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The Gordons MkII – 1983 Q&A

In honour of NZ Music Month, Gary Steel climbs into the crumbling catacombs of his back catalogue, and disinters a different story Every Day In May (EDIM). Today’s piece is a raw transcript/interview with The Gordons from 1983. It will have been excerpted for a story or two at the time, but otherwise, the interview is previously unpublished.

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I’ll From Scratch Your Back… If You’ll From Scratch Mine

In honour of NZ Music Month, Gary Steel climbs into the crumbling catacombs of his back catalogue, and disinters a different story Every Day In May (EDIM). Today’s piece is a reminder that the multitalented Don McGlashan (Blam Blam Blam, The Front Lawn, The Muttonbirds) once upon a time took it upon himself to bang long tubes of PVC plastic. It was published in TOM way back in 1984.

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Plucky South Islanders In Battle

In honour of NZ Music Month, Gary Steel climbs into the crumbling catacombs of his back catalogue, and disinters a different story Every Day In May (EDIM). Today’s piece comes from a pre-Flying Nun South Island: my review of a seemingly completely forgotten album by a seemingly forgotten band called The Newz, published in the Evening Post, 19 July, 1980. I’ve still got this album. It’s alright.

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No Pop Idles

In honour of NZ Music Month, Gary Steel climbs into the crumbling catacombs of his back catalogue, and disinters a different story Every Day In May (EDIM). Today’s piece isn’t penned by Steel at all, but a young chap by the name of Steve Braunias, one of the contributors to the magazine IT, published late 1982. And it’s about The Mockers.