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He would usually denigrate some of the vaunted albums in the Recent Arrivals bin, always with a smile, lovely teeth, and then drift over to the One Dollar Cardboard Box, where, in those incredible days, he was able to buy Pip Proud for just that one dollar. I had tried to sell Pip Proud for more, but nobody wanted it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChris also worked, variously, at the Cadburys Chocolate Factory and Brian Snell's Hi Fi Shop. He flatted behind Snells, and shop manager Ron Esplin was fond of telling people later on when Chris' musical stature grew, that one morning when Chris didn't turn up for work, he went over there to yank him out of bed, only there was someone else in the bed as well. Ron, with the highly developed Presbyterian moral ethic so common to those of us who live in the south, was shocked. But he liked Chris, he kept him on.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Enemy was put together a year or two later. I knew Chris quite well by then, but didn't go to any of the practices, unlike others in our group, who reported back breathlessly that the songs were amazing. Like a number of others, I was asked to come and try out for the band with my Diplomat copy guitar, but I knew my limitations and said I was busy that night.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Beneficiaries Hall debut confirmed The Enemy had amazing songs. Talk turned quickly to getting them down on tape. I had a good reel to reel, a Revox A-77 (which I later sold to David Kilgour, his song Tape Machine is about that) and a bad microphone, so I hauled the two along to the old Cellar Club in Manse Street to record a gig on Alec Bathgate's birthday. Chris had given me a tape I could use - \"Don't worry about what is on it, just wipe eberything off, they're just really old songs I used to write, they're crap.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNone of us had a sense of history then, not even me, who was older, and should have understood history. So I didn't even play the tape before I erased it with The Enemy at The Cellar Club. This would rank as one of the top ten studpiest things I have ever done in my life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUnfortunately the cheap microphone had the final say that night. The band dutifully came up to our house on the following Monday and we listened to the tape through a big Jansen valve amplifier to try and get that raw rough live sound. Everyone got very depressed, tape recorders can be cruel when you have only performed in public a couple of times. But Chris was great all the way through, trying to pull the project up from under the water in much the same way he tried to rescue the Toy Love album years later, singing his heart out. Talk turned to doing covers. Yes please, said Mick. No, never, said Chris.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Enemy took all those good songs into Toy Love and records were finally made, chart positions achieved, and then came Flying Nun. When the label produced a pack of cards on their tenth anniversary with drawings by Chris, he did one of me, calling me The Godfather Of The Dunedin Sound. Wrong. Chris was always that. Everyone deferred to him, hung on his every word and piece of advice, and used his evaluation of their performance as a barometer of where they stood. Most of all, Chris helped so many of them, often reserving his most fulsome praise and material assistance to the ones who were at the bottom of the totem pole, the Pip Proud One Dollar Cardboard Box ones.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI went up to see Chris in Auckland this year, well after his debilitating stroke. I had been told a variety of distressing stories, I didn't know what to expect. But the old Chris was still there, wordless maybe, but the eyes and the smile and the expressive face said so much. As it always did. I had always meant to mention that silly story about him not making it to work that morning at Brian Snells, somehow it had just never come up. Probably because it was silly. It seemed the time now, the moment was ripe for something right off the wall. But Chris was getting tired. 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Ingredients for Don't Make Me Buy Out Your Silence and two more songs here include some solid rock thunder, a sly groove and an array of noises screaming in from the dark edges. Mr Carter stands in the middle of this first major Dimmer release, directing a storm of different variations on pop-noir from those he unleashed as leader of New Zealand's premier contenders for the world crown, Straitjacket Fits.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStraitjacket Fits offered up some of the most riveting rock music of the last decade. Dimmer has uncovered a new sound that is once more contemporary and compelling. With a combination of the musical equivalent of chloroform and kosh, \"Don't Make Me Buy Out Your Silence\" and the accompanying songs are a first-class knock-out indeed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShayne has only stepped out of the shadows to offer us the briefest glimpses of Dimmer before now. 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And while they've been steadily building a reputation as a band with a unique brand of rock'n'punk sensibilities on previous album Cakehole and the outstanding Suck EP, Showered In Gold delivers Loves Ugly Children to the kids in full glorious, action-packed effect. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe trio of Simon Ugly (guitar), Floss (bass) and Jason Young (drums) unleash their best set of songs here and, with the aid of producer Matthew Heine, they display the ability to shape Showered In Gold into something special.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe record buzzes with the passion and feeling that has made them a thundering (and very loud!) fixture on the NZ live circuit and taken Loves Ugly Children overseas to impress Australians and citizens of the UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd what's more, Simon Ugly writes with those timeless rock'n'roll themes of Bad Girls (\"Voodoo\" and \"Motorbike\" Girls respectively) Bad Behaviour (\"Six Pack\", \"Junk Food\") and Bad Attitude (\"Don't Need A Reason\" alright).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLoves Ugly Children kick down the garage door with opener \"Coming For You\", a hot-wired trash epic that sets the tone with destination to your heart scrawled on its belly. From there, the first half of the album is unrelenting good fun as the band delights in playing up to that trashy rock'n'roll vibe in \"Six Pack\", \"Pump It Baby\", those two great Bad Girl tunes and \"Junk Food\". It's a glorious mix of the heads- down thrash of Cakehole with the post-grunge swagger first recorded on the \"Suck\" EP. All in all, this half of Showered In Gold is the most explosively listenable 20 minutes of adrenalin-charged rock to appear so far this year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Suck\" itself is an energetic high-point of the second half of Showered In Gold, but the songs surrounding it alter the mood somewhat. \"You Don't Hate Me\" is as musically fragile as this lot get, but that's over-turned immediately by the unsettling heavy metal riffery of \"Seven\" and the brilliant \"Don't Need A Reason\", a lost oasis of slide guitar action courtesy of producer Matthew Heine. \"It's In My Blood\" closes the album, lurching from Able Tasman Graeme Humphreys' drunken organ into one of those Biblical epics that Simon Ugly just can't keep himself from writing (this is the man who penned \"Jesus Christ Satan\" for a previous b-side!).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the greatest traditions in the fine art of rock'n'roll exists through those bands labelled as \"punk\" ever since the Stooges and Velvet Underground laid waste to the groovy-isms of sixties rock. But those bands and the ones that followed -- from the Ramones to today's Loves Ugly Children -- looked to create the most exciting music possible out of the so-called 'primitive' tools of the rock'n'roll trade, mostly by fuelling it with speed and desperately screaming something of your own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn making this album, all shiny and showered in gold, Loves Ugly Children have pointedly screamed something of their own alright and like all good innovative traditionalists (!) they've kept true to the style. 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Woody, however, is a more collaborative writing effort from the band than their first album, Before We Go Under (1994) and shows a distinctive sound emerging. This is aided in no small part by Jane Sinnott's ever-increasing guitar proficiency and the dependable support of the Strang brothers rhythm section (drummer Jim was on the first album; bassist Richard joined shortly after its completion).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat leaves guests David Mitchell (3Ds guitarist) and Alan Starrett (with an instrument for every moment, including violin, hammer dulcimer, cello and accordion) to add more colour and the occasional rough edge to the songs. Although with the band's tight performance and the marvellously polished instrument that is Jane's voice out front, there's an intimate feel to the songs and moments like the guitar-heavy \"Take It On Down\" are rare.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you're looking for comparisons, Australia's often-overlooked Triffids might be a good place to start. The 'edge of the continent' feel that Perth gave the Triffids is hinted at by the geography of these tunes (\"On the Rocks\", \"12,000 Miles\", \"Particularly Nasty Weather\") written in another isolated musical centre, Dunedin. And the lonely observations of two of the stand-out tracks here - \"Who's Watching Out For You\" and \"Mystery Train\" - make for sturdier cousins of the Triffids' fragile classic \"Raining Pleasure\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver the course of its 14 songs, the album's considerable charms seep right in. And in an age where so much of what passes for pop music is made of clamour and clatter, the warmth of the Magick Heads' approach is more than welcome around these parts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe asked Dunedin renaissance man Roy Colbert, who claims to be their smallest and biggest fan both, for a comment or two on the Magick Heads. Here's what he has to say about the band (and Chris Knox!):\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The Magick Heads? Well, when they started they were three things, Bob Scott's wonderful pop songs, the unique sight of David Mitchell on drums, and a lovely new voice in town called Jane Sinnott. So it was kinda nice and kinda weird. Jane seemed to sing about two octaves higher than anyone else, and when you listened to her on tape, she seemed an octave further up again. And she danced weird on stage, not like any of the other Flying Nun women at all. I've never seen Natalie Merchant from 10,000 Maniacs, but I've read interviews with her, and I betcha she floats around a bit like Jane. I asked Jane not so long ago what she was listening to, and she said Tiger Lily by Natalie Merchant was really setting her tent on fire. Okay.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The years went by, David Mitchell moved on - as did fellow 3D David Saunders - and Jane's voice seemed to drop down a little, or maybe we all got used to it. One of Flying Nun's veteran singer-songwriters told me \"she used to sound like a girl singing in front of the mirror in her bedroom - now she sounds real good \". Chris Knox, another Flying Nun veteran singer- songwriter and not the one I mentioned before, stood before the Magick Heads in Dunedin at Nunfest and asked the woman from Melody Maker how she felt flying right across the world to hear Steeleye Span. In 1978, Mick Dawson would bring his songs to the Enemy practices and Chris Knox would say they sounded like Steeleye Span. What is it with Chris Knox and Steeleye Span?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"So gradually the Magick Heads became a hard-rocking little band with unchanging personnel, they even toured. Released a beautiful album called Before We Go Under that all my friends in America thought was pop perfection but which didn't make the charts or anything. Jane started writing too, good songs, and she stopped dancing so much because she had learned to play guitar. Bob still wrote killer pop songs. Everyone kept saying the Magick Heads have got really good haven't they.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"But hey - they were really good when they STARTED Trevor, they're EXCELLENT now\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/files\/Magick_Heads_Flying_Nun-2_1024x1024.jpg?v=1598868872\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2020-08-09T20:18:54+12:00","sort_order":"created","template_suffix":"","disjunctive":false,"rules":[{"column":"tag","relation":"equals","condition":"The Magick Heads"}],"published_scope":"global","image":{"created_at":"2020-08-27T22:26:17+12:00","alt":null,"width":1000,"height":1000,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/collections\/Magik_Heads_Flying_Nun_SQUARE.jpg?v=1598523978"}},{"id":211744161943,"handle":"the-renderers","title":"The Renderers","updated_at":"2022-05-16T12:15:04+12:00","body_html":"\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/files\/The_Renderers_1024x1024.jpg?v=1598680813\" alt=\"\"\u003e","published_at":"2020-08-09T21:08:59+12:00","sort_order":"best-selling","template_suffix":"","disjunctive":false,"rules":[{"column":"tag","relation":"equals","condition":"The Renderers"}],"published_scope":"global","image":{"created_at":"2020-08-29T18:00:24+12:00","alt":null,"width":593,"height":597,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/collections\/The_Renderers_SQUARE.jpg?v=1598680824"}},{"id":211745538199,"handle":"the-strangeloves","title":"The Strangeloves","updated_at":"2022-04-09T23:30:06+12:00","body_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/files\/The_Strangeloves_Flying_Nun_1024x1024.jpg?v=1598680472\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtwork By [Cover Art] – Johnathon Poff\u003cbr\u003e Bass – Noel Ward\u003cbr\u003e Drums – Tane Tokona\u003cbr\u003e Engineer – Brent McLachlan\u003cbr\u003e Guitar, Vocals – Tom Mahon\u003cbr\u003e Photography [Cover Photo] – John Cameron (O.D.T.)\u003cbr\u003e Photography By [Back Cover Photo] – Emma Milburn\u003cbr\u003e Producer – David Kilgour, Rex Bourke\u003cbr\u003e Vocals, Guitar – Rex Bourke\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2020-08-09T21:24:34+12:00","sort_order":"best-selling","template_suffix":"","disjunctive":false,"rules":[{"column":"tag","relation":"equals","condition":"The Strangeloves"}],"published_scope":"global","image":{"created_at":"2020-08-29T17:54:46+12:00","alt":null,"width":1000,"height":1000,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/collections\/The_Strangeloves_Flying_Nun_SQUARE.jpg?v=1598680486"}},{"id":211746554007,"handle":"various","title":"Various","updated_at":"2022-05-14T13:37:49+12:00","body_html":"","published_at":"2020-08-09T21:30:58+12:00","sort_order":"best-selling","template_suffix":"","disjunctive":false,"rules":[{"column":"tag","relation":"equals","condition":"Various"}],"published_scope":"global"},{"id":262153961623,"handle":"various-1","title":"Various","updated_at":"2022-05-14T13:37:49+12:00","body_html":"","published_at":"2021-03-18T22:15:56+13:00","sort_order":"best-selling","template_suffix":"","disjunctive":false,"rules":[{"column":"tag","relation":"equals","condition":"Various"}],"published_scope":"global"}]
