The Datsuns

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It's the Datsuns on the Hodokee Big Show with Mogi and Pugs, and it's time to take another dive back into the archives of the Big Show, Mogi.

Now, usually around this time of week, or I think three times a week, we do meetpaddynips69 at gmail.com, which is a real email address that you can submit your advice questions of any kind, and they'll remain anonymous.

Yep, keep them coming.

The lineup's pretty good this year.

Before Fontaines, we had another new one from the Datsuns.

They're back and they've got a new track.

It's called Run From The Sun.

I think you mentioned there's another band down there.

Is it the Wombats or the Datsuns or something? No, someone lives down there.

I don't

know.

Bamboo? Datsuns is a New Zealand band.

I did a podcast interview with the Doctor and Andrew and I asked them about their original bass player and they're still... really traumatised by that.

Yeah.

How cool is Japan? It's the coolest place on the planet.

Why is it such a cool place to tour? We've had a lot of Kiwi bands, like Datsuns and D4 had good runs there.

What is it about the Japanese crowds? Oh,

Just enthusiastic.

Steve had the Libertines.

We'd be playing the Vines and the Datsuns and you could just feel like the wave of things coming and like the NME would be full of these like bands every week and you'd be playing them and they'd be going onto the main playlist at Radio 1.

And you're like, it's happening again.

Look, obviously the strokes.

It was called Infidelity Recordings.

They would put out excellent albums in the 2000s by the Datsuns, Dan Kelly, The Drones and Sophie Coe.

Pav concentrated on touring.

By 1996, his touring company had another name, which was Pav Corp, and often written on posters as just Pav Presents.

Got to be a four-cylinder vehicle with good turning range.

I've driven it in Datsuns, Toyotas, Mazdas, Hondas.

Oh, yeah.

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