In the wake of last week's failure to escape from Wellington I have been directed to the Wellington Harbour webcam. No one's flying again this morning.
Anyone else angry about TranzRail? Fay, Richwhite and their friends sucked it dry and walked away. Now it's broken and we taxpayers may have to buy it back.
Dimmer has signed to Festival Mushroom Records (having departed Sony, which released the debut Dimmer album, I Believe You Are a Star)
That Shayne Carter's a card, though. This from this morning's press release:
Commenting on the new deal with FMR as he plunged a safety pin into his thumb and readied to sign the contract, Shayne said “Once again I have signed in blood to give my soul away to yet another music industry devil. On a lighter note, FMR is a company staffed by real music fans and they have made me feel very welcome in that leper-like way that all artists suffer at record companies.”
Sitting beside Shayne at the boardroom table and clasping a solid gold fountain pen between his bling-laden fingers, FMR Managing Director Mark Ashbridge said “Carter came in here with his arrogant rock star ways and an entourage of lawyers and floozies. The contract may well be signed in his blood but it was already drenched in the sweat of FMR staff as we battled to create an incomprehensible document that will shaft him from the moment we start selling his album. But such is the way of the biz. Everyone at FMR already loves the Dimmer shit and that bit is the truth. We can’t wait to start working with this band.”
With their respective marks scrawled all over the offending document, the two men embraced and headed for a game of pool and a celebratory beer in the luxurious setting of FMR warehouse, both crowing at the top of their voices that music was the winner on the day.
A new Dimmer lineup plays the Kings Arms on Saturday, December 21.