Theres a wilful art edge underlying everything; an anarchistic response to the relatively formed work of the citys leading post-punk acts. It rarely ever spoke a bad word of its contributor Russell and The Dead C in all its issues. 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. After a short stint, he moved to Taumarunui to manage a radio station before joining Newstalk ZB in Auckland in about 2000. His inimitable personality in the newsroom and in the studio would always entertain his colleagues too. Social Media Sensation Bianca Devins Has Been Killed, Mpura and Killer Kau Died in Fatal Car Accident; Kabza is Alive, Tragic Story Stands Behind Luc Montagniers Cause of Death. According to the Newstalk ZB, Mr Russell who was in his early 70s. Bruce Russell of Newstalk ZB spent a career as a buddy to his devoted listeners. Photo / Tim Roxborogh. They have loadsof money! Federal Election: Woman who has Albanese as a landlord speaks out, Federal Election: China has 'given up' on Scott Morrison, 'Doesn't help': Dylan Alcott responds to PM's awkward debate moment. I havent reached the limit of unorthodox things that I can do with a guitar. In another film clip from May 2014, just prior to The Dead Cs appearance in Sydneys Opera House for the Vivid Festival, Bruce Russell in an old pulled at the neck T-shirt has been cornered by a fan with a camera. He used looped analogue samples from A Handful of Dusts Anabase LP to back those pieces. Sports broadcaster Miles Davis also paid tribute to his one of a kind former colleague. Burial site and Find a Grave details, Ricou Browning funeral, burial service, pictures, date, time, venue. You know I'm a VERY regular listener and sometimes caller. Rest easy my old friend. Contact | Privacy, The recently uploaded video of Sue on The Twos Facebook page (. Another Brucie - longtime ZB host Bruce Russell - is also included, so too photos of my co-host on The Two Tim Wilson, fill-in co-host Mark Dye and original co-host Pam Corkery. "The conversations he had on-air brought him loyalty from listeners young and old both throughout the night and on his Saturday night show. He died just as he was about to begin hosting Newstalk ZB's nightly show on April 24, 2022. No. For many years, Bruce was a lovely team member and a talented host and newsreader who gave joy to our viewers. 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. This website uses cookies to improve your experience. 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. Ajax [who released many early Xpressway singles and albums] are a label in their own right, but also a shop and a distribution network dealing with about 15000 customers and shops. For his part (talking to Dave Cantor in August 2014), Bruce explained. With Flying Nun Records back in safe hands whatever animosity the Xpressway scene had for Flying Nun Records was long gone by the new millennium, with Bruce Russell compiling four retrospectives for the perennial NZ label, including The 3Ds early years, The Pin Group and The Stones. "What I loved about what he did on the radio was the companionship for the listeners. Russell died unexpectedly but "peacefully" on Sunday night, Newstalk ZB confirmed in a statement on its website on Monday. All the best for this Xmas if we ever end up being able to celebrate it. The A Handful of Dust Topography of a Phantom City cassette collected two long pieces from a pair of shows at Dunedins Public Art Gallery in August 1996 and was reissued as Jerusalem, Street of Graves with an additional recording from The Lumiere Cinema in Christchurch in August 1997. "Bruce had a gargantuan general knowledge. Monique Samuels Divorce Rumors From Chris After 10 Years! ", Shocked and deeply sad about the news my dear friend, valued colleague and old-school broadcaster Bruce Russell died last night. He died just as he was about to go on the air to host Newstalk ZBs overnight show. 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. Bruce Russell death cause has been reported as a peaceful death at his workplace in Newstalk ZB central Auckland office. Russell was in his early 70s at the time of his death. "I didn't want to give him a fright so crept in, and gently touched his arm. My favorite newstalk an host for many many years Bruce Russell has died unexpectedly in a single day. 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. Our thoughts and love are with Bruce's family at this sad time.. Always made me laugh with his dry sense of humour and helped me a lot with his advice. You both doing a great job, and cant help but say to you that I cannot for the life of me, get to sleep without having you both beside me just a little bit of fun ,but its true. According to NewstalkZBs own website Bruce Russell likes to bringhis sense of humour to his overnight talk show, but the serious issuesare also tackled. It also claims that Russell is widely read, andcan talk with people on just about any subject they raisehttp://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/featdetailnew.asp?recnumber=2&menu=3&menuitem=2. From the very beginning the labels catalogues, ads and posters project a distinctive aesthetic. 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 (in this case Australia) along with increased expenses (shipping costs in particular) and a loss in control in not being able to closely oversee the project. He served up and down New Zealand through his broadcasting career. The new imprints name was taken from Sonic Youths Expressway to Yr Skull on 1986s Evol, a song Russell saw the band perform in London. Get more of the radio, music and podcasts you love with the FREE I hope they truly value you as much as we all do, and yes please bring back Pam you are wonderful together. This fellow, in the firly. GREENFIELD: If the question about Governor Bush was one of the weight, or to use the favorite phrase of the moment, gravitas. Often the tune coming from Morley was supplied with a drum rhythm in broken or counter-timings with Russells guitar holding the true timing of the piece with precise atonal slashes placed where the snare drum would usually be played. I very, very seldom pick up an instrument when Im not just about to perform or record something. Bruce Russell of Newstalk ZB spent a career as a buddy to his devoted listeners. Sam Carlson Port Protection Singer Son Kelly Carlson Makes An Appearance On The Show, Bruce Russell Newstalk ZB Age And Wikipedia: Radio Announcer Death. Relocating reinvigorated Russell and The Dead C, the new jazz and free noise centred New Zealand fanzine Opprobrium believed. Bruce was a wonderful team member and a talented host and newsreader who brought joy to our audiences for many years. One of Russells jobs was sorting the labels fanzine library. A lot of people had a character Peter Mac was the breakfast host and I was the character, a little boy called Freddy. Tributes from colleges former and present as well as fans poured in for the media personality. He is as always intelligent, articulate, subversive, funny and eager to communicate. His death's reason is not revealed yet. He always wanted to give it the very best he could, he was an absolute professional. In November 1994, Bruce Russell moved his family north to the port town of Lyttelton near Christchurch, the South Islands largest city, where he has lived ever since. May god his family and loved ones have enough strength to deal with the great loss. The veteran radio presenter passed away suddenly on Sunday evening while at work before he was due to start his on-air shift. Many of The Dead Cs 1980s and 1990s albums have been repressed and released, most recently through Ba Da Bing! And that's what he went on to do with his listeners.". Romance in the Air, Story of AustralianGreat Singer Archie Roachs Cause of Death. Much more in fact. He passed away. Russell leaves behind his wife Lorna and son Andrew. His distinctive personality in the newsroom and the studio never failed to amuse his coworkers. I have coffee with him every now and then! They are who they are, and that montage is a good illustration. Bruce Russell, one of our long-time Newstalk ZB hosts, passed away unexpectedly but peacefully last night, the statement said. 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. Copyright 2022 Discovery NZ Limited (Warner Bros. . The Port Chalmers-based indie usually did a deal with record companies where they usually got twenty percent of the released records and imported them back to NZ for sale to generate a royalty for the bands. They were lovely days.. Omits Quad triple CD packed in a five inch flop-top hard box with artwork is highlighted as was an announcement that Corpus Hermeticum were now distributing Siltbreeze, PSF, Selektion, Metonymic, Metamkineand Next Best Way releases. Travel & Music. I am a regular listener and love seeing the photos of the 'regulars'. All of which made Corpus Hermeticums releases oddly compelling. Just do it!!!!!!!!!! Request Sue Sue loves music just as much as me. RIP you lovely man and much love to your family https://t.co/qzPuFPNfAY. The stumbling garage rock of Bad Politics Baby in The Sun Stabbed EPs grooves was a Bruce Russell song from 1984 that was inspired by Alan Vegas first album. ALTER: What he gets here is grav-i-tas, a sense of weight, competence, and administrative ability. CARLSON: It means that Bush, you know, Gore has experience and gravitas. The traditional plastic CD jewel case had been immediately discarded for aesthetic and practical reasons. in one app. Hello, Diane. DON'T bring back Pam! Lilburn, who died in 1990, had showed The Dead C they were part of an already established NZ tradition in electro acoustic music. He hails us from across the street and hands over a green screen printed poster with what looks like black cavemen etchings that announces The Dead Sea and Early Carvings afternoon show at Chippendale House on Sunday April 24. Little Brucie of Little Wanganui with a fan. No one else wanted to do it and we signed a deal with him in September 1989 that secured its release some months after. He returned in number six documenting The Bats' first trip to Great Britain and Europe and cocking a discerning ear over fine records by rising British and US indie acts The Weather Prophets, Shop Assistants and Opal. 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. Several coworkers have paid tribute to Russell including colleague Tim Dower who announced the news of his death on air this morning. Russell quickly realised that the fanzine writers and radio show hosts who supported Flying Nun groups were equally supportive of his labels efforts. 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While Dunedin had been an active indie centre for most of the 1980s, many of its more established and accessible groups had split with musicians regrouping or shifted focus to overseas markets as Flying Nun Records licensed product offshore and the United States opened up as a market as the UK and Europe had done before. S.E.P Haunted Spirits was ostensibly a review of Scorched Earth Policys Dust To Dust EP although the full-page piece takes in the groups pre-history in The Pin Group and Victor Dimisich Band complete with discography. It Is Already Proven That "Radio Transcripts Ltd." Likes To Post His Twisted Anti-Reality Liberal Crap All Over The Internet. On the live front, Bruce Russell will see and review Felt, Alex Chilton, The Jazz Butcher, The Razorcuts (with Mainly Spaniards David Swift on drums), Microdisney, The Go Betweens, The Servants, Sonic Youth, Jesus and Mary Chain, The Turncoats (with The Exploding Budgies James Murray on drums), Ivor Cutler and Thomas Mapfumo and The Blacks Unlimited. He was pestering us. Learn how your comment data is processed. Read More. He loved his work, just loved it," he said. I loved seeing Brucie, Sue and Sue! In addition to his usual collaborators Galbraith and Stapleton, Bruce Russell added organ and violin on some tracks and was assisted by his partner Kate on others. Do it Tim! Talking to Brendon Fitzgibbon in 1992, Bruce Russell outlined the near future as he saw it. Russell died . 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. 19 years ago. It was a broad and geographically diverse strand of small-scale indie music-related activity hed soon find a ready use for. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Redbaiter and Berend de Boer often claim, preposterously, that. 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. Your never get that these days. The double LP Harsh 70s Reality and Clyma Est Mort followed in 1992. Your email address will not be published. RUSSELL: Well they are just enjoying life on the dole. I turn off now when he comes on. Copyright 2016 The Roxborogh Report. With co-host on The Two, the dapper Tim Wilson. Watching the show in Paeroa, I was in two minds about the live performances impact. ZB broadcaster Jenny Woods recalled first coming across Russell when he was at the RNZ station in Taumarunui and she was in Hamilton. Maybe now the election is over you could persuade zb to get her back. After working at Apple Radio in Hastings, Russell moved to Timaru's Radio Caroline in 1982 where he became a lifelong friend with breakfast host Peter Mac. Love to see who I am listening to. 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. His inimitable personality in the newsroom and in the studio would always entertain his colleagues too. In 1985 the University of Otago student newspapers Audience Guide to Dunedin Bands pointed fans towards Pink Plastic Gods one of several names for a grouping whose repertoire include the poetry of Bruce Russell, the songs of Michael Morley and Robert Scott and the bass playing talents of Richard Ram. SHIPMAN: There is a lot talk they are looking at older candidates, candidates with gravitas. "Bruce Russell, one of the long-time Newstalk ZB hosts, passed away suddenly but peacefully last night," the station stated on its website. Shouldnt the raised arms be free like the co-operative and the creative instinct? he asks. 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. The first thing that struck was the dual guitar sound. Thats how the music is meant to sound, he says, pointing to the recordings often being made with quality microphones. 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. Its Mikey!!! The owner was a man named Mr Murdoch. One of our reporters rang in to say she was pretty sure he'd fallen asleep as you could hear the sonorous sighs of someone in a deep sleep. Bruce Russell dies 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. "Always made me laugh with his dry sense of humour and helped me a lot with his advice. Similarly Head from the neatly titled follow-up Tusk from was captured at Flying Nun Records 15th anniversary show in November 1996 in Dunedins Sammys. 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. Our thoughts and love are with Bruce's family at this sad time., Sad to hear the passing of Bruce Russell. I'll miss him enormously," said Roxborogh. There he found the traces of indie networks in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and France. Bruce Russell, one of our long-time Newstalk ZB hosts, passed away unexpectedly but peacefully last night, the statement read. 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. Ricou Browning cause of death: How did Ricou Browning die? 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. Bruce Russell kept his writing up in Alley Oop, which was naturally well informed on the Dunedin indies progress. Now Gods, Stand Up For Bastards was captured on a July 1995 Arts Council-funded A Handful of Dust North Island tour. The station said in a statement on Newstalk ZB, "Bruce Russell, one of our long-time Newstalk ZB hosts, passed away unexpectedly but peacefully last night. He would spend two or three minutes talking to the listeners. Russell went on to work as a weekend newsreader and also hosted the Saturday night show In My Day. was I right? The packaging itself was distinct and deliberate and constantly evolving. Small creative communities, co-operative endeavour, words and challenging guitar sound, and writing with a historical and archival bent and local underground focus? The musically radical Sonic Youth would continue to play an important part in The Dead C members creative lives in the coming years. One of my favourite people, original co-host on The Two, Pam Corkery. "My favourite Bruce story is when he fell asleep on air. However, details regarding his cause of death has not been released. Siltbreeze added In The House Of Voluntary Poverty to the fast growing pile. Do miss her very much. Best pic here is of Pam and you, Tim. As the obituary continued, Bruce entered an extremely strong sense of humor in his profession and in his workplace. The new Xpressway connection is equally evident in Bruce Russells review of Alastair Galbraiths Plagal Grind at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, The Rips Stormed Port EP, Wreck Small Speakers on Expensive Stereos River Falling Love EP and This Kind of Punishments In The Same Room LP, all parting shots for the groups on Flying Nun Records. Siltbreeze Records made available the Trapdoor Fucking Exit cassette (also released on CD) and Hell Is Now Love b/w Bone single in 1990. Adrienne from Nelson with the pizza Mark Dye sent her in the post a little mouldy unfortunately. "Bruce Russell was the most uniquely hilarious, individual person I've ever known," Guy Heveldt wrote. Do you have a story tip? Hed been resident in Dunedin for most of the previous 15 years, having shifted south for university in 1979. Photo by Moira Crossman. He baulks at the description lo fi. With Xpressway Records already licensing releases to American and European labels, the collective called it a day in 1993. Bruce Russell humuoured me by livening up this photo with a silly hat. The esoteric art and titles Bruce Russell used for the CDs and singles reflected his interest in the occult. Hewishes he was a Fijian! It wasnt always a comfortable situation, as Russell explained to Fitzgibbon. 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