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Deaths of Ray Goodwin & Red McKelvie
AudioCulture, the NZ online website that describes itself as a ‘noisy library’ yesterday announced these two deaths. Ray Goodwin is best known for his years with Dragon. This was in the early days for the band. He was there at the start in 1972, came to Australia with them but left soon after their arrival…
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Teddy Toi death at 82 …
Bass player Teddy died last week. He had first become known to Kiwis in 1964 when he joined Max Merritt and the Meteors. Over the next decade he often played alongside drummer Johnny Dick & it was with Max and the Meteors that they first worked together. He came to Australia with this band but…
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Listening to Dave Hogan again …
As I got off the tram to head the wrong way up Acland St, I could hear a harmonica calling. Magic! That’d be Dave. It’s 2 years since I last saw him play & sing with Steve Lucas. Two years ago the band was Heinous Hounds & they often played in the basement at the…
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Spot the Kiwi …
On March 20, 2022 an event was held at the Brunswick Ballroom to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Sunbury Music Festival. On the show were Spectrum & Madder Lake. I went to listen to Spectrum but … Running alongside their performance was a huge screen showing footage of the festival from 50 years ago.…
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After so long, Dragon seen again (at Crown) …
This show had been re-scheduled twice. I had tickets for the 2nd of these on June 5, 2021 & early in the show, vocalist-frontman Mark Williams told the crowd they hadn’t performed since June 2021. The advertised 7.30pm start meant that in fact the show did start then … Well, 7.31pm. Lots of the crowd…
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