Thursday, May 20, 2004

I had the pleasure of attending the Inaugural Flying Nun Pub Quiz last night at the Kings Arms, which was highly entertaining, and free. Found a good spot down the back, with Andrew Dubber (which is why I'm writing this as fast as I can, so I get to blog it before he does).
Two teams of highly skilled geeks fielded question from quizmaster Hat, and MC was Oliver Driver. The first team was the Oddities; Russell Brown (former music hack) Grant Fell (bass player Childrens Hour, Headless Chickens) and Alan Holt (ex FNun employee, did 9 years hard labour). The other team were The Sally Army - Chris Knox (living legend) Russell Baillie (Herald journo and ex keyboard player for JPSE) and Lesley Paris (ex Look Blue Go Purple, Olla).

Oliver introduced the teams, then noted that the evenings competition was being recorded for broadcast on National Radio (this Saturday May 22, at 1.06PM). Russell Brown chipped in, saying that Oliver might want to stop swearing, as he was making extra work for National Radio's Lissa Mcmillan, who would have to go thru and edit it all out. Oliver replied that he would f*cking stop swearing when National Radio started funding some more local drama. Nice.

One of the early questions was about the first album from the Gordons. Was it recorded in A 2 days, B 22 hours, C 20 hours, or D, 10 hours. One team said 20, no, wrong, the question goes to the other team, they said 20, no, wrong - it was done in 22 hours, of course. the question goes to the audience, I shout out the answer, and I win a prize - a copy of Very Short Films, the new FNun dvd. How choice! And I know that they recorded it at Harlequin studios. What a bastion of useless information.

Ran into lots of old school Nun types, including Rachael King. She was disappointed they hadn't used the question about her, so here it is to challenge your brain (no googling allowed) - Name three Flying Nun bands that Rachael has been in. Answers posted in comments later. (UPDATE: all the nights questions are over here at the FNun site - you can win a copy too!)

It was a very amusing night, with much laughter. I now know that the man in the Verlaines video for Death and a Maiden doing the 'expressive' dancing was a young Shayne Carter. Looks like rock n roll saved him from a lifetime of interpretive dance. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

While I've got your attention I'd like to invite you to come along to this....

DUB ASYLUM - SHE DUBS ME... 12" VINYL REMIX EP

EP release exhibition/party -Tuesday May 25th at Rakinos cafe, 1st floor, 35 High St, Auckland, from 6pm. Free!
Art by Daniel Tippett, DLT, with DJs Dub Asylum, Rob Warner, Timmy Schumacher, Big Matt (Bassteppa).


Dub Asylum (aka Peter McLennan) are pleased as punch to announce the release of their brand new 12" remix ep, featuring some of the hottest DJ's/producers from Aotearoa - Timmy Schumacher vs Substax, Rob Warner and Josh Webb, The Audioslut, and Matt Scott at Woodcut Productions.

The EP launch will be celebrated with a very special event: Peter has hooked up with leading NZ graffiti artists Daniel Tippett and DLT, and they will be getting a bunch of the record covers, laying them down in a grid pattern, then doing a big graffiti art mural over them (prior to the night), so each individual cover is a limited edition artwork. It's going to look choice!

There will be a one-night-only art exhibition at Rakinos on Tuesday May 25, displaying the finished covers (for sale on the night), after which they will be split up and sold. About 50-60 covers will be painted by Daniel and DLT, the rest will have an art stencil design on them, so every copy of the EP is an original work of art. There will also be DJs on the night, including Dub Asylum. See you there.

5 comments:

Dubber said...

Nice to have a quiet drink with you, Peter (quiet apart from all the shouting, Flying Nun music and pinball games, that is). I thought I'd leave the reporting of the evening to someone who stayed for the whole thing. I ducked out after the first half - but I was very impressed with your knowledge of all things Nun.
A well-deserved win on the DVD.

Great turn-out. Shayne Carter was conspicuous by his absence, but then it allowed for a good many gags at his expense. Nice to see Brendan Smyth from NZ On Air in attendance. Normally it's me that raises the average age when I go out. :)

Peter McLennan said...

The Sally Army won the quiz - the scores were tied at 568 all with one question to go. Oliver decided the last question would be worth 2.6 million points, and Chris Knox knew which member of the Mint chicks had designed the cover art for the Very Short Films DVD -Reuban Nielson.

Dubber said...

I don't know what the blog equivalent of using up your answerphone message tape might be, but I feel like I'm doing it here...

Just to say that Mint Chicks video is fantastic. Love the compilation, but aside from reliving my 'wish I was Dave Yetton' days, I've been stuck repeating that 2 and a half minute piece of genius over and over again.

noizy said...

i give up. what were the other two FN bands Rachel King was in?

Peter McLennan said...

3Ds, Bressa Creeting Cake