Posts by Richard Bol
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Oh dear. That's what happens when you accidentally click 'Post Reply' instead of 'Preview'. Anyway, I was going to suggest that New Zealand's plague of teenagers on party pills, RTDs and souped-up Integras is preferable to the situation outlined in the link.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18753946/site/newsweek/
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Or maybe Key contradicted what was in his speech, and claimed that McGehan Close was the subject of a short period without postal deliveries.
Judging by his placing of McGehan Close in South Auckland, accuracy isn't really that important to him.
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As if McGehan Close hasn't been portrayed in a worse enough light...
Colin Espiner (__The Press__) is under the mistaken impression that postal deliveries to The Street Of Shame™ were briefly cancelled due to fears for the posties' safety:
Key said he intended to visit McGehan Close, the street he highlighted in his speech where New Zealand Post briefly halted mail deliveries because of concern for the safety of posties.
(http://www.stuff.co.nz/3946871a6160.html)
Um, the NZ Post farrago actually happened in Hamilton. And Key said it happened in Hamilton.
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The outsourcing in Iraq isn't limited to dodgy private security companies. Dodgy PR companies get the big bucks as well.
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Future folly:
Scribe: 'Scribe 2021'
After Scribe's disastrous 2007 comeback album Scribe The Master & Friends In A Constant State Until Never Die [sic], the once-hot rapper slid into obscurity. Even his attempt at giving The Wiggles some "flava" on a 2011 collaborative single, 'Let's Count To Ten (Muthaf---ers)', met with massive public indifference. It seemed that forming a Gray Bartlett-Brendan Dugan-Suzanne Prentice-like touring combo with hip-hop pals King Kapisi and The Decepticonz was the only way to stay in the music biz.
However, the week before Scribe and his tourmates were due to start their 'Stand the F--- Up' North Island tour at the Dannevirke RSA, a reworking of Scribe's first big hit unexpectedly topped the charts.
Across the land, kids young and old chanted the chorus of "Scribe 2021/My story's just began/ You never hung in the streets where I'm from". Ridng the wave of nostalgia, Scribe once again took up his post of New Zealand's number one hip-hop icon.
A position he held until Double J And Twice The T re-united with Robert D. Frogg for 'Drips Waste Water 2022'.
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These are the Gigs Of Our Lives...
Graham and Russell's reminiscences remind me of a constant theme in Simon Reynolds's amazing Rip It Up And Start Again - the level of violence in gigs from the '70s and '80s. Something much less common today?
The most unpleasant things I've encountered are either (a) a hopelessly overcrowded and crap venue; and/or (b) drunk munters who won't shut up during a quiet performance (like when I went to see Bonnie Prince Billy at the Dog's Bollix). -
Apologies for this self-indulgence.
It can't compete with Stages Spacies Parlour in the most bizarre venue stakes, but I have good memories of the now probably defunct Old City Markets. Perched on Auckland's scungey waterfront, it possessed all the rock 'n' roll glamour of a disused freezing works. Which it closely resembled.
But at age 15, I saw my first big gig there - the 1998 95bFM b-card holders' concert. The D4, Voom, Lost Tribe, Dark Tower, Kog Transmissions All-Stars... What a line-up. As I recall, Kog Transmissions livened up their stage show by projecting images on to white sheets (when they played the 2000 bFM gig at the Auckland Town Hall they were much more high tech).
Unfortunately, my attendance was all too brief. I had a School Cert. Science exam on the Monday, and being a diligent student, wanted to get as much study as possible. I left at midnight.
Sorry.
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Yes, there are two bars at Studio. I had never been there before and was pleasantly surprised. There's one in the lobby, and one in the actual gig space itself.
I don't know whether the one at the lobby was actually open during the concert (Sorry, should have made that clear). Can't say about booze prices either, unfortunately. -
I heard about the M. Ward gig - sweat dripping down from the ceiling etc. On the plus side, the Twilight Singers gig at the Studio thankfully featured some large fans onstage. And two bars - both of them open.
Does anyone else remember the horror stories about dance gigs earlier in the decade?