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May 8, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 110 New Zealand Music Month
It’s always slightly depressing to me somehow – why we need one at all and who it’s for exactly. Growing up as a kid in the sixties most of the ‘homegrown’ music we heard was local cover versions of overseas artists songs – almost like a karaoke country or lamb dressed as mutton. There were […]Archive
February 7, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 97 Post-Punk
The early eighties in Wellington was the best place and the soundtrack for me was what I suppose you would call post punk. It was a new type of music and I loved it – Echo and XTC, Furs and the Cure, Magazine and Joy Division, Dexy’s and Only Ones, Stranglers and Members, Japan and […]Archive
December 6, 2015 by Simon Sweetman