NPR

Posted: **Wed Oct 19, 2022 7:23 pm**

This can't wait a day longer... cheers to Taranaki Snapper who shared a link to this girl after seeing her play in Adelaide last night. She's a bit special...

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Gumboot wrote: Fri Oct 21, 2022 4:58 am

I loved this when it came out... pretty sure I heard it while at Otago Uni around 1985?

Can't believe his Wiki page doesn't mention the song...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Direen

Posted: **Fri Oct 21, 2022 3:36 pm**

Fair to say it's his most 'accessible' song? It still sounds good nearly 40 years down the track. I had an album from him with his 'Builders' band, CONcH3 I think it was. One of those quirky artists whose music was too high brow for the wider market.

Posted: **Fri Oct 21, 2022 10:33 pm**

It's still Friday here

This is great song writing, the story is terrific

Posted: **Sat Oct 22, 2022 3:49 am**

Guy Smiley wrote: Fri Oct 21, 2022 3:36 pmFair to say it's his most 'accessible' song? It still sounds good nearly 40 years down the track. I had an album from him with his 'Builders' band, CONcH3 I think it was. One of those quirky artists whose music was too high brow for the wider market.

I've still got CoNCH3 and Split Seconds.

One of my favourite tracks off the latter:

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Posted: **Thu Oct 27, 2022 7:36 pm**

Because it's (almost) Halloween...

Posted: **Fri Oct 28, 2022 6:38 am**

Gumboot wrote: Thu Oct 27, 2022 7:36 pm Because it's (almost) Halloween...

Posted: **Fri Oct 28, 2022 8:56 am**

This band is singlehandedly restoring my faith in modern music and " redefining the guitar"..says their publicity material.

It is a mixture of trap music..and guitar virtuosity.

(Realise you lot know this band inside out and have probabky been into them for the last 6 years, and I only got into them because Steve Vai is, and appeared in one of their tracks recently..but still).

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Posted: **Fri Nov 11, 2022 12:53 am**

Staying in the 70s...

Posted: **Fri Nov 11, 2022 6:52 am**

^^ Two excellent choices.

While we're on the nostalgia bent, I spent a lot of nights getting very sweaty with these guys up front...

Posted: **Thu Nov 17, 2022 6:27 am**

Be amazed...

Posted: **Fri Nov 25, 2022 12:57 am**

Keith Levene, a founding member of the Clash and Public Image Ltd, died recently.

Posted: **Fri Nov 25, 2022 3:08 am**

I spent last weekend on the outskirts of Timaru... close friends had a combined 40th anniversary and 60th birthdays party. Massive reunion, a lot of us present have been in the same towns around the world at the same time over the years so the chance to get together and act sensibly until the small hours over two nights was too good to pass up. I was still feeling second hand when I rocked up to work on Wednesday night.

This came up in my weekly Spotify playlist on Monday morning....

mood captured perfectly.

Posted: **Sat Nov 26, 2022 12:01 am**

Posted: **Sat Nov 26, 2022 11:01 am**

Wyndham Upalot wrote: Sat Nov 26, 2022 12:01 am

proper friday night choon that one!

thanks

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Posted: **Sat Dec 10, 2022 11:46 am**

I must be Friday somewhere.

A friend just sent me a video of this band, not this one, but I love this, I love her swagger and I didn't really expect the vocals. I think they are Ukrainian