Month: November 2008

The portrait of Johnny Segovia

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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LIVE AT CITY MALL Volumes 1 & 2

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 ~ hot trio on Siltbreeze/Matador rock out at SxSW in Austin, Texas

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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Mick Agro (slight return)

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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The Constitution of the United States of America – don’t believe the hype!

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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Phosby, Formby, Philby – more Spies connections

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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