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Live at the Glengarry Tavern Invercargill 1985

by The Puddle

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Guinea Pigs 04:22
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Jealousy 03:58
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Junk 04:24
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Totem Cuckoo 04:49
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Magic Words 07:16

about

A week before recording “Pop Lib” in Dunedin in 1985 The Puddle toured south to Invercargill with The Chills, playing two nights at Invercargill venue The Glengarry Tavern. The second night, Saturday 20 April 1985 was recorded through the mixing desk direct to cassette tape. A photograph from that night features on the back sleeve of the “Pop Lib” release and is included along with other photos and articles from the time in the PDF booklet included with the download.

This then, warts, electrical noises, join-the-dots guitar solos and all, is the performance that night. It shares some songs with "Pop Lib" but also some previously unheard gems. The multi-channel live recording is like a studio live-to-air in quality, painting quite a different sonic picture to the dense fug and crowd noise of both Pop Lib and Live at the Teddy Bear Club releases on Flying Nun Records. Quieter songs like "Billie & Franz" reveal the exploratory arrangements of the unusual 6-piece band, and the crowning glory is the exemplary cacophony of The Puddle revisiting The And Band noise improvisation "Interstellar Gothic".

As Bruce Russell explained in a 1991 review of "Into the Moon" in NZ music weekly Rip It Up: "While his career may be largely unknown to the majority of even those well informed insiders reading these pages, the fact is that since the mid-70s George Henderson (poet, nutritional theorist, connoisseur of the esoteric) has been constantly engaged in an obscure but utterly uncompromising investigation-cum-pilgrimage through the 'secret' side of music, thought and the fine arts in this country. The most obvious expression of this has been in music... Though all too often better appreciated by other musicians than by the public, George's music is at heart pop. Those who snapped up The Puddle's 1986 EP "Pop Lib" will know that he has few peers in NZ for a catchy melody or an incisively pithy lyric, as well as a unique guitar style and a talent for off-the-wall arrangements."

credits

released April 20, 2020

George D Henderson - Guitar, vocals
Lesley Paris - Drums
Norma O'Malley - Flute
Peter Gutteridge - Keyboards
Ross Jackson - Bass
Lindsay Maitland - French Horn, Cornet

Recorded live at the Glengarry Tavern, Invercargill, on Saturday 20 April 1985. Live sound by Tex Houston. Thanks to The Chills for backline gear.

All songs by George D Henderson except for "Self Interest" by Bill Vosburgh.

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The Puddle Dunedin, New Zealand

With their 1986 – 93 Flying Nun Records catalogue long
out of print, The Puddle finally re-emerged in 2006 with 4 acclaimed albums released on Fishrider Records.
The Puddle have always been the most stubbornly underground of the bands associated with the
Flying Nun imprint. Their debut Pop Lib was recently included in SPIN magazine’s list of the best Kiwi pop releases alongside The Clean.
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