[kj] Jazz Coleman, what a bar stool

[Brendan Quinn]

All I know is that the NZ National Anthem is now generally sung in Maori as
well as English, Jeremy reckons he was instrumental in persuading Hine Mohi
(I think) to sing it in Maori at a Rugby World Cup final in the 90s, which,
apparently, caused a debate in NZ that raged for months and went all the way
to Parliament (can't remember any of this myself but it could have happened)
and it now 'officially' has to be sung in both languages or some such. I
read what she had to say about it and her version has Jaz as a somewhat
lesser player, not surprisingly. To be honest no one in NZ really knows Hine
or Jaz, and like most countries no one really cares about the National
Anthem, other than wanting to change it to something less crusty,
imperialistic and old farty. 

 

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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of folk devil
Sent: Thursday, 29 January 2009 03:30
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: Re: [kj] Jazz Coleman, what a bar stool

 

didn't he add one verse in Maori or something?
he played it on the piano for us, during the 2003 tour :)



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From: bq at soundgardener.co.nz
To: gathering at misera.net
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:38:05 +1100
Subject: Re: [kj] Jazz Coleman, what a bar stool



NZ National Anthem story.90 000 000 000 000 miles and counting.

 

Oh and what's Jaz doing slightly drunk?

 

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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of nicholas fitzpatrick
Sent: Wednesday, 28 January 2009 23:55
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: [kj] Jazz Coleman, what a bar stool

 

 

"I'm Jazz, man - this is my bar," said the slightly drunk Englishman as we
entered a tiny dive in semi-suburban Prague. So we got talking. Or, arguing
fiercely more like, because for all that this Jazz fellow was pretty funny,
he was also an obstreperous bastard, and we just couldn't take his claims
seriously. "We're descended from aliens, who built the pyramids" was a key
theme. "I moved to Iceland to escape the apocalypse." All this, put forth
aggressively, followed by "I co-wrote the New Zealand national anthem, with
Mauris." "Bollocks" we said. Bit of googling the next day and it turned out
he wasn't lying. But also our man 'Jazz' had failed to tell us his most
outstanding claim to fame, that he was in fact Jaz Coleman, frontman of the
occasionally mind-blowing post-punk outfit Killing Joke.

 

 

http://www.theskinny.co.uk/article/44629-holiday-snapshorts

 

 

 

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