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Teenagers From Outer Space - Mollet Street, The Gladstone, and the rise of Christchurch punk

2008-05-14 17:49:00 by Andrew Schmidt in Mysterex
 
...Mollet Street floor screaming out The Doomeds anti-social anthems Social Disease, Angry Young Man, and other songs about masturbating and being a loser Outside, in the cool August air, Johnny Abort kept on walking; turning his back on the intimate hedonistic Mollett Street market venue and its patchwork crowd of young punks, hippies, and...
 
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The Vauxhalls - live and on record

2008-10-13 07:41:07 by Andrew Schmidt in Mysterex
 
...Mollet St. 11. January 78 - Mollet St. 29. February 78 - Mollet St. 12. As The Vauxhalls - June 78 - Mollet St. 18. 25. July 78 - Mollet St. 2. 30. August 78 - Mollet St. 27. September 78 - Mollet St. 24. November 78 - Mollet St. 19. December 78 - Mollet St. 1. March 79 Vapour and The Trails. Gladstone. 15. 16. 17. April 79 Vapour and The...
 
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I Met Her Outside The IGA - Punk culture in New Zealand - 1977 - 1983

2008-12-08 09:20:12 by Andrew Schmidt in Mysterex
 
...Mollet Street punk crowd of 1977 and 1978, and their post-punk offspring, have found a home in inner city bikers pub, the DB Gladstone, where new in town Napier power pop trio, The Pedestrians, begin August with Mainly Spaniards, a sublime Velvet Underground influenced pop trio who have future NME writer David Swift drumming, punk scene...
 
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A one eyed Christchurch punk fan writes (in 1997)

2008-02-11 13:47:00 by Andrew Schmidt in Mysterex
 
...Mollet St punk article. I've only had a chance to read it once, and that was when I was killing 15 minutes in a magazine shop, so if I'm doing anyone an injustice by what I'm going to say, my apologies.I was 17 at the time Mollet St was going, I used to go every Sunday night to see the bands. I think you would have had a different view of...
 
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Above Ground - Bill Direen's early years - 1976 - 1984

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2008-08-11 16:27:00 by Andrew Schmidt in Mysterex
...Mollet St, it was with the city's first wave of punk bands. Punk amped him as it did many of those free minds who fell between the sixties and punk. It affirmed the path he was already on He found plenty of common ground with Christchurch's post-punks with their independent spirit, DIY instincts, and desire for complete creative control. But...
 
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Punk Diary - Nothing At All! - New Zealand Tour - November 1994

2008-08-26 15:58:00 by Andrew Schmidt in Mysterex
 
...Mollet Street. It must have been 1978 when hed been there. After the Wellington Town Hall punk festival of June that year The Scavengers had travelled on to the Garden City for shows at Mollet Street. Engels had tagged along looking to sniff out a story for his fanzine He found an active music scene encompassing everything from pub rock...
 
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Indie snapshots - Post-Punk New Zealand - August 1981

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2008-09-10 15:10:00 by Andrew Schmidt in Mysterex
 
...Mollet Street punk crowd of 1977 and 1978, and their post-punk offspring, have found a home in inner city bikers pub The DB Gladstone where new in town Napier power pop trio, The Pedestrians, begin August with Mainly Spaniards, a sublime Velvets pop trio who have future NME writer David Swift drumming, punk scene regular Richard James...
 
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I Forget How It's Been

2008-11-01 00:23:03 by Andrew Schmidt in Mysterex
 
...Mollet Street, the bohemian rock club he ran that fostered Christchurch punk, and his first group, Vapour and The Trails, pub rockers with attitude and energy Al was a 1960s teenager fired up by the R&B of The Rolling Stones and The Pretty Things, who'd been too young to play. When he got to Christchurch in the early 1970s did he picked up...
 
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The Scavengers - live and on record - 1977 - 1978

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2008-11-21 09:52:00 by Andrew Schmidt in Mysterex
...Mollet St. 25. Cafe Du Paris. Palmerston North. 28. July 78 Cafe Du Paris. 1. Westown Motor Hotel. New Plymouth. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Cafe Du Paris. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Cabana. Napier. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. Buffs Motor Lodge. Kawerau. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. August 78 Windsor Castle. aft. 2. 3. 4. 5. Zwines. 4. 5. Windsor Castle. aft. 19....
 
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