Alastair Riddell What Good Does It Do Me/ The Last Time (Mandrill, DRILL 3, 1978)
Space Waltz were iconclasts in the New Zealand music world. Everyone of my generation will still remember their wonderful/brave/shocking/exciting 1974 television performance on 'New Faces' - the NZ's Got Talent of its day.
Alastair Riddell was the principle writer and the lead singer of that band and after that great eponymous album he went solo.
Both these A sides come from his 1978 album (called Alastair Riddell - his imagination went into the songs rather than his album titles!).
Wonder Ones and What Good Does It Do Me are terrific tunes, displaying varying aspects of his vast talent.
Hidden gems: Oh Ron is a great (Ron is his brother) slab of glam Bowie style pop - definitely a gem!
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