28 Sep 2017

‘Night of Chill Blue’ by The Chills

From Nights, 7:20 pm on 28 September 2017

In Roslyn/Maori Hill, we are in the neighbourhood of the hall where The Chills played some of their earliest gigs. The Coronation Hall. They also played their 30th Anniversary gig there. It is time for Chills songs. One from their first album made in 1986, 'Brave Words'. This was a powerhouse song in the mid-80s for the band, a show-stopper, bold and melodic with an air of something far greater than its parts. It is one of Martin Phillips' landscape songs - or it feels like it is - looking out onto the Otago Peninsula while listening to it is the perfect place. That geography did inspire Martin. There is a terrific version of this song on a recent live album called 'Somewhere Beautiful'. But we will stick with the album version as it probably suits radio play more. (Part of Bryan Crump and Richard Langston's Dunedin: A Magical Musical Tour)