Posts by Jonathan Ganley
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Howdy pardners ... the Jed Town 'Campfire Set' at the Kings Arms last night.
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Capture: Don’t Point Me Out In A Crowd, in reply to Tom Ackroyd,
Richard Langston & Roger Shepherd playing Flying Nun tunes old and new at Happy in Wellington tonight.
Not posed at all, and seemingly unaware that you're there - that is a great shot.
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may have been the same Windsor gig
Great photos of Fetus Productions, Brian. Serum’s hat was quite distinctive.
You will be doing a book some day won't you?
Thanks Ian, I hope to. Feeling very encouraged now. I was looking at an online book published by Blurb recently and thinking what great quality it was.
the mic stand being the photographer's worst enemy
Damn microphones!
It is possible to get a great shot of someone singing, but often it looks weird, or the microphone is poking out the eye or slicing the face in half.
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I believe the word there isn't "gut" but something stronger.
Still, you've probably saved WebMarshal filters the length of the country from blowing up by not using that particular word in the first line of the post.
Not only that, but I wanted to send the link to my Mum! Anyway, I transcribed from the lyrics on the sleeve of ‘Cut It Out’. It’s funny though, from my Auckland-centric point of view I had thought that ‘Needles & Plastic was about the Doublehappys visiting Zanzibar in Fort St. However Shayne’s excellent article in the recent Sunday magazine made it clear it was about a Christchurch club, which I think was also called Zanzibar.
Headless Chickens, publicity shot around the time of their first album.
Great photo. The name of the winners of the first Rheineck Rock Award was the worst kept secret in town. Are you the keeper of the Planet archives, Russell?
That photo of the Able Tasmans is so so beautiful
Thanks Robyn. An almost identical shot was published in BiFiM where the band were all looking at the camera but the negative is lost.
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Looking down Symonds St from the same spot. Rangitoto just visible above the trees. This stretch of road is where the motorway overbridge is now. There is an archway visible that must have been another entrance to Grafton cemetery. I had prevously noticed this now vanished archway in Gary Baigent's 1967 book of Auckland photographs The Unseen City.
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It occurs to me that at some point inviting everyone to delve into their parents' photo albums and scan and post some here would be fun and rewarding
Here's one frame digitally 'captured' from an 8mm movie shot by my Dad, before a family wedding in 1956. He was standing on the corner of Symonds St and Alex Evans St. Kodachrome colour is pretty resilient.
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Part two, brought to you in defiance of the irritating error message ...
Bailterspace: I’m In Love With These Times. The Bailterspace who recorded the Nelsh EP were quite different from what came later, and this one has the Clean all over it, because it was one of their songs and Hamish Kilgour drums and sings.
Headless Chickens: Crash Hot (12” version). The version of Crash Hot on the Body Blow LP didn’t match the earlier version on the flipside of the Gaskrankenstation single, which sounds far more accusing, aggressive, and plain loud.
Straitjacket Fits: So Long Marianne. This cover was a highlight of their 1987-88 live sets and was preserved on a beautifully huge and warm sounding 12” B side.
Fetus Productions: Halocast. From their first LP (1980-81?) which wasn’t strictly speaking a Flying Nun release … but Halocast is one of the best things they did. I love it when the guitar squeal and feedback kicks in to the first ringing riff ... hear also Flies from the Self-Manipulation cassette, recommended listening on the walkman while walking around Albert Park.
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Actually, here's a challenge: can we work up a theoretical track listing for a FN Obscurities compilation?
Here's a few …
Flak: St Tropez. Flak and 8 Living Legs were each to have three tracks on the shared 1984 Emigration EP. The smart and spiky St Tropez was mysteriously left off the Flak side, but the lyrics remained on the insert.
This Kind Of Punishment: After The Fact. Maybe not so obscure, but this song is perfect for those moments when the world is grey, and not even bright grey.
The Clean: Point That Thing (Dub). It really is a dub version. From the Oddities tape, a masterpiece of hiss and lo-fi. Cassettes are big again, apparently. What am I bid for my copy of this hipster classic? Oh wait, I'll have to find it first.
Able Tasmans: Close Up Theme. The instrumental theme from a TV1 current affairs show. Early Tasmans: organ, bass & drums. Unrecorded as far as I know.
Children's Hour: How Is The Air Up There? Again, Unrecorded as far as I know. I heard them play the all-time version at their final show at the Windsor.
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Sorry. Bored with digital.
Ah, I did wonder what it took to keep the poor things engaged !
And I have been buying my film from the US for quite a few years now
I hate it when film gets discontinued, like Neopan 1600. I was just getting good results from its tonal qualities of "soot & chalk".
Winding the film, exposing it, spooling it, developing, fixing, washing, sorting the negs ...
I only go that far now. The scanner makes the next bit easy. I guess the point I was trying to make is that film has become another 'antiquated' analogue process that refuses to die, much like vinyl records. However, film has qualities beyond the aesthetic, as pointed out in Joe's link (above) to the A Place in Time project.
Digital is different, not better. Amongst other things film is significantly more archival than digital images so the record of the project will last for very many decades.
Also wanted to add my thanks to Russell for the opportunity, and to Matt and Cactuslab for their hard work creating the photo blog template for us to use.
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Then Iggy and the Stooges, who also weren’t quite as good as last time – which may simply be because I will always prefer the Ron Asheton Stooges to the James Williamson Stooges. ‘Shake Appeal’ (with a stage full of dancers from the crowd) and ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’ were especially good.
From where this soaked punter was standing, 'Raw Power' and 'Search & Destroy' alone were almost worth the price of admission. But yeah, nothing will match those first few seconds of Ron Asheton cranking out the intro to 'Loose' in 2006. A transcendent moment.
