I (vaguely) hate having to wait two weeks for the Brunettes album (well no not really)

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While my back was turned, it appears that they were rescued from being unable to release their record by . . . EMI?!?! K-bizarre reversal. I've liked the handful of songs I've heard on comps/videos/etc; & think they should, er, do that thing they do. & make more videos. Before I met petra, I imagined she looked the Brunettes gurl. Er um yeah. I don't really like twindiepop, honest . . . (haha Mëstar vs Pine vs Brunettes FITE!)

― Ess Kay (esskay), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 11:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Me? Look like the gorgeous queen of twee Heather? Flattery will get you EVERYWHERE, Ess.

― petra jane (petra jane), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

the brunettes freak me out because johnathon sounds exactly like his older cousin Mark who I used to know and live with

esskay what is K-bizarre? do you mean like Okay Bizarre. ?

― spectra, Tuesday, 8 October 2002 23:11 (twenty-two years ago)

"k" = internet geek suffix meaning very. i hate the brunettes.

― di smith (lucylurex), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 02:10 (twenty-two years ago)

k as in kilo as in 1000. or possibly one of the most concise abbreviations of "fuckin'", I'm not too sure.

― Ess Kay (esskay), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 09:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I imagined Petra as looking like that too! I have only ever heard the one Brunettes song though, and I kinda liked it, but maybe not enough to buy the album.

― Livvie, Thursday, 10 October 2002 07:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Heather is the queen of archness (not a bad thing), I think. And she's not that hot, I always spend about 10 minutes trying to work out if that's her or not at the King's Arms etc.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 10 October 2002 10:24 (twenty-two years ago)

i got their peter king lathe cut record, i'll wait a while til it gets "collectable" & sell it to you for some stupid ass amount of $$$ if you like.

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Friday, 11 October 2002 02:09 (twenty-two years ago)

just whatever you do don't PLAY it! 3 spins at the bastard'll SKIP! not that most Auckland hipsters even play their record collections or anything...

[haha i have a Pumice lathe that even Jon doesn't have. it skips already tho, sucks]

― petra jane (petra jane), Friday, 11 October 2002 03:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm getting an advanced copy of the Brunettes album. (I can already hear you seething with jealousy!) They look cute if you give them beer.

― alex (alex), Friday, 11 October 2002 10:27 (twenty-two years ago)

haha I don't buy albums (though apparently the first 200 copies come with a colouring book, which is too twee for words), & I definately don't by vinyl (I'm allergic).

oh yeah has everyone seen the new Pine video? It's like a cuddlier version of Belle & Sebastian!
(nb I have never heard a B&S track)

― Ess Kay (esskay), Friday, 11 October 2002 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

my copy of the brunettes lathe cut doesn't skip, it plays fine.

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Saturday, 12 October 2002 06:35 (twenty-two years ago)

ess kay, you've never heard a B&S track?! lucky you! i consider them to be a lifetime affliction now. being only one B&S EP and one B&S album into my rollocking saturday night.

the brunettes' colouring in book used to be $10 at gigs. yargh.

― alex (alex), Saturday, 12 October 2002 09:38 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

why are the brunettes coming back to melbourne? there's not enough room in this town for another pop band

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 20 October 2003 06:02 (twenty-one years ago)

You could just as easily replace the word 'pop' in that sentence with the words 'New Zealand'.

― Damian (Damian), Monday, 20 October 2003 08:35 (twenty-one years ago)

there's always room in melbourne for new zealand bands

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 20 October 2003 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

it's just that the brunettes go over *too* well with the rock crowd

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 20 October 2003 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Blah blah I bet Heather helps I'm so perceptive blah blah

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 20 October 2003 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

wtf? I've never heard the Brunettes album! why did I start this thread?!?
(possibly desiring-signifiers-of-Auckland while "trapped" in Dunedin/Rotorua?)

― etc, Tuesday, 21 October 2003 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)

That sounds pretty right, they sum up a certain Aucklandness pretty damn well. Do you even like them? I REALLY miss the early Brunettes (in as much as I miss any Brunettes, anyway) when they were louder/more VU and wrote better songs and put out a 7" lathe in an edition of like 18. I don't miss that bit, that was annoying. They sound a bit like that live, sometimes.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

They were pretty good the last time we saw em

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I think that was when I was all "oh wow they're LOUD and stuff, this is what they were like back in the good old days, they sound like the VU!". How openminded of me. I still quite like them, I suppose, I thought their version of Xanadu's 'Kill Kill Kill' was the best thing they did that night though.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Me, before- Do you even like them?

That sounds a lot more accusatory (don't know of what, it's latenight paranoia probably) than it was meant to. I was just wondering, since it does seem an odd thread to have started.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 23 October 2003 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

seven months pass...

revive

― Duane, Monday, 24 May 2004 10:35 (twenty-one years ago)

crazy - hey duane, dub me the lathe cut... pretty please? i should get you to make me a mix with stuff like the and band, this and some rare king loser and space dust stuff or something.. or is your tape / cd burner / whatever still out of action?

― chris andrews (fraew), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 02:52 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah sure i can do that, i have a tape deck that goes again now...i might take a while but yeah i'll do it ok

― duane, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

we just found out my friend's neighbor is this heather girl from the brunettes! we're listening to a song, it sounds good

― Surmounter, Friday, 1 August 2008 14:51 (seventeen years ago)

i'm going to a party with her next week i think! and i'm into this sound! eep

― Surmounter, Friday, 1 August 2008 15:04 (seventeen years ago)

the royal we?

― am0n, Friday, 1 August 2008 16:58 (seventeen years ago)

I was wrong about Heather, she's extremely hot and extremely nice and extremely married :(

― Niles Caulder, Saturday, 2 August 2008 05:33 (seventeen years ago)

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