Lisle Kinney


When Hello Sailor were inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame in 2011, it was without Lisle Kinney, the bass player who had been there in the trenches with them as they conquered their home country and then gallantly took on Hollywood and Australia.

To their credit, his partner in the band’s engine room, drummer Ricky Ball, and the band’s longest-serving bass player, Paul Woolright, both acknowledged Kinney in their acceptance speeches at the APRA Silver Scroll Awards, but his absence was baffling.

Dave McArtney and Lisle Kinney at a private Xmas party in LA, 1978
Photo credit: Photo by Jeremy Templer
Gold discs for DD Smash for debut album Cool Bananas, with Minister of Justice Jim McLay. Peter Warren, Rob Guy, Jim McLay, Lisle Kinney (behind), Dave Dobbyn (front). Taken at Record Warehouse in Durham Lane, Auckland, 22 May 1982. There was a countdown to gold and Jim was on hand to present and press the flesh.
Hello Sailor - Blue Lady
Lisle Kinney with DD Smash, likely taken on the beach tour January 1982
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Harry Lyon (Hello Sailor), Graham Brazier (Hello Sailor), Hammond Gamble, Charlie Morrison (manager of the Cabana), Lisle Kinney (Hello Sailor), Paul Jamieson and Lyn Buchanan (Hello Sailor) in the mid-1980s at Napier's Cabana Hotel
Hello Sailor in 1977: Dave McArtney, Lisle Kinney, Graham Brazier, Harry Lyon, Ricky Ball
Photo credit: Photo by Jeremy Templer
Lisle Kinney, Windsor Castle, 1977
Photo credit: Photo by Simon Lynch
Lisle Kinney and Harry Lyon recording the first Hello Sailor album at Stebbings, April 1977
Lisle Kinney and Harry Lyon at rehearsals in LA.
Photo credit: Photo by Jeremy Templer
The Cool Bananas line-up of DD Smash. L to R: Lisle Kinney, Rob Guy, Dave Dobbyn, Peter Warren
Hello Sailor - Blue Lady (with Ray Manzarek at the Whiskey A Go Go, LA 1978)
Paul Dunningham and Lisle Kinney rehearsing with Brown Street, 1975
Photo credit: Paul Dunningham collection
The original line-up of Gun Crazy, 1983. Left to right, Lisle Kinney (bass), Peter Harrison (keys), Colin Budd (vocals, guitar, songwriting), Simon Hannah (drums), Andrew Langsford (guitar). 
Photo credit: Simon Hannah collection
Hello Sailor - Lying In The Sand
The original line-up of Gun Crazy, 1983. Left to right, Lisle Kinney (bass), Peter Harrison (keys), Colin Budd (vocals, guitar, songwriting), Simon Hannah (drums), Andrew Langsford (guitar). 
Photo credit: Simon Hannah collection
Dave Dobbyn and an early version of DD Smash with Rob Guy and Lisle Kinney, Avalon Park, Lower Hutt, early 1982.
Photo credit: Photo by Bryan Staff
Cheek Ta Cheek, Corner Bar, c. 1985. From left: Gave Collinge, Lisle Kinney, Graham Brazier guesting, and Ross Pierce. 
Photo credit: Keith Newman Collection
Son Of Sam (Live in LA 1978)
Ricky Ball, Harry Lyon, Graham Brazier, Dave McArtney, Lisle Kinney, a publicity shot from 1985
Lisle Kinney, 2014
Photo credit: Neil Ellis collection
Hello Sailor - Gutter Black
An early Brown Street line-up in Ponsonby, 1975. Left to right, Paul Dunningham, John Parker, Greg Mayson, Kaye Wilson, Keith Ballantyne, Chris Nielson, Lisle Kinney.
Photo credit: Paul Dunningham collection
Lisle Kinney and Harry Lyon at rehearsals in LA.
Photo credit: Photo by Jeremy Templer
Trivia:

Lisle Kinney’s first gig with Hello Sailor was at the Crypt Nightclub in early 1976. Part of the deal was that the band did the cleaning, including the toilets.

Saxophonist Andrew Clouston was Lisle Kinney’s passenger when he crashed the DD Smash truck in late 1982. Clouston rejoined the band two days later, but Ian Morris replaced Kinney.

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