Missing videos from April 1994
Ted Brown and the Italians didn’t give up. “Perfectly Good Pop Song” uses the frustration of having a good song that doesn’t do anything as a metaphor for love. What about a perfectly good pop video? “Whatever happened to the peace revolution,” Alastair Riddell mournfully asks in “Peace Dream Solution”. “Did it die?” Yes, it...
Missing videos from February 1994
The mysterious Ted Brown returns with a new band (the Italians) and a cover of “How is the Air Up There”, a song best known in New Zealand for the La De Dahs version, but which originated as a Brill Building composition that did the rounds of pop bands in the mid-’60s. The Greg Johnson...
Missing videos from October 1993
“Tick Tock” was originally recorded by a band called Nixons on an album called “Eye TV”, but then a band in America called The Nixons coughed loudly and so the New Zealand group became Eye TV with an album called “Nixons”, which is a weird name for an album. The chickens entrails of the internet...
Missing videos from August 1993
Hamilton bogan rock gods Blackjack brought their anthem “Now You Fly”. I grew up in Hamilton and it was kind of frustrating when this kind of music was the main style associated with Hamilton. *Sniff* But this funding round features another Hamilton group that, unlike Blackjack, I actually saw live several times. Love & Violence...
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