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January 29, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 196 Ska

I think it was the killer basslines that hooked me in and the attitude as much as anything. When I first moved to Wellington in 1980 I guess I was still writing folk songs. Louise and I had found work at the Art Centre and I felt under pressure to write. That first Specials album […]
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September 11, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 179 On the Radio

It must have been Fishing – either the song itself or maybe Gillian. The first time I heard myself on the radio. Bryan Staff our producer was also a DJ and he played it on a late night slot on commercial radio It was a strange feeling – like hearing your speaking voice back on […]
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August 21, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 176 The Record Covers

I started buying albums in the 70s and it was a great time for the cover artwork. I have to admit that was part of the attraction for me – those Hipgnosis and Roger Dean images grabbed my imagination. It was an essential aspect to enjoying an album for me. By the time the Spines […]
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May 7, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 161 Cosgroves

It was a little bar down the side street, part of the Cambridge hotel. Clarke Gregory had started booking bands there in the early 80s. It was semi-underground and the coolest venue in town in its time. He brought through a wide range of bands of the day to play there and it was a […]
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October 23, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 133 Majoribanks Street

It was a big old house on Marshbanks Street and my cousin Mark got the lease for half of it in 1982. I’d been living in a little room in a boarding house on The Terrace and getting hassled for writing songs too loudly in the middle of the night. My girlfriend Nikki used to […]
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May 15, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 111 Ripper Records

Caroline, Rob and I formed the Spines in early 1981 and we started getting gigs straight away. We rehearsed a lot too and were searching out our own sound – they both played professionally in a jazz band as well at the time and we were always tight but experimental. When Bryan Staff moved to […]
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November 29, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 87 A Tour of Two Cities Part One: Masterton

Fishing In our first year of existence, the Spines travelled and played around the lower North Island a fair bit and one of those early gigs was in Masterton. It started out as a holiday but it soon got bigger than that You know you’re fishing know your bait but you don’t know what you’ll […]
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September 10, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Authors I Admire: # 3 Barry Crump

I didn’t know he was an author, nor that he was any sort of “real” bushman. I thought he was an actor, a guy from the TV, those ads. That’s how I first knew Barry Crump. That’s who he was to me. And my dad had a job selling Toyotas so he had met Barry […]
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