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The Axemen 30 years on – where are they now?

Sunday 22 September 2013 marks the 30th anniversary of the seminal ‘Equinox’ gig at Dunedin’s luminary bat-corridor The Empire Tavern, pseudo-Transylvanian Castle (at the time) of the infamous Maureen, an actual vampire who was to become the Axemen’s gothic nemesis for a spell. And spell she could, she could cast a spell as evil as any […]

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Just out of embargo : Bott 13 – Came a Bott Friday – installment 1

Te ‘Came a Bott Friday’ album was released sometime in 1987 and is also sometimes referenced as Bott 13 … te pota tiritina… enjoy! 1a Wake Of A Sinner 1b I Am The Seed 1c Yours Severely 1e Beats Under The Rocks S 1f Zion Steamroller S 2a Violence & Half-Uncles S 2b Too Much […]

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Snapshot of Top Search Terms on the Blog, to June 2011

Search Views dugong 6,357 switchblade 4,393 fonzie 4,047 humpback whale 2,809 whale 2,636 fingers 2,613 shrunken head 1,736 bonny and clyde 1,413 bloomers 1,187 sea cow 1,155 robert de niro 1,104 bonnie parker 1,040 old telephone 1,030 capitalism a love story 637 coca cola logo 615 humpback whale pictures 598 telepathy 557 kurt cobain diary […]

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Chritstchurch 2010 dire straits – Columbo Street is Bending

Save the world christchurch Columbo Street is Bending columbo street is bending not that you would know it theres no depression in it sheep shagging in far off fields cashfields, leithfield, anwhere but darfield whats with the bruises on your calves? i was just feeling sheepish i felt a little sheepish actually watching reruns of […]

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wunderbar REEVIEW PT ONE

The Aesthetics, Stevie McCabe and Bastardwisher =—–Wunderbar 28th July 2009 review by a participant. PART UNO : >>> “Come together – right Now – Over me.” Gen X . The original punks, methinks the youngest of the Exers gotta be something like 33 or something. Ands there’s the ageism already. And thats the last of […]

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Review: Big Cheap Motel ’09 from Satan Rulez

Reprinted from: http://satanrulez.blogspot.com/2009/03/zap.html “…Built around a thick guitar line that is distorted until it becomes a fluid conveyer belt of sound… ” “…hermetic tribes… ” “… The Pornographic Milk Drink contains rotating metal spoke on a ferris wheel guitar… ” “…Pleasantly skewed junkyard Buddy Holly rhythm lines played atop walls of distorted uber-rock riffs that contain the weight and […]

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Vosburgh on AXEMEN

At the recent MONSTER GIG at Christchurch’s glamorous crumbling Media Club, Bill Vosburgh handed Kawowski a single A4 sheet with a few paragraphs written on it all in capitals, relating to his earliest recollections of THE AXEMEN days in Christchurch (1983-1987). Luckily he stuck around and performed an incendiary blues rock set that night, as […]

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