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October 9, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 131 Electricity On Stage In The Rain
I woke up this morning and Facebook reminded me that a year ago I was very nearly killed by a runaway car – I was lucky to survive. Just like the time I nearly fell to my death at McLaren Falls when I was eighteen or almost drowned at Ocean Beach at the turn of […]Archive
July 3, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 118 Rock Against Racism
I’ve been trying to connect all the dots in my head around this gig It was just before the riots and I wrote Lily and I Steve Hanify was organizing protests against the Springbok tour and the concert was part of it I wore my granddad’s leather jacket There was a large swarm of people […]Archive
April 12, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 54 Tora Tora Tora – Part Two
2015 Day One We arrived for the festival early on Good Friday and as we drove in there were already far more people and tents than in the previous years. We put together Spines camp in our usual northeast corner then went down to the stage to set up and sound check – we were […]Archive
October 5, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 28 The Miscreant
I first met Brent McLachlan when the Spines were playing in Christchurch and he was doing our sound – we hit it off immediately. When The Gordons broke up and he moved to Wellington he became our regular live sound guy and was great – he recorded everything on cassette and got a terrific drum […]Archive
September 7, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 24 The Drummers
I’ve always had great drummers in the Spines – they like my songs and the fact that I’m crap on drums and can’t tell them what to play. Barton Price was to be the first but before we got to do a gig he was headhunted by the Crocodiles then the Models. He was a […]Archive
May 12, 2014 by Simon Sweetman