Posts by bob daktari
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Fox News - best comedy on the telly
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Give Me Back My Laughter You Bastards (GMBMLYB)
Laughter should be Lighter
of which they took dozens of mine, the bastards
allegedly Hand of Glory got quite close to a FN release... Stars in My Eyes I think was the song
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Cool - nice to see there are a few people on here who know about these bands.
tis the beauty of our land - ie not everyone is from the big centres and every town had its original bands, playing to no one but the fermenting home brew
Hamilton's Frybrain & The Human Lawnmowers two bands I wish I had something on CD from
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sure I have a cassette somewhere in my clutter of the Booga Dagas - they did their own homebrew if memory serves (I know some band from that aprt of the country did) - fowl stuff it was, just the thing to get one in the mood for standing around listening to music
If I can find it (don't hold breath - I have boxes ands boxes of cassettes) I'll find a child to digitalise it :)
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it wasn't very cool to be a Flying Nun fan back in the day
it seems to be now, especially it seems for them that hated all that Flying Nun was and became
Though for a lot of people (and most people don't buy music) the Nun and her bands was ours (kiwi) and it was very, very special.
A feeling John has captured well in his article/post - cheers
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ahhh...but the NZ or the Australian edition?? They are quite different.
NZ one :) Got Goats Milk Soupmas well, but already had a copy so not as exciting
seen this before Simon?
http://home.comcast.net/~cassetto/propeller.html
sorry back to the Nun...
Friday Drinks the old phone message compilation tapes were sometimes pulled out for a listen, the Robert Paul from Sony Music USA were hilarious (mentioned in the sets booklet) as was the Captain Sensible message looking for looney Tours - who shared a office with the Nun once...
simple times
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every good party comes crashing to an end perhaps...
http://www.flyingnun.co.nz/childrencollide.htm
"With a few demos under their belt and a 6 track EP on Reverberation Records behind them, ( We Three Brave And True - 2005) Children Collide have now signed with Flying Nun Australia, sister label to indie gods Flying Nun New Zealand"
Oh the Humanity!
speaking Propeller, got me hands on Doobie Do Disc on wax last week, bloody good condition too :)
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Hundreds of stories but thanks to Russell’s, um, cringe I'll share this one:
It was 1983 and I was dragged into the senior boys common room at Timaru Boys High, (no shame here for all the wonderful years I spent in that town/city), thinking I was about to be reintroduced with the insides of a toilet bowl I was pleasantly surprised when instead I was played The Verlaines Death & the Maiden and asked my opinion, (I was a bit of a music geek, still am), my initial impression wasn’t that positive but on the second and third play I was captivated…. it was the start of a musical love affair that continues to this day… a day I expect (hope) to get my box set. (Discount this as an entry into the comp thank you)
One could say that simple moment in time changed my life, twelve years later after attending possibly hundreds of gigs by Nun bands, buying and digesting dozens of releases and becoming quite the fan boy I started working for the label and did so for a good number of years.
From simple beginnings anything is possible, that’s what Flying Nun always meant/means to me, a label that allowed many people to realise dreams they didn’t know they had, even a music geek from Timaru…
One wonders what ever became of that orange?
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as a child I eagerly awaited the arrival of mcdonalds in the south island - that wait (at the time) was worth it
itunes is not
both are bad for you
I reckon Apple is having a f__king laugh at NZ's expense - just launch ya coks
Danyl, there's many a online store that will sell you what you seek and freight into NZ. They are quicker, cheaper and have none of the attitude or ignornace of our music stores and their staff here