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It has taken nearly half a century but now, at last, there is video footage of me in concert.
It’s a No Frills, Warts & All acoustic show entitled ‘JOHN HANLON. NOW & THEN’ that staged at The PumpHouse, Takapuna, Auckland, in March 2023.
By any measure I’m a fat old man battling with post-transplant drugs, stumbling through songs in an unabashedly ‘unpolished’ way. However, the performance has a certain charm and candour.
Here are the links:
Neil Gill, who shot and produced these videos, tells me has been a fan since he was nine years old and did it because he thought it was a ‘disgrace’ that no video footage of me existed and he wanted to redress that. I’m eternally grateful to him for doing this.
Of course, I’d like to have been filmed when I was younger, with a bigger band and more impressive staging, but now at least there exists video of me warbling away for posterity. I’m no longer the BIGFOOT of the Kiwi music scene.
And, for the most part — even when I wander off key — the sound is good.
Enjoy,
John
PS: As you will see, the real musician on stage, is Yana, my life accompanist .
Trying to work out how to listen to it theres no link to click on to
OMG…..an almost Stalinist expunging; I have regarded Wikipedia as a pretty useful source of information, but I find the entry on “Cancel Culture” is woefully inadequate – the phenomenon predates its apparent start by some 30 years, and clearly, this is another area in which Kiwis led the world…. Hats off, everyone, to NZBC, BCNZ for a world first, and to Neil Gill who has set the record straight for the benefit of all of us!
It was such a privilege and pleasure to be able to capture the performance by yourself and Yana,
Aucklander’s (and some who came all the way from Australia) were lucky to have three J.H shows in the last year spread across the suburbs. Now the rest of the country and indeed the world can catch up on your rich back catalogue of music.
If anyone has any other performance or interview footage of John Hanlon in any format, from any year, I would love to hear from you.
Hi everyone associated with these recordings, I so appreciate being able to s ee John Hanlon!! What a thrill! I have been a big fan since the 70’s and have been singing ‘Damn the Dam’ all day. I’ve only watched that far and will watch the rest on the tele at the weekend when I have the time to enjoy it properly. Hopefully I can see John and Yana back in NZ some time. Yay!