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| Crap!
Is this the end of life as we know it?
26.3.11 - I don't blame Ted (Lethborg)
for not getting in touch really, but the first I heard of
it was last week when my publisher, Gus McNeil, rang me saying
he'd heard that Aztec Music had gone. Then Daryl (Roberts)
rang me this afternoon to say that it was 'official' and I
dug up the following announcement on the Tonedeaf
site.
Melbourne Distributor/Label Aztec Music Goes Into Receivership
Written
by Nicholas Jones on 21 March 2012
Another sad day for local music with news that Melbourne-based
distributor Aztec Music has gone into receivership after nearly
a decade of hard work and sleepless nights.
The company is popular for releasing a number of Australian
hard-to-finds and classic local albums such as those by X,
Died Pretty, The Master’s Apprentices, Tumbleweed, and
of course The Aztecs
Ted Lethborg who started the company with Aztecs drummer Gil
Matthews in 2004 broke the sad news to Mess+Noise late last
night saying he has “put his heart and soul into the
label”.
The company never recovered after the importing arm of the
business lost $350,000 two years ago from distributors and
music stores closing down, resulting in their bank withdrawing
their financial lifeline. (read
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1)
A trio of happy Trollops, Di, Heather and Lyn 2) Mudmen's
Tony Nirta was there too
gig
report
St
Andrews pub Sun. 18.3.12
St Andrews
gig is good - plot thickens
19.3.12 - I'd persuaded myself to stop worrying and
just accept whatever situation presented itself at the St
Andrews pub, but after being introduced to Robyn and Cameron,
the latest licensees, I'm still mystified at the goings-on
there. (See the latest report in the Diamond
Valley Leader) .
Not to worry though, they seemed a very nice couple and were
happy with the afternoon's proceedings and paid up with a
smile. I'm used to the bottom-heavy sound now, so we didn't
have to feel our way into the first set this time and it was
good to see some friendly faces in the audience, including
Trollops' Di, Heather and Lyn, (pic 1)
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3) Dr
Wazz gets stuck into his yummy prosciutto pizza |
Tony Nirta (pic 2) and
Kate, rel's Kath and Geoff, Sue and Michael and Uncle Syl, the
Drs' Sellers, Barry and Claire and Peter Carolan and friends.
After the show, Dr Wazz (pic 3) and Dr Marg left for
1061
Woodfire Pizza (World's Best Pizza I say) about half an
hour before we did and still managed to arrive half an hour
late. They said they had to photograph a phone tower disguised
as a tree, so I s'pose it's understandable. Anyway, it was worth
the wait and we had jolly fine pizzas as usual. Wazz asked me
what was on the agenda and I said I had to attend to a nose
hair that had sneaked under the line trimmer and had been irritating
me all afternoon. He said he was sorry he'd asked and we ordered
hot chocolates and a coffee before heading off home. |
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Spectrum
back at the St Andrews pub this Sunday arvo
14.3.12 - No doubt it will be
an interesting day too. It seems there may be some unresolved
issues still to be addressed, (see the latest Diamond
Valley Leader article), but, of course, Spectrum will be
there in full prog' rock mode (amongst other musical guises)
to entertain, thrill and occasionally bemuse you, as is our
wont. See you there! |
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Kelly
blows her trumpet (Gravias) |
gig
report
Lomond Hotel Sat. 10.3.12
Spectrum's
return to the Lomond
11.3.12 - There were a few rowdies in the
room (from the Autumn Carnival) who'd apparently been clinging
to the bar for most of the afternoon, but most of the audience
had come for a civilised night at The Lomond with a nice meal
followed by some music. It was so civilised that I
decided not to vary the set list too radically and stay in everybody's
comfort zone, (well, my comfort zone then), apart from
the girl on the trumpet.. (pic) We had planned to do
Brunswick St with Robbo's trumpet-playing friend Kelly
O'Donohue and Bill had specially brushed up on that (and Soul
Man), but in the event we didn't do either of them and
Kelly improvised over the intro to Going Home instead.
I thought she did very well too, given she'd never heard the
song before and the trumpet certainly lent the song an interesting
texture. The Drs Sellers and friends were in attendance as were
Alana Galea and my cultural attaché, Maria Gravias, who
took the pic. |
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Chris
takes the mic from Mike
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gig
report
Chris O'Dea's b'day bash Portland Sat. 3.3.12
Chris
O'Dea's birthday bash
6.3.12 - (Where the hell did February go?)
We first met Chris late last century when we did a couple of
gigs at the Simpatico Mexican Restaurant in Castlemaine. She's
a teacher in Portland these days and for some reason Bill and
I came to mind when she was formulating her birthday party,
for which we're grateful, if for no other reason than business
is excrutiatingly slow at the moment. Portland is a bit of a
hike, so it was disappointing when we arrived to find it being
rained on with increasing steadiness and the marquee Chris had
erected in the backyard revealing more and more leaks as the
minutes went by. We set up warily and adjourned to the pub for
tea and happily the rain was petering out by the time we got
back, although the guitars were all very damp to the touch.
It's not easy catering for a party as a duo, but three (!) renditions
of I'll Be Gone seemed to satisfy everybody and we
drove home the next day tired but, well, sort of happy.. |
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