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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
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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

21 Dec 06

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