yeah!

S.P.U.D. playing at the old low-ceiling Manning Bar were amazing, as were Mudhoney at the same venue around 1990/91

You know its the funniest thing, I just searched for a S.P.U.D myspace the other day and upon seeing nothing contemplated starting one up!! Always wanted to see the video they did for 'Breakdown Town'. Shall have to pull out Sour on the record player tonight for some sweet memories!

We should also have some Solid Gold Hell love!!! ...'The Country Sow'!! What a fucking track!

Breakdown Town is on the Flying Nun DVD compilation "Very Short Films "...still availible here :http://www.smokecds.com/cd/35074

Yah.. one day I'll look into purchasing this.

you should listen to 2ser 107.3fm monday breakfast at 730 am (sydney time) cos i do a segment about a different new zealand band each week. lots of flying nun stuff seems to come up cos its SO GOOD

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that DVD 'very short films' is amazing too btw...i just rememebed i had it in my shelf after i saw the cannanes the other day (who reminded me of nz band look blue go purple)

That would be grand.. I'm generally asleep by then though. Have you done one on Wendyhouse yet?? You should...

Does that lad from the Loop Orchestra still do a 2ser slot?

no wendyhouse yet,in fact, i havent even heard of them... whoops...

im not sure if that chap from the loop orcehstra still does a slot. check out the program grid perhaps on the website

Track them down.. fine outfit with about 8 differing formats of releases under their belt..

Ah of course, that would be the smart way to go about it! Cheers :]

check this out (yes, stolen from myspae bulletin. yes, the formatting will fuck up):

NUN BOX FN500 - Flying Nun 25th Anniversary Box Set

Its our 25th Birthday, so we have been quietly working away on something very special.

NUN BOX FN500 - Flying Nun 25th Anniversary Box Set

The Beautifully packaged Flying Nun boxset contains 4CD's and a 100 page booklet.

The deluxe 100-page booklet features graphic novel-format liner notes, illustrations and photos created by each musician/band who has a track on the box set.

Over 80 songs were chosen and put in a chronological order by Roger Shepherd, founder of Flying Nun. Check out the fantastic tracklisting below:

Its out on Dec 4th - but as its very LIMITED EDITION, might be best to pre-order just to be safe.

To pre order you can go to:
www.smokecds.com
www.amplifier.co.nz
www.realgroovy.co.nz
or a good local music shop in NZ...

Disc 1
01 The Clean - Point That Thing Somewhere Else
02 The Gordons - Coalminers Song
03 25 Cents - The Witch
04 Pin Group - Ambivalence
05 Bilders – Alien
06 Bored Games - Joe 90
07 The Stones - Something New
08 Mainly Spaniards - That's What Friends Are For
09 Naked Spots Dance - Governed By You
10 The Victor Dimisch Band - Native Waiter
11 Marie & the Atom – Isol
12 Childrens Hour – Caroline's Dream
13 Fetus Productions – What's Going On
14 The Chills - Pink Frost
15 The Rip - The Holy Room
16 The Great Unwashed - Neck of the Woods
17 The Verlaines - Pyromaniac
18 Expendables - The Man With No Desire
19 Doublehappys - Needles & Plastic
20 Shayne Carter & Peter Jefferies - Randolph's Going Home

Disc 2
01 Tall Dwarfs - Crush
02 The Exploding Budgies - Kenneth Anger
03 Alpaca Brothers – Hey Man
04 Axemen – The Wharf With No Name
05 The Weeds - Wheatfields
06 Dead Famous People - Barlows House
07 The Orange – What's In A Name
08 Goblin Mix - Travelling Grave
09 This Kind Of Punishment - Immigration Song
10 Sneaky Feelings - Trouble With Kay
11 Bird Nest Roys - Jaffa Boy
12 The Bats - North By North
13 Peter Jefferies & Jono Lonie - Thief With The Silver
14 Jay Clarkson - The Boy With The Sad Hands
15 The Cakekitchen - Dave The Pimp
16 Straitjacket Fits - Dialling A Prayer
17 The Terminals - Batwing
18 Look Blue Go Purple - I Don't Want You Anyway
19 Snapper - Buddy
20 Stephen - Don't Know Why
21 The Dead C - Scarey Nest
22 S.P.U.D. - Breakdown Town

Disc 3
01 Sombretones - Good Evening Listeners
02 Chris Knox - Meat
03 Headless Chickens – Gaskrankinstation
04 Queen Meanie Puss - Contracts
05 Olla – Skeptic Hagfish
06 N.R.A. - Glitch
07 Chug - Flowers
08 Skeptics – Sheen Of Gold
09 The Magick Heads – The Back Of Her Hand
10 Dribbling Darts – Hey Judith
11 The Renderers – Touch Of Evil
12 JPS Experience – Bleeding Star
13 Pop Art Toasters - What Am I Doing
14 3Ds - Philadelphia Rising
15 Dimmer - Crystalator
16 Alec Bathgate - Pet Hates
17 Rik Starr - A Sort Of Holiday
18 Garageland - What Will You Do?
19 Bailter Space - Splat
20 Able Tasmans - Klingon National Anthem

Disc 4
01 Superette - Saskatchewan
02 Loves Ugly Children - Suck
03 David Mitchell & Denise Roughan - Crying Room
04 Solid Gold Hell - Country Sow
05 King Loser – '76 Comeback
06 Bike - Save My Life
07 David Kilgour - Chop Me In 1/2
08 Bressa Creeting Cake - Rocky Mountain
09 Chris Heazlewood - Surf's Up In Malibu
10 Martin Phillipps - Evermore
11 The Hasselhoff Experiment - Brown Paper Bag
12 Ghost Club - Ghost Club Theme Song
13 Betchadupa - Spill The Light
14 Robert Scott - Harmonic Deluxe
15 The Subliminals - Uh-Oh
16 High Dependency Unit - Schallblüte
17 Graeme Downes - Cattle, Cars & Chainsaws
18 The Shocking Pinks - Emily
19 The D4 – Sake Bomb!
20 The Mint Chicks - Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No!
21 Toy Love - Rebel

looks pretty damn great. and now to look at the price to see if i can afford.

That's a fine collection.. worth it for the Shayne Carter & Peter Jefferies - 'Randolph's Going Home' track alone!... though I would have gone for 'The Sleepwalker' over This Kind of Punishments 'Immigration Song'

I may be alone here, but I think the Subliminals are quite underrated.

and no Rainy Days???

They most certainly are.. that Crystal Chain e.p is stunning.. nice to see brendan moran's drumming in a different sphere.

Didn't Rainy Days just have a single 7" out on the nun?

$150. baaah.

oh man. i only now found out about that box set. too late, probably...

Smoke have them

too late for my bank balance i mean ;)

ahh.. If I didn't whole chunks of this I'd possibly grab one.

+have ... fuck my brain is fried today

Does anyone know anything about the band Solid Gold Hell on Flying Nun? I've got one song called ''Country Sow'' which is killer. It's very Killdozer.

Hmmmm... I wonder if I need to eat next week...

There are some fairly expensive limited edition Bats, Gordons, 3Ds and Clean t-shirts available on the FN website at the moment. Currently trying to talk myself out of buying all of them.

fairly expensive

your not wrong there. i'd probably swap ''fairly'' with ''ridiculously''.

wouldn't mind the gordons one though...

I was very keen on a Gordons shirt as well.. but not at that fucking price.

I just ordered the new album from The Cakekitchen from a blog using PayPal. Allegedly, a one time pressing of 300, and vinyl only. Is this the future of music distribution?

yes, i'd say so and it sucks balls.

also thanks, didn't know about that one..

Thanks for the heads up national_highway_31, I had no idea Cakekitchen was still that active.

I stopped following Graeme Jefferies and Peter Jefferies output in the mid '90s, but got suckered back into this one because of the Australian theme.

Tracklisting is;

A1 I Just Want To Take You Higher
A2 Poor Bi-Cameral Mind
A3 Fashion Chops
A4 Kangaroos In My Top Paddock
A5 My Beautiful Fire Tamer
A6 You'd Better Get Off Your Arse
B1 Glebe Point Road
B2 This Australian Christmas
B3 It Don't Work Out
B4 Curry In A Hurry
B5 Rubberbendy Man
B6 Petersham Rainsong #2

Mick Elborado of the Terminals/Scorched Earth Policy jailed for trying to save his records.

Such a terrible story.

Holy fuck, that's woeful.

''curry in a hurry'' - sounds like a peter coombes song...

Does anyone have Melt by Straitjacket Fits?

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DLU4V3MN

Magicpants, I can't vouch for the link. It looks like a low-ish bitrate. Pretty sure Flying Nun still has the CD instock.

Thanks, amigo. Much appreciated.

Got my record console back from the bloke last night, and Hail's getting a thrashing already. Straitjacket Fits are fucking great. Shayne Carter sings kinda like a kind of proto-Perry Farrell.

And yet Shayne Carter has not struck me as being a twit.

He does use 'bro' a lot in sentences.

max bulk said 45 minutes ago:
Straitjacket Fits are fucking great.

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Straitjacket Fits are fucking great.

I prefer Shayne's earlier bands The Doublehappys and Bored Games, but this statement still gets a thumbs-up from me.