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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2022 21:10:48 GMT
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Post by stu77 on Apr 10, 2022 21:55:45 GMT
God what a shit year.
RIP
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Post by andyloneshark on Apr 10, 2022 22:18:31 GMT
...especially of late. Even in their early days, The Saints had soul - 'Messin' With The Kid' is such a powerful song
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Post by personunknown on Apr 10, 2022 22:29:27 GMT
RIP
This Perfect Day is up there with GSTQ and Complete Control imo.
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Post by jsm on Apr 10, 2022 23:29:29 GMT
I'm really gutted to hear this. The Bailey-Kuepper-Hay era Saints were such a great band. I enjoyed a lot of the later material as well. The last single from 2012 was pretty good
RIP Chris
King of the Sun [2012]
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Post by jsm on Apr 11, 2022 4:56:51 GMT
Another obit. Lots of Saints songs linked in this one
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Post by loz on Apr 11, 2022 7:05:57 GMT
One of the very best 🥲
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Post by jsm on Apr 11, 2022 7:19:11 GMT
Much better definition in that version of the film clip than the one I posted in Now Playing, but strange things happening with the sound!
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Post by andyloneshark on Apr 11, 2022 7:43:11 GMT
...that's on the original official VHS of this footage i have too - i guess there was some kind of cock up with the editing by the TV show that broadcast this.
This was a gig they did with Radio Birdman and there was some animosity between the two bands, hence Chris Bailey's sarky comment about the local 'Hitler Youth'
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Post by zeopold on Apr 11, 2022 9:08:14 GMT
No fancy barnet or clobber, just a generous helping of punk rock attitude. RIP
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2022 9:21:15 GMT
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Post by personunknown on Apr 11, 2022 10:06:16 GMT
Excellent article. What we had to put up with in UK 76/77 was small beer in comparison to Queensland's repressive Bjelke Petersen's state authority.
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Post by doug61 on Apr 11, 2022 16:13:29 GMT
Too many going now. RIP, Chris, thanks for the music.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2022 21:37:38 GMT
Way too young again.
Mensi, Nicky Tesco, Jordan. Not one of them reached 70.
RIP Chris
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Post by andyloneshark on Apr 12, 2022 11:55:24 GMT
A TRIBUTE TO CHRIS BAILEY FROM NICK CAVE.... Dear Dan, One week ago today, I was standing in front of a photo on display in the Stranger Than Kindness - The Nick Cave Exhibition in Montreal. It is an extraordinary photo that came to light a few years ago — it shows the singer, Chris Bailey, of the Brisbane band, the Saints, sitting collapsed on stage in a small club in Melbourne, watched by a very young and unformed Nick Cave. In the photo Chris is already committed to his life as perhaps the greatest and most anarchic rock ‘n’ roll singer Australia would ever produce. Conversely, I am in that stonewashed and uncertain state between failing art school and, well, I am not quite sure what. You can almost see the thought bubble forming above my head as an alternate plan presents itself. In the late seventies, the Saints came down from Brisbane and tore their way through Sydney and Melbourne with their famously anarchic shows. It is impossible to exaggerate the resulting radical galvanising effect on the Melbourne scene – these legendary performances changed the lives of so many people, myself included. So, it is with immense sadness that we learn of Chris Bailey’s death. Too many great singers have died recently and, once again, I don’t have the words that will in any way adequately measure the extent of our collective loss. I can only simply repeat, for the record, that, in my opinion, the Saints were Australia’s greatest band, and that Chris Bailey was my favourite singer. Chris and I got to know each other well and went on to do a bunch of things together over the years, but it is this photo that I will treasure – a moment of realisation and divergence, as a drunk singer sits slumped on a stage floor, his very presence in that moment approximating some kind of moral purity or essential truth, and a young man watching transfixed, feeling his own best laid plans fall away as the thought bubble above his head fills with its sudden and outrageous revelation, ‘This is what I want to do and this is who I want to be.’ With enormous gratitude to Chris Bailey and may he rest in peace. Love, Nick Cave"  |
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