NZ bands
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In 1988, Little Stevie McCabe and I spent most of May and part of June in the United States. The purpose of our trip was partly to perform, and partly to make and renew contacts on behalf of the record companies we represented (Sleek Bott and Onset Offset). We were both trying to get…
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Songs: too-many-cups-of-coffie throw-it-all-away these-days these days feat. fake gat by steve mccabe tenthousand-years sin railway-pies pick-a-fold motorway micro-time jelly-roll Jelly Roll – video version – superior in my opinion LSM Its Not Me i-know-only-you dyke-parties caught-you-fighting bottle-store new-tears why-why-why time gale16 thinkin-of-you barney-rubble1 take-me-home the-rain-came space desert-storm-maser chang-mae-test
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Caffeine Madness three-duddle-bugs-c-dragan-stojanovic jelly-roll-mota-c-dragan-stojanovic dyke-parties-duddle-bugs-c-dragan-stojanovic angel-of-harem-duddle-bugs-c-dragan-stojanovic 20000-miles-by-duddle-bugs-c-dragan-stojanovic today-duddle-bugs-c-dragan-stojanovic The Axemen were supposed to play the Neon Picnic, back in ’88. I was realy looking forward to playing at the legendary Sweet-waters site. I was not lucky enough to have been at any of those fore mentioned events. The headline act was supposed to be The…
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Our man Kawowski has some clips on there, check them out: The website says, The Film Archive houses thousands of music videos in its collection. We’ve had fun selecting a representative 100 videos for you to watch right here. We’d like to find out which video is the most popular so please vote for your…
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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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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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?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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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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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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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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[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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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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This is a postcard-size reproduction of the large (A0) classroom poster prepared in the early 1990s by Axemen for use in NZ schools. Stevie was barely out of school himself when the band’s first few gigs took place in Dunedin in 1983, but when he moved into gainful employment later that year as a screenprinter,…
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George Henderson’s move to Wellington was notable for many reasons, including the formation of the band THE SPIES, sharing Chris Plummer with the legendary Shoes This High. The full lineup of the Spies consisted of: George Henderson – Guitar, Voice, Organ Susan Ellis – Organ, Piano, Voice, Guitar Chris Plummer – Drums Richard Sedger –…
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By George D.Henderson http://blogs.myspace.com/georgedhenderson Reprinted by permission of the author First published Friday, February 02, 2007 The art and magick of The Perfect Strangers, Chch 1980-1982 If The Perfect Strangers were only the blues-jam outfit implied elsewhere, I’d not be writing this story. The thing is, that Bill Vosburgh and Mark Thomas were two songwriting…
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Found these on a Christchurch City Council Libraries website of all places . . . The first is from late 82 or early 83, advertising a gig at the infamous Empire Tavern in Dunedin. This poster was scrapped together from old posters and other art by Stu and whacked out in a night at the…
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