What are you listening to, right now................
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@kiwiinmelb said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Hell yeah! 78 and 79 were Auckland punk years. Scavengers, Reptiles, Proud Scum, Toy Love....
I was a bit younger than you but from about 80 on was sneaking into places like Reverb Room, Rumba Bar and Mainstreet.
Strangest gig I look back on was Toy Love playing on what must have been a summer tour at the already closed down Marineland at Orewa. I’m guessing the summer of 79/80. Climbed the fence with some mates and stolen beer.Hahah I remember all those bands , then a few ska bands emerged , and the skin heads
The Windsor Castle was another good venue,
In that late 70s period in NZ ,
it seemed like there were only two music scenes , punk or disco ,and they were polar opposites , and you had to pick onefunny looking back
I played a gig at te Windsor Castle once - well when I say played a gig to be more precise I was giving whoever it was shit and he said if I could do better I was welcome to try. So I played Lay Lady Lay for about an hour. I didn't know the words and I can't play guitar. So i gave it the good old punk thrash and fortunately everyone was at least as wasted as me so it all turned out OK
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I remember well how the staff at the Windsor used to turn on the fire alarm at 10 minutes to closing, usually while the band was trying to drown it out with their last songs and encores.
If you have a copy of the Netherworld Dancing Toys 'Song and Dance' EP you can here the alarm ringing away on the live version of Change to the Contrary
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Does anyone remember a music venue called The Island of Real , which used to be on one of the side streets near the steep part of Queen st
They didnt have an alcohol licence from memory , so there were plenty of under agers there , I remember going there frequently in 6th form , 78 I think ,
Can remember one night , smoking a joint out the front with a group of guys which included a young Dave Dobbyn who was not playing there , just hanging out
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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 -
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....