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April 3, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 201 Tora Tora Tora 2018

The big highlights were all musical ones for me this year. We played first up in the late afternoon sun. Tim and I had travelled over together, talking old times and catching up. We have all this history. He had been the drummer that replaced Caroline in the earliest days of the band and then […]
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December 25, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 142 The Spines – 2016

1981 – “It was a terrible song but The right name for this band” 2016 – This being our thirty-fifth anniversary I was hoping to get to play a lot of gigs and things always shape up differently than you had planned… In the summer we played at a few carnivals and parks. There was […]
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April 3, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 105 Tora Tora Tora 2016

It started badly. It was raining as we drove over there on Good Friday and I had forgotten to buy beer the night before, the tent I’d brought turned out to have no poles or pegs and I didn’t have my shades. The rain cleared as we put up the rest of the Spines camp […]
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December 20, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 90 The Spines 2015

We had a pretty good year as it unfolded. It started with a big profile on the band’s first decade in Audioculture – the NZ music online archive. Strongly written by Gary Steel with interesting insight into those early line-ups and the records we made. Great to be officially represented in an historical and cultural […]
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July 19, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 68 The Solo Gigs

After Negative Theatre split and before the Spines formed I did my first ever solo gigs – I didn’t find it easy. Unlike Louise I wasn’t a natural performer outside the context of the songs – in between I would just mumble out the title of the next number and get on with it. The […]
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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 […]
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October 19, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 30 Tora Tora Tora

It was one of those blood moons the night I first met Neil and Leah Bramley at Bowronomo’s house in Mt Cook in early 2007 – one of those meetings where you know you’ll be friends for life. I played Neil the Spines music and the solo album I’d been working on with Mark Austen […]
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