"Geopelia" wrote in message news:iugph9$rhf$1@dont-email.me * Nothing rare about the term Gravitas. No. The art was clean and unusual, resembling centuries-old woodcuts and illustrations, and the record titles distinctive, if occasionally hard to pronounce. Hed been resident in Dunedin for most of the previous 15 years, having shifted south for university in 1979. in one app. Its the warrior gene, says Richie. According to the Newstalk ZB, Mr Russell who was in his early 70s. Email: newsroomau@yahoonews.com. Xpressway had a reputation for being prickly with the mainstream media and for giving few interviews, which made us doubly grateful for his full response. It would also release music from like-minded overseas acts. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. David Mitchell and Denise Roughans Dead Dog In Port Chalmers 7 EP followed. Saturday nights and nighttime to crack of dawn will NEVER be the identical. Thanks Tim again. The traditional plastic CD jewel case had been immediately discarded for aesthetic and practical reasons. May he rest in power. Not content with rescuing tapes from a dodgy rep, Xpressway Records buffed up what was thought to be another dying medium and released The Dead Cs The Sun Stabbed seven inch EP on vinyl in 1988. 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Discovery) - All Rights Reserved, By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Access and Privacy Policy. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Theres a wilful art edge underlying everything; an anarchistic response to the relatively formed work of the citys leading post-punk acts. Newstalk ZB radio host Bruce Russell is being remembered as a talented broadcaster with an "inimitable personality" after he died over the weekend. In 1993 Alastair Galbraith joined Bruce Russell as the second member of A Handful of Dust for the Twisted Village released album Concord, beginning a run of albums and singles on Russells recently established Corpus Hermeticum imprint for the pair. 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He passed away shortly before he was due on air to host Newstalk ZB's overnight show. ______________________________________________________, You do not have permission to delete messages in this group, Either email addresses are anonymous for this group or you need the view member email addresses permission to view the original message, http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/featdetailnew.asp?recnumber=2&menu=3&menuitem=2, http://www.exorcist.org.nz/bounty_dog_ugly_longpig, http://www.exorcist.org.nz/deep_roots_music_2011_1.wav. Sports broadcaster Miles Davis also paid tribute to his one of a kind former colleague. A history of Dunedins ongoing Lines of Flight festival of experimental music was a highpoint in Home, Land and Sea: Situating music in Aotearoa New Zealand in 2011. Radio host Bruce Russell is being remembered as a talented newsreader with an "inimitable personality". Small creative communities, co-operative endeavour, words and challenging guitar sound, and writing with a historical and archival bent and local underground focus? Tim you are the best Host ZB has!!!!! Trust me IT'S THE REAL MIKEY!! The broadcaster, who was in his early 70s, died abruptly on Sunday night while working as an overnight presenter, newsreader, and host of the famous In My Day show. Scan the QR code to download now. He also has his. The statisticsshow that 54 per cent of bashed kids are Maori! The limit of my orthodox guitar playing happens after about 30 seconds.. Its a central clearing house.. Newstalk ZB's Bruce Russell, in his early 70s, was working right up until his death - as an overnight host, newsreader and host of the popular In My Day show on Saturday night. Also love the show. He died at the age of 72. Michael Morley deals with the more melodic area of things (hes playing the tune of the songs) while Bruce Russell uses his guitar in a melodically minimal, almost percussive way, hurling large slices of distortion fuelled dynamics into the sound. With Peter Jefferies handling the sound side, Bruce Russell was free to mould the labels image and ethos. Shipping was a big part of the NZ based labels costs so a lighter and thinner sleeve made sense. Russell's broadcasting career took him throughout New Zealand. He started out writing commercials and during that time he began doing some on-air announcing and was posted to various community stations, "doing every shift under the sun", according to his ZB bio. "Our thoughts and love are with Bruce's family at this sad time.". The musically radical Sonic Youth would continue to play an important part in The Dead C members creative lives in the coming years. Ive spent quite a lot of time with keyboards and various things. ZB host Bruce Russell told listeners "a cast of thousands" was working on the news at 1:45 am, but there was nothing about the quake on ZB's website o. Immediately [afterward] we heard from Siltbreeze Records [a new US indie label].. A lot of people had a character Peter Mac was the breakfast host and I was the character, a little boy called Freddy. The 1980 University Challenge the winning Otago team. Youd find Bruce Russell examining a wide variety of sound, both local and overseas in Dunedins Garage fanzine. It wasnt always a comfortable situation, as Russell explained to Fitzgibbon. Bruce Russell of Newstalk ZB spent a career as a buddy to his devoted listeners. From The Internet (below), As Proof Of My Assertions, For I HeardThe Same Montage On Rush Limbaugh's Show --->, -------------------(start of quote)-----------------------------------------. Good on ya Brucie! They are who they are, and that montage is a good illustration. Newstalk ZB's Bruce Russell, in his early 70s, was working right up until his death - as an overnight host, newsreader and host of the popular In My Day show on Saturday night. Find out more about him. With Xpressway Records already licensing releases to American and European labels, the collective called it a day in 1993. Tom Laxs new Philadelphia indie Siltbreeze Records became The Dead Cs primary label for the next six years and helped gain them a foothold in the United States. GREENFIELD: If the question about Governor Bush was one of the weight, or to use the favorite phrase of the moment, gravitas. With Peter Jefferies handling the sound side, Bruce Russell was free to mould the labels image and ethos and establish contacts with fanzines, like minded bands and labels, promoters and distributors in NZ and overseas through international phone calls and letters. - Such namby-pamby liberal claptrap-- infuriates this widely read host.. Burial site and Find a Grave details, Ricou Browning funeral, burial service, pictures, date, time, venue. What songs there are Morley keeps going with a simple open chord riff under and over which Russell shows his faith in drone, discord and looping repetition. Learn how your comment data is processed. Russell, who was in his early 70s, worked as a host and newsreader for the station right up until his death. Your email address will not be published. My favorite newstalk an host for many many years Bruce Russell has died unexpectedly in a single day. Russell turned in an assured full-page piece on new Dunedin group, In A Circle and reviews of Scorched Earth Policy and Say Yes To Apes live at Christchurchs Zetland alongside evaluations of records by future collaborators Roy Montgomery (The Shallows) and Peter Jefferies (This Kind of Punishment) for the next issue of Garage. I shall miss him as will his audience. Redbaiter and Berend de Boer often claim, preposterously, that. Our goal is to create a safe and engaging place for users to connect over interests and passions. There were few things we wanted to do less than release it through Flying Nun. MALE CALLER: Its due to savagery, animal instinct. Whether it was reading the news or creating the character Freddy on Timaru's Radio Caroline in the. Bruce was a wonderful team member and a talented host and newsreader who brought joy to our audiences for many years. Newstalk ZBs Bruce Russell was starring right up until his passing, as an overnight announcer, newsreader, and host of the famous In My Day show on Saturday night. In 1985 the University of Otago student newspapers Audience Guide to Dunedin Bands pointed fans towards Pink Plastic Gods one of several names for a grouping whose repertoire include the poetry of Bruce Russell, the songs of Michael Morley and Robert Scott and the bass playing talents of Richard Ram. The Dead Sea Perform Max Harris was captured at the trios first live outing in March 1987 and swam around in a single sized Morley lino-cut printed sleeve. Keep up the great work and never retire, both of you. In 2014, Bruces daughter Olive filmed a warm and revealing documentary on her father called 27 Minutes With Mr Noisy, which took Russell back to his old haunts in Dunedin and plumbed his world view in the back yard shed in Lyttelton, that is his creative home. The Dead C used Lilburns Poem In Time of War as the underlying inspiration of the full side Driver U.F.O on Harsh 70s Reality. Many of The Dead Cs 1980s and 1990s albums have been repressed and released, most recently through Ba Da Bing! Guitar, tapes and a good line in speed-poet lyrics are the essentials which when they gel are worth several listens.. I see him as tall and skinny. . You can sum it up in one word: stature. I havent reached the limit of unorthodox things that I can do with a guitar. Facebook gives people the power to. "It was pretty lewd stuff, especially for Timaru in 1984," said Mac. Ive gone out of my way to not learn how to play properly. Photo / Tim Roxborogh. They can be emailed to timr@newstalkzb.co.nz or sent to Tim Roxborogh, Newstalk ZB, Private Bag 92198, Auckland. Following the news of his shocking death on Sunday night, New Zealand radio host, Bruce Russell is being remembered as a "talented host and newsreader". There are two parts to it. He made guitar noises, alternately curdling and abrasive over which he declaimed long written works in a monotone that rose to a shout, Galbraith wrote of those days in the preface to Bruce Russells 2009 collection of critical, theoretical and documentary writing Left Handed Blows. All the best for this Xmas if we ever end up being able to celebrate it. Having spied Chippendale Houses hui ad in Critic, the University of Otago student newspaper, Ive dragged my Paeroa friend Peter along to get involved. Take your Radio, Podcasts and Music with you. iHeartRadio app. Bruce Russell is a New Zealand experimental musician and writer. At the time we were just another fringe group of cult nutters outside the mainstream of New Zealand music. I'm great friends with him its him! 2023 Ghanafuo.com & DM Network. M.P. Thereby Proving To Everyone That Senator Joe Mc Carthy's Assertion That A Whole Network Of Fellow Travelers To The Comintern Soviet Block Of Marxist Communist Propagandists In The U.S. And World, Is Well Established, Through Literal Transmission Belts ! Dwayne Haskins funeral, burial service, pictures, date, venue, Frank Connor cause of death, wife, children, net worth, Where will be Ricou Browning buried? Go Away ---> " Radio Transcripts Ltd. " Your Comintern Cover Has Been Blown ! *As of January 18 we also now have photos of Ron From Christchurch the Singing Taxi Driver, Pete the Urban Maori, Request Sue, Co-op Taxis Mikey, Adrienne & Her Mouldy Pizza and Hans the Dutch Baker. Thats how the music is meant to sound, he says, pointing to the recordings often being made with quality microphones. So here they are, Little Brucie and Housing New Zealand Sue. Xpressway people. Fans have already heard a different version of the albums Three Years on the new Xpressway Records tape imprints early defining Xpresssway Pile Up cassette. . We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us. In November 1994, Bruce Russell moved his family north to the port town of Lyttelton near Christchurch, the South Islands largest city, where he has lived ever since. He served up and down New Zealand through his broadcasting career. Xpressways prime mover headed to the United States in 1991 for a six-week fact finding mission during which he visited the half a dozen east coast record shops that would be central to the label and its bands future. Talking to Brendon Fitzgibbon in 1992, Bruce Russell outlined the near future as he saw it. In Fact, "Radio Transcripts Ltd." Was Caught Just Recently, Using That Very Rare Term: Rush Limbaugh, The United States Conservative Talk-Show Host, Was The Wonderful Individual Who Did The Investigation, Which Proved That Transmission-Belts To Fellow Liberal Media Agents (Communists) Were Instructed To Use The Term: " Gravitas" In Reference To Pushing And Promoting Al Gore (Bill Clinton's Vice President \ Ran For President) Out Of Nowhere, The Term: " Gravitas ", Was Being Used By All The Democratic Liberal Communist Media Editors, Writers. From there on out, improvisation would be the centre. Best Two on air, EVER!! He passed away shortly before he was due on air to host Newstalk ZB's overnight show. Russell quickly realised that the fanzine writers and radio show hosts who supported Flying Nun groups were equally supportive of his labels efforts. Bruce Russell, one of our long-time Newstalk ZB hosts, passed away suddenly but peacefully last night, the station stated in a statement on its website. The key track is a near freeform Krautrocker that ebbs and flows with spaced sound and percussion and captures their live sound well. I vote for The Three!! The heartbreaking news was confirmed in a statement released on Newstalk ZBs website, reading, Bruce Russell, one of our long-time Newstalk ZB hosts, passed away unexpectedly but peacefully last night., The statement added, Bruce was a wonderful team member and a talented host and newsreader who brought joy to our audiences for many years. Bruce Russell Newstalk ZB Age And Wikipedia: Radio Announcer Death. He also anchors the Saturday night show In My Day and reads the news on weekends. "I am devastated," sports broadcaster Miles Davis wrote. See Hone Harawira is a goodexample. 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