Xpressway had a reputation for being prickly with the mainstream media and for giving few interviews, which made us doubly grateful for his full response. "Geopelia" wrote in message news:iugph9$rhf$1@dont-email.me * Nothing rare about the term Gravitas. Also read:Mark Kesslers Cause of Sudden Death at 74 Due to a DiseaseWrong Turn Director Declan OBrien Passed Away at 56. Take your Radio, Podcasts and Music with you. The broadcaster, who was in his early 70s, died abruptly on Sunday night while working as an overnight presenter, newsreader, and host of the famous In My Day show. Its got that import cachet, the hard to find, real gold, collector scum mentality, Russell told Philip Matthews in The Wire, June 1999. "I didn't want to give him a fright so crept in, and gently touched his arm. Yet we knew that our perspective, our aesthetic, was shared by an appreciable subculture worldwide. Russell worked all over New Zealand throughout his broadcasting career. So it is no surprise that we have grown in stature, while others have withered away.. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website. _____________________________________________ Ras Mikaere Enoch Mc Carty Ambassador - Tainui Kiingitanga \ Te Aotearoa N.Z. He appears to be highly secretive in terms of his personal life, as he has never dragged his family, including his parents and children, if he has any, into the public eye. Dower described Russell as his "great mate". Theyre pretty interesting.And entertaining. Bruce Russellattacks the guitar, Arc Caf 2005. Siltbreeze Records made available the Trapdoor Fucking Exit cassette (also released on CD) and Hell Is Now Love b/w Bone single in 1990. Email: newsroomau@yahoonews.com. "Bruce had a gargantuan general knowledge. Never a dull moment with Bruce #RIP, Tim Evans (@TimEvansSKY) April 24, 2022. To be told: This next piece will be called The Kabbalah of the Horse Pegasus. To make a live-to-two-track album with stringed instruments, where the only concept is Dont touch the strings! and have the other half of your duo rush off to vomit, when the reels keep spinning! Little Brucie of Little Wanganui with a fan. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience. Bruce Russell of Newstalk ZB died unexpectedly, but his cause of death has yet to be revealed. Bruce Russell's 2012 Flying Nun compilation Time To Go: The Southern Psychedelic Moment, 1981-1986 was hailed as a landmark collection of early 1980s independent music from the South Island. Its the warrior gene, says Richie. I use it a lot. In a statement on Newstalk ZB's website, the station said: "Bruce Russell, one of our long-time Newstalk ZB hosts, passed away unexpectedly but peacefully last night. . I hope they truly value you as much as we all do, and yes please bring back Pam you are wonderful together. I love TW love of conversation. I go to bed every night with ZB talkback. iHeartRadio app. Newstalk ZB's Bruce Russell, in his early 70s, was working right up until his death - as an overnight host, newsreader and host of the popular In My Day show on Saturday night. Dead C vs Sebadoh EP and The Operation of the Sonne LP emerged on Siltbreeze in 1993 with World Peace Hope Et Al and the Metal Heart following in 1994 and The White House LP in 1995. Xpressways prime mover headed to the United States in 1991 for a six-week fact finding mission during which he visited the half a dozen east coast record shops that would be central to the label and its bands future. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter and download the Yahoo News app from the App Store or Google Play. Even if you dont like Limbaugh, give a listen. In the late 1980s and early 1990s NZ groups wanting to issue music on vinyl records faced very real challenges in locating pressing plants overseas. Included in the first two CDs were issues of the Bruce Russell-edited Logopandocy: the journal of vain erudition. May god his family and loved ones have enough strength to deal with the great loss. "His inimitable personality in the newsroom and in the studio would always entertain his colleagues too. Come back Pam PLEASE. Why Felicity Hoffman Sentenced to Only 14 Days in Prison? Tom Laxs new Philadelphia indie Siltbreeze Records became The Dead Cs primary label for the next six years and helped gain them a foothold in the United States. A Chris Knox review of an A Handful of Dust tape A Fortnight Dead (available from 154 Forth Street in Dunedin for $3.50) had Russell as the long lost missing link between Sam Hunt and Fetus Productions. That is NOT the Mikey I know!!! 19 years ago. Ill remember Bruce for his cheeky banter, his distinctive voice, his unmatchable work ethic. "Radio Transcripts Ltd." Has Already Shown Himself To Favour That Rare Term: " Gravitas ". " Theyre lazy! The conversations he had on-air brought him loyalty from listeners young and old both throughout the night and on his Saturday night show. The city councils representative is holding up the organisations generic membership card. The new labels first CD, The Philosophick Mercury was a recorded reflection of two 1993 A Handful of Dust live shows with some help from The Terminals drummer Peter Stapleton. The Toy Love album was released the week the series was filmed in Dunedin. RUSH: Now, I dont care. From the very beginning the labels catalogues, ads and posters project a distinctive aesthetic. Discovery) - All Rights Reserved, By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Access and Privacy Policy. Oh I forgot! Russell went on to work as a weekend newsreader and also hosted the Saturday night show In My Day. non-reader called BRUCE RUSSELL. DON'T bring back Pam! Love your show Tim you never get ruffled with the callers It is so nice to see the regulars I am always looking forward to Bruce coming on with his wonderful tales. DONALDSON: that he was put on the ticket, but by former President Bush, to give gravitas to the ticket. Scan the QR code to download now. I see him as tall and skinny. The Dead C continue to be an in demand group in New Zealand and internationally for specialist music festivals and events. 27 minutes with Mr. My favorite newstalk an host for many many years Bruce Russell has died unexpectedly in a single day. With some others, they make up Pink Plastic Gods and Wreck Small Speakers on Expensive Stereos. In other words two thirds of The Dead C were already creating together. WOODRUFF: You certainly have gravitas tonight. I argued just that with my good friend Bucyrus Err B knowing full well that it was The Dead C who had pointed the way for my small town friends interest in Witcyst and the Corpus Hermeticum-released Omit. By Dickson Ofori Siaw April 25, 2022. Busy seems too inadequate a word to describe Bruce Russells late 1990s and 2000s. He is a founder member and guitarist for the noise rock trio The Dead C, as well as the free noise ensemble A Handful of Dust. Bruce was a wonderful team member and a talented host and. 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There are many rumors about New Zealand's longest-serving and beloved broadcasters Bruce Russell's cause of death after he suddenly passed away last night (April 24, 2022) in his early 70s. Newstalk ZB's Bruce Russell, in his early 70s, was working right up until his death - as an overnight host, newsreader and host of the popular In My Day show on Saturday night. Outside of The Lonesome Death of Albert Ayler by A Handful of Dust on Drag City Records I Hear The Devil Calling Me compilation EP single of less than one-minute songs available in 1990, hed only released the A Little Aesthetic Discourse single in 1992 for Cambridge, Massachusetts Twisted Village Records. Thanks for doing that for I also appreciate putting faces to names. Tim you are the best Host ZB has!!!!! According to his ZB bio, he began composing advertisements and started doing some announcing and was posted to numerous community stations, doing every shift under the sun. In Fact, "Radio Transcripts Ltd." Was Caught Just Recently, Using That Very Rare Term: Rush Limbaugh, The United States Conservative Talk-Show Host, Was The Wonderful Individual Who Did The Investigation, Which Proved That Transmission-Belts To Fellow Liberal Media Agents (Communists) Were Instructed To Use The Term: " Gravitas" In Reference To Pushing And Promoting Al Gore (Bill Clinton's Vice President \ Ran For President) Out Of Nowhere, The Term: " Gravitas ", Was Being Used By All The Democratic Liberal Communist Media Editors, Writers. RUSSELL: You would think they would be a very wealthy society andwouldnt need to lay around on the benefit. The brightly mohawked writer had shared stages with his flatmate Alastair Galbraiths band as The Coonskin Kid or A Handful of Dust. A history of Dunedins ongoing Lines of Flight festival of experimental music was a highpoint in Home, Land and Sea: Situating music in Aotearoa New Zealand in 2011. Bruce Russell of Newstalk ZB spent a career as a buddy to his devoted listeners. Love them both!!! Our goal is to create a safe and engaging place for users to connect over interests and passions. His collaborations with Kim Pieters, Peter Stapleton, Tom Lax, Birchville Cat Motel, Ralf Wehowsky, Richard Francis, Jason Kahn, Roy Montgomery, Lasse Marhaug, Gnarlosand John Wiese dot the time. CALLER GEOFF: That lady who said Maori kids should be taken out oftheir homes and put into a Pakeha family was ridiculous. Russell, who was in his early 70s, worked as a host and newsreader for the station right up until his death. Hello, Diane. There were few things we wanted to do less than release it through Flying Nun. Good on ya Brucie! He also anchors the Saturday night show In My Day and reads the news on weekends. "I am devastated," sports broadcaster Miles Davis wrote. Get more of the radio, music and podcasts you love with the FREE
"What I loved about what he did on the radio was the companionship for the listeners. "He brought a particularly sharp sense of humour to his work and to his workplace. He baulks at the description lo fi. There were also three shows with V3. They confirmed his death in a statement on Monday morning. Tapes from The Dead C (Live Dead C), Galbraith (Hurray On Down), This King of Punishment (Live 85), Wreck Small Speakers on Expensive Stereos (A Childs Guide to) and Gutteridge (Pure) arrived in 1988 and 1989. The statisticsshow that 54 per cent of bashed kids are Maori! Nice guns. BREAKING! Bruce Russell, an overnight radio host, has died suddenly. Newstalk ZB, that bed of ignorant right wing hatred, is "leftist". Ive spent quite a lot of time with keyboards and various things. I vote for The Three!! No. This is horrible news. Do you have a story tip? Details will be published soon on Ghanafuo. These people havejust come out of cannibalism. Bruce Russell death cause has been reported as a peaceful death at his workplace in Newstalk ZB central Auckland office. What Happened To Nia From Real World Portland? Talking to Brendon Fitzgibbon in 1992, Bruce Russell outlined the near future as he saw it. There are many rumors about New Zealands longest-serving and beloved broadcasters Bruce Russells cause of death after he suddenly passed away last night (April 24, 2022) in his early 70s. Lilburn, who died in 1990, had showed The Dead C they were part of an already established NZ tradition in electro acoustic music. Cheers, Nanster. Id later read that there was yet another reason for the media reticence. Rough Trades [UK and US retailer and distributor] collapse had pushed groups back on to a more do it yourself level. I was only in primary school then, and we had to call him Mr Murdoch, so didnt ever know his Christian name. I am a regular listener and love seeing the photos of the 'regulars'. Several coworkers have paid tribute to Russell including colleague Tim Dower who announced the news of his death on air this morning. The definitive scene fanzines final issue appeared in the summer of 1990 and kept readers abreast of Xpressways overseas plans with records mooted (and delivered) through new Chicago label Feel Good All Over and the label attached to prominent US fanzine Forced Exposure, who planned a Dead C single. Having laid new foundations and set a viable operating template, Bruce Russell turned again to his A Handful of Dust project. In 2014, Bruces daughter Olive filmed a warm and revealing documentary on her father called 27 Minutes With Mr Noisy, which took Russell back to his old haunts in Dunedin and plumbed his world view in the back yard shed in Lyttelton, that is his creative home. The Bats Robert Scott, Kathy Bull, Kath Webster and Lesley Paris of Look Blue Go Purple and Nick Wilkinson of The Alpaca Brothers I know by sight, having seen their groups play. "Bruce was a wonderful team member and a talented host and newsreader who brought joy to our audiences for many years. We currently await photos of Netball & Movies Kelvin, Dear Helen, Dave the Security Guard, Sweet Alan Of Timaru, Deano the Dairy Farmer, Jeanetta the Hermaphrodite, Ah Yes Hello Mark who has a Hannah Montana duvet and other entrenched regulars. It's just Latin. The owner was a man named Mr Murdoch. LOVE love the photo of Pam. The conversations he had on-air brought him loyalty from listeners young and old both throughout the night and on his Saturday night show. See Hone Harawira is a goodexample. Best pic here is of Pam and you, Tim. 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My friends and I are no strangers to the large co-op arts venue up the sharp rising Stafford Street south of the Octagon, having been regulars there at musical events in mid-1986. The veteran radio presenter passed away suddenly on Sunday evening while at work before he was due to start his on-air shift. McCURRY: I think he also needs to demonstrate some gravitas, too. Newstalk ZB Host Bruce Russell Dies At 62 | Bruce Russell Wife & WikiTopic covered in the video:bruce russell obituary,bruce ru.. "Bruce Russell, one of our long-time Newstalk ZB hosts, passed away unexpectedly but peacefully last night," the statement read. He eventually moved to Auckland where he started working overnight shifts. Always enjoy your calls , It's Mikey! Our thoughts and love are with Bruce's family at this sad time.. Bruce Russell, a radio host, is known as a gifted newsreader with an unmistakable personality. By the end of the year, The Dead C, Xpressway Records and a new Dunedin-based fanzine Alley Oop are a reality or will be soon. The busy label picked up pace in 1988 and 1989 with startling and enduring singles from Peter Jefferies with Robbie Muir and Alastair Galbraith with Graeme Jefferies, and tapes from Victor Dimisich Band and Sferic Experiment. Its Mikey!!! Copyright 2016 The Roxborogh Report. I just DON'T believe that's Mikey, either..come on, Mikey..show us what you REALLY look like! Burial site and Find a Grave details, Ricou Browning funeral, burial service, pictures, date, time, venue. "Bruce Russell, one of the long-time Newstalk ZB hosts, passed away suddenly but peacefully last night," the station stated on its website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. Through the generosity of Sonic Youths Thurston Moore, who had given up the royalties on a well-received CD with Tom Sturgal, Klangfarbenmelodie, in 1995, the label was on a better financial footing. I havent reached the limit of unorthodox things that I can do with a guitar. MALE CALLER: Its due to savagery, animal instinct. Shipping was a big part of the NZ based labels costs so a lighter and thinner sleeve made sense. Having returned North to Paeroa then university in Hamilton, brother Stu and I were early subscribers to Xpressways mail order, eagerly awaiting the catalogues (minor pieces of art in themselves I wish Id kept the Hocken Library in Dunedin has copies) and NZ and US records they sold. Many of The Dead Cs 1980s and 1990s albums have been repressed and released, most recently through Ba Da Bing! Well before The Dead C and Xpressway Records, many of the component parts of Bruce Russells creative life and worldview are already clearly in evidence. He passed away. Bruce, meanwhile, checked out The Terminals Disconnect LP, Skeptics Amalgam and The Renderers and Cyclops live. The Dead C already had the Perform DR503b tape out on Xpressway. Flicking through old copies of NZ Listener in the University of Waikato library, a photograph of the University of Otagos winning 1980 University Challenge (a TV quiz show that pitted students from the countrys tertiary institutions against each other) team caught my eye. I can export to Europe, America and Japan and my products are seen as exotic wherever they go. Come January 1987 and Bruce Russell is back in Dunedin. Frustrated and diminished by Flying Nun Records narrowed commercial focus, Bruce Russell had teamed up with Peter Jefferies, Alastair Galbraith and Peter Gutteridge to establish the new Port Chalmers based independent label Xpressway at the end of 1987. Saturday nights and nighttime to crack of dawn will NEVER be the identical. CARLSON: It means that Bush, you know, Gore has experience and gravitas. By Sujina Karanjit April 24, 2022 09:03 PM; Bruce Russell of Newstalk ZB died unexpectedly, but his cause of death has yet to be revealed. ", Shocked and deeply sad about the news my dear friend, valued colleague and old-school broadcaster Bruce Russell died last night. CLIFT: Well, Dick Cheney brings congeniality and he brings gravitas. Ensconced in his back shed on the lip of a ruptured and partly immersed volcanic crater in Lyttelton, Bruce Russell, now working an archivist with Radio New Zealand Sound Archives in Christchurch (a job hed previously done for the Presbyterian Church in Dunedin) had Corpus Hermeticum picking up pace. The great artist who recorded and toured withThe Tubesand contributed to their unique stage attire took her last breath and multiple news accounts confirmed the heartbreaking news. Monique Samuels Divorce Rumors From Chris After 10 Years! But they spend itall on drink and weed! Take your Radio, Podcasts and Music with you. Masonic Inborn parts II & III on Killing Capitalism with Kindness 3xEP compilation for Belgiums Turbulence Records soon followed. Their first overseas tour paired them with Sonic Youth in Minneapolis at First Avenue & 7th St Entry in late May and with Harry Pussy at Cambridge, Massachusetts Middle Earth in early June, Boston, NYC, Washington DC and Philadelphia. Michael Morley deals with the more melodic area of things (hes playing the tune of the songs) while Bruce Russell uses his guitar in a melodically minimal, almost percussive way, hurling large slices of distortion fuelled dynamics into the sound. Newstalk ZB's Bruce Russell was in his early 70s; on the other hand, his precise age is but to be revealed. One of the most important and interesting in phases in New Zealands independent music history had now begun. Lets check out that vaunted sense of humour,see how he tackles a very serious issue, and how his wide readingelevates the tone of his show. Bruce Russell kept his writing up in Alley Oop, which was naturally well informed on the Dunedin indies progress. If Lilburns generation was the first to assert an independent New Zealand cultural voice, mine is the first to go beyond a self conscious preoccupation with whether or not we have an autonomous voice, and take that fact for granted as a starting point, Bruce Russell wrote. Russell quickly realised that the fanzine writers and radio show hosts who supported Flying Nun groups were equally supportive of his labels efforts. He came to the massive city of Auckland and was offered an evening shift, which he accepted like a duck to water and has been working there ever since. Ken Knight, a former radio host at Nga Iwi FM in Paeroa in the early 2000s, said the station would take the ZB news feed and 99 per cent of the time it was Bruce reading the news. Copyright 2022 Discovery NZ Limited (Warner Bros. Bruce Russell, a radio host, is known as a gifted newsreader with an unmistakable personality. I'm great friends with him its him! He served up and down New Zealand through his broadcasting career. The only time they ever played a greatest hits set. Whether it was reading the news or creating the character Freddy on Timaru's Radio Caroline in the. Bruce Russell Cause Of Death? Siltbreeze added In The House Of Voluntary Poverty to the fast growing pile. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. The broadcaster, in his early 70s, died suddenly on Sunday night, working right up until his death as an overnight host, newsreader and host of the popular In My Day show. Not content with rescuing tapes from a dodgy rep, Xpressway Records buffed up what was thought to be another dying medium and released The Dead Cs The Sun Stabbed seven inch EP on vinyl in 1988. Bring back Pam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Adrienne from Nelson with the pizza Mark Dye sent her in the post a little mouldy unfortunately. For his part (talking to Dave Cantor in August 2014), Bruce explained. I get so interested in seeing a pic to pin the voice to them! At the time we were just another fringe group of cult nutters outside the mainstream of New Zealand music. Theres a lot more interaction with the recording process and a lot more use of live backing tapes, Bruce Russell explained in Poi$on + lie$ = money + death from John Nixon and Marco Fusinatos Axe: a specialised rock journal, no.19, 1999 in an essay reprinted in Left Handed Blows. READ MORE: * Mike Hosking is 'the king of radio', but Magic Talk is planning a revolt * Newstalk ZB's Marcus Lush locked out of studio mid-broadcast * Radio personality Merv Smith dies. Flying Nun Records collected up the early Dead C recordings in 1999 for a greatest hits Perform DR 503C CD. In 1995, The Dead C dipped back into past records for a set the trio presented at 11 shows over two weeks in the United States. That CD presented a piece each from live performances at Ima Hitt Records in New Plymouth, The Stomach in New Plymouth and Bar Bodega in Wellington, with music from a night at Dux De Lux in Christchurch on August 17, 1995. Grapefruit Records recently released The Twelfth Spectacle, a four LP live album set that was captured between 2002 and 2013 in Paris, Brussels, New York, London and Los Angeles. In Timaru, Russell created a young character he played Freddy, who lived with a mother who went off to work with make-up and fishnet stockings, taxi drivers were picking him up and he had lots of new fathers. All registered. Bruce Russell's 2012 Flying Nun compilation Time To Go: The SouthernPsychedelic Moment, 1981-1986 was hailed as a landmark collection of early 1980s independent music from the South Island. Bruce Russell Obituary, Funeral, Memorial Service, Burial. His inimitable personality in the newsroom and in the studio would always entertain his colleagues too.Our thoughts and love are with Bruce's family at this sad time. This was an area of interest for him already. What songs there are Morley keeps going with a simple open chord riff under and over which Russell shows his faith in drone, discord and looping repetition. Bruce Russell, an overnight radio host, has died suddenly. The letters and music that Bruce and the label sent out to the newly interested revived the sense of inclusion that Flying Nun Records was losing (especially for those outside Auckland) and began the knitting together of a new indie community in New Zealand and overseas. The conversations he had on-air him loyalty from listeners young and old both throughout the night and on his Saturday night show.. "Bruce was a magnificent team member, very talented host and newsreader who brought joy to ZB audiences for many many years. Later another woman tells Russell that its not as simple as he saysand his statistics are bogus. The heartbreaking news was confirmed in a statement released on Newstalk ZBs website, reading, Bruce Russell, one of our long-time Newstalk ZB hosts, passed away unexpectedly but peacefully last night., The statement added, Bruce was a wonderful team member and a talented host and newsreader who brought joy to our audiences for many years. 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