Posts by Simon Grigg
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so I think the theory that the raid was timed as revenge for the internet pushback against the SOPA and PIPA bills in the US House and Senate respectively is dubious.
Agree, but I'd be more inclined to think that a push came from the fact that Universal, and by extension the RIAA, were made to look particularly stupid by the blowback from that video last year.
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Hard News: #BDOMemories, in reply to Jonathan Ganley,
No, not Andrew. Other B folk.
Back in those days everyone at B was called Andrew. It was compulsory.
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Hard News: #BDOMemories, in reply to DexterX,
Yep, I remember the fuss at the time. God knows who it was. I think at the time we had no idea who had caused it.
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Hard News: #BDOMemories, in reply to DexterX,
Do you remember the incident at the Takapuna Grammar School Ball or Dance??
I was there and I do remember that there was something but the details escape me all these years later.
You'll need to remind me.
At the Kings Ball the band got in huge trouble for smuggling in girlfriends - I remember that one.
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Hard News: #BDOMemories, in reply to DexterX,
He also played Logan Campbell on the 19th Jan 1985
I wasn't in NZ for that, but he also did the same show stopping trick in '77 (Oct 19th based on your link): he stopped the show, turned on the house lights, and insisted that the crowd behave before returning to the set.
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Hard News: #BDOMemories, in reply to DexterX,
Seeing The Angels guitar player bleeding profusely from a thrown can was more than bad - that he finished the show was remarkable.
I've got about 30 mins of The Screaming Meemees at Brown Trout Festival in Dannevirke, 83.
It would've been longer but Tony Drumm was hit hard by a flying beer bottle and we stopped the show. The culprit, a patched Mob member is clearly shown in the last seconds being targeted by the security. It then got uglier as we pulled the band off the stage as quickly as possible.
It was always an issue at many of the smaller festivals although mostly I don't remember it ever being a huge problem at Sweetwaters for most bands as the stage was simply too far from much of the crowd. Rather, it was an increasingly ugly crowd issue as hillsides pelted each in open warfare endlessly causing lots of blood and bruising.
The lighting towers were also primary targets.
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Hard News: #BDOMemories, in reply to DexterX,
Lou Reed played the Logan Campbell Centre and he had to stop the show and address the crowd to stop the can throwing.
Wasn't that the town hall? 1977 or 78?
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Hard News: #BDOMemories, in reply to Russell Brown,
A couple of other memories from that Sweetwaters ...
3. Steve Dab - hugely RIP - found the backstage booze tent. Went back with a stanley knife later that night and, slicing the canvas neatly, removed the management and media of the burden of having to drink it.
The image shows Steve with what may or may not be one of those cans in the company of Mark Newmatic and Rena Owen.
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Hard News: #BDOMemories, in reply to JacksonP,
Crowd-pleaser, 2008.
It's gonna be hard to beat that one, Jackson.
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Hard News: #BDOMemories, in reply to Russell Brown,
I’m not sure if Annabel and the other nice people at Virgin’s NZ office felt quite that privileged.
Especially when half way through the RTC press conference at the Barrycourt, Nick announced that they had a new EP due very shortly.
Annabel expressed surprise at having not been told of this by 4AD, and Nick told her - publicly - they they were no longer with 4AD, the RTC/Virgin label, but had moved to Mute, who were an EMI distributed label.
I'd already licensed the two albums Prayers on Fire and Junkyard thus all Virgin had picked up was an EP before losing the band.
