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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Wellington Mornings podcast with Nick Mills
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on local artists is music time on Wellington Mornings.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Quite well documented. This is my favorite part of the show.
Twenty minutes to twelve, James Irwin comes in from his
studio which is a lot flashy than my studio, and
talks to us about music, gigs and he's been away
for a couple of weeks. So if you've missed him,
I apologize. He we got. I gave him time off.
He wanted to go to a wedding in Hawaii, so
off he went to Hawaii and now he's back. Yeah, yeah, okay,
(00:49):
try that.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
There we go. Okay, you can hear me out and
Mike's working. Now there we go. Yeah. I been in Hawaii. Yeah,
terrible weather. It was like being in Northland last week
was what was in Hawaii for a couple of weeks.
Got my hotel flooded.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Well the first thing when Jamesie came in, I said,
you've been in Hawaii. Look as pale as Bim and me. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Yeah, it was a bit of a disaster. I stayed
in my second hotel I was on the ninth floor
and the lift broke down because there was a tail
end of a cyclone, so we had to climb up
and down nine floors for four days. But I did
get to go to a terrific record store, which is
what I always loved doing on holiday. What was it
called Hungry Year Records in Honolulu, I spent about I
(01:30):
was therefore a family winning, so there was like we
were trying to wrangle like eighteen people every day. So
I just scoped off really early one morning and headed
to the record store. And what I love doing when
I go overseas is checking out and talking to the
you know, record stores are really friendly, talking to the locals,
looking at what they're buying.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Where New Zealand was, yeah they did, no new.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
The record store did. And then I always go through
the bins and try and find New Zealand records. So
what did I find. Well, I'll tell you who's massively
popular in Hawaii as Lab. They had a whole lot
of signed records by Lab, the sort of but they're
a bit like you know, Fat Freddies and six sixty,
So really popular local in Hawaii. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there
(02:11):
we go. Here's a bit of them on the background,
so they were really popular. The local guy the record
shop said, yep, big, big popular. Probably goes in with
that Pacific feel, which was really nice. Saw some Lord records.
Obviously the Mint Chicks, which was an Auckland band. There
was a couple of their records here. I saw a
Tammy Nelson solo not solo, Yeah, solo record, Damy Nelson,
(02:31):
who's a country New Zealand artist Canadian. Yeah yeah, and
she's great. Spoke to the local guy the local record shop.
Dude did not know who Neil Finn was, and know,
I was really surprised, and I said, crowded house. So
we did no crowded house. And then I went and
found the It was actually a cassette of Split Ends
that I found, so I went and pulled out the
(02:51):
cassette and I went, this cassette is as Neil Finn's
on this and and obviously Spladeans are playing six seventh
and Mark May coming up.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Well, I think about it, and I love everything they're doing.
I mean, yeah, I never was a Splitteons fan. I
must have met that, you know, it wasn't my thing,
But god, I've been been really enjoying watching.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yeah, it's awesome what they're doing. And the one thing
that really surprised me about the record shop was, oh
there was an ardi Jar record you know the eighties.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
You know. I was about to say to you when
you said you've been to music shop, I said, I
reckon that artie Jar is. Something in my back of
my mind told me that she was quite big there. Yeah, yeah,
they'd think of her as as.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Yeah, that Pacific fusion of you know, Artijar was such
a great funky band. Yeah, just a terrific band. So
I was really surprised to see some I saw just
the one Artijar record. But the guy I knew the
band as well, and there, but you know who he
didn't know. He did not know Fat Freddy's drop.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Wow. Well that's kind of underground tho. Way.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Yeah, well I don't know. They're pretty big in Europe,
so maybe that's where they're focused. But I would have
thought that they would have been, you know, a bit
bigger in the Pacific again, because you know, you go
to Samara and Fiji. I've heard them play in hotels,
fat you know, not live, I've heard the actual music
being playing. These guys you know, do.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
You know I've never seen them live and I love them.
I love, absolutely loved.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
The Well, you've got three chances coming up?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
What next?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Sold out?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah? I think they actually all are sold out, which
will Hey, anyway, what I really wanted to talk to
you about today was the Pogues and they are playing
here tomorrow night. But you're going to say to me,
but didn't Shane McGowan die, Well, yes, he didn't. He
did die. Yeah, And we've done this thing before in
the past, we've talked music, you and I and I've
been a bit scathing of bands that have replaced artists,
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you know, especially when someone's died.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
You know.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I know in the past I've been very scathing and
our listeners didn't like me for it. Of Adam Lambert
playing for Queen, and I might have slightly changed that.
I've got something to play you.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
But I mean, let's be a little bit factual on that.
He he does through Queen extremely well.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
He does do it extremely well. And I was probably
just being a pooh poo. I was just being like,
you can't kiss my girl. So here's the Pogues and
this is this is Seane McGowan singing. These are all
really well known songs. A couple more. He's another one.
(05:11):
Everyone knows it was Cruis, but this did not go
number one when it was first released, which I was
surprised about.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
This is everyone knows this, so yeah, so who's singing?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
So this is Seane McGowan sing. So there's a guy
called Spider. What's his name?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Gosh, I've got it written down.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
No worried, I will find out for you.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
You must be dead.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
So this is all. This is all Shane McGowan. Why
did he matter? He was a great poet, He was
unmistakable presence. Spider Stacy, that's the name just came into
my head. He he didn't sing like a trained vocalist.
He sang like someone who was telling the truth. He
was prominent on their key album Rum Sodomy and the Lash,
(05:59):
which sounds like a terrible album, but it's actually a
terrific album. And the great thing is it's forty years
since that our and came out, and so it was
probably actually forty one or forty forty years and a half.
And they're playing that tomorrow night now. They are not
trying to be that. They are celebrating the songs of
the Pops. Now, these guys, I spent the weekend watching
(06:20):
a lot of live stuff on YouTube. They are terrific musicians.
You know, like the.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Band, it's the band. It's the band.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
There might be there might have been another one drop off,
but you know, like the major.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I ask you a question, Yeah, you talk about because
I know you just you're quite passionate about this. Would
you go and see the Prince's Band without Prince? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Because they were fantastic. Prince just always had the greatest musicians.
I would, you know, like I would miss Prince being there,
but the spectacular. Should we have a listen to what
to expect of the pops today? Very famous song the
(07:04):
Irish Rover. This song reminds me of the Mockers for
some reason.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I don't know why. Are they a good band?
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Yeah, they're a great band. So they're not gonna try
and imitate Shane McGowan. They're gonna honor the songs. They're
gonna leave space in the audience to carry the emotions
their music. Musicianship is raisor shark. I reckon It's gonna
be a real communal, nostalgic show. It's not about trying
(07:46):
to replace Shane McGowan. You cannot do that. It's about
keeping those songs alive. They're gonna play with you know,
they're gonna be relying on the audience as much as
the band. The Pope is gonna play with pride and nostalgia.
It's gonna be a it's there is only a few
tickets left. It's around the one hundred dollars mark for tickets.
It's it's gonna be a great gig. I reckon, It's
(08:08):
that's tomorrow, That's Tomorrow Night. Where did I say it
was at? It's I said it at the same James
Tomorrow Night. You can buy tickets at the door. It's
advertised that you can still buy tickets at the door.
You probably can buy them online. Be careful where you
buy them from, though, make sure it's one of the reputable.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Spot I ask you about, because you'll know about this,
the Flight of the Concourent. Yes, the tickets available, there's still.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Well, there is a pre sale on at the moment,
and the only days for the pre sale that left
are on the twenty first of April. So the sixteenth,
the seventeenth, and the twenty second have been exhausted. That
does not mean that the general sale that goes on
sale on Wednesday, that tomorrow, there will be tickets for
all of those days. So you've got to get in early.
(08:50):
It's at tickeer tech. Get on the ticket tech site.
Make sure you've organized yourself beforehand, like you put it out.
You do that, so you sign up to your ticketek account.
If you haven't got one, you put in your you'll
save your visa card. It's completely safe on that platform.
And so when you go to the thing, it gives
you like five minutes or seven minutes to get through
and you don't have the stress. You make sure if
(09:12):
you don't know your password for your ticke at ticke account,
get on change it today and then when you go
on tomorrow because those those four days will all sell out.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
What's the capacity.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
There, it's just under a thousand, I believe. So I'm
surprised they're not playing a big venue. But mel Nui
is fantastic. You get right and close with the action. Yeah,
so it's so it's really great.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Give us some other gigs.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
There's some interesting ones. So I was talking about, you know,
like bands that lose this thing as the tribute bands.
We've got a couple coming. Jason Bonham.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Well he's the son of son of.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
John Bonham from led Zeppelin.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Have you seen that clip of he is incredible to heaven?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yeah, he is a heart.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Who's the thing is?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I don't know who the thing is are?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I think that's hat.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Yeah, So Tuesday, the fourteenth of April, that's that's a
week today, ninety nine bucks at the Opera House. Go
and see Jason Bonham doing a led Zeppelin tribute. That
will spectacular. I reckon what I was doing a tribute to. Yeah,
it's basically he sures doing le zeph There is Ah
thereah Pink. I'm pretty sure there's a Pink Floyd. I
(10:19):
can't see it on my list here. Oh yeah, there's
the Pink Floyd Experience Presents the Wall second of may TSB.
That's one hundred and sixty two dollars, which I found
quite steep. But I know that all of those Pink
Floyd tribute bands do the most sensation.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Can I just interrupt you here one second? Because I've
been listening to be Newsrever the weekend and I started
getting into the guitarist.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
From Pink Floyd yeah, yeah, David Gilmore, David Gilmer, Yeah, spectacular.
I listened to dark Side of the Moon. I'm up
to one hundred and eighty two albums from my album's
listening to for the year. Someone asked me that the
other day. A listener sent me an email and said,
how many. So I've done one hundred and eighty two
albums and one hundred and eightieth was Dark Side of
the Moon and it was fantastic to listen to again.
Only other What other bands we got coming up for
(11:02):
the for the young? I bet, I bet our mate
in the produce this booth are going to this Ultra
this weekend, Chain Smokers and DJ Snake Friday Night.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
It's huge.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
It's gonna be absolutely mega mega next Weekend's No. Eleventh
of April, Sleepford Mods who are good Fun? Bony m
fourteenth of April, a whole lot in this sort of
in the next little we No No bony are the
thirtieth of April, I apologize. What else? Sublime coming up
tenth of April. Wow, No Sublime, Brewtown eleventh of April.
(11:37):
Oh fucking split in sixth and seventh of Mace.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Have you seen splittings?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yeah? Yeah, a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Yeah, so I reckon that'd be better now than they were.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Yep, yeah, I think they'll be spectacular. The water Boys
twentieth of May and Stereo Lab, who are fantastic band
Male twenty fourth of June.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Are you just I had a bit of a conversation
with one of my brother in laws. Is doing a
concert it Oh what's the probact? Yeah? Just heard that quietly.
Don't tell anyone.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I don't tell anyone.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Don't tell you anything. Good sake goodness.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
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