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Reprinted from: Volcanic Tongue TIP OF THE TONGUE 08 MARCH 2009 “…free jazz skronk…radical prole violence…” “…punk primitive avant garde smarts…” Axemen Big Cheap Motel Siltbreeze LP £13.99 Fantastic vinyl issue of what was originally a cassette from a group that were an anomaly even within the relatively eclectic environs of the original Flying Nun [more...]

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Eat Skull – 9.15.08, Excerpt I, Sneaky Dee’s, Toronto camera: ayal senior   EAT SKULL ~ SICK TO DEATH  ~ lp (siltbreeze) $14.00 eat skull are a quartet hailing from portland, oregon, co-masterminded by rob enbom (former bushwacker in the ranks of hospitals and hole class) and another original hospital, rod meyer (the greatest living [more...]

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Dragan Stojanovic, THE Dragan Stojanovic, is and will always be one of my very best friends but, as is the case with Bob Brannigan, I will always hate him for being a greater songwriter, in quality rather than quantity, and with the emphasis being on the songs polishedness and finishedness rather than the raw performancednedness [more...]

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Steve, Bob and Stu were jogging round the band rotunda as usual on a chilly but glorious crisp Christchurch day, tossing around a genuine cowskin rugby ball red and black of course being the Canterbury colors, with a faded PineTree Meads signature on it indicating it had been around, dropping it to the foot on [more...]

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A memory of ‘The Tour Days’ It was the end of the seventies, the start of the eighties in fact, I remember just like it was yesterday, a frightened 15-year-old struggling into my clown costume to raise the spirits of my brothers and sisters in the struggle, too poor to afford a motorbike helmet so [more...]

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Found these on a Christchurch City Council Libraries website of all places . . . The first is from late 82 or early 83, advertising a gig at the infamous Empire Tavern in Dunedin. This poster was scrapped together from old posters and other art by Stu and wacked out in a night at the [more...]

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Steve: You blogging? Bob: You asking? Steve: I’m asking Bob: I’m blogging!

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aka Return to the Planet of “A Scar Is Born” Map 2a: Axemen in Christchurch, Jan-Aug 1984 By January 1984, McCabe and Brannigan share a house in Peterborough St, inner-city Christchurch, with Steve’s then-girlfriend Virg, her sister Bernie, and Lisa Preston. Notice how said house is positioned: almost on a straight line almost equidistant from [more...]

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AXEMEN Stu K-drums/Steve M & Bob B-gtrs/Al Rite-sax/Gary Scott-clarinet/Pete Hall Jones-trumpet The Message (E. Fletcher-M. Glover-S. Robinson-C. Chase) Untitled By Unknown Axemen, Dogs, Cops City Mall #4 The CONNOISSEURS Rent Hamilton-gtr, vocals/Shorty Hamilton-bass, vcls/Doug Hamilton-snare, vcls with Al/Gary/Pete as The Horned Hornet Horns Divorce Me COD/Just Because (Carl Smith/Bob Shelton-Joe Shelton-Sid Robin) Setting The Woods [more...]

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A look back on some of the ideas which didn’t make it              

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purple haze third stone from the sun steve mccabe, dragan stojanovic – guitars; bob brannigan – bass; stu kowalski – drums purple haze recorded live at the rising sun, auckland, june 1989 third stone from the sun recorded live at siren, auckland, 18-6-89 foxy lady steve mccabe, bob brannigan – guitars; m. s. agro – [more...]

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Reprinted from: http://7inches.blogspot.com/2009/11/times-new-viking-axemen-tour-single.html Times New Viking / Axemen tour single Picked this up last night at the TNV show at Mercury Lounge with the Axemen…my friend Pat told me to look out for a tour only single at the merch table, and there it was. Does a band with the power of Matador behind it [more...]

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Show Your Support… join MICK ELBORADO IS INNOCENT now! Reprinted From The Christchurch Press, 19 August 2009 http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/christchurch/2764971/Its-OK-officer-I-work-here/ “It’s OK Officer, I work here” By IAN STEWARD – The Christchurch Press A Christchurch tax worker fed up with his bosses has made a spectacular protest by driving his car through three plate-glass windows in the [more...]

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Source: http://www.musicianguide.com/biographies/1608002702/Eugene-Chadbourne.html JANUARY 22 – 30, 2009 Jan 22 – Wellington – Happy, with Sign of the Hag, Manimanima and Basketcase Jan 23 – Wellington – Happy, with the Bad Blues Band and others Jan 24 – Christchurch – the Wunderbar Jan 25 – Dunedin, Chicks Hotel Port Chalmers, with Greg Malcolm Jan 29 – [more...]

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