2011 happenings
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A look back on some of the ideas which didn’t make it
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In the wake of the departure of Bob Brannigan and Mick Elborado’s increasingly angry instability the remaining Axemen would like to introduce the new beacon of rock’n’roll ardour, the hope of Axemen Generation Y, the bass-bone connected to the backbone, the rhythm king, a girls best friend… William Daymond. Born in 1984, Daymond injects the…
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http://dig.abclocal.go.com/wpvi/video/2011/09/27/092711wpvivinylrecords.mp4
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Reuters, 10 July 2011 Bob Brannigan officially quits the Axemen. Surviving members aghast and distraught, but vow to continue on. In a brief email statement to fellow band-members after the group were offered a lucrative ground-breaking tour deal to Aussie and all points West, the Bobster wrote, and i quote: ” this is a no…
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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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With an episode with the knife-edge cliffhanger to rival the ‘Who Shot JR?’ Dallas episode, the RICHY27ABLE channel’s first season drew to a close on Tuesday 15 June with the much awaited SEASON FINALE. Playing to tens of viewers stateside and countless on the Worldwide Web the series was universally acclaimed by critics and the…
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Reprinted from http://www.facebook.com/notes/mickle-borrado/text-for-the-cc-blog/10150208252973803 13/06/2011 By Mick Elborado I thought smacking was illegal, but there I was standing between the dusty records and sheet music I’d started packing away, now handcuffed, and the hyped-up young cop, name, as always, unknown was saying ‘Just give me one ****** reason to smack you’ — the hand cuffs were…
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(re-printed courtesy of siltblog: Axemen’s ‘3 Virgins’ Double LP NOW AVAILABLE) FINALLY! After a couple of years in the RE-making, the Axemen’s legendary dbl lp ‘3 Virgins, 3 Virgins, 3 Visions’ (hereafter known simply as 3V’s) is available for order. Originally seeing the light of day on the Flying Nun label in 1985, 3V’s is…
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Reprinted from http://www.elsewhere.co.nz/absoluteelsewhere/3832/the-famous-elsewhere-questionnaire-george-d-henderson-of-the-puddle/ THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: George D. Henderson of the Puddle Click for a Readable version (print-friendly too) George D. Henderson founded Dunedin’s psych-pop band the Puddle in 1983/84 and over the following decade the group recorded an EP, an album and a single for Flying Nun, all of which are curently out…
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Like a phoenix, it’s flaming wings rendering liquefacted silt into weirdly shaped shiny psychedelic ceramic sculptures as it rises from the quake-decimated ruins of Christchurch’s State Trinity Centre, the penultimate Axemen tome “Three Virgins, Three Versions, Three Visions” (commonly referred to in hushed tones as simply “Three Virgins“), well, more accurately, the four fragile lacquers of…
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