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Author of 'CRUSH – Photos from Post-Punk Auckland'. In stock NOW at Flying Nun Records (online and in the Auckland & Wellington stores) & Time Out Books Mt Eden
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A quote from Jon Toogood's book 'Home Again' acknowledges the massive influence of both Bailter Space and the Skeptics on Shihad - who may have started out as a speed metal band, but Metallica and Motörhead faded as they opened up to the power of Bailter Space & the Skeptics...
... They were louder than Motörhead. I could feel my innards being shaken by sound and by volume. They were amazing. I'd had no idea my sound guy was in such a cool band. I wanted our band to be as cool as they were ..."
Photo © Jonathan Ganley. Alister Parker & Brent McLauchlan of Bailter Space, at the Kings Arms, Auckland, Tuesday February 5 2013. #bailterspace #skeptics #postpunkauckland
From the NZ Papers Past 'Rip It Up' magazine archive May 1981: RTC Records announce the first release of Joy Division records in New Zealand: 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' 7" and 12", and the 'Unknown Pleasures' LP. The single goes straight in at #1, first week. @peterhook @JDNOPICS
(To conclude my trip through the long shadow cast by The Fall’s 1982 NZ tour, here’s the final word from Mark Smith, quoted from his autobiography ‘Renegade’): “They were right behind us in New Zealand though. They were brilliant. All the local labels put us up in their houses...
"... they gave us the time to prove ourselves. I respect them for that; they could very easily have listened to the Aussies and taken it as read we were little more than a new form of headache." @fallfuturepast @Stephenhanley6 @hanleyPa (photo © 1982 by @pointthatthing)
From the NZ Papers Past 'Rip It Up' magazine archive Sept 1982: Two photographs published with George Kay's story 'The Fall Of Slick'. Uncredited when published, they were taken by Carol Tippet in Lincoln St, Ponsonby, in central Auckland
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4) And in 'The Clean - In The Dreamlife You Need A Rubber Soul' by Richard Langston
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From the NZ Papers Past 'Rip It Up' magazine archive: August 1983, p4. Russell Brown heralds the forthcoming Flying Nun release of 'Fall In A Hole'. Aerogram from Manchester has been received at Nun HQ, Mark Smith is onboard, all is well. @fallfuturepast @Stephenhanley6 @hanleyPa
From the NZ Papers Past 'Rip It Up' magazine archive: January 1983, p3. Chris Knox lists his favourite records of 1982 - no. 1 is the as yet unreleased 'The Fall - Live Tapes from Mainstreet'. 'Fall In A Hole' proper is still a year away. @fallfuturepast @Stephenhanley6 @hanleyPa
From the NZ Papers Past 'Rip It Up' magazine archive Sept 1982: 'The Fall Of Slick'. George Kay meets Mark Smith at the Holiday Lodge, Christchurch. Smith "arrives from the shops with a bottle of Rochdale dry cider among other things." @fallfuturepast @Stephenhanley6 @hanleyPa
From the NZ Papers Past 'Rip It Up' magazine archive: August 1981. First Fall releases in New Zealand, on Rough Trade via EMI. 'Grotesque' and 'Totally Wired', both briefly in the Top 40. In good company with Pere Ubu & Cabaret Voltaire.
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From the NZ Papers Past 'Rip It Up' magazine archive: August 1982, page 1. Chris Knox winds up his Fall story with the latest news from Australia. Pretty much as @Stephenhanley6 remembered it in 'The Big Midweek'. @fallfuturepast @hanleyPa
From the NZ Papers Past 'Rip It Up' magazine archive: August 1982 ad for Sounds Unlimited Records. Mark E. Smith & The Fall signing albums in store, sometime 12-2 August 21! Hex was $11.99 now $9.49 ! Free Hex poster with each LP or tape! @fallfuturepast @hanleyPa @Stephenhanley6
