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Secret Box

This official release is now out of print. It is an astonishing collection & a must for any fan. Copies will be made from an original. If they re-press it it I'll stop trading it!

Disc 1  "Sonic Bygones"

Live
1. Lost In Space (3.27) Reverb Room, Auckland 22/5/82
2. Learn To Try Again (2.33) Gluepot, Auckland 15/2/85
3. Slime (1.46) Cricketers Arms, Wellington 17/10/85
4. Juicy Creaming Soda (4.10) Sounds Cafe, Dunedin 21/4/85
5. After They Told Me She Was Gone (3.26) Rumba Bar, Auckland 15/5/82
6. Jellyhead (4.23) Rumba Bar, Auckland 15/5/82
7. Snuggle (2.18) Captain Cook, Dunedin 5/5/84
8. Steinlager (3.40) Gladstone Tavern, Christchurch 16/12/81
9. Turn Around (3.39) Otago University, Dunedin 1/5/81
10. (Don't Melt Your) Sparkling Eyes (4.25) Gladstone Tavern, Christchurch 16/12/81
11. Dolphins (3.43) Rumba Bar, Auckland 25/5/82
12. Watching Old Home Movies (3.14) Reverb Room, Auckland 22/5/82
13. Balancing (7.04) Captain Cook, Dunedin 19/12/81
14. I Saw Your Silhouette (4.48) Windsor Castle, Auckland 24/1/85
15. Endless Sleep (1.57) Coronation Hall 14/12/80
16. Such Self Pity (1.35) Windsor Castle, Auckland 16/3/84
17. Special Time (1.42) Cricketers Arms, Wellington 17/10/85
18. And When You're There (1.47) Captain Cook, Dunedin 1984
19. Bad Eggs (2.45) Captain Cook, Dunedin 5/5/84
20. Shake Your Shoes For Scorpions (3.06) Cricketers Arms, Wellington 17/10/85
21. Smile From A Dead Dead Face (2.41) Windsor Castle, Auckland 24/1/85
22. Badger (3.53) Cricketers Arms, Wellington 17/10/85
23. Always Time For Coca-Cola (0.32) Jan/Feb 1996

Disc 2  "Salvaged Bullion"

Live
1. The Other (2.59) Captain Cook, Dunedin 5/5/84
2. Red Sky Morning (3.18) Rumba Bar, Auckland 25/5/82
3. Declaration (1.37) Captain Cook, Dunedin 5/5/84
4. Edible Light (2.54) The Pitz, Dunedin 19/8/82
5. Frozen Fountain (2.44) Captain Cook, Dunedin 5/5/84
6. Donald Duck In Chicago (1.10) Rumba Bar, Auckland 25/5/82
7. If This World Was Made For Me (2.29) Rumba Bar, Auckland 25/5/82
8. Jetty (3.06) Rumba Bar, Auckland 25/5/82
Radio Sessions
9. Night Of Chill Blue (3.06)
10. Brave Words (1.38)
11. Wet Blanket (2.36)
12. Rolling Moon (3.31)
13. Dan Destiny And The Silver Dawn (2.07)
14. Living In A Jungle (1.22)
15. Moonlight On Flesh (3.51)
16. Rain (3.17)
17. Part Past Part Fiction (2.40)
18. Dead Web (2.21)
19. Christmas Chimes (2.54)
20. Effloresce And Deliquesce (2.32)
21. Oncoming Day #2 (2.45)
22. Martyn's Doctor Told Me (0.44)
23. Dream By Dream (Original Martin Kean vocal) (1.01)
24. Dream By Dream (2-Track Practice Room Demo) (3.06)
25. Glass-Clock Doubletime (1.19)
26. Vertigo Bird (2.19)
27. Raw Shark (3.46)
28. Jungle Law (3.37)
29. I Love My Leather Jacket (Funny Mix) (2.53)

Disc 3  "Singular Booty"

B-Sides
1. There's Only One Station (0.15)
2. I'll Only See You Alone Again (3.36)
3. Green Eyed Owl (5.31)
4. We're Here And We'll Stay (0.15)
5. Dan Destiny And The Silver Dawn (Unplugged) (2.26)
6. Turn To BFM (0.23)
7. House With A Hundred Rooms (3.15)
8. Party In My Heart (3.12)
9. Living In A jungle (1.22)
10. I Think I'd Thought I'd Nothing Else To Think About (2.01)
11. Drug Magicians (2.59)
12. Wave Watching (2.11)
13. Whole Lot Of Non Going On (2.19)
14. Water Wolves (3.39)
15. Halo Fading (Demo) (2.58)
16. Sanctuary (Demo) (2.22)
17. Seven Years Old (0.47)
18. I Wish I Could Do Without You (2.14)
19. Big Dark Day (3.41)
20. Here We Go (0.43)
21. How Much This Place Has Changed (2.24)
22. Lies, Lies, Lies (2.13)
23. The Streets Of Forgotten Cool (3.52)
24. Helicopter (0.59)
25. Friends Again (2.48)
26. Stupid Way To Go (2.42)
27. Yabba Dabba Doo (2.45)
28. Draft Morning (2.38)
29. A Message To Pretty (2.59)
30. Tropical Loveland (2.32)
31. Autumn Testament #20 (1.49)

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Submarine Bells demos

1 The Oncoming Day
2 Part Past Part Fiction
3 Drug Magicians
4 Effloresce & Deliquesce

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Rumba Bar, Auckland  25 May 1982

This is a very early Chills show. Quite poor - fuzzy and some tape hiss but actually surprisingly  listenable.

1 Purple Girl
2 Jellyhead
3 Pink Frost (right channel volume drop)
4 Steinlager
5 Cyril
6 After They Told Me She Was Gone
7 Wet Blanket
8 Donald Duck In Chicago
9 Dan Destiny
10 Red Sky Morning
11 Lost In Space
12 Dolphins
13 Juicy Creaming Soda
14 Saw Your Silhouette
15 Jetty
16 If This World Was Made For Me
17 Watching Old Home Movies
18 Slime
19 Bite
20 Kaleidoscope World

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"Chills In Space" 1985

A one off radio show for BFM, New Zealand in 1985. It features live in studio
tracks interspersed with a story told by band members.

1.Prologue
2. Pink Frost
3. Episode 1
4. The Great Escape + Episode 2 + Moonlight On Flesh (Instrumental)
(whoever split this up originally missed this track and I have not re-edited it)
5. Episode 3
6. Night Of Chill Blue
7. Episode 4
8. Lost In Space
9. Episode 5
10. Kaleidoscope World
11. Episode 6
12. The Oncoming Day
13. Episode 7
14. Whole Weird World
15. Episode 8
16. Ghosts
17. Episode 9
18. Smile From A Dead Dead Face
19. The End
20. Rolling Moon
21. Epilogue

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Windsor Castle, Auckland NZ 16 March 1984

1. Night Of Chill Blue
2. I Love My Leather Jacket
3. Futility
4. After They Told Me She Was Gone
5. Whole Weird World
6. Throwing My Life Away
7. Pink Frost
8. I Need Someone
9. I Don't Want To Live Forever
10. Smile From A Dead Dead Face
Peel Session 10.12.1985
11. Wet Blanket
12. Night Of Chill Blue
13. Brave Words
14. Rolling Moon

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Victoria University, Wellington NZ March 1985

Two good quality soundboard tapes on one disc. The quality is not perfect throughout, but is very good as a whole. This has a large number of unreleased tracks, some of which I would say are superior to the Secret Box versions. It has some odd volumes in places, sounds like Martin was just further away from the mic! The audience is barely discernable in true soundboard style. There are a few cuts in between songs, but any incomplete tracks are listed below.

1. Kaleidoscope world
2. Dan destiny & the silver dawn
3. Green eyed owl
4. Whole weird world (cuts)
5. Great escape (not separated on CD)
6. Declaration
7. Rolling moon
8. Pink frost
9. Look for the good in others
10. Smile from a dead dead face
11. Frozen fountain
Auckland, NZ  July 1984
12. Doledrums (start very quietly and fades up)
131. Leather jacket
14. Moonlight on flesh
15. And when you're there
16. Such self pity
17. Oncoming day
18. Bee bah bee bah boe
19. After they told me she was gone
20. Learn to try again
21. Never never go
22. Rolling moon
23. Hidden bay
24. Pink frost (fades near end)

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Massey University, Palmerston North, NZ  3 July 1985

Excellent set. Sound board quality but has some tape hiss.

1. this is the way (cuts in)
2. learn to try again
3. kaleidoscope world
4. moonlight on flesh
5. after they told me she was gone
6. lost in space
7. night of chill blue
8. oncoming day
9. ghosts
10. doledrums
11. pink frost
12. I'll only see you alone again
13. rolling moon
14. look for the good in others
15. saw your silhouette
16. smile from a dead dead face (string breaks)
 17. smile from a dead dead face / I love my leather jacket
18. frozen fountain
19. shake your shoes for scorpions

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Bay 63, London   30 November 1985

Good audience recording.

1. the great escape
2. doledrums
3. learn to try again
4.  purple girl
5. part past part fiction
6. night of chill blue
7. leather jacket
8. pink frost
9. rolling moon
10. brave words
11. wet blanket
12. oncoming day
13. ghosts
14. moonlight on flesh
15. kaleidoscope world
16. waiting for my girl
17. unknown instrumental

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De Melkweg, Amsterdam 20 Feb 1987 FM Radio

1. Doledrums
2. Dan Destiny & the Silver Dawn
3. Matthew & Son (Cat Stevens cover)
4. Wet Blanket
5. Creep
6. The Oncoming Day
7. 16 Heart -Throbs
8. The Great Escape
9. Pink Frost
10. Background Noise (unreleased song - DJ talks over end and fades out early)

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Nijmegen - Doornroosje, Netherlands    24 Feb 1987

This is pretty reasonable audience tape for it's vintage. It features the rare 'Background noise' , so is well worth having.

1. Night of chill blue
2. Singing in my sleep
3. 16 heart throbs
4. Matthew & son
5. Brave words
6. Moonlight on flesh
7. Doledrums
8. Rain
9. Look for the good in others..
10. Creep (tape turn)
11. Wet blanket (fades in at very begining)
12. Oncoming day
13. Ghosts
14. The great escape
15. I think I thought I'd nothing else to think about
16. I love my leather jacket
17. Pink frost
18. Dan Destiny & the silver dawn
19. Watching old home movies
20. Background noise (unreleased track not on Secret Box)

Stadt Hamburg Club, Malmo, Sweden  25 March 1987

Pretty good Swedish radio broadcast. DJ yaps all over the last track.

1. Doledrums
2. Dan Destiny & the Silver Dawn
3. Singing In My Sleep
4. Night Of Chill Blue
5. The Oncoming Day
6. Rain
7. The Great Escape
8. Pink Frost

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Bonn-Biskuitalle 17 March 1987

These two excellent sets fit together nicely on one CDR.

1. This Is The Way
2. Doledrums
3. Night Of Chill Blue
4. Look For The Good In Others
5. Ghosts
6. Wet Blanket
7. Great Escape
8. Rain
9. Pink Frost
10. I Love My Leather Jacket
11. Kaleidoscope World
Bremen-Schauburg November 1987
12. Dan Destiny And The Silver Dawn
13. Rain
14. Speak For Yourself
15. Watching Old Home Movies
16. House With A Hundred Rooms
17. I Love My Leather Jacket
18. Wet Blanket
19. Ghosts

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Hannover 1987

This is quite hissy and a little distorted, but listenable. Features unusual tracks Background Noise & Balancing.

1. The Great Escape
2. Singing In My Sleep
3. Night Of Chill Blue
4. Doledrums
5. Watching Old Home Movies
6. Matthew & Son
7. Living In A Jungle
8. I Think I Thought of Nothing Else to Think About
9. Rolling Moon
10. Rain
11. Look For The Good In Others
12. Wet Blanket
13. Creep
14. Ghosts
15. I Love My Leather Jacket
16. Pink Frost
17. Kaleidoscope World
18. Background Noise
19. Brave Words
20. Balancing

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Radio With Pictures 1988

1. I Love My Leather Jacket
2. Dan Destiny & the Silver Dawn
3. Creep
4. Pink Frost
5. Look For The Good In Others
6. Brave Words

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Melbourne Music Show 20 Feb1988  FM radio

1. pink frost
2. rain
3. creep
4. wet blanket

Toronto, Canada  24 October 1988

Pretty good audience tape with only very low hiss and low audience noise.

1. This Is The Way
2. Part Past Part Fiction
3. I Think I Thought Of Nothing Else To Think About
4. Pink Frost
5. Effloresce and Deliquesce
6. Rain
7. Creep
8. I Love My Leather Jacket
9. Katipo (early version of 'Don't Be Memory')
10. Wet Blanket
11. The Oncoming Day
12. House With 100 Rooms
13. Drug Magician (stops due to string break)
14. Bee Bah Bee Bah Bee Boe
15. Dan Destiny & the Silver Dawn
16. Doledrums
17. Look For The Good In Others
18. Great Escape
19. Kaleidoscope World
20. Dark Carnival
21. I'll Only See You Alone Again

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Subterania 11 Oct 1989

This is a more complete version than I had previously.

1. Wet Blanket
2. Singing In My Sleep
3. The Oncoming Day
4. Night Of Chill Blue
5. Dan Destiny And The Silver Dawn
6. Familiarity Breeds Contempt
7. Past Part Past Fiction
8. Effloresce And Deliquesce
9. Rain
10. House With A Hundred Rooms
11. I Love My Leather Jacket
12. Pink Frost
13. Dead Web
14. Whole Lot of Non Going On
15. Look For The Good In Others
16. Kaleidoscope World
17. I Saw Your Silhouette
18. Brave Words
19. Great Escape

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Live on Snap with Deirdre O'Donoghue
KCRW Santa Monica  10 May 1990

Improved source of this great radio show.

1. Don't Be Memory
2. Wet Blanket
3. Sweet Times
4. The Oncoming Day
5. Creep
6. I Love My Leather Jacket
7. Part Past Part Fiction
8. Pink Frost
9. Doledrums
10. Familiarity Breeds Contempt
11. interview / Submarine Bells
12. Night of Chill Blue
13. Effloresce And Deliquesce
14. Heavenly Pop Hit
15. Smile From A Dead Dead Face

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Batschkap, Frankfurt  5 April 1990

This is a pretty good audience tape recording, with no hiss. A few bumps and clicks associated with the tape recorder are evident. Overall very listenable.

Disc 1
1. This Is The Way (small drop out)
2. Dan Destiny & the Silver Dawn
3. Whole Weird World
4. Familiarity Breeds Contempt
5. Part Past Part Fiction
6. Effloresce & Deliquesce
7. House With A Hundred Rooms
8. Tied Up In Chains
9. I Love My Leather Jacket
10. Bee Bah Bee Bah Bee Boe
11. Don't Be Memory
12. Wet Blanket
13. The Oncoming Day
14. Creep (cuts)
15. Submarine Bells
16. Dead Web
17. Heavenly Pop Hit
18.
19.
20. I Saw Your Silhouette
21. The Great Escape
Disc 2
1. Pink Frost
2. Look For The Good In Others
3. Night Of Chill Blue
4. Kaleidoscope World
5. Rain

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Auckland   7 August 1992

This is incomplete but the last few songs on the disc were completely corrupted. I have been unable
to find a full version. If you have one I'd love it! The quality is quite reasonable, a bit muddy.

1. Double Summer
2. Familiarity Breeds Contempt
3. Part Past Part Fiction
4. So Long
5. Strange Case
6. The Male Monster from the ID
7. Entertainer
8. Sleeping Giants
9. Dark Carnival
10. Halo Fading
11. Wet Blanket
12. Oncoming Day

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Radio Sessions

live at the wireless
JJJ radio 1992
1. double summer
2. strange case
3. so long
4. halo fading
5. sanctuary
6. soft bomb
7. there is no point in trying
8. never never go
9. song for randy newman etc.
VPRO session 8.2.1987
10. dan destiny & the silver dawn
11. pink frost
12. i love my leather jacket
MTV europe 1990
13. don't be memory
14. submarine bells

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Le Botanique, Brussels  11 Oct 1996

The sound quality of this is a little muffled but overall is pretty good.

Disc 1
1. February
2. Premonition
3. As far as I can see
4. Pink Frost
5. Surrounded
6. Swimming in the rain
7. Bad dancer
8. I love my leather jacket
9. Evermore
10 . The Big Assessment
11. Lost in future remains
12. Wet blanket
13. The oncoming day
Disc 2
1. Come home
2. Get together again
3. Dreams are free
4. Heavenly pop hit
5. Kaleidoscope world
6. Night of chill blue
7. Lies lies lies
8. New millenium
9. Smile
10. Yabba dabba doo

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Rockomotive Festival, Vendome, France   26 October 1996

Excellent soundboard. It does have a couple of bits of tape distortion, but I think it still deserves an A.
The disc has 26 tracks with 3 short bits of crowd noise in-between songs.

1. as far as i can see
2. premonition
3. bad dancer
4. pink frost
5. get together again
6. surrounded
7. february
8. evermore
9. i love my leather jacket
10. lost in future ruins
11. wet blanket
12. the oncoming day
13. come home
14. lies, lies, lies (cut)
15. heavenly pop hit
16. new millennium
17. smile from a dead dead face
18. dreams are free
19. submarine bells
20. walk on the beach
21. night of the chill blue
22. swimming in the rain
23. the street of forgotten cool

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Mercury Lounge, New York, NY   02 November 1996

SONY Walkman Pro, with a little semi-stealth mic that came with it - Master Cassette > wav > CDR > EAC > FLAC Frontend

Songs D1T1 through D1T4 & D2T1 through D2T3 have a strange low key noise like the sound of a rubbing wheel on an old tape deck which for the most part is only heard inbetween tracks and on a little on one of the mellower tracks - a minor annoyance.

Disc One - 44:15 minutes
 1. As Far As I  Can See
 2. Premonition
 3. February
 4. Bad Dancer
 5. Pink Frost
 6. Surrounded
 7. Get Together Again
 8. Lies, Lies, Lies
 9. I Love My Leather Jacket
10. Wet Blanket
11.Lost In Future Ruins
12. Oncoming Day

Disc One - 42:34 minutes
 1. Rorschach
 2. Come Back
 3. Ever More
 4. Heavenly Pop Hit
 5. New Millenium
 6. Dreams Are Free
 7. Streets of Forgotten Cool
 8. Submarine Bells
 9. Walk On the Beach
10. Night of Chill Blue
11. Swimming In the Rain
12. Yabba Dabba Do

Brave New World Show, KCRW, Santa Monica    14 Nov 1996

Great radio set from FM radio. Some tiny bits of interference, otherwise fantastic.

1. Intro
2. February
3. interview
4. Bad Dancer
5. interview
6. As Far As I Can See
7. interview
8. Pink Frost
9. interview
10. Lost In The Future Ruins
11. interview
12. Evermore
13. interview
14. Smile From A Dead Dead Face
15. interview
16. Dreams Are Free
17. interview
18. The Streets of Forgotten Cool
19. Outro

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Live at Sammy's, Dunedin 6 October 2000

1 February
2 I don't want to live forever
3 Bad dancer
4 Effloresce & deliquesce
5 Find your own way home
6 Pink frost
7 Falling of your throne
8 Wet blanket
9 Molten gold
10 Dan destiny & the silver dawn
11 KFJC jingle
12 Rolling moon

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The Jetset Lounge, Christchurch, New Zealand  1 June 2002

Fantastic live set taped to DAT off the soundboard. The new Chills certainly sound great. This has a couple of minor digital errors 
(apparently evident on all copies) and fades out between tracks.

1. Liberty of Love
2. February
3. Come Home
4. Premonition (2 small glitches)
5. Bad Dancer
6. Find Your Own Way Home
7. Wet Blanket
8. Streets Of Forgotten Cool
9. Dan Destiny & the Silver Dawn
10. Effloresce & Deliquesce
11. Evermore
12. Falling Off Your Throne
13. Night Of Chill Blue
14. Pink Frost

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Martin Phillipps solo

Unreleased Demos

A Dog's Life
Since You Left Me
KFJC Jingle
Hokey Pokey
Melodica
Vampire Sweat
21
Mari Loves Ra
Motorway 1
3 Voices and a Guitar
Mandolin Thing
Cold Feet
Summer Segment

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The Gluepot, Auckland NZ 1991

Solo acoustic set. Web source.

1. Bite
2. Don't Be Memory
3. Softbomb
4. Background Affair
5. Halo Fading
6. Heavenly Pop Hit

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Sammy's, Dunedin NZ  9 Dec 1991

Slightly dulled quality, with tape rumble but well worth having as a disc filler.

1. The Entertainer
2. Don't Be Memory
3. Halo Fading
4. Strange Case

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Live Bodega Bar Wellington - 12 March 1994

Pretty muffled and hissy, but good listening underneath.

1 Jungle Law
2 Halo Fading
3 Juicy Creaming Soda
4 I Don't Want To Live Forever
5 Entertainer
6 Pink Frost
7 Effloresce & Deliquesce
8 Steinlager
9 Friends Again
10 Walk On The Beach
11 Submarine Bells
12 Don't Be Memory
13 How Much This Place Has Changed
14 Creep
15 So Long
16 Wet Blanket
17 Yabba Dabba Doo
18 The Oncoming Day
19 Come Home
20 Ocean Ocean
21 Vampire Sweat
22 I Think I Thought Of Nothing Else To Think About
23 Dreams Are Free

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Sunburnt Demos

1 As far as I can see
2 Dreams are free
3 Friends again
4 Haunt me
5 I don't want to live forever
6 Out here
7 Surrounded
8 The big assessment

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