Posts by Nick Russell
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Dirty politics is the obvious answer, but it's kind of dull.
I quite liked Akshully.
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Hard News: The uncooling of the inner West, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Never mind Craig, there's always the Hutt Valley...
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Hard News: The uncooling of the inner West, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Ditto. I live in Northland (the Northland in Wellington not Te Tai Tokerau) and walk to and from the city most days Takes 30 minutes, or less than 10 in the car. Great views across the harbour from the top of Orangi Kaupapa.
My last place in Auckland was a flat in a rambling old house in Mt Eden (flatting with Jason Kemp, actually - hi Jase!). That was back in the 90s. I shudder to think what that would cost now. Every time I think property prices in Wellington are out of whack, I can always cheer myself up by thinking about Auckland.
But there is nothing surprising about what is happening in the property market there. Auckland is NZ's designated global city and this is what always seems to happen in such cities. Here's a recent article from the New York times grizzling about the cost of housing in London. It could have been written by anyone in Auckland.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/opinion/londons-housing-boom.html
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Hard News: Why we thought what we thought, in reply to Phil Wallington,
Phil - I don't think she has a NZ practising certificate, so there may not be much the Law Society can do.
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Hard News: The People's Poet is dead!, in reply to Samuel Scott,
Someone, somewhere ought to do a cover version of "I want to drink till I die"...
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I was about about 15 when the Young Ones first hit, and living in England - it probably had the same sort of profound impact Monty Python had on the generation before. I always loved the story about how, for some sort of funding or programming reasons, they had to have a music act each week as part of the show. I think they more or less conned the BBC into funding and broadcasting it without actually letting them know what was being made. I hope this is true. At the very least, I can tell you it went out on BBC2 with almost no advance promotion - as if they were ashamed of it. Everyone had to discover it. As kids, that made it even cooler. Not only was it "ours" - for a moment there the grown ups didn't even know what we were talking about.
Anyway, seeing the likes of the Damned and Motorhead on TV just added to the delight. I still have my 7" vinyl copy of the Nasty single the Damned did on the Young Ones.
I had my own personal Young Ones moment that I didn't even know about at the time. One day I was walking to my aunt's house in Redlands in Bristol. When I got to the zebra crossing on Coldharbour Road, there was a TV crew filming 4 strangely dressed guys walking back and forth across the road in single file. I only twigged what I had seen a few months later when it turned out to be Abbey Road pastiche scene in Boring.
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OnPoint: Legal Context, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Yes. You might also be liable for damages for despoiling evidence. If a Court orders you to deliver up evidence the only valid defence is privilege. If the evidence isn't privileged, you cannot avoid the order by uttering magic words or destroying the evidence.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Bright pastel…, in reply to Mike O'Connell,
There are much worse places in Bristol than Filton. Bedminster or Knowle West for starters.
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Goodness. I was at the Chills gig at the Fleece & Firkin in Bristol too. I think that must be about 75% of the crowd accounted for.
I seem to recall Andrew Todd trying to play Summertime at one point when an amp failed.