Genre: NZ Music, pop
Places I remember: This is a promo copy sent to Margie's brother who was a rep for Festival Records in the eighties.
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Zero (YouTube)
Gear costume: Do You Read Me (YouTube)
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Zero (YouTube)
Gear costume: Do You Read Me (YouTube)
They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; Part 6
Active compensatory factors: Alastair is a hero for many New Zealand music fans, including me. His poptastic music has been threaded through my life*.
Active compensatory factors: Alastair is a hero for many New Zealand music fans, including me. His poptastic music has been threaded through my life*.
This one (his second solo album) escaped me at the time. Weird, because in 1982 I was studying at teachers' college in Auckland and very much a music collector.
Hearing these songs on Positive Action in a wash of synths and AI drums in 2025 makes more sense than it probably would have done in 1982 when I thought of him as a glam rocker. I'm glad I finally caught up with it.
Where do they all belong? Stupidly, I sold off his first album many years ago and now it'll cost megabucks to buy a replacement. *Space Waltz albums are yet to come in the countdown.
Where do they all belong? Stupidly, I sold off his first album many years ago and now it'll cost megabucks to buy a replacement. *Space Waltz albums are yet to come in the countdown.
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