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A life less ordinary - 25 Years of Flying Nun

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Thanks for a life less ordinary.	1

Bought Tally Ho from the boys in the back of their van	2
Outside the Record Warehouse in Durham lane	3
Just doin it.	4

The Chills played Clean support on the first tour.	5
Some able Tasmans were in the audience.	6
Doesn’t anyone think Coldplay were inspired	7
And even ripped off riffs by the Chills?	8

The Gordons (technically preNun) shredded ears	9
Like the Skeptics at the City Hotel	10
Sound system filling half the venue	11
Their sound the other half.	12

Drank beers with Chris and Mark E	13
On the first night of the great bootleg	14
Discussed The Seeds (Try Raw and Alive)	15
Before double drummed divinity.	16

I used to think JPSE (As they came to be known)	17
had a great song in	18
Lime Green, falling down down down	19
Until I like Rain was released.	20
Somehow it made perfect sense.	21

“In poetry, the symbolist procedure - as typified by Verlaine- was to use subtle suggestion instead of precise statement (rhetoric was banned) and to evoke moods and feelings by the magic of words and repeated sounds and the cadence of verse (musicality) and metrical innovation” –Wikipedia	22
Oh and the sexiest of bass players was a bonus.	23

Doublehappies last performances	24
Mindblowing.	25
Sadness.	26
Beating Debbie to the dancefloor	27
Then the masses	28
As the phoenix arose.	29
Sadness again at an Abrought departure,	30
Climaxing at the BDO.	31

To the many D’s	32
Thanks one d for your discovery playing wargames	33
You halved my annual petrol bill.	34
Could never understand why another d was always appearing	35
beaten in Ardmore Rd – such a nice guy.	36
Ardmore Rd, 24 hour dairy, a friendly hub.	37
The silliest Rossi was obvious!	38

Spud boys,	39
The OZ crowd could not reconcile	40
What they saw	41
and heard.	42
Just doin it	43
For the music.	44

Hairy breath monsters	45
I carried your Jesus on A Stick	46
All the way home.	47
You were preachin to the converted.	48

As with many explorers, Tasman's name has been honoured in many places:	49
the Tasman Glacier	50
the Tasman River	51
Mount Tasman (aka Tasman Hill)	52
the Abel Tasman National Park	53
Tasman Bay	54
the Tasman District	55

HC’s Maximum points for song about a fat man.	56
LBGP love your cat.	57
GU shame about the Pollock	58

This twenty five year moment	59
Of life lived	60
Under a shower of creation	61
Of trips taken	62
To the beat of aural devotion	63
Of friends made	64
Who shared the best	65
The revolving doorway	66
twixt heart and soul, body and mind.	67

Thanks	68
I’m glad I was here.	69

12/21/06

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