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Cult of the Blues |
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| Location: | Auckland, |
| Country: |  New Zealand |
| Last Login: | Jul 31, 2008 (504 days back) |
About Me |
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| Cult of the Blues are Angus and Tui Gillies. Tui sings backing vocals and her Tongan tapa art and painting often feature on this site (orders welcomed). We have a baby boy called Pele (after Angus's favourite childhood football star) and Angus also has a 13 year old son, Rogie, from a previous marriage.
Angus has been a journalist for 22 years, with the last 14 in TV, mostly with TV3. As well as making music, he likes to write and play soccer. He's had a novella, The Lizard Song published, as well as three sports biographies: Take No Prisoners (rugby league star Matthew Ridge), Justin Marshall (All Black) and The Wicked Keeper (cricketer Adam Parore). He also helped his dad Iain and his elder brother John write a local history book called Cook - the County and its People.
He's just published Footsteps of Fire, Volume 1 of a three volume non-fiction series of books called Ngati Dread. It's about the Ruatoria Rastafarians, who went on a five-year burning rampage in their town. If you want to get an idea of what it's about, you can check out the prologue, which is included on this site as a previous blog. Then, if you want to buy a copy of the book, you can order it by pushing the Add To Cart button.NGATI DREAD
Angus grew up in a small isolated sunny East Coast town of 30,000 called Gisborne: a brilliant place to grow up like a wild weed. He loves that place and he loves going back there. It's one of God's little pockets of South Pacific paradise.
These days he lives in Auckland, by far the biggest city in New Zealand. For more songs, click on the Pure Volume link. Thanks for visiting. Myspace Editor Pimp MySpace |
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Music:Member Since: 6/18/2006Band Website: numberonemusic.com/cultoftheblues Band Members: Angus Gillies with Tui Gillies, my wife, on backing vocals. Sometimes I jam, both privately and publicly, with my younger brother Duncan, calling ourselves The Apocalyptic Folk Club. Influences: Music:XXXXXXXLocally: Duncan Gillies, The Apocalyptic Folk Club, Iain Gillies, Flora Gillies (mum, who paid for the first guitar lessons), Elaine Gillies, The Simmonds family, particularly Steve and Mick, but also Patrick, Jane and Julia, John Taituha, Scott Taituha, Mihaka Wawatai, Phil Wawatai, Dominic Tiepa, Les Dooling, Ewen Fielder, the late Miles McKenzie, Tony Murdoch, Nick Hohepa and The Dogs Bollix, particularly Connor McSweeney and "Swigger".XXXXXXXXXXXX Internationally: Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd, all the old bluesmen, particularly John Lee Hooker, Mississippi John Hurt, Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, RL Burnside, JB Lenoir, Lightnin' Hopkins and Reverend Gary Davis, Johnny Cash, Neil Young, Chuck Prophet, David Bowie, Curtis Mayfield, James Brown, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Isaac Hayes, Tony Joe White, Steve Earle, Nick Cave, Bob Marley, Chris Whitley, Guy Clark, The Black Eyed Peas, NWA, 7A3, all those old black harmonising gospel singers like the Golden Gate Quartet, the Edwin Hawkins Singers and the Blind Boys of Alabama, Ryan Adams, Beck, all those latin funk dudes like Ray Barretto and the Lebron Brothers, Miles Davis, Lou Reed, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, the Velvet Underground, The Stranglers, Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Marc Bolan and T. Rex, Iggy Pop, The Stooges, Groove Armada, Led Zeppelin, The Waterboys, King Crimson, Captain Beefheart, the Beach Boys, Fela Ransom Kuti, Hank Williams, Ray Charles, RJD2, DJ Shadow, Gnarls Barkley, The Gorillaz, World Party, Handl, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross and the Supremes, the Happy Mondays, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Louis Jordan, Woodie Guthrie, Radiohead, Dr John, the MC5, U2, KanYe West, Snoop Dogg, all that Blaxploitation era funk, disco, The Brooklyn Funk Essentials, Jestofunk, The Violent Femmes, The Sweet, The White Stripes, Loretta Lynn, Mike Oldfield, Vivaldi.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXWriting:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXLocally: Iain Gillies, Duncan Gillies, John Gillies, Steve Simmonds, Thomas Mitchell, James George, Joan Rosier-Jones, Witi Ihimaera, Albert Wendt, Robb Armstrong, Mike Johnson, Maurice Gee, Ronald Hugh Morrieson, Chad Taylor, John Matheson, Kirsty Gunn, Tony Ciprian, Richard Langston, Tom Scully, Judith White, Paul Yurisich, Alistair Campbell, Cath Dunsford.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXInternationally: Knut Hamsun, Paul Bowles, Jim Thompson, Charles Willeford, Mikhail Bulgakov, Emmanuel Carrere, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack Black, Charles Bukowski, Jeah Rhys, Ivan Turgenev, Bob Dylan, Dostoyevsky, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Mohammed Mrabet, Raymond Carver, Harry Crews, Cormac McCarthy, Flannery O'Connor, James Lee Burke, Herman Hesse, Nik Cohn, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Shirley Jackson, Tobias Wolff, Alina Reyes, Barry Gifford, Jean Cocteau, David Adams Richards, Graham Greene, Duncan McLean, Frederick Exley, Clarence Cooper Jnr, Rainer Maria Rilke, Carson McCullers, William Burroughs, William Burroughs Jnr, Jim Carroll, Jim Tully, Nathanael West, James Elroy, John Healy, Roland Topor, Sylvina Ocampo, Ian McEwan, Henry Miller, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Hunter S Thompson, Arthur Rimbaud, Joseph Campbell, Pete Dexter, James Joyce, John Healy, Anna Kavan, JD Salinger, The Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Vladimir Nabakov, JG Ballard, Albert Camus, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Franz Kafka, Tennessee Williams, Jane Bowles, Marek Hlasko, Rumi, Guy de Maupassant, Stephen King, Barry Gifford, Kathy Acker, Don De Lillo, William Faulkner, Joseph Conrad.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXSOCC ER: Locally: Iain Gillies, John Gillies, Duncan Gillies, Archie Gillies, Shane Gillies, Rogie Gillies, Catherine Gillies, Marianne Gillies, Pete Third, John Hill, Harry Kennnedy, Marty Ryan, Kevin Fallon.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXInternationally: Iain Gillies, Pele, John Hill, Ronaldinho, Maradona, George Best, Jerry Daly, Joe Jordan, Billy Bremner, Roy Aitken, Thierry Henry. Sounds Like: ALL OF THE ABOVE. Type of Label: None |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Blues / Alternative / Folk) |
My Blog |
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Gisborne’s Leap From Good To Great |
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| I've been reading this book called Good to Great and watching the earthquake stories from China on the TV news and my mind keeps turning back to my beloved home-town Gisborne.Now here's something spoo... Posted by Cult of the Blues on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:41:00 PST |
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In Praise of My Mentor |
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| The selfless contributions of too many talented people go unnoticed and unmentioned. So I'd like to pay tribute to my life-long sporting mentor.One of my earliest memories is of flying to Auckland in ... Posted by Cult of the Blues on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 05:59:00 PST |
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| FOOTSTEPS OF FIRE
PROLOGUE
May 7, 1988, The Gisborne Herald, Staff Reporter: "Ruatoria is unique in New Zealand's history this reign of terrorism against the town's homes, farm buildings, businesses... Posted by Cult of the Blues on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 08:37:00 PST |
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The All Blacks Cut-throat Haka |
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| No one keeps a secret better than the All Blacks.
The more I think about it, the more they remind me of a secret society. Who knows what terrible touring stories and tactics are locked away in their m... Posted by Cult of the Blues on Mon, 19 Jun 2006 05:44:00 PST |
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