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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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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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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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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 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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Man these guys are way out better than Ginsberg and Kerouac ever did these guys were on the road before the road was the road can you dig it? so, we pulled up 6:15AM at the diner and all i had was two quarters in my pocket The tank was on empty and me and…
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Before 1983 (known as ‘Year Zero‘ by Axemen devotees in a misguided homage to Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge which The Axemen took years to dissociate themselves from [this stemmed from the unfortunately badly misquoted comment by Steve who, having been asked by a women’s Magazine what his favourite make-up was, proclaimed “I like the Estee…
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The long association of The Axemen with the buses of Otago probably began with their featuring role in Wilma McCorkindale’s seminal book on the subject, Otago Road Services Ltd – A Brief History. While researching the book McCorkindale became fascinated (some would say obsessed) with these ‘frequent flyers’ and would chat with them for virtually…
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Map 1 here shows the whereabouts of various members of the Axemen in the first few months of the band’s existence. PHOTO-ESSAY: A LITTLE BIT OF YESTERDAY South Dunedin – home of the South Dunedin Sound. Maureen of the Empire Tavern about to burn life-size effigy of Little Stevie McCabe. <– South Dunedin | Starliners…
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