IkoStar

Time passes…

I just saw this on the tv, and thought it was pretty good

And then remembered that I promised someone to tell him about some music etc, so this time I’ll do a small thing about various kiwi bands. I was in one once you know. A kiwi band I mean.

See? None of my stuff is digitised though. It’s analogous.

Anyway, enough about that. The last gig I did with my first band was supporting this lot - Straightjacket Fits:

Who are fairly good I would’ve thought.

This one was popular this year, and sounds exactly like the sort of thing that my friend Jeremy Taylor (who’s a genius) would have written. He was in a band called Cinematic back in the day, and is one of the best songwriters I’ve met in my life. Anyway, this isn’t by him. It’s by Opshop.

This next one is an utter classic - probably THE classic of the era, which was in the 80s. People were into Twitch-Dancing. They’d go down the Commercial Tavern in Palmerston North on Friday night and stand in the middle of the dancefloor wearing trenchcoats and severe (pooftery) haircuts like David Sylvian, and they’d stand there and twitch imperceptibly, and that was how they danced.

They were all into this song until they found out everyone else was as well, at which point they claimed not to like it afterall, and preferred the Chills earlier stuff before they sold out.

This is cool because of the twirl-kick by polyester suit wearing Mark Hunter (who is obviously some sort of god, and if you could look like this today, you’d be so cool that people would just lie down in front of you in the street, and like, die, in gratitude) at the beginning:

And lastly, the impossible task of choosing a single Finn Brothers track… but this is one of my favs

I fucking love this one - it’s like walking back from her house after the first time, with your heart exploding, even though that’s not what it’s about. I like the verse better than the chorus to be honest. Ok. I’ll find another one as well then.

So that’s probably enough for now. There are loads of others etc.

PS (edit)

I really like this as well, and I never thought I’d hear it again. Youtube fucking rocks.