The Verlaines - A Decade of RNZ Live (2009-2019)

NZ Music Festival 

Shed 6

Wellington, New Zealand

March 9, 2016

  

webstream capture via Radio NZ (sound quality: Ex-)

01 Pyromaniac
02 Crisis After Crisis
03 Burlesque
04 {Deepest Desire}
05 Makes No Difference
06 The Lady and the Lizard 
07 Bird Dog
08 Only Dream Left
09 Joed Out
10 Icarus Missed
11 C. D Jimmy Jazz & Me
12 You Forget Love
13 Dippy's Last Trip
14 Take Good Care of It
15 Phil Too?
16 You Say You
17 The Ballad of Harry Noryb
18 Death and the Maiden

19 Sad Slow Love Song

    note: setlist is approximated from data on setlist.fm

The Verlaines:

Jane Dodd - bass

Graeme Downs - guitar, vocals 

Robbie Yeats - drums

RNZ Live

unknown location (Dunedin?)

Sept. 2009

webstream via Radio NZ (sound quality: Ex-)

01 Paratai Drive

02 They That Once Were Eager Fellas

03 Joed Out

04 Graeme Downs interview with Emma Smith

The Kings Arms

Auckland, New Zealand

Dec. 14, 2013

webstream via Radio NZ (sound quality: Ex-)

01 The Lady and the Lizard 

02 Don't Send Me Away

03 Lying In State

04 Phil Too?

05 For the Love of Ash Grey

06 The Ballad of Harry Noryb

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Garageland - B-sides & Other Rarities

'Beesides to Heaven'  

B-Sides & Other Rarities
1995-2002

soundboard recordings (quality: Ex- to VG+)

ROB SEZ: Never heard of Garageland? I hadn't either until about a year ago. By then, they'd been gone for nearly 20 years. Like so many good things from New Zealand, it's taken the rest of the world time to catch up with our Kiwi friends' well-kept secret. Garageland plays a brilliant amalgamation of guitar pop, rock, punk, and fuzz pop. If you like this, there are 3 albums of great music waiting for you to discover. As you'll hear from the live tracks, Garageland could kick up a mighty storm in concert. Does anyone out there have a decent-sounding live recording to share? If so, please get in touch and I'll post it here. I put this comp together from my own CD singles, etc. I kinda sorta named the collection after the song that opens and closes the compilation. None of these appears on any album or readily-available digital release (well, I just realized that one of them does, but the 18 other tracks don't). Track details can be found in the first comment. Under the Radar reports the original Garageland lineup will play reunion shows in NZ next April. My apologies to Garageland for doing this to their rare tracks. I hope they'll allow this post to stay up for a while so fellow music geeks can enjoy...

   

sample this Garageland album track

PUNISH THE REPLAY BUTTON

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The Beths - Chicago, IL 2019 (sbd)

Lincoln Hall 

Chicago, IL
March 6, 2019 

soundboard-sourced webcast capture (quality: Ex-)

01 Whatever

02 You Wouldn't Like Me 

03 Not Running

04 Warm Blood

05 Great No One

06 River Run (Lvl 1)

07 Idea/Intent

08 Lying In the Sun

09 Happy Unhappy

10 chit-chat & thank you's

11 Little Death

12 Less Than Thou

13 applause, crowd

14 Future Me Hates Me

15 Uptown Girl

The Beths:

Elizabeth Stokes - vocals, guitar 

Jonathan Pearce - guitar, vocals 

Benjamin Sinclair - bass, vocals 

Ivan Luketina-Johnston - drums, vocals, tambourine

   

ROB SEZ: I didn't know anything about New Zealand's The Beths until I started this series and Chuck got in touch. Quite the enthusiast, Chuck persuaded me The Beths are the real deal, and he's totally on the money: winsome pop played with rock energy, fronted by Elizabeth Stokes, a charming singer with a sly sense of humor. (If I'd been paying closer attention, I would've already known Neil & Tim Finn are fans.) The Beths deserve an honored spot on anyone's list of "Worthy NZ Bands Old & New." Indykid captured this webcast beautifully, and I ripped the audio. The source is lossy, but it's high quality — so I'm sharing my lossless capture here also. Sample and purchase The Beths' music at Bandcamp, including the just-released live recording Auckland, New Zealand 2020.

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Don McGlashan - Radio NZ Live Sessions 2013-2015

REPOST / UPDATE

  

Radio NZ Sessions 2013-2015

Auckland, NZ

webstream (sound quality VG+ to Ex-)

SAMPLE: "Lucky Stars" (2015 RNZ live session)

     

Most excellent photos by David Watson

01 Bad Blood (solo)

02 Korea (solo)

03 Envy of Angels (solo)

04 Marvellous Year (solo)

05 Harbour Bridge (solo)

06 Lucky Stars (solo)

07 Charles Kingsford Smith (solo)  

08 Last Year's Shoes

09 Face In the Paper

10 Bathe In the River

11 Harbour Bridge

12 Toy Factory Fire

13 This Is London

14 When the Trumpets Sound

15 Charles Kingsford Smith

16 Lucky Stars

17 The Waves Would Roll On

18 Tomorrow Night

NOTES

1-5 = solo session, June 2013

6-7 = solo session, Feb. 2015

8-11 = with band, June 2013 (Wayne Mowat, 'Afternoons' show)

12-13 = DM & Seven Sisters, Music 101 live session, June 2013

14 = with Tom Rodwell, 13th Floor Video Session, April 2015

15-18 = with Chris O'Connor & Tom Rodwell, June 2015

Taite Music Prize Awards

Auckland, NZ

April 15, 2015

webstream (sound quality VG+)

01 Hold On to Your Loneliness

02 Girl, Make Your Own Mind Up 

03 Lucky Stars

04 On My Way to You

05 The Waves Would Roll On

06 When the Trumpets Sound

ROB SEZ: Don was the founder, songwriter, and lead singer of New Zealand's beloved Mutton Birds. Friend of the Finns, Don is every bit as talented as Neil & Tim, but not as well known. He deserves to be an international household name. I buy all of Don's albums without stopping to ask "Is this going to be worth the money?" because I know it will be — and I've never been disappointed. I am stoked to know he's about to drop his latest, Bright November Morning, at the end of October (see below).

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Don's forthcoming album: Bright November Morning — first in 6 years, out Feb. 2022.
Listen to the single "Now's the Place" right now.
Sample or preorder this & his others at Bandcamp.

Read more about the music of Don McGlashan 

at his website or FB

Tim Finn - Live 1989 + 1993

Dallas, TX
April 1989

Tim Finn: best widow's peak in pop 

(venue, exact date unknown)

audience recording (sound quality: VG+) 

01 Young Mountain

02 Not Even Close

03 How’m I Gonna Sleep?

04 Parihaka

05 Tears Inside

06 Birds Swim, Fish Fly

07 I Hope I Never

08 Suicide On Downing Street

09 Show a Little Mercy

The Borderline

London, UK

June 16, 1993

soundboard recording (quality: Ex-, ripped from 

promo-only CD via 'Walk You Home' boot)

01 Hit the Ground Running

02 Persuasion

03 Protected

04 Many's the Time

05 Six Months In a Leaky Boat

06 Walk You Home

07 Charlie

08 Parihaka (incl. Weather With You)

09 Not Even Close

10 Protected

11 All I Ask*

12 Persuasion* (w. Richard Thompson, guitar)

*Tracks 11 & 12 recorded live on Later With Jools Holland in 1993, TV audio

ROB SEZ: Fancy a bit of Finn musical fun? If you're showcasing New Zealand talent (as I'm doing these days at the blog), you can't go wrong with either Finn brother. That said, Neil is more prolific, and it can be hard to find live recordings of Tim in good voice. Here are two for your listening pleasure. As always, my biggest thanks go to the tapers and sharers, whose names are unknown to me. Please enjoy.

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The Gordons - Wellington, N.Z. 1984 (sbd)

Terminus Hotel 

Wellington, New Zealand

July 5, 1984


soundboard recording (quality: VG++)


01 Reactor
02 Quality Control
03 Joker
04 Red Line 

05 Mono Flo
06 Identity
07 Machine Song
08 Adults and Children
09 Lead Room
10 Dreams Are Free*
11 25,000 Years*
12 Mentus Fugit

*song titles for 10 & 11 are guesses, based on the lyrics

ROB SEZ: Once again, I'm featuring a band I don't know much about, except that they're from N.Z., and were part of the Flying Nun crew. They didn't release a lot of music before they folded. Yet The Gordons caused enough of a stir that tapers like crankingamps were paying attention. All thanks to him for recording & sharing this one.

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The Chills - Then & Now (Live 1989 + 2021)

Subterania
Ladbroke Grove
London, UK
October 11, 1989

audience recording (sound quality: VG+; a solid recording with clear vocals and good instrum. separation)

01 intro

02 Wet Blanket

03 Singing In My Sleep

04 The Oncoming Day

05 Night of Chill Blue

06 Dan Destiny and the Silver Dawn 

07 Familiarity Breeds Contempt

08 Past Part Past Fiction

09 Effloresce and Deliquesce

10 Rain

11 House With a Hundred Rooms

12 I Love My Leather Jacket

13 Pink Frost

14 Dead Web

15 Whole Lot of Non Going On

16 Look for the Good In Others

17 encore break

18 Kaleidoscope World

19 I Saw Your Silhouette

20 encore break

21 Brave Words

22 Great Escape

ROB SEZ:  Got longevity? The Chills do. Thanks to the stubborn persistence of founder, lead vocalist, & songwriter Martin Philipps, The Chills are still at it more than 30 years after they began. Here's a pair of shows 31 years apart, with deep thanks to buenaventura, auto_pilot, and crankingamps for sharing their gems. The Chills' latest studio album is Scatterbrain, released in May of this year.

   

The Powerstation
Auckland, New Zealand
May 14, 2021

audience recording (sound quality: VG+; there's noticeable crowd chatter, but it's not intrusive during the songs)

01 intro

02 Night of Chill Blue

03 Bad Sugar

04 The Male Monster 

     from the Id 

05 Wet Blanket

06 The Oncoming Day

07 Destiny

08 Monolith

09 Kaleidoscope World

10 You're Immortal

11 Pink Frost

12 Lord of All I Survey

13 Doledrums

14 Little Alien

15 Heavenly Pop Hit

16 I Love My Leather Jacket

17 encore break

18 Dark Sensation [Snapper cover]

19 Rolling Moon

20 Hourglass

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Finn Brothers - Mood Swinging Men (live comp)

Neil & Tim Finn
'Mood Swinging Men'
fanclub-only live comp, 1995-1996
various dates & venues: UK, USA, N.Z. & Australia

soundboard recordings (quality: Ex-)

ROB SEZ: Way back when, I purchased this directly from the Finn Brothers / Crowded House fanclub, and I just sold it to help pay some bills. It's never seen a general/commercial release, and is impossible to find at a reasonable price. I ripped it before I sold it, so of course I'm sharing it here. Please enjoy this tuneful treat. (You can find another Finn Brothers share I posted at the blog a few years ago HERE.)

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The 3D's - Carrboro, N.C. May 1994 (sbd)

Cat's Cradle 
Carrboro, N.C.
May 26, 1994

soundboard recording (quality: VG++)

01 intro
02 Beautiful Things

03 Something In the Water 
04 Meluzina Man
05 Sing Song
06 The Young and Restless
07 The Golden Grove
08 Man On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
09 Sunken Treasure
10 The Venus Trail
11 Hey Seuss
12 Cash None
13 Outer Space
14 Ritual Tragick
15 encore break
16 Hairs

TT: 54:27 mins.

The 3D's:
David Saunders - guitar, vocals
Dave Mitchell - guitar, vocals
Denise Roughan - bass, vocals
Domenic Stones - drums

ROB SEZ:  Honestly, I'm not that familiar with The 3Ds, so I don't have a lot to say about this blazing live set. Thankfully, the taper and uploader, mrpember, had some comments. I quote him verbatim, with my deep thanks for his generosity:

Great set from this great New Zealand noise-pop band. Their album The Venus Trail had just been released in the U.S. on Merge Records so this was a bit of a 'showcase' for the label and it went extremely well, they got a legitimate encore which was rare for an opening band. The board mix took a few songs to dial in but for most of this set it is excellent. 

As I normally did after recording bands who were on their label, I dropped a cassette of this show off at the Merge Records office in Chapel Hill the day after the show. I got a call later that day or the next day asking if I could drop off three more copies, the band thought it was one of the best shows they'd ever played and really liked the tape and each member wanted a copy.

They were the second band that night, following the Raymond Brake and followed by The Archers of Loaf (who seemed a bit intimidated to follow them).

  

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The Clean - Hoboken, N.J. 2007 (matrix)

Maxwell's 

Hoboken, N.J.

Dec. 5, 2007

(Hanukkah show, opening for Yo La Tengo)

soundoard-audience matrix (sound quality: Ex-)

01 Hold On to the Rail

02 Side On

03 Factory Man

04 Getting Older

05 Secret Place

06 Too Much Violence

07 Someone

08 Point That Thing Somewhere Else 

09 Tally Ho

10 Beatnik

11 Stars

12 Safe In the Rain

From Ira Kaplan's 2007 Hanukkah diary:

If the holidays are a time for getting together with loved ones, then I can’t think of a better way to start night two of our little shindig than with the Clean. I have a vivid memory of riding toward the Lincoln Tunnel — this is something like 20 years ago — listening for the first time to a pre-recorded cassette of Compilation that a friend thought I’d like, and flipping my lid. Speaking of lids, the Clean’s were topped with black wigs, and had lots to say between songs, much of it profane. They opened strong with “Hold On to the Rail,” “Side On” and a world premiere “Factory Man,” and ended even stronger, with a triple play of classics — “Point That Thing Somewhere Else,” “Tally Ho,” and their Jewish number “Beatnik” — before closing with a gorgeous “Safe in the Rain.”

ROB SEZ: Gotta be up front about my profound love of The Clean, comprised of David & Hamish Kilgour and Robert Scott. If you force me to say which N.Z. band I love the most, I will readily cop to The Clean.  Something about David K's way with words, melodies, and the just-right guitar lines: feels like a complete package. HUGE THANKS to YLTfan for recording this one and to neil d for doing the rest. My apologies for being so slow to get this series going: just too much going on re: the rest of my life in the past 6 weeks. I'm now setting aside some early a.m. hours every week now, so look for weekly posts from here on.

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