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Post by ekki on Feb 27, 2006 17:30:57 GMT
10. The Clean aka The Great Unwashed
09. Beasts Of Bourbon
08. Cosmic Psychos
07. Celibate Rifles
06. Headless Chickens
05. Tall Dwarfs
04. Straightjacket Fits
03. Jean Paul Sartre Experience
02. Look Blue Go Purple
01. Wreck Small Speakers On Expensive Stereos
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Post by Freddy C on Feb 27, 2006 17:44:24 GMT
The Lime Spiders
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Post by rosko on Feb 27, 2006 20:17:01 GMT
From way back when... "Mental As Anything".
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Post by professor on Feb 27, 2006 20:18:18 GMT
Little known facts about members of bands with the best names from Down Under
Mick Blood from the Lime Spiders was once hospitalised because he thought Tic Tacs would make functional ear-plugs.
Damien Lovelock from the Celibate Rifles is now a very good Football commentator.
Tex Perkins from the Beasts of Bourbon is performing soon, backed by the West Australian Symphony Orchestra.
Ross Knight from the Cosmic Psychos is a keen homebrewer.
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Post by professor on Feb 27, 2006 20:19:29 GMT
Mentals still running Rosko - they played at my mate's wedding last year. Reg Mombassa is no longer with them but they are still good fun.
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Post by admin on Feb 27, 2006 20:44:11 GMT
What about Angry Anderson? Midnight Oil? INXS?
PROPER Aussie bands.
NURSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Respect
Gordy
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Post by professor on Feb 27, 2006 20:47:30 GMT
Maaaaaate - Rose Tattoo are shit hot
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Post by alireggae on Feb 27, 2006 21:41:28 GMT
OMC (Otara Millionaires Club) - How Bizzarre
How funny for those of you who know the upper class area of Otara - hahahha!
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Post by zapatoo on Feb 27, 2006 21:48:26 GMT
Joe Dolce Music Theatre  |
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Post by admin on Feb 27, 2006 23:14:12 GMT
Was Joe Dolce Australian? I always thought he was a proper Italian-American!
Respect
Gordy
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Post by professor on Feb 27, 2006 23:41:23 GMT
One of ours and he sparked the reply single from top-heavy Italian Australian icon Maria Venuti with "Listen to your Mama"
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Post by Nick Pace on Feb 28, 2006 1:47:02 GMT
Vegemite Reggae God In A Box TrueTone HiFi The Jism Monkeys The Butter Puppies Please note, I am in no way biased just because I am the last 4 bands  |
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Post by rosko on Feb 28, 2006 12:03:50 GMT
Is that Joe Dolce of "Whattsamatta You"? infamy?
I thought hewas some local Toronto guy with a novelty record, what was that 30 years ago?
Someone actually shipped that 45 to Canada? Where are customs tariffs when you need them?
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Post by zapatoo on Feb 28, 2006 12:52:15 GMT
"Shaddup A You Face" was (I think) 1981 and kept Ultravox's "Vienna" (an extremely annoying dirge) from the UK No. 1 spot...
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Post by lankou2 on Feb 28, 2006 16:56:51 GMT
can't beat the Pork Hunts, imho!
the Screaming Orgasms is a good second, but as they are Japanese expats playing old school ska, not too sure that counts! ; )
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Post by professor on Feb 28, 2006 20:57:49 GMT
They're called the Porkers these days - the sellouts! Where are the S.O's based Lankou? There's a few other Japanese bands spending a lot of time here, like Mach Pelican, which is a fair band name itself .
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Post by lankou2 on Mar 1, 2006 16:27:47 GMT
yes, i dig some stuff by the Porkers, not very traditional ska at all, but really one of the only crossover ska acts i can enjoy these days (that happens as you get old!).
i wonder if the SO's were not from the northern coast but coul be wrong, i don't knwo where i put my CD, i know they have two albums and that the band consisted mainly of Japanese students, that might account for their not being active any more???
i'll try to fish it in my mess and will keep you posted.
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Post by professor on Mar 1, 2006 20:29:55 GMT
I'm not big on the crossover thing myself but I first saw the porkers almost 20 years ago (and the second time last year supporting Neville Staple's Specials) and they're still plugging away, so good luck to em - their singer looks uncomfortably like myself, the poor devil.
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Post by ironwill on Mar 2, 2006 17:21:11 GMT
Eh See (Insert lightning bolt icon) Dee See
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Post by Disco Bum on Mar 3, 2006 4:39:56 GMT
I lurve the Flying Nun stuff (i was, for a hot minute, a Flying Nun recording artist myself, although I've never been to New Zealand) but my fave Kiwi band ever would have to be the Chants R&B. NZ's Pretty Things. Raw over-the-top rawkin' R&B from the mid-60s. Their live record is UNREAL!
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Post by professor on Mar 5, 2006 4:16:16 GMT
We had the pleasure of the occasional Flying Nun package tours with the Bats, Straightjacket Futs and the Chulls all playing together.
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