Hard News by Russell Brown

This is nice: the long-running New Zealand-based psych-rock blog The Active Listener gets an appreciation on Bandcamp.

A.Zee is good. And he has playlists which makes it easier to use youtube as a radio :)

This week I've also discovered Aurora and Agnes Obel, which are not at all like rap, more pretentious art student chick, but worthwhile nonetheless. And they've been around long enough that there's a reasonable body of work to listen to (yes, I know, that also means you all discovered them five years ago). My interest is limited, though, by the overuse of piano.

re – King’s Arms…

there’s Departure Lounge, an exhibition…

Deparcher Lounge surely?
:- )
…anyway, I always thought that ‘Departure Lounge’ was a fine Chad Taylor book.

I read some of the Grant Fell tributes, and had various memories triggered and various dots of other things Auckland in the early 1990's joined up. He seemed to be quite the instigator, the sort of person - as I think Russell noted - all scenes need to make things happen. The Headless Chickens were one of the biggest, if not the biggest, local bands circa 1992/93. If memory serves me right they headlined the BFM bombathon for several years in the old warehouses where the viaduct is nowadays, and I recall looking out for their new videos more so than other bands of the time. Also recall Planet making a splash, but never knew of the shared connection (or otherwise had forgotten) until reading of it in the last week - in all honesty, it wasn't a big surprise.

Deparcher Lounge

Someone buy this man a drink.

Ha!

Ed Sheeran just got knocked off the top of the NZ album chart by an album called BBQ Reggae.

well I would but someone's nicked the taps.

won't be much left by the end.
hope they find whoever nicked the sign.

A.Zee: music ... and cooking. Is very odd.

But I have been listening to Illegal Music on and off since this post. It's great, thanks for that Russel.