Music from Australia as well as New Zealand in a year 1979: Mi-Sex’s promo-video for a strike singular ‘Computer Games’ taken from a 1979 manuscript ‘Graffiti Crimes’. This singular surfaced a Australian National Chart during series a single during a summer of 1979. en.wikipedia.org ————————————– NZOZ NZOZ1979 1979 Australia New Zealand Late Seventies 1970′s 1970s 70′s 70s Extended Tags: Steve Gilpin Musical Terms: New Wave, Synth, Synth Rock, Synth Pop, Synthesizer, New Romantic, Kiwi, Old Kiwi-New Zealander Band, Number One, # 1, Chart Topping/Topper Similar Artists/Influences: Ultravox, John Foxx, Gary Numan, Simple Minds, Magazine, Duran Duran
Mi-Sex – Computer Games (1979)
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December 13th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
I thought I was only one of a few that remember Grunt Machine ! Used to have a big crush on Andy Anderson
December 16th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Ah Mi-Sex, one of NZ’s best post-punk bands!
December 18th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Check out the control data computers..yr ipod has more storage and power than that room full of tape / disk drives and servers!! Great song and video..
December 21st, 2009 at 4:23 am
@patdamien Hey, where has the idea of this Robert Taylor come from? Robert Taylor was never in Mi-Sex… Murray Burns is the keyboard player and the only keyboard player to have ever played in the band. Find anywhere on the net that Robert Taylor was ever in the band…!
December 21st, 2009 at 8:56 am
best. chorus. ever.
December 22nd, 2009 at 3:03 am
Night driver was the simpler version, there were no cars just the poles on the sides and the white broken line in the middle. Used to be my fav, Id play it everytime I go down after school with my mates at this place called Jack’s in the ‘gong. Ah the memories!
December 22nd, 2009 at 8:10 am
I loved that Star Wars games they show in a later backdrop.
December 27th, 2009 at 3:34 am
I’ve only seen late-70′s Jon Stevens trying to be something of a street-wise teenage Springsteen type. Quite horrible to think Countdown was trying to push him onto the Aussie public… good thing he got his break in Noiseworks. I guess they all had to start somewhere.
December 27th, 2009 at 10:52 am
Lol ,theres probably a VERY good reason why they won’t let that footage out of the tins again! Jon Stevens from Noiseworks was exactly the same, doing awful covers, god the memories, I remember them on RTR and TGM with Andy and Bruno Lawrence on drums. Oh for a VCR in those days!
December 30th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
I used to play that game on the backdrop
it was called night driver I think
25cents for like 10 minutes …. awesome
December 31st, 2009 at 3:03 pm
lol my god this is the theme song to my life ^.^
January 1st, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Footage I’d love to have! Same said about Iva Davies of Icehouse and his mid-70′s glam-bland era…
January 3rd, 2010 at 12:59 pm
Anyone remember Steve Gilpin in flairs and dark shades on Ready To Roll and the Grunt Machine with Andy Anderson in the mid 70′s?
January 6th, 2010 at 11:16 am
This was distributed on the EPIC label in the U.S. and the I’m fairly certainly that the video was among the first shown on MTV. A favorite in rock clubs and the few radio stations that played New Wave in NYC in 1979, it recalls some very precious memories,
January 8th, 2010 at 5:28 am
I bought both their albums! I loved this band with all my being when they hit America!
January 8th, 2010 at 6:18 pm
Robert W Taylor born Aug 11, Crewe England Died Jan 16th 2010 Jackson, TN, last residence Panama City, FL
“Because I Can”
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January 13th, 2010 at 4:24 am
I’m deeply saddened. First Steve now Rob. Tears in my eyes.
January 16th, 2010 at 5:40 am
Rip Robert…way ahead of their time
January 17th, 2010 at 7:50 pm
Oh no… another one gone.
RIP
January 18th, 2010 at 7:32 pm
RIP Robert Taylor the keyboardest of Mi-Sex passed away 16th Jan. 2010.
January 19th, 2010 at 7:22 am
They were always regarded as phonies and no one really took them seriously back then. The singer was an aging hippy but hey we all have to make a living. Nice nostalgia though. And love the spooky far out camera work!!
January 19th, 2010 at 1:51 pm
Ahhh, it’s like it was just yesterday, except my bald head and fat ass says otherwise.
January 22nd, 2010 at 5:16 pm
That might be something of an overstatement…