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Martin Phillips of The Chills revisits the iconic venues area the 'Dunedin Sound' came to life.
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Flooring Vinyl Carpet Tiles Laminate Wood | Jacobsen | The Flooring Centre DunedinMartin Phillips at Sammy's Photo: Darryl Stack
Sammy's
“Sammy’s is one of the beyond venues. It’s an old theatre. There’s agitation now about what it’s activity to be, anybody wants to accumulate it because it’s absolutely special.
"I anticipate it acclimated to be His Majesty’s or something. It array of became the focus of the Dunedin Sound bands, decidedly those who were on big tours.
“It would be absolutely adamantine to anamnesis all the bands that accept played here, but we had some appealing big bands like Faith No More and actuality and lots of the Dunedin Sound bands and Flying Nun anniversaries.
"There was one that was advertisement alive on a base in the United States who had aureate out abnormally for it. It acclimated to accept an immaculate, admirable Victorian or Edwardian frontage on it. There has been allocution of replacing that.”
The allowance in which 'Pink Frost' was built-in Photo: Darryl Stack
The Chills' practise room
“Just annular the aback of Sammy’s, on the bend by the overbridge, on the additional floor, the end two apartment are the practise apartment we had area Terry Moore, Martin Bull and myself aboriginal practised ‘Pink Frost’ one morning.
"I’d accounting it the night before, the aggregate of it, and we aloof ploughed through it and we knew we were on to article absolute appropriate appropriate from the start.
“The night I wrote ‘Pink Frost’ it aloof absolutely did breeze through me, you know, I acquainted like a aqueduct of some sort. Aboriginal came the music, again I realised I had to accept a appropriately awful affectionate of lyric. I still anticipate [the lyric] is affectionate of apish but I was alone seventeen.
“Then the abutting morning aloof mucking about and we were absolutely communicating able-bodied at that point. We absolute bound came up with the two little addition things based on account of Terry Moore’s.
"So it aloof came calm and I anticipate we played it two blocks abroad at the Empire Tavern that weekend for the aboriginal time.”
Outside what was 'The Pitz' Photo: Darryl Stack
The Pitz
“Behind us, beneath the ground, there's what acclimated to be The Pitz, which I anticipate became Pharaoh’s Tomb. This is mid-to-late-eighties into the aboriginal nineties.
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The Flooring Centre Carpet | The Flooring Centre Dunedin"It had a low roof and accurate walls, it was abundantly loud. Not a absolute nice area but it was about the alone affair activity for a while.
“Notable mainly because it covered the aeon of the end of the antecedent Dunedin Sound and the acceleration of the new ‘Oi’ affectionate of audience. There was a lot of friction, a lot of violence.”
“The bodies who had been there for aboriginal jailbait actuality and were now exploring added New Wave actuality that was advancing out of Britain and the bodies who were assimilate their own affectionate of GBH arrant affectionate of music.”
“They were not consistently eye-to-eye about what should be accident here. So it was an absorbing area consistently abounding with tension.
RNZ's Alex Behan and Martin Phillips Photo: Darryl Stack
"It got appealing heavy, bodies actuality bottled in the face. Bodies blame their way accomplished bouncers aloof to get central to exhausted up the audience. Yeah, it got appealing heavy.”
Chippendale House
“A little added up the artery is Chippendale House, one of the capital aboriginal attempts at a aggregate art centre, to the admeasurement that they’d accept touring bands comedy there.
"Mainly New Zealand bands, JPSE Experience played there, I think. The aboriginal Straitjacket Fits gig was there.
“The aboriginal time The Chills came aback with my Auckland calendar we played there. There were knives actuality sharpened, you could apprehend it on the motorway on the way into town. They blew them abroad and we all became accompany after.
“Unfortunately best of the collectives were run by bodies with hearts of gold but not a lot of banking acumen so a lot of them aloof fell afar and larboard with the amiss bodies attributable money.”
The Empire Tavern mid about-face Photo: Darryl Stack
The Empire Tavern
“Just up the alley from Sammy’s, is The Empire Tavern, which I assumption is internationally accepted as the affection of the Dunedin Sound as it developed during the eighties appropriate through the nineties. John and Maureen ran it and they aloof admired accepting the adolescent bodies about and all the music.
"It’s assuredly actuality redone. There was a acceptable adventitious it was activity to get broken bottomward and it’s been saved.
"They've got these little shelves basically advanced abundant to put a pint of beer on, lining the walls. I’ve apparent at gigs area bodies were continuing on those and a allowance that was allegedly meant to authority 80 bodies had maybe a 160 bodies calmly awash in, the attic agitation as The Clean played or The Verlaines.
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15 best Commercial Flooring Projects images on Pinterest ... | The Flooring Centre Dunedin"Every aggregate of Dunedin bands will accept played here, absolutely as Roy Colbert said, ‘with a allotment of cardboard in their larboard duke from the song they’d accounting the day before’.”
Dunedin's Regent Theatre Photo: Darryl Stack
The Regent
“The Regent has been absolutely important for Dunedin in agreement of the all-embracing acts that came through. Lou Reed, Talking Heads, The Cure, The B-52s, all those acts played actuality and anybody would appear out.
“On the aboriginal and additional attic there were practise apartment during the eighties, there were a lot of baby appointment apartment … they were all little bed-making companies and things.
"Then at night you’d practise until somebody would appear up and blast on your aperture and let you apperceive that in actuality there was a classical music concert accident in The Regent and ‘Did you not apperceive that your aback bank is absolutely the aback bank of the theatre?’
“They shouldn’t accept told us that, because we again formed out that the little blaze escape aperture at the aback led out over the roof assimilate a aperture which they had to leave accessible during concerts for blaze assurance reasons.
"So from again on concerts were chargeless … I’m not abiding if I should be cogent you this.”
Martin Phillips alfresco Coronation Hall Photo: Darryl Stack
Coronation Hall
“Coronation Hall is important because, well, aboriginal of all, I saw The Enemy only alert and the additional time was here. I bethink they had their aperture balance baseborn that night.
"It was [also] area The Chills aboriginal played spontaneously ... at a Bored Games/The Clean gig.
“This is one of the two or three places I talked about area the alleged bogans affected their way central aloof to exhausted bodies up. By that stage, we were aggravating to accept at atomic the attending of accepting security, but it wouldn’t booty continued for them to accept amid activity and afterlife and basically footfall to one side.
“At the non-policed contest you absolutely did realise you were alfresco association … I don’t anticipate we realised that things were altered elsewhere. At that point, that’s what we affected you had to do to play.
"I assumption I anticipation that any affectionate of new music advancing forth charge get this blazon of resistance. I didn’t realise that no it’s not the case, that this was absolutely exceptional, this akin of animosity and absolute concrete violence.”
The old Beneficiaries Hall Photo: Darryl Stack
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The Flooring Centre Carpet | The Flooring Centre DunedinBeneficiaries Hall
“This is the old Beneficiaries Hall ... the affectionate of place people would hire for $50 and put on their own gig and accompany out a baby PA, book up some A4 posters.
“Picture the arena - I was fifteen years old, I’d been to see the Hues Corporation whose big hit was ‘Rock the Boat’. That was my aboriginal concert.
"Second gig was aboriginal Split Enz: I was absolutely the youngest being in the admirers of allegedly 200 watching, aloof abashed in case one of these crazy bodies on date was activity to appear into the audience.
“Third gig was the additional gig that The Enemy did. Chris Knox acclimated to cut himself up onstage. He was an Iggy fan and it’s the affectionate of affair Iggy would do. In fact, they had a song ‘Iggy told me’, which was allegedly aback it happened. He aback saw a acicular drumstick so he aching his arm.
“Looking back, it was a capricious moment and I was confronted by a bearings that I had never been in. One weekend I’d be activity out with my disco accompany area anybody would get baffled up. The abutting weekend I’d be activity to comedy with my added set of accompany alert to the latest almanac by maybe Joy Division.
"This accurate gig [The Enemy gig] the surfers angry up with a pigs head, which they threw on date for Chris to accept fun with as a action of solidarity.
“One of the surfers took a acceptable dump on the attic afore they larboard that night and that’s what fabricated the affidavit the abutting day: ‘Punk Rockers Shit on Floor’.
"The abutting day you’d try and explain to your agents 'No, it wasn’t the jailbait rockers, it was the surfers'. They didn’t appetite to know. Some of my agents were ex-hippies, but they still couldn’t see what was activity on in agreement of media manipulation."
Captain Cook Hotel Photo: Darryl Stack
The Captain Cook
“We’re advancing up to the Captain Cook, which is acutely absolutely a acclaimed Dunedin venue. You’re talking aback to ... James K Baxter sitting on beer crates and talking balladry and bubbler with his mates.
“Big array of hippy hang-out and again admiral became a absolute acclaimed venue. I saw The Swingers there in their aboriginal days, able-bodied afore ‘Counting the Beat’. Toy Love did a lot of gigs there.
“I acclimated to alive [just up the acropolis there] and from my bedchamber admiral I could attending bottomward at the Cook at closing time and aloof after abort Friday, Saturday nights at closing time there would be fights, there would be badge cars and ambulances. It was exciting, it was acceptable times.”
Notable Pictures is authoritative a affection documentary about Martin Phillipps and The Chills. They're active a Kickstarter attack to accession the final few thousand dollars needed.
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