In Look Blue Go Purple’s first press interview in 1984, the band’s drummer, Lesley Paris, advanced a theory about what made them sound different in a Dunedin music scene where you could barely throw a party without someone forming a band. “I just think that when we play together, we all listen really hard to each other –and when I play with other people, I sometimes get annoyed because some people don’t seem to listen.”
After a deep breath to acknowledge the passing of 40 years, the five members of Look Blue Go Purple –who have assembled on a Zoom call to talk about being