Take 1 Puffin, 2 acoustic guitars, 1 harp, 1 harp well rinsed in an unknown liquid, lashings of dynamite crisp vocal gymnastics, a human container of intensive atomic energy, and you get...
Lindon Puffin
DP1 Café - Mawhera Quay, Greymouth
Friday, 28th February 2003
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Lindon Puffin is a reincarnated Buddy Holly on speed in the 3rd millennium and his music genre has been described as folk punk. However, I'll reserve the labels for the label makers. Hailing from small town Picton, to Rangiora to Charteris Bay in magnificent Lyttleton Harbour, here he is at DP1 on his Really Real Tour, halfway down Mawhera Quay in good ol' honest small-town Mawhera, acknowledging our humble and honest Radio Wai and (gasp) the National Programme for their unashamed honest support of the ex-glam rock Puffin, and rightly so... he's a powderkeg ready to go off, and go off he does, frequently, in the nicest possible way - energy that catches fire and ignites the receptive audience to listen up attentively and do the wiggly thing. Oh yeah, DP1 is paradisio and rumoured to feature in Lindon's vid for Hazy Blue.
He coulda been an ADD child, full of anger and busting up bus shelters, but he's busting up burning geetar rhythms and lyrics to match instead. A prepubescent diet of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Breakfast Club, Grease and a possible accidental viewing of Caligula (the uncut version), lashings of Morrissey and Pink Floyd, may have helped him through high school but Lindon may just help a few high schoolers get through today. An incredibly animated, passionate and energetic solo set with harp and acoustic guitar - the likes of which I've not seen for a long time.
Yay for the disco ball spelling out the audience's contribution to Lindon's version of Rocky's Late Night Double Feature Picture Show on the walls... "O, O, O, O, O" was all we had to sing, and even then we managed to miss our collective cue. But hey, it didn't matter, because we were all having a frabjously great time and arrived at the same crossroad in less than 3/4 time. Tomorrow night he's ripping up honest Drifters Café in Granity... I reckon they'll love him up there.
If you ever saw/heard the Puffins and happen to be one of those unfortunates that hangs onto nostalgic notions, the energy and punch of Lindon solo will put those hazy blue memories into the hazy blue, but honest, past.
As an outro? Lindon's karaoke rendition of Gangsters Paradise (a $2 Shoppe bargain)... it doesn't get leaner and meaner than that... spread the gospel... He's not dreaming it, he's being it... and keeping it REAL.