What are you listening to, right now................
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@dogmeat said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@JC said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Snowy No More Heroes. If I remember I heard Rattus at a party and went out and bought it. Bugger me if a couple of days later No More Heroes was out. Back then there was no NZ music press, not even Rip It Up., so there was no way of knowing when records would be released. They just appeared.
Not true. There was Hot Licks - I know as I reviewed for them. I had to try and find something to write about Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Wasn’t Hot Licks dead by then? My memory is hazy but I thought that’s where the RipItUp guys came from🤔
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@kiwiinmelb Island of Real was in Airedale Street. I saw a few bands there Sheerlux, basically a punk covers band, then Rooter a few weeks later. They were a laugh. Toy Love too, they were a different league altogether. It was a weird venue, I guess it was a cafe, but that was before anyone in NZ knew how to make decent coffee. So everybody seemed to be drinking water to wash down mandies or smuggled in vodka. Or Benadryl and morning glory seeds.
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@JC said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@kiwiinmelb Island of Real was in Airedale Street. I saw a few bands there Sheerlux, basically a punk covers band, then Rooter a few weeks later. They were a laugh. Toy Love too, they were a different league altogether. It was a weird venue, I guess it was a cafe, but that was before anyone in NZ knew how to make decent coffee. So everybody seemed to be drinking water to wash down mandies or smuggled in vodka. Or Benadryl and morning glory seeds.
I might be confusing my venues but did Island of Real evolve into the equally short lived XS Cafe?
Haven’t heard the name Sheerlux in decades
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@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@JC said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@kiwiinmelb Island of Real was in Airedale Street. I saw a few bands there Sheerlux, basically a punk covers band, then Rooter a few weeks later. They were a laugh. Toy Love too, they were a different league altogether. It was a weird venue, I guess it was a cafe, but that was before anyone in NZ knew how to make decent coffee. So everybody seemed to be drinking water to wash down mandies or smuggled in vodka. Or Benadryl and morning glory seeds.
I might be confusing my venues but did Island of Real evolve into the equally short lived CS Cafe?
Haven’t heard the name Sheerlux in decades
I don’t know about the XS cafe thing sorry. When I could get away with drinking underage I started hitting the Windsor, Gluepot, Globe, Mainstreet, New Station etc. I was at O’Rorke Hall right beside the Globe so that was ideal.
Sheerlux were OK I guess, they could play well but they were pretend punks who took a lot of stick for not being real enough. I was never a punk but some of the music that came out of the NZ scene was awesome. Proud Scum were my favourite band for a while.
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@JC said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Crucial No no no. You misspelled “Suicide 2“ by Proud Scum. Let me refresh your memory:
Even their names were awesome. Jonathan Jamrag. John Atrocity. Bruce Hulk. Alistair Rabbit. Skid Rowe, admittedly not so much.
Wasn’t that song about John Atrocity after he left the band?
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Lots of great memories , had forgotten so many of those names , I remember the singer of Sheelux was a mate of my mates older brother , saw him a few times at their house, distinctive feature , was losing his hair pretty young
I was in Australia permanently by 82 ,after a few trips back and forward , and immersed myself into the Aus music scene ,
there was an awesome live music scene here at the time
This was a bit of an aus punk classic
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@Crucial Yep. They said his leaving was about musical differences but apparently the real story was they had had an argument about how to make a cup of coffee. Imagine for a moment the producer was Mike Chunn. Because it was. At the same time as he was playing Julia on the circuit with Citizen Band he was recording that appalling noise. Top work.
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More memories slowly coming back
I remember they used to have some pretty good gigs occasionly at Auckland Uni on friday nights around that 78 79 period
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You guys are old, I was in nappies and at kindy at that time.
The first "concert" I can remember going to when I was 4 or 5 was Herbs at Napier Municipal Theatre, by going to I mean sitting out in the car park with my Aunty and cousins listening to the music. I think I only remember it because I'd been given an astronomical amount of money to buy lollies (probably $1) and so just pigged out the whole time.
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@Nepia said in What are you listening to, right now................:
You guys are old, I was in nappies and at kindy at that time.
The first "concert" I can remember going to when I was 4 or 5 was Herbs at Napier Municipal Theatre, by going to I mean sitting out in the car park with my Aunty and cousins listening to the music. I think I only remember it because I'd been given an astronomical amount of money to buy lollies (probably $1) and so just pigged out the whole time.
Don't forget that in those days being uunderage wasn't such a big deal. As long as you kept your head down and didn't act like a dick it was pretty much self policing. I was only 14 in '79 but my mates were 15 and had licences and cars. Sneaking into Auckland from Manurewa was the go on a Saturday night. By 16 I was hanging out with bands and being taken to gigs with them. By 17 I was doing sound/lights and roadie-ing on occasions.
@JC is probably old though
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First proper concert I went to , was the doobie brothers at western springs , reckon it was about 75 ,
Me and my mates about 13 years old , were walking around carrying our skateboards , our skateboards went everywhere With us then
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@kiwiinmelb said in What are you listening to, right now................:
First proper concert I went to , was the doobie brothers at western springs , reckon it was about 75 ,
Me and my mates about 13 years old , were walking around carrying our skateboards , our skateboards went everywhere With us then
That would be about the heyday of “Skate-opia” - Plastic boards, wide urethane wheels, the first sealed bearings....
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Rolling Stones - Western Springs 1972/3 Sometime over that summer.
There was a bit of a whinge the next day because they only played a bit under an hour - but it was the Stones maaaaan
How's this for a set list
- Brown Sugar
- Bitch
- Rocks Off
- Gimme Shelter
- Happy
- Tumbling Dice
- Love In Vain (Robert Johnson cover)
- Sweet Virginia
- You Can't Always Get What You Want
- All Down The Line
- Midnight Rambler
- Jumping Jack Flash
- Street Fighting Man
Exile era Stones - the oldies all thought Satan had taken over NZ - it was fantastic. Although it was a small stage, no screens and the sound was … not great. But before the big overblown production concerts - great first concert ever.
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@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Nepia said in What are you listening to, right now................:
You guys are old, I was in nappies and at kindy at that time.
The first "concert" I can remember going to when I was 4 or 5 was Herbs at Napier Municipal Theatre, by going to I mean sitting out in the car park with my Aunty and cousins listening to the music. I think I only remember it because I'd been given an astronomical amount of money to buy lollies (probably $1) and so just pigged out the whole time.
Don't forget that in those days being uunderage wasn't such a big deal. As long as you kept your head down and didn't act like a dick it was pretty much self policing. I was only 14 in '79 but my mates were 15 and had licences and cars. Sneaking into Auckland from Manurewa was the go on a Saturday night. By 16 I was hanging out with bands and being taken to gigs with them. By 17 I was doing sound/lights and roadie-ing on occasions.
@JC is probably old thoughYeah old alright, I turned 18 in 79, in my second year at Uni. My first year I looked like a child (well let's face it, I was) so there was no drinking that year. The moment I got some bumfluff going on my top lip though I was unstoppable at the pubs. The Globe, The Kiwi, Occidental, one up the top of Symonds Street that I can't remember the name of was great because you could stop off at Tik's Tok's for a feed on the way back to the halls. I got caught in a raid with a couple of dozen other underagers in the Kiwi one afternoon so we had to relocate to the other pubs for a while until the bar staff stopped being pissed off at us. The guy in the Globe used to give us a heads-up if there was a raid due.
On of the guys in the hostel was a boot boy, I seem to remember he ended up going to jail for his involvement in a fairly brutal beating of a woman, I think at Zwines. Him and his mates were stopping anybody from intervening. fluffybunny of a young man.
