November 2008
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In the bathroom of the Clifford flats in Colombo Street Christchurch, tiny but complete with actual bath, number 1000 and something and housing some of the most dynamic musicians and artists in the city at this time (around 1984) lies still to this day a faded and weary print, the last remaining remnant of the…
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AXEMEN Stu K-drums/Steve M & Bob B-gtrs/Al Rite-sax/Gary Scott-clarinet/Pete Hall Jones-trumpet The Message (E. Fletcher-M. Glover-S. Robinson-C. Chase) Untitled By Unknown Axemen, Dogs, Cops City Mall #4 The CONNOISSEURS Rent Hamilton-gtr, vocals/Shorty Hamilton-bass, vcls/Doug Hamilton-snare, vcls with Al/Gary/Pete as The Horned Hornet Horns Divorce Me COD/Just Because (Carl Smith/Bob Shelton-Joe Shelton-Sid Robin) Setting The Woods…
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Times New Viking is a lo-fi indie rock band from Columbus, Ohio. The line up consists of guitarist Jared Phillips, drummer Adam Elliott, and Beth Murphy on keyboards. Murphy and Elliott share vocal duties. They are currently signed to Matador Records and were formerly signed to Siltbreeze Records. They have released three records: 2005’s Dig…
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Steve McCabe and his brother, Jeff decide to take on the worlds greatest superpower, Beijing, China, beginning with Peking Duck at one of china’s finest roadhouses.
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The (definitive article) Axemen (an mnemoir), or the slight return of M S Agro. I remember the Axemen, the Axemen, the name (anag) passed over in the monumental and indefinitive Shute tome apart from a hemi-semi-demi-paragraph on page 340 noting in part that they were a notorious 90’s group, as well as that Bob was…
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Jelly Roll
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The United States Constitution Preamble Article 1 – The Legislative Branch Section 1 – The Legislature Section 2 – The House Section 3 – The Senate Section 4 – Elections, Meetings Section 5 – Membership, Rules, Journals, Adjournment Section 6 – Compensation Section 7 – Revenue Bills, Legislative Process, Presidential Veto Section 8 – Powers…
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There was much speculation in the 80’s regarding the Axemen and their cronies loyalty to their country, especially when it came to their fraternisation with potentially seditious elements and the protest movement in civil uprisings such as the 1981 Springbok Tour and Homosexual Law Reform citizen actions. New Zealands equivalent of the Secret Service, the…
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Over a year ago (13/08/2008) a dude we’ll call Joel Dan from Adelaide with an insane turnaround request of 24 hrs posted a bunch of questions over to The Axemen MySpace site for us to peruse. His plan, eh, was to get the thing published in Plan B magazine (UK). With their usual lightspeed aplomb the trio elucidated the…
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?Fog City Enterprises today entered the 21st century by starting their new ?Fog Blog!
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Reprinted with kind permission of the Author, Tom Lax, Silt Breeze Records Babe The Blue Ox Need Not Apply…..Siltbreeze Announces Axemen Reissues For 2009! Yep, in conjuction w/Sleek Bott Indusries, Siltbreeze is PROUD to annouce no less than 3, count’em THREE, Axemen reissues to see the light of day in 2009. First up is a…
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THE MIND (stereo) Steve-vocals, gtr Bob-gtr Gordo Baird-bass Stu K.- drums, skull pic Al Right-sax 212 Peterborough St, 15-9-84 MOVE IT, GROOVE IT (stereo) Steve-vocals, casiotone SK1 Stu-casiotone SK1, lettering Bob-bass Cassy O’Tone-tapes, mix Stu’s pad, Colombo St, around Oct. 84 <.> another axemen anno xxv rediscovery series mix <.>
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Paul Bunyan (Axemen Theme) — version #1 is from Hell Farm, August 1983, with Steve & Bob on guitars. This version was released on the rare AXE OF THE APOSTLES cassette later that month. Paul Bunyan (Axemen Theme) — version #2 adds Stu K. on drums, from the Jetty St “Equinox” gig in Dunedin, 24…
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reprinted with kind permission of ‘sweet’ duane zarakov, from his insightful, churlish, and fascinating blog http://www.geocities.com/duane_zarakov/ ©2001 SPACE DUST (some stuff about my band) This has been kind of my main band for, uh, lemme think, 6 or 7 years or something…since ’93 actually, jeez it’s been a while. It’s been going along pretty slowly for…
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THE AXEMEN IN DUNEDIN 2-3 MARCH 1984 SUMMARY The Axemen performed three times in the weekend, writhing, inciting and typically incredulous they made no new friends and many shady enemies, their calloused hands bleeding and cutting and scarred from the tortuous anachronisms that are is their Wall of sound, their particular(ly) seedy breeding ground, a…
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This series of shows took place over the top of the south island and the west coast during Jan 1986 and involved a decrepit and terrifyingly brakeless commer van, copious quantities of opium tarbrew and ether … Nux Vomica and the Axemen on tour together …Were we all in the one van? I cant exactly…
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In 1986 Stu Kawowski succumbed to the magnetic attraction of “The North.” At first he thought it was the Wellington effect, so he ventured up there for a few months, and moved in with The Skeptics for a while, first at Nick’s pad in Brooklyn, and later crashed at Writhe Recording, their studio cnr Walter…
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Now is the hour to resurrect CRASS from the dead – i have seen the future and its not from Dial House – we need you out here in the colonies people.. lots of free land and slaves out here…. posted by: Cacti Bevel Tie Smelt
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by Kiran Dass Reprinted without permission FROM THE LISTENER ARCHIVE: ARTS & BOOKS August 23-29 2008 Vol 215 No 3563, but hey they might go under or get bought out by Fairfax or someone and now that it’s on here it’s as good as gold, safe as houses, and won’t go away… The Puddle’s George…
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It feels like NZ has regressed back to 1981 over night… a time when everyone was either on methadone, or boiling poppies. The summer now feels like winter. Back then Rob Muldoon partied with the South African Springboks behind lines of baton-wielding riot cops. Before that even, 1979, Mark E. Smith recorded this snarling ode…
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[reprinted with kind permission of the auteur, Duane Zarakov, from his extant blog, http://www.geocities.com/duane_zarakov/] OCCULT FIGURES – MEETING THE PERFECT STRANGERS For my last year of high school I had to go to a private boarding school in Christchurch where pretty much the only music the other boys ever listened to was Led Zeppelin, the…
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[reprinted with the permission of author, George D Henderson] Memoirs of a Metamusician: the Story of the Spies 1978 – 1980 I arrived in Wellington at the start of ’78, newly punked up after seeing Dylan Tate’s epochal “Radio With Pictures” punk special and Sex Pistols interview (outside Buck House) at the end of ’77.…
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1. BURN 2. COLD BEER 3. JAH & HIS HERB 4. LOVE & DEVOTION 5. THE EVIL SOUND 6. HOLES IN MY CURTAIN (They Don’t Even Let In The Sun) 7. THE PANTHER OF THE SUBURBS RECORDED 12-6-1984 AT 212 PETERBOROUGH ST, CHRISTCROTCH by AXEMEN bob brannigan DAMON CROWE stu kawowski Steve McCabe AL RIGHT…
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Note the lower portion is believed to have been added later, after the original text. Post: Mecca Bittiest Level
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As requested, here are the tracks from the flipside of The Perfect Strangers: Not To Be Taken cassette, labelled as And Band: Outhern. Being that the track titles are in Kawowski’s inimitable handwriting, let’s assume that the cassette is a dub he made from an original compilation by Lindsay Maitland, that came into Stu’s possession…
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