Well, we do this every year or two – The Great Kiwi BBQ – I take some records down to the San Fran, all Kiwi music from all sorts of eras, fads, trends – and I play them in whatever order I feel like. And so it was last night, a good night and a great set of tunes I reckon. Well, you can be the judge – here’s the tunes in the order they were rolled out:

1. Home Brew, Thursday
2. Dalvanius and The Fascinations, Voodoo Lady
3. Golden Harvest, I Need Your Love
4. Crowded House, Kare Kare
5. Lawrence Arabia, The 03
6. Julien Dyne, Steel Legs 11
7. The Pelicans, Krazy Legs
8. The Screaming Meemees, See Me Go
9. The Clean, Tally Ho!
10. The Newmatics, Riot Squad
11. Coconut Rough, Sierra Leone
12. Split Enz, I Got You
13. DD Smash, Outlook For Thursday
14. Herbs, French Letter
15. Quincy Conserve, Ride The Rain
16. Fourmyula, Nature
17. Anthonie Tonnon, Water Underground
18. The Puddle, Decline To Fall
19. The Eversons, Creepy
20. The Chills, Heavenly Pop Hit
21. Connan Mockasin, Forever Dolphin Love
22. Push Push, Trippin’
23. Headless Chickens, Cruise Control
24. The Mutton Birds, Dominion Road
25. Jan Hellriegel, The Way I Feel
26. Andrew Fagan, Jerusalem
27. Tall Dwarfs, Sign The Dotted Line
28. Fabulous/Arabia, Perm
29. Sisters Underground, In The Neighbourhood
30. OMC, How Bizarre
31. DLT, Chains
32. Garageland, Comeback
33. The Bats, North By North
34. Delaney Davidson, Tell It To You
35. Tami Neilson, Walk (Back To Your Arms)
36. Marlon Williams, Dark Child
37. Mockers, Swear It’s True
38. The Body Electric, Pulsing
39. The Phoenix Foundation, Buffalo
40. Dave Dobbyn, Harmony House
41. Fur Patrol, Lydia
42. Liam Finn, Better To Be
43. Dave McArtney & The Pink Flamingos, Virginia
44. The Dance Exponents, Know Your Own Heart
45. Nadia Reid, Holy Loud
46. Ray Columbus, Now You Shake
47. Blerta, Dance All Around The World
48. Bunny Walters, Brandy
49. Space Waltz, Out on the Street
50. Hello Sailor, Gutter Black
51. Dragon, April Sun In Cuba
52. Th’ Dudes, Be Mine Tonite
53. Fred Dagg, The National Anthem
54. Mike Nock, Blue Monastery
55. Rhian Sheehan, Little Sines
56. Jakob, Malachite
57. Mountaineater, Mata
58. Schnell-Fenster, Whisper
59. Chris Knox, Michael
60. Lawnmaster, Skinny
61. Bilders, The Utopians R Just Out Boozin’
62. Tim Finn, Parihaka
63. Netherworld Dancing Toys, For Today
64. Coup D’etat, No Music On My Radio
65. Sharon O’Neill, Maxine
66. The Swingers, Counting The Beat
67. Blam Blam Blam, There Is No Depression In New Zealand
68. Patea Maori Club, Poi E
69. Peking Man, Room That Echoes
70. Supergroove, Can’t Get Enough
71. The Exponents, Why Does Love Do This To Me?
72. Shihad, Home Again
73. Darcy Clay, Jesus I Was Evil
74. Bressa Creeting Cake, Palm Singing
75. The Crocodiles, Tears
76. Goodshirt, Sophie
77. The Datsuns, Harmonic Generator
78. Sonny Day, Saving Up
79. Ngaire, To Sir With Love
80. Bic Runga, Sway
81. Dimmer, All The Way To Her
82. Tex Pistol, The Game of Love
83. Verlaines, Death and The Maiden
84. Shona Laing, (Glad I’m) Not A Kennedy
85. Scribe, Not Many
86. Mareko, Stop Drop & Roll
87. Savage, Swing
88. Pacific Heights, Drained
89. The Narcs, Heart and Soul
90. Che Fu, Misty Frequencies
91. Mi-Sex, Computer Gams
92. The Spelling Mistakes, Feels So Good
93. Graham Brazier, Billy Bold
94. Max Merritt and The Meteors, Slipping Away
95. SJD, Was I Always Here