Jonathan Ganley

Author of 'CRUSH – Photos from Post-Punk Auckland'. In stock NOW at Flying Nun Records (online and in the Auckland & Wellington stores) & Time Out Books Mt Eden

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RIP Richard Lloyd. One of the greats, in a brilliant set of photos.

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This hideous replica.

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Fall In A Hole is being reissued on vinyl by the American label Superior Viaduct. Remastered from the original tapes, with liner notes by Roy Montgomery. Interested to see what his angle will be. https://t.co/xLzZ4FJGB9

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Photo © Jonathan Ganley. Alister Parker & Brent McLauchlan of Bailter Space, at the Kings Arms, Auckland, Tuesday February 5 2013. #bailterspace #skeptics #postpunkauckland

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A quote from Jon Toogood's book 'Home Again' acknowledges the massive influence of both Bailter Space and the Skeptics on Shihad - who may have started out as a speed metal band, but Metallica and Motörhead faded as they opened up to the power of Bailter Space & the Skeptics...

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... They were louder than Motörhead. I could feel my innards being shaken by sound and by volume. They were amazing. I'd had no idea my sound guy was in such a cool band. I wanted our band to be as cool as they were ..."

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From the NZ Papers Past 'Rip It Up' magazine archive May 1981: RTC Records announce the first release of Joy Division records in New Zealand: 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' 7" and 12", and the 'Unknown Pleasures' LP. The single goes straight in at #1, first week. @peterhook @JDNOPICS

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@dannyno_01 @fallfuturepast @Stephenhanley6 @hanleyPa Yep, and on the insert too. Check out Craig Robertson's 'Chris Knox - Not Given Lightly' (@AUPBooks) for more on the 'four day party' at Lincoln St, where 'Fall In A Hole' was conceived.

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From the NZ Papers Past 'Rip It Up' magazine archive Sept 1982: Two photographs published with George Kay's story 'The Fall Of Slick'. Uncredited when published, they were taken by Carol Tippet in Lincoln St, Ponsonby, in central Auckland
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(And if you were wondering about the band’s arrival at Christchurch airport, and the photo on the cover of ‘Fall In A Hole’): “There was nobody at the airport - just five guys with long hair saying ‘Get in the van!”

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(To conclude my trip through the long shadow cast by The Fall’s 1982 NZ tour, here’s the final word from Mark Smith, quoted from his autobiography ‘Renegade’): “They were right behind us in New Zealand though. They were brilliant. All the local labels put us up in their houses...

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"... they gave us the time to prove ourselves. I respect them for that; they could very easily have listened to the Aussies and taken it as read we were little more than a new form of headache." @fallfuturepast @Stephenhanley6 @hanleyPa (photo © 1982 by @pointthatthing)

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@richlangston2 @AUPBooks @feralhouse https://t.co/jfQhAroDvE

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4) And in 'The Clean - In The Dreamlife You Need A Rubber Soul' by Richard Langston
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From the NZ Papers Past 'Rip It Up' magazine archive: August 1983, p4. Russell Brown heralds the forthcoming Flying Nun release of 'Fall In A Hole'. Aerogram from Manchester has been received at Nun HQ, Mark Smith is onboard, all is well. @fallfuturepast @Stephenhanley6 @hanleyPa

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From the NZ Papers Past 'Rip It Up' magazine archive: January 1983, p3. Chris Knox lists his favourite records of 1982 - no. 1 is the as yet unreleased 'The Fall - Live Tapes from Mainstreet'. 'Fall In A Hole' proper is still a year away. @fallfuturepast @Stephenhanley6 @hanleyPa