Gig Preview: December 31st – New Year’s Eve at Bodega
What a great line-up – DJs in the Burgundy Room playing party tunes all night and DJs and bands upstairs in the main room including a DJ set from Nick Harte of The Shocking Pinks, DJ Serpico (aka Ryan...
View ArticleGig Review: Peter Hook & The Light (Feb 26, Wgtn)
Peter Hook & The Light Bodega Thursday, February 26 Peter Hook was the bassist in Joy Division and the band that formed from its ashes, New Order. That’s enough reason to want to see him – an icon...
View ArticleThe Vinyl Countdown # 937
New Order, Brotherhood (1986) There I was – in a bizarre love/hate triangle with the music of Joy Division and New Order, always liked the JD stuff, never cared for that much of the NO stuff. That’s...
View ArticleGig Preview: UK 79, Bodega, Saturday, November 7, 2015
Coming up at Bodega there’s a post-punk tribute night celebrating Britain’s finest hour (year) in music. UK 79 will feature the music of Joy Division, The Clash and The Cure as performed by experienced...
View ArticleDJ Setlist: Bodega, Saturday, November 7, 2015 – UK 79
It was a tribute night – three very good tribute bands playing the music of The Cure, The Clash and Joy Division at Bodega and in-between and before and after I was playing a few records to try to suit...
View ArticleThe Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 97 Post-Punk
The early eighties in Wellington was the best place and the soundtrack for me was what I suppose you would call post punk. It was a new type of music and I loved it – Echo and XTC, Furs and the Cure,...
View ArticleControl: When An Old Anton Corbijn Interview Gets Chopped And Screwed For...
I spoke in a recent episode of the podcast about a time when I interviewed the great Anton Corbijn ahead of the release of his movie control. It was a piece that had been commissioned by The Listener....
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