Right, just been published (will pick up my copy on Monday/Tuesday, prob). Eggleton = one of my favourite NZ poets, one of the best art critics in the country (writes for the listener, etc), was in a bunch of maybe-Flying Nun bands in the 80s (um, he was in one of the bands on the /Noizyland/ video, would check but andoru's still got it). Covers the 50s to the present. From the quick skim through it @ RG, seems to be pretty thorough - the Axemen! Duane Zarakhov! Marie & The Atom!
So, uh, you should all read this. Looks to be a much-needed update to /Stranded In Paradise/, if nothing else (ie you get hip-hop, dub, etc etc etc). Why does every book on NZ rock need a preface by Martin cockfarming Phillips, tho?
(lotsa pretty pictures, too)
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i've been looking for this book over ...
i've been looking for this book over the past week, nowhere in wellington seems to be stocking it!
haha did you see his byline in this ...
haha did you see his byline in this week's listener too? yeah, was annoying all the indie bookstores all week, but only came in on friday.
It's in Dymocks, but don't bother cos ...
It's in Dymocks, but don't bother cos it's shit. He's made the mistake of atempting a full history of Nz music- which is pointless cos John Dix covered up to 1988 pretty thoroughly- and the end result is a book that spreads itself too thin, and, in the passages on the scenes and eras that I am familiar with, contains some quite glaring factual errors.
The Anvil says " Track down a copy of "Stranded in paradise, and join me in the wait for a decent book on the period 1988-present."
I just found this thread. So what ...
I just found this thread.
So what are the glaring factual errors? I've not had time to do much more than skim my copy but it seems to be infinitely more readable than Stranded in Paradise. Plus SIP was riddled with errors too. John Dix has a list of them but it's doubtful we'll ever get a second edition. Maybe he could post them on the net somewhere so they're sorted for once and for all.
And it's impossible to buy SIP anymore so we desperately needed a new book that told the whole story and in an accessible way, not in the unreadable like a dictionary packed full with too much data and anecdotal tangents.
And yay, he included all the stuff left out of Give It A Whirl, like almost anything from the seventies that wasn't Split Enz.
i bought a copy of SIP just before ...
i bought a copy of SIP just before christmas, new.
I'm currently reading ready to fly, so im yet to form an opinion as to its worth.