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CHRIS KNOX, COLLECTED AND DONATED (2019): From Enemy to archive

...years I was one of the rostered caregivers for Chris Knox who suffered a stroke in June 2009. Although... ...understand things others might not." The Chris Knox project is important not only because it...

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Chris Knox: KnoxTraxFine (thokeitapes cassette/download)

...been just over seven years (June 2009) since Chris Knox had his massive and debilitating stroke. In...

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Chris Knox and the Nothing (Major Label/Rhythmethod)

Knox may seem over-exposed after a lifetime of music in this country, but at the Big Day Out in Auckland he proved to have as much, if not more, energy and passion than some of those Big Name Bands on

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BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2009 Various: Stroke; Songs for Chris Knox (Rhythmethod)

...-- is perhaps widely known: earlier this year Chris Knox (of Toy Love, Tall Dwarfs, a solo star and... ...work) and not just for what it tells you about Chris Knox (lotsa friends if nothing else) but how it...

Music at Elsewhere: music/2663/best-of-elsewhere-2009-various-stroke-songs-for-chris-knox-rhythmethod/

Chris Knox: Baby You're a Rich Man (1987)

...has been 15 years since Chris Knox had that debilitating stroke, and by... ...Meantime though it is time to tip the hat to Chris Knox. One of our finest artists across many genres...

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RECOMMENDED REISSUE: Chris Knox; Seizure (Flying Nun)

...has ben working on a reissue campaign of all Chris Knox's solo albums, and the Tall Dwarfs catalogue...

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THE DWARF IN ABBEY ROAD: Opportunity Knox

...we got a distressing phone call. It came from Chris Knox's partner Barbara who told us Chris had had a... ...and we left, grinning like drains. And what of Chris Knox? Before we left home I took one of his album...

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THE ELSEWHERE SONGWRITER QUESTIONNAIRE: Apra Silver Silver Scroll 2013 nominee Pete Wadams

...Finn, Don McGlashan, Dave Dobbyn, Bic Runga, Chris Knox, Brooke Fraser and The Naked and Famous....

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE COMPILER'S QUESTIONNAIRE . . . Ben Stevens

...from the likes of Ballare, The Kiwi Animal, Chris Knox, Drone and others who were willfully going...

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THE BEATLES, ABBEY ROAD (2009): A classic from the cover on in

...immensely. More than he could ever know. Chris Knox had suffered a stoke and in those few moments...

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ALEC BATHGATE OF TALL DWARFS, INTERVIEWED (2022): Something has happened.

...idiosyncratic alt.pop group Tall Dwarfs with Chris Knox – is charmingly bashful when talking...

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GRAHAM BRAZIER INTERVIEWED (2004): The Brazier still burning

...and a bit bohemian. On one wall is a signed Chris Knox cartoon from Real Groove: "Great Moments...

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Scott Mannion

...from my last visit to NZ in 2015 on which Chris Knox gave songs I was working on a mark out of 5....

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Ruban Nielson of Unknown Mortal Orchestra

...memorabilia at home? I was hanging out with Chris Knox at his place and he wasn't talking really but...

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FROM EARTH'S END; THE BEST OF NEW ZEALAND COMICS by ADRIAN KINNAIRD

...such as Barry Linton, Lawrence Clark, Chris Knox, Dylan Horrocks, Cornelius Stone and more...

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THE TECHTONES, REISSUED AND REVISITED (2020): Been a long time since we popped and rolled . . .

...largely focused on the low-tech ethos of Chris Knox's willfully reductive recording ideology...

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TOY LOVE: PULL DOWN THE SHADES (Real Groovy DVD)

...and stuff filmed for television appearance (Chris Knox managing to inject an edge of menace into the...

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NEEDLES AND PLASTIC; FLYING NUN RECORDS, 1981-1988, by MATTHEW GOODY

...Boodle Boodle EP in that distinctive cover by Chris Knox. He was only vaguely aware of Flying Nun but... ...notably Shepherd, his fellow travelers Chris Knox and Doug Hood; the various members of the...

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THE BARGAIN BUY: Abba; 4 Original Albums (Polar)

...in some of their songs was explained to me by Chris Knox -- whom I had never taken to have had much...

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Tall Dwarfs: Bovril (Thokei Tapes)

...by the Tall Dwarf-men Alec Bathgate and Chris Knox – as was the earlier Knox compilation... ...if it reminds how much we miss the genius of Chris Knox who suffered a debilitating stroke in 2009,...

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Will McGrath of Jackal

...out-there alt.indie (one song alarmingly like Chris Knox at his dyspeptic peak), funk, brooding...

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GRAMSCI, REVIEWED (2020): Sobering thoughts for staging a show

...of Norman McLaren, Len Lye and more recently Chris Knox's video work -- had a rhythm which...

Live reviews + concert photos: livereviews/9607/gramsci-reviewed-2020-sobering-thoughts-for-staging-a-show/

Nick Smith: Requiem (1985)

...Nun label -- the Bats, Chills, Verlaines, Chris Knox et al -- were a large number of artists who... ...Songs on his EP Flanker were produced by Chris Knox and Wayne Gillespie, and they were mixed by...

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Eddie Vedder, Neil and Liam Finn: Not Given Lightly (2009)

...Chris Knox suffered his massive stroke in June 2009,...

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THE BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2022: THE YEAR IN REISSUES

...of how influential and enjoyable the duo of Chris Knox and Alec Bathgate (who complied this and did...

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE WRITERS QUESTIONNAIRE: Henry Rollins

...dropped out the courageous and nakedly honest Chris Knox -- who was only supposed to be there for about...

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Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs (2000)

...Auckland singer-songwriter-artist-everyman Chris Knox handed me a copy of Wasps Nests, a salute to...

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THE OUTER LIMITS OF THE HUMAN VOICE: That sound, it haunts me still!

...couple of years ago I was impressed when I saw Chris Knox front a band at the Laneway Festival in...

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EREWHON CALLING; EXPERIMENTAL SOUND IN NEW ZEALAND edited by BRUCE RUSSELL (Audio Foundation//CMR)

...Cooley's fanview/overview of the career of Chris Knox from the Enemy onwards encompasses (as it...

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Various Artists: What Did You Do in the Beat Era . . . Daddy!!!; Let Me Take You Down . . . Under (both Frenzy)

...by Larry Morris. Heretical but uber-Fabfan Chris Knox gate-crashes the respectful proceedings with a...

Music at Elsewhere: music/6414/various-artists-what-did-you-do-in-the-beat-era-daddy-let-me-take-you-down--under-both-frenzy/

THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE SONGWRITER QUESTIONNAIRE: Timothy Blackman

...as being akin to Sun Kil Moon and downtempo Chris Knox, and he does a couple of shows (see below) to...

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HOWE GELB INTERVIEWED (2011): The price and pay-off of the path less traveled

...trust), he spoke warmly of Auckland musician Chris Knox who had a stroke two years ago and whom he...

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THE ELSEWHERE SONGWRITER QUESTIONNAIRE: APRA Silver Scroll nominee 2013 Cy Winstanley of Tattletale Saints

...Finn, Don McGlashan, Dave Dobbyn, Bic Runga, Chris Knox, Brooke Fraser and The Naked and Famous....

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THE APRA SILVER SCROLLS 2019: And the finalists are . . .

...Laing, Dave Dobbyn, Don McGlashan, Neil Finn, Chris Knox, Brooke Fraser, James Milne and Lukasz Buda,...

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THE BARGAIN BUY: Toy Love: Cuts (Flying Nun)

...with New Zealand's now legendary Toy Love, the Chris Knox-fronted band which, for almost two years on...

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The Changing Same: The Changing Same (Powertools)

...makes few demands of his audience (the Chris Knox-like I Wanna Be a Guru is pretty lame though)...

Music at Elsewhere: music/4561/the-changing-same-the-changing-same-powertools/

BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2015; THE YEAR IN REISSUES

...once was”. Read the whole review here. Chris Knox; Seizure: The reissue of all of Chris Knox's...

Music at Elsewhere: music/7298/best-of-elsewhere-2015-the-year-in-reissues/

JONATHAN BESSER CONSIDERED (2018): Here, there and every which where . . .

...were flung wide. And so emerged artists like Chris Knox (whose music is more diverse than many might...

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TALL DWARFS, RESURRECTED AND REISSUED (2022): In their own write and draw

...Chris Knox suffered a debilitating stroke in 2009 it... ...early years as only they can. (Incidentally, Chris Knox is still painting and his work can be found...

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Henry Rollins: The power and the passion

...the supporting performers didn't turn up and Chris Knox had to wing it for about an hour. It was an...

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THE ELSEWHERE SONGWRITER QUESTIONNAIRE: APRA Silver Scroll nominee 2013 Joel Little

...Finn, Don McGlashan, Dave Dobbyn, Bic Runga, Chris Knox, Brooke Fraser and The Naked and Famous....

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Friend: Inaccuracies and Omissions (Flying Nun)

...who enters the territory. Friend is actually Chris Knox, who is all of the above, and these nine...

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Further Outwhere: further/2462/friend-inaccuracies-and-omissions-flying-nun/

THE UNDERWATER MELON MAN, a film by FANE FLAWS (Yellow Eye DVD)

...sound handmade for the artists who sing them. Chris Knox gets the title track and turns it into...

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Venetic: Black Boxcars (WSM Recordings)

...unexpectedly. The title track comes off like Chris Knox at his most tuneful and simple over a terrific...

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TALL DWARFS, REISSUED (2022): At last, something's going to happen

...his debilitating stroke in 2009, Chris Knox slowly fell from public consciousness:... .... So much more. If the focus in this has been Chris Knox, Unravelled is a tribute to the quieter figure...

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GREAT LOST KIWI SINGLES: Rock follies

...Dobbyn later reworked to greater effect. . Chris Knox, Address to the Third Soviet Congress 1921...

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GUEST PHOTOGRAPHER JONATHAN GANLEY offers a down-the-front rock experience

...He has just posted a series of photographs of Chris Knox's performance with the Rackets at Real Groovy... ...Legging it with John Cooper Clarke April: Chris Knox meets the Rackets uptown May: Heavy Metal...

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THE ELSEWHERE SONGWRITER QUESTIONNAIRE: APRA Silver Scroll nominee 2013 Aaradhna

...Finn, Don McGlashan, Dave Dobbyn, Bic Runga, Chris Knox, Brooke Fraser and The Naked and Famous....

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Graham Reid

...for the New Zealand musician/Arts Laureate Chris Knox following Chris' stroke in 2009. His research...

biography

The Quick and the Dead: Heartbreak 365 (Cosmic Federation)

...hear 60s garageband pop-rock, the Clash and Chris Knox -- and a worrying lurch into prog-psychedelia...

Music at Elsewhere: music/1575/the-quick-and-the-dead-heartbreak-365-cosmic-federation/

Various Artists: Rucks, Tries and Choruses; The History of NZ Rugby . . . in Song (EMI)

...was a supergroup (Don McGlashan, Ivan Zagni, Chris Knox, Mark Bell and many others). It's not much...

Music at Elsewhere: music/4400/various-artists-rucks-tries-and-choruses-the-history-of-nz-rugby-in-song-emi/

GUEST COMMENTATOR SIMON GRIGG on New Zealand's patchy history of political songs

...collective (which included Don McGlashan and Chris Knox) Left, Right and Centre . . . There was also a...

Other Voices, Other Rooms: othervoicesotherrooms/6595/guest-commentator-simon-grigg-on-new-zealands-patchy-history-of-political-songs/

THE ART AND IMAGERY OF FLYING NUN (2021): From record shelves to gallery walls

...Nun's most recognised musician/artist was Chris Knox whose album covers for Tall Dwarfs and his...

Cultural Elsewhere: culturalelsewhere/9972/the-art-and-imagery-of-flying-nun-2021-from-record-shelves-to-gallery-walls/

THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND: Away with the faeries and poets

...other hoary riffs. But bristling DIY post-punk Chris Knox speaking highly of this slightly fey Scottish... ...seemed to reside there also: Robert Plant and Chris Knox among them. I'm proud to say I bought (or...

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FISTFUL OF VINYL: Records ride back over the horizon

...culture. This is just funny . . . and so is Chris Knox's Max Media cartoon strip from 1990 below . ....

Something Elsewhere: somethingelsewhere/4863/fistful-of-vinyl-records-ride-back-over-the-horizon/

THE VOLUME EXHIBITION IN AUCKLAND: Exit through the gift shop

...at all is very pleasing . . . But aside from Chris Knox's famous TEAC tape recorder, the huge...

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Norman McLaren: Synchromy (1971)

...was a contemporary of Len Lye and influenced Chris Knox and many others. His story goes on from there...

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Fagan and the People: Admiral of the Narrow Seas (Aeroplane)

...discordant songs which brings to mind Chris Knox as it steers a course between lo-fi pop and...

Music at Elsewhere: music/4498/fagan-and-the-people-admiral-of-the-narrow-seas-aeroplane/

THE ELSEWHERE SONGWRITER QUESTIONNAIRE: APRA Silver Scroll nominee 2013 Anna Coddington

...Finn, Don McGlashan, Dave Dobbyn, Bic Runga, Chris Knox, Brooke Fraser and The Naked and Famous....

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JM Kelcher: Actual Disorganiser (Thokei Tapes)

...but important projects or compilations by Chris Knox, Tall Dwarfs, Matthew Bannister, David Yetton...

Music at Elsewhere: music/8854/jm-kelcher-actual-disorganiser-thokei-tapes/

Pumice: Worldwide Welts (Dubbed Tapes/bandcamp)

...minute closing track Bolus etc was recorded at Chris Knox's on a very old cassette recorder. A couple of...

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FLYING NUN AT 30 (2011): Getting older and bolder

...original cover art by David Mitchell (3D's), Chris Knox, John Collie (Straitjackets), David Kilgour...

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Opposite Sex: Hamlet (oppositesex)

...reference point/rationale) for this song is Chris Knox's scouring, emotion-ripping version of Abba's...

Music at Elsewhere: music/7205/opposite-sex-hamlet-oppositesex/

ABBA IN THE 21st CENTURY (2021): On a voyage to nowhere

...an appropriately primal scream treatment by Chris Knox). Even the Dancing Queen was emotionally...

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TOY LOVE; A RETURN BOUT? (2012)

...do I gently mention the current condition of Chris Knox, the band's former frontman who had a...

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THE ELSEWHERE SONGWRITER QUESTIONNAIRE: APRA Silver Scroll nominee 2013 Luke Buda of Phoenix Foundation

...Finn, Don McGlashan, Dave Dobbyn, Bic Runga, Chris Knox, Brooke Fraser and The Naked and Famous....

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IAIN MACMILLAN PHOTOGRAPHER, CREATING AN ICONIC ALBUM COVER (2019): Four for the road

...for thousands of others! . . . . . and this by Chris Knox, a 2019 commission for a friend who asked him...

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MARTIN PHILLIPPS, OF THE DISBANDED CHILLS, INTERVIEWED (1992): The dream is over

...been Martin Phillipps’ singular dream. Chris Knox will tell of a young Phillipps watching Toy...

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Lindon Puffin

...Shona Laing, the Warratahs, Gin, Dave Dobbyn, Chris Knox . . . He has also toured Europe, Japan and the...

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Wendyhouse: Live from the Pillow (Wiggley Tapes)

...debts to the Residents, This Heat, Pere Ubu, Chris Knox and other lo-fi practitioners of pop.This is...

Music at Elsewhere: music/10229/wendyhouse-live-from-the-pillow-wiggley-tapes/

THE HASSELHOFF EXPERIMENT: ALWAYS OUTNUMBERED ALWAYS OUTGUNNED, CONSIDERED (1999): Loud, fast and in control

...stylings of the Renderers, the idiosyncratic Chris Knox and Wrecks Small Speakers let alone...

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MARTIN PHILLIPPS INTERVIEWED (2018): A lone guide cutting through snow

...but I inherited some special stuff from Chris Knox and Doug Hood in terms of posters and things.... ...I think the palette is constantly broadening. Chris Knox will always be there, he is another one of the...

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THE CLEAN, VEHICLE (2013): Running again at 33 1/3rpm

...and Australia to Europe -- with their friend Chris Knox as "cheerleader and denigrator"...

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Lee Ranaldo: Between the Times and the Tides (Matador)

...turned up to 11 here -- Bats, Clean, some solo Chris Knox even -- just hasn't been paying attention....

Music at Elsewhere: music/4851/lee-ranaldo-between-the-times-and-the-tides-matador/

Chad VanGaalen: Shrink Dust (SubPop)

...songs I want the movie, the on-line Johnston/Chris Knox-like clips are enticingly bizarre. Just like...

Music at Elsewhere: music/6302/chad-vangaalen-shrink-dust-subpop/

HISTORY ACTUALLY REPEATS (2014): Rare, lost or out-of-print New Zealand music gets a second coming

...the Flying Nun era (Verlaines, Able Tasmans, Chris Knox). And beyond (DLT, Dudley Benson, New...

Something Elsewhere: somethingelsewhere/6368/history-actually-repeats-2014-rare-lost-or-out-of-print-new-zealand-music-gets-a-second-coming/

AN OFF-RAMP OF THOKEI TAPES (2021): Spools of sound from home and abroad

...of obscurities and rarities by artists such as Chris Knox, Robert Scott (Bats, Clean), David Yetton... ...Dots As half of Tall Dwarfs – with Chris Knox – Bathgate has the advantage of name...

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Robyn Hitchcock: I Often Dream of Trains in New York (Yep Rock/Southbound DVD)

...Hitch can sound like a folksy John Lennon, Chris Knox (on the rocking This Could be the Day) or even...

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Music at Elsewhere: music/2712/robyn-hitchcock-i-often-dream-of-trains-in-new-york-yep-rock-southbound-dvd/

Stephen: Windy Day (1988)

...be a pop band". And I believe that is Chris Knox on "high speed piano" at the end of...

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THE 2016 APRA SILVER SCROLL AWARDS: The shortlist

...Laing, Dave Dobbyn, Bic Runga, Neil Finn, Chris Knox, Brooke Fraser, Lorde with Joel Little, Ray...

Something Elsewhere: somethingelsewhere/7628/the-2016-apra-silver-scroll-awards-the-shortlist/

THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE SONGWRITER QUESTIONNAIRE: Darren McShane of Superturtle

...are . . . Brian Wilson – God Only Knows; Chris Knox & The Nothing – Ice; Morrissey...

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The Nothing: A Warm Gun (Amaj001/Rhythmethod)

...programme I have been playing quite a lot from Chris Knox's albums and thoroughly enjoying rediscovering... ...and always offers good value -- his last one Chris Knox and the Nothing ran the full 70 minutes... ...In My Heart . . . Yes, there is a lot of Chris Knox on vinyl and CD in the world but -- like that...

Music at Elsewhere: music/1605/the-nothing-a-warm-gun-amaj001-rhythmethod/

Various Artists: The Great New Zealand Songbook; Souvenir Edition (Sony)

...City's Love Love Love, Ladi6's Like Water and Chris Knox's Not Given Lightly. And it looks like the...

Music at Elsewhere: music/4361/various-artists-the-great-new-zealand-songbook-souvenir-edition-sony/

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT . . . THE FALL'S IN A HOLE ALBUM: Almost stopping the Nun taking flight

...came to New Zealand for a short tour. Chris Knox was especially delighted by the prospect of...

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RIVERS INTERVIEWED (2014): In the footsteps of the master

...in music his inspirations were David Kilgour, Chris Knox (“I organised his first gig with The...

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Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/6446/rivers-interviewed-2014-in-the-footsteps-of-the-master/

THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE SONGWRITER QUESTIONNAIRE: Glen Moffatt

...his word skills), once so well known that Chris Knox did that caricature of him . . . and one of...

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The Famous Elsewhere Questionnaire: thefamouselsewherequestionnaire/6499/the-famous-elsewhere-songwriter-questionnaire-glen-moffatt/

VOLUME, MAKING MUSIC IN AOTEAROA at the Auckland War Memorial Museum

...rare instruments and art work (among them Chris Knox's massive dot-painting cover for his Croaker...

Cultural Elsewhere: culturalelsewhere/7705/volume-making-music-in-aotearoa-at-the-auckland-war-memorial-museum/

Graeme Jefferies: I'm Not Listening to Your Station (Jefferies/vinyl/digital outlets)

...Crusoe which was a TKP song here recorded on Chris Knox's famous four-track, also a piano and strings...

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Music at Elsewhere: music/10893/graeme-jefferies-im-not-listening-to-your-station-jefferies-vinyl-digital-outlets/

THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Darren McShane of Superturtle

...you in that case would be . . . Ice by Chris Knox and The Nothing The poster, album cover or...

The Famous Elsewhere Questionnaire: thefamouselsewherequestionnaire/5613/the-famous-elsewhere-questionnaire-darren-mcshane-of-superturtle/

David Yetton: Move to Trash (Thokei Tapes)

...Tall Dwarfs, David Pine, Matthew Bannister and Chris Knox on cassette tape. David Yetton – of JPSE...

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Music at Elsewhere: music/8826/david-yetton-move-to-trash-thokei-tapes/

Various Artists: Kiwi Animals (Strangelove Music/ bandcamp)

...– and many come from rare sources. Chris Knox's home-recording take on Martin Phillipps'...

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Further Outwhere: further/9443/various-artists-kiwi-animals-strangelove-music-bandcamp/

Ron Gallipoli: Ron Gallipoli Loves You All (Freezing Works Music)

...comment) and sounds (nods towards bedroom-solo Chris Knox, what could be Asian field recordings in the...

Music at Elsewhere: music/6530/ron-gallipoli-ron-gallipoli-loves-you-all-freezing-works-music/

SHAYNE CARTER, DIMMER AND A STAR TURN (2021): Groove is in its heart

...and I were sharing caregiver duties with Chris Knox – who had had a debilitating stroke in...

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Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/9919/shayne-carter-dimmer-and-a-star-turn-2021-groove-is-in-its-heart/

Fionn Regan: The Shadow of an Empire (Inertia/Border)

...between Dylan in '66, Pete Molinari and lo-fi Chris Knox with his urgent, lyrically twisting songs...

Music at Elsewhere: music/2978/fionn-regan-the-shadow-of-an-empire-inertia-border/

Opposite Sex: High Drama (Spik & Span/digital outlets)

...idiosyncratic vocals akin to Mark E Smith or Chris Knox with massive and annoying migraines –...

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Music at Elsewhere: music/9762/opposite-sex-high-drama-spik-and-span-digital-outlets/

GRAEME DOWNES OF THE VERLAINES INTERVIEWED (2003): Such brave, flawed diamonds

If there were awards in local rock for candour beyond the call of duty, then Graeme Downes, linchpin of the formative and formidable Flying Nun band the Verlaines (1981-97), would be saying “Tha

Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/3144/graeme-downes-of-the-verlaines-interviewed-2003-such-brave-flawed-diamonds/

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