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May 22, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 112 Jayrem Records
It was Jim Moss and his Wellington answer to the South Island’s Flying Nun and Auckland’s Ripper or Propeller Records and yet it was totally different. Those other labels had their own style or ethos whereas Jayrem would release any type of music in any given genre – from the Upper Hutt Posse to the […]Archive
February 12, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 949
V/A, Songs From Banana Dominion (1984) The Jayrem label – always had a lot of time for it. And these compilations are nice finds, I have a couple others, but this one only came into my collection recently. I know all the songs already though – well, most of them, there were a couple of […]Archive
August 10, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 20 Idiot Sun/Flying Nun
After years of playing together, the jazz influences of Ross Burge and Neill Duncan were really having a bearing on the Spines and my song writing. Odd but funky time signatures and improvisations were becoming central to our sound. We had parted ways with Jayrem Records after The Moon and were now on Flying Nun. […]Archive
June 15, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary #12 The Moon
At the end of 1984 the Spines was humming again. Ross Burge and Wendy Calder were both back in the band and it was time to record our first album. Neill Duncan suggested Capture Studios in Gisborne, run by his old mate Maurice Priestly. We took the train. Jayrem Records gave us a budget for […]Archive
May 8, 2014 by Simon Sweetman