoes to the Scorpions’? His gobsmacked response ‘How on earth do you know that one’? The Chills obliged and we 6 got our shoes shaking …and that was the cue, the locals lowered their collective carapace and put the sting into a great night!