The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 61 Union Hall – Part One: Hunters and Collectors

The Spines cut their teeth at playing to big crowds at the Student Union Hall up at Victoria University in the eighties. We played our first ever gig there and went on to do some our most memorable – every line up we had in that first decade had at least one major gig there.

We were a band that could do these gigs – we weren’t mired in downtown punk or c…