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June 14, 2009

Clark, how are ya?

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Hi everybody,

Welcome to the “Chris Knox had a stroke and everyone wants to know how he is, how the hell are we gonna keep you all updated all at once” blog.

We’ll try to keep this as up to date as we can – in this first post is a statement we sent out to the media this afternoon. You can leave well wishes in the ‘comments’ section below. We love hearing from you.

Cheese,

Chris’s family and friends

15th June 2009
Media statement from Ward-Knox family
Re: Chris Knox

“We have been overwhelmed by the level of support for Chris from around the world since his stroke. We’d like to express our thanks to everyone who has helped or wished us well in the last few days.

“Like many other families who are currently experiencing a similar change to their lives we are learning a great deal about strokes and their long-term effects. We have learned that it is too early to predict the ramifications of a stroke with any degree of accuracy. However, positive anecdotes have been flooding in which fill us all with hope.

“Chris is not in pain and is responsive to family and friends who are very optimistic and focused on Chris’s well being. He enjoyed his vegetable frittata this morning but I suffered the classic Knox withering look when I mentioned beer.

“As the situation becomes clearer to us we will happily inform those who wish to know.

“We have created a site at chrisknox.blogtown.co.nz for this purpose.  We aim to keep this site as current as possible.”

Family contact – Roy Martyn



347 Comments »

  1. bridget.herlihy  Bridget — June 17, 2009 @ 3:35 pm    

    Hi Chris and family,

    I was shocked and saddened to hear the news of Chris’ illness. This is such a great way to keep the masses up-to-date with Chris’ recovery – the outpouring of messages is truly heart-warming. Best wishes for a speedy recovery Chris!!

  2. stephenb  Stephen Buckland — June 17, 2009 @ 4:08 pm    

    Chris & Barbara and family,

    Get well soon. Anything I can do to help?

    Arohanui,

    Stephen Buckland

  3. erik.landhuis  Erik Landhuis — June 17, 2009 @ 4:45 pm    

    I just heard the news today and I was stunned. Chris and the family, wishing you all the best and here’s to a speedy recovery.

  4. samelworthy  Sam Elworthy — June 17, 2009 @ 5:49 pm    

    Thikning of you Chris and looking forward to seeing that impish smile and slashing guitar strum in a pub near here soon
    Cheers
    Sam

  5. ralphconn  Ralph Connor — June 17, 2009 @ 6:33 pm    

    I agree with Chris matthews above. Nz would be a much duller place without you Chris> Hoping to hear of more improvement and full recovery
    Ralph Connor

  6. fiona.calderwood  Fiona Calderwood — June 17, 2009 @ 6:36 pm    

    Just another wee fan pulsing positive joy to the universe. Here’s hoping this blog supports your family so they can hold you nicely.

  7. karenholiday  Karen O'Shea — June 17, 2009 @ 6:40 pm    

    For those of us who spent our formative years in Vulcan Lane, growing up is something we never thought we’d have to face; it is just our children who get older not us.
    Leisha I only ever knew you in your mother’s tummy. Barbara, I haven’t seen you since I was about nineteen. And I haven’t seen Chris for about ten years.
    But I haven’t forgotten any of you.
    I wish you all the strength and courage to work through stroke and the road to recovery.
    There is a community here who genuinely care and will do everything to support and assist where we can.
    Arohanui, Kia kaha

  8. honeangel  john smith. — June 17, 2009 @ 7:25 pm    

    kia ora, my thoughts and hope for a speedy recovery to you chris and for comfort and peace to yr family. yr a n.z. icon and one of the prominent, positive role models from my earlier years. love john xx

  9. reido220  Don Reid — June 17, 2009 @ 7:40 pm    

    Hi
    Your music, art and brilliant insights have been an inspiration to me since my teenage years. Get well soon.
    Cheers and best wishes.

  10. hetty  Hetty and lloyd Ellis — June 17, 2009 @ 8:16 pm    

    Hi Chris, Barbara and whanau!!!!

    Thinking of you!! Lots of love from the Ellis clan in Suffolk (UK)

    Hetty and Lloyd

  11. jojams  Jo Smith — June 17, 2009 @ 8:20 pm    

    Shocked and saddened to hear of your stroke. Best wishes for a speedy recovery. Just another fan who misses the days in Dunedin and beyond watching you play. Love, peace and strength to you and your family

  12. iquin  Quin Webster — June 17, 2009 @ 8:39 pm    

    Hey there Chris, Barbara, Leisha and John.

    We look forward to catching up with you all at Tutanekai Street next time. Thanks to whoever thought of this Blog.

    Kia kaha.

  13. glimmernz  Hunter — June 17, 2009 @ 8:53 pm    

    Hang in there Chris, you get well soon .. Because we need more words and music from you.

    Kia Kaha

    From everyone at Frenzforum.com

  14. mickgadd  Helen — June 17, 2009 @ 10:29 pm    

    Very best wishes from just another long-term (and now long distance)fan in Surrey, UK. Your influence extends to the next generation – my five year old son loves the Nothing’s Gonna Happen video (though he is now slightly wary of sleeping bags….) Get well soon.

  15. brenda  Brenda Gray — June 18, 2009 @ 12:26 am    

    Chris, I just love you and your talent. I was in tears when I heard about your stroke. Best wishes and prayers for you and your family. You are (to me) the very heart of NZ’s music scene and I hope you make a full recovery SOON! Last time I saw you perform was at The Temple; I look forward to the next time!

  16. lisavanderaarde  lisa van der aarde — June 18, 2009 @ 5:20 am    

    Dear Chris and whanau … thinking of you at this time I am in shock! Best wishes from the other side of the world….. a speedy recovery to you Chris!

    Lisa Van Der Aarde xx

  17. ejl  EJL — June 18, 2009 @ 6:14 am    

    Dear Chris & family,

    Best wishes in your speedy recovery. I bust out a Tall Dwarfs or solo track on my radio show here in Los Angeles every once in a while, and I’m always reminded of the proud moment I had in the mid-90s when you borrowed my guitar amp for a concert where my goofy little band opened for you. I don’t think you were terribly impressed with my amp, but you soldiered on nonetheless to much adoration from the folks at the show.

    Here’s to many more years and concerts of soldiering on!!!

    Be well.

  18. josephdavolt  jdavolt — June 18, 2009 @ 8:46 am    

    Hey Chris, this is Joseph Davolt from the Record Room message board, sending best wishes, thoughts, and prayers to you and your family. Was very saddened to hear of your stroke. Get well soon, Mr. Nothing!

  19. lange52  Peter Lange — June 18, 2009 @ 9:02 am    

    Got my Ipod on shuffle at work but it keeps defaulting to the songs on the 2 Nothing albums. The tiny DJ in there knows what’s happened and salutes you. We all do.
    Love to you all
    Peter Lange

  20. brendon  Brendon Ford — June 18, 2009 @ 9:15 am    

    G’dday Chris,

    your music has formed an ongoing part of the soundtrack to my life since Toy Love days………so many thanks for that. Wishing you and your whanau all the best and looking forward to many more years of your refreshing, insightful and irreverent orginality

    Kia Kaha

    Brendon Ford

  21. oclareo  Clare OLeary — June 18, 2009 @ 10:11 am    

    Dear Chris,

    I was shocked to hear of your stroke – you’ve been such an amazing inspiration to me as a musician, artist and really good person…..but take heart. When I was 19 I had a head on collision on the harbour bridge while driving to night duty as a nurse. I was in intensive care for a month and hospital for 3 months…when i left the doctors told my family I would never walk again.
    So, after 18 months of daily rehab – I proved them wrong – and I know you will too.
    You’re a resilient and strong willed guy and you still have so many more songs to write and perform. You have all the love around you – you are bound to bounce back. Take it slow…its a frustrating and sometimes painful process – but you’ll do it.
    Kia Kaha! Arohanui

    clare oleary & love from cathy and michael and sam too….

  22. j.edwards  joy — June 18, 2009 @ 10:12 am    

    Hello – when last heard of, Max media was expressing concern at being “out of touch’. I think he has slung his hammock between two branches of the cerebral cortex and is having a lazy holiday in his own tropical-coloured bubble. He’s sipping a cocktail laced with dopamine and neurone cells, and is listening to the gurglings of the blood vessel plumbing. He’s decoding memory traces on the subject of “lurking’ which are etched like heiroglyphics onto the walls of his plasma bubble. We know he will be back, slightly more quirked, and all the better for it! Arohanui – Joy

  23. mike_faccioli  Mike Faccioli — June 18, 2009 @ 10:37 am    

    I was shocked and upset like everyone to hear of your stroke Chris. My thoughts are with you and I hope you have a speedy recovery. My father had a stroke a few years ago and he recovered completely. (And he’s quite a bit older than you!)

    My love to you Barbara, John and Lisa

  24. admore.power  Jane Admore — June 18, 2009 @ 10:49 am    

    We know these old villas are cold in winter but it’s a pretty extreme way to get a warm room. All the best for recovery,
    H Htreet neighbours (especially all those gwarky & squirming young musos you have shared with).
    Off to get ‘Warm Guns’
    Jane

  25. kimbarron  kim — June 18, 2009 @ 11:30 am    

    Hey Chris,
    Glad to hear your improving. Perhaps we should have a combined 57th birthday party in sept, like our 21st back in the day. Maybe not 114 sounds very old.
    Smile for me.
    Positive, positive, positive.
    Luv ya
    Kim

  26. alice_and_peter  Peter Porteous — June 18, 2009 @ 12:26 pm    

    Chris,

    You are so much a part of NZ music that it is hard to know what to say – the news is a shock to us all. Inspirational to decades of musicians, we all have our Chris Knox stories. I remember my band playing at the Classic about 10 years ago at a NZ music radio quota gig – we played first and it is safe to say the seated smartly dressed audience were not expecting it. 10 minutes of noisy improvised feedbacking guitars, whilst our friend Mark jumped around stage abusing a small stuffed teddy bear. When we finished, you came up to the stage and said “you twisted animals!”, with that demented Knox grin. You then asked if you could borrow my amp – how could I say no?! We are sending you our thoughts from Dunedin, and wishing a successful recovery.

    Peter Porteous and family

    PS Peter Stapleton also send his best wishes.

  27. gregbaise  Greg Baise — June 18, 2009 @ 1:07 pm    

    Dear Chris,

    Sending you love and best wishes for a healthy recovery. We need to have you rockin’ in the Motor City (er, Pontiac) again like you did in 1995!

    Greg

  28. barbara  Barbara Manning — June 18, 2009 @ 3:56 pm    

    Hi Chris, Barbara, Leisha and John! On my radio show the other day I played and played and played CK music (there is alot of it, ain’t there!) and Man, did I get a lot of calls from folk who said what a genius the music is. Well we all know that already but the large bodied small town American families are now quite hip to it too. I think of you all everyday. Please know that my heart has always remained in NZ and at the moment it is living in your backyard in a wee tent.

    I love you Chris. So much.
    Get well soon, mate. kisses from that nutty blond girl you once described (accurately) as a walking cartoon.

  29. ang.edwards  Ange — June 18, 2009 @ 4:45 pm    

    Kia ora Chris, heaps of aroha from the students of Alternative Education Auckland City who worked with you last month on the graffiti art project … arohanui kia koe me to whanau, Ange Edwards

  30. bacarhire  Chris — June 18, 2009 @ 5:15 pm    

    Hey Chris maybe this is a warning to you…that Toy Love must play again..somebodys trying to tell you something??
    See you back on the stage soon mate.XX

  31. katnip  Kathryn B — June 18, 2009 @ 5:34 pm    

    hey Chris, Barbara and family

    Thinking of you often and am so pleased to hear that Chris is still dishing out withering looks. Haha. I think that’s a great sign. I have great faith that you’ll get through this.

    Bestest Kathryn B

  32. j  John — June 18, 2009 @ 5:42 pm    

    Am still hoping for your total recovery Chris Knox.
    But how do I stop copies of all these well wishing emails to you coming into my in box, what the heck did I click on to make this happen? AAAAAGGGGHHHHH! Helllp!

  33. a.galbraith  alastair galbraith — June 18, 2009 @ 7:23 pm    

    love from all fellow Invercargill adoptees with big noses

  34. wyndham61  David — June 18, 2009 @ 8:00 pm    

    Hi Chris.
    Jane Dodd’s dad, Jack, told a funny story about his recovery and since you mightn’t have too much else to do right now I thought I’d share it with ya. After a few days in hospital Jack still hadn’t got his speech back. But he had worked out that the guy in the bed next to him was well into his nineties and in much worse shape than he was. Jack recognised an old friend who came into the ward – someone he’d always thought of as especially honest. The friend sat down by the 90 year old and said gently: “Jack. You’re looking great. You’ll be out of here in no time.” After loyally holding the old timer’s hand for a good half an hour, the friend finally turned round and saw the real Jack. He immediately dropped the old guy’s hand and let rip with: “Jack! Thank Christ!” No-one knows what the old guy made of all this.

    It’s been good scrolling down through these messages. Quite a group of people you have in your life. Come back to us all soon.
    Love to you and Barbara
    David

  35. davewhale  Dave Whale (Sharky) — June 18, 2009 @ 8:53 pm    

    Hi Chris,
    My name is Sharky, (I am 44) and I can honestly say that I think I know how you feel. On November 6th, 2007, I had a stroke. And yes it sucks, and yes it feels more like a punch than a stroke, but I came through and was lucky enough to make a full recovery…………so see, it can happen. I don’t think there is anything medically marvelous that helped me come through. Just a stubborn sod, I reckon. To begin with, I was paralised on my left side, but now I walk without a stick.
    The toughest part now is that my “forgettera” works better than my “remembera” and that fustrates the shit outta me. But I’m alive……………..so to hell with it…………….I bought a note book to write shit down in, and I only have one thing to remember, now………where the book is……………..haha. And the fatigue takes a bit to get used to. The Doctors, because they’re way more intellegent than you or I, might try to tell you what you can or can’t do. You make up your own mind Chris. They told me I was paralised for life…….wrong !! Then I couldn’t walk without a stick…….Wrong again, Then, aparently, I couldn’t drive……………………Strike three……not that clever after all.

    Laughter is the best medicine…….and good exercise for ya ribs, too.

    Enough of my rabbiting on,

    I wish you a successful and speedy recovery.
    Best wishes,

    Dave

  36. timdowson  Tim and Anna (Emma) — June 18, 2009 @ 9:48 pm    

    Hi Chris, Barbara and whanau,

    Bit of an over reaction to National winning an election I think Chris. All of you are in our thoughts. Look after each other! Time is the healer.

    Kia kaha.

  37. dolkara  april — June 18, 2009 @ 10:51 pm    

    again … you…
    a paradigm that touches,
    interconnects, and helps
    us to share our experience
    all here together.

  38. carbella  Linda — June 18, 2009 @ 11:21 pm    

    It’s my husband who’s the big fan of your music… but he would never in a million years ever think of submiting a comment. I particularly like your song about crusty glue ear (from tall dwarf days I think) Bfm very kindly played it the other day.I reckon you’ll be doing your music thing again before too long and on behalf of Bella and me I wish you a full recovery.
    love light peace.

  39. Dgibbs  Debbi — June 19, 2009 @ 12:23 am    

    Hey C&B. I got coverage for my boy and flights so leaving here on the 3rd of July – with you on the 5th. Just 3 days with you all but I need to see you. and touch you. I’ve always been such an aural person but at times like this it’s just not enough. Although Jenny said that Chris was humming yesterday and that would be excellent audio. Save me a song. Big Hugs to you two and Leish and John. See you soon. Dx

  40. mckeebop  John McKee — June 19, 2009 @ 2:11 am    

    Like what everyone else says, Mr Multi-Talented. Love your stuff and want to see/hear more of it. Not a pressure thing, but get bloody better!

    From a total stranger, so don’t strain your brain to place me.

  41. thokei65  thokz — June 19, 2009 @ 5:43 am    

    Ride on, Chris! Cheers from Hamburg -> T.

  42. beatol  beatoloh — June 19, 2009 @ 6:18 am    

    Hi Chris,
    Hope you’re getting better very soon…
    Hope you get a full recovery…
    Love to the family…

    The French International T Dwarf

    PS i was singing ‘The Glide’ today at noon and you know it’s a pure gem
    “And when you land on your feet safe on the ground please listen to the air that slips into your lungs and love the sound”
    We love your sounds!

  43. abescott  Abraham Scott — June 19, 2009 @ 8:14 am    

    Hello Chris,

    I’m really saddened to hear about your recent illness. Your music is very important to me and I hope you get well soon. The first time I heard “Half Man Half Mole” it was one of the most revelatory musical moments of my entire life, and I’ve been very much affected by your music in the years since. You’re an all-around inspiration as a songwriter, filmmaker and cartoonist and I hope your condition improves as quickly as possible. Please take care.

    Sincerely,
    Abraham Scott

  44. stewart  Stewart Forsyth — June 19, 2009 @ 9:10 am    

    Hi Chris Barbara and family – thinking warm thoughts of you from down at #13. Please let us know if we can do anything useful (apart from buying Warm Gun of course) – lawns mowed, that sort of crap.

  45. bunnyfuss  Mary — June 19, 2009 @ 9:12 am    

    Sending you lots of smiles and good wishes for a simple, speedy recovery. Your long-time fan, Mary

  46. steverpump  steve — June 19, 2009 @ 9:21 am    

    unexpected shitty news, but i’m going to go home and listen to some of your music and hope to send some of its healing energy back your way (or however it works). be back up and about soon!

    – sp

  47. julie.kantner  julie kantner — June 19, 2009 @ 9:23 am    

    Get well Chris! The world needs your flip flop wearing, time-life lady head set sporting, mad genius to keep us sane. I find it hard to imagine you being down for long.
    -Julie

  48. knickersmyth  Nicole Smith — June 19, 2009 @ 10:44 am    

    Thinking of you all and im sure you are in the best of hands. Lots of laughter is the key to a speedy recovery and it looks as though you are getting plenty of that :)
    All the whanau send there love. Say Hi to Leisha from me and give her a hug.
    Love Nicole smith and family.

  49. jazzash50  Ashley Morrison — June 19, 2009 @ 11:41 am    

    Hi Chris, Once again thinking of you. I mentioned your blog to another friend, Trevor Daley, who is a bit of a technophobe,(a drummer you see), and he asked me to pass on his best wishes, from another Avenal Street boy. All our love, and good vibes, to you, family and your support team. Would love to see you back in the old hometown sometime in future.

  50. liisa.mcmillan  LIISA — June 19, 2009 @ 2:47 pm    

    Hi Chris,

    First I was really sad to hear your news, but then I remembered that you can’t keep a good man down. You are most definitely a good man. Your whole life is a work of art – it oozes out of you and will not be stopped by this interuption. Keep fighting the good fight and know that many, many people love and respect you and your work.
    Kia kaha and best wishes to you and yours.

    LIISA

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