“Kiss and Say Goodbye” available on Bandcamp and the streamers.

Neo-Magics played at an art school party on Saturday 2nd November 1985 at a share house in Dryandra Street, O’Connor (an inner-city suburb of Canberra). They played a whole bunch of Velvet Underground covers and possibly “Hang On Sloopy” or “Louie Louie” or maybe not.

Fast-forward to 2018. Nic gets permission from the rest of the band to keep the flame alive. Covers of Daddy Cool and Portugal. The Man are released. A whole lot more songs were recorded but shelved…until now.

So here we are in early 2025 and Neo-Magics are back with a cover of The Manhattans 1976 smash hit “Kiss and Say Goodbye”. Nic’s previous band the Plunderers always wanted to add this to their live set but could never work out how to tackle (or remember the words!) to the spoken intro to the song. How about just not doing it?

“Kiss and Say Goodbye” written by Winfred Lovett. Recorded by Nic Dalton at the Nook 2018-2025 and mastered by William Bowden.