Posts by Simon Grigg
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This won’t be the last we hear of Joel Little either. If you haven’t already caught up with it, here’s the first public track from a new project Joel has been producing.
What really hit me on the APRA/Apra night was – hearing Royals for the very first time on a system like that – the perfect almost subsonic sparsity of the production. On a radio or even a home stereo you get some of that but on the big Vector system the vocal was laid over a crafted rumble. It was intense and quite something.
I’m thrilled to see Joel get his moment here, and I suspect there will be quite a few more. As with New Zealand’s last US number one, the producer is absolutely key to this record, perhaps the key factor.
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Hard News: Friday Music: An Outstanding Evening, in reply to TracyMac,
. It’s English after all, and names for things, so if you want to style yourself as MARTIN, pronounced “Martin”, fine by me. :-)
Quite. I guess the rule for me is what do they call themselves and I’m wary of letting grammar rules override that. In the case of APRA they pretty much universally call themselves that so …
Another is the use of “the” with a band. Strict style rules tells us that The Beatles should be entered as the Beatles and The Who as the Who (let’s not even start with The The) but in each case that wasn’t the name they gave themselves. I note that both The Times (or is it the Times) and t/The NYT are increasingly relaxed about this with The Beatles now having the edge at t/The Guardian.
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Hard News: Friday Music: An Outstanding Evening, in reply to Hugh Sundae,
It's either way I think Hugh. I use APRA as does AudioCulture because a) they stand for words and b) their site does http://www.apra-amcos.co.nz/about/about-apraamcos.aspx
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Hard News: Friday Music: An Outstanding Evening, in reply to Samuel Scott,
Agree Samuel. Great to talk with you too.
I've been to god knows how many of these sorts of things and it really was the best I think - although Russell and I were getting misty eyed about the one at the Powerstation circa 1990/91 where they decided not to feed us until AFTER the ceremony. At least two winners had to be helped to the podium.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Weird Auckland, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
After sleeping on it – I’m sure it was during the transfer process to making a ‘mother’ for the stamper at the pressing plant – so I reckon that stomping thumping crescendo at the end created chaos twice!
You're right I think Ian. Man that was a monster to master and cut. First time that sort of thing had been done in NZ. We were a no-red zone recording industry. I remember when Harlequin brought out Roy Thomas Baker (Queen/Foreigner/Cars etc) to NZ to hold a school for aspiring producers, they flipped out when he started driving everything into the red on the fancy new 24 track Harlequin desk.
We were flipping out because he was recording Blam Blam Blam and he'd made them sound utterly horrific. We had the option of using his version of their song 'Time Enough" on the album. We declined. I guess it was dumped when Harlequin closed (as were lots of tapes sadly).
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Hard News: Friday Music: Weird Auckland, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I think I still have somewhere, a rejected acetate ‘master’ from the cutting session Frank Douglas did of The Tall Dwarfs first record
It was Glyn Tucker at Mandrill. It blew the speakers at the studio and cost me and Paul $200 for a new cone.
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And since you didn't plug it yourself, I'm going to do it for you: Russell's great reflection on AudioCulture on the 1984 Queen Street Riot. Chris Bourke said to me that Russell's original story in RipItUp was perhaps the best piece of reporting on the day's events at the time. Many agreed. I think this is even better.
And whilst I'm plugging AudioCulture - the Peter McLennan collection of stories about the EMI pressing plant and studio is wonderful, as is the Sonny Day profile (from John Dix) which has just gone live today. The photos on all the above are pretty neat I think.
Oh - and support Gary please.
You can have your site back now, Russell :)
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Hard News: Thursday Music: Doing the Business, in reply to Alec Morgan,
Audio Culture briefing at Auckland Library was great. What a rich seam of music knowledge amongst the attendees.
Thanks Alec and great to talk to you. We have a bigger Murdoch story coming but Viking has just gone live http://audiocultu.re/18zs431
Also just live is The Ainsworths http://audiocultu.re/1aQD4dS featuring a very young Adam Holt, some 32 years before he was the quiet keyman behind the Lorde scenes.
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Hard News: Thursday Music: Doing the Business, in reply to Ken Double,
Personally, gimme The Shirelles any day.
I don't think it's either or, but I never got the clinical Swedish craftsmen either. I like the technique but it's very icey.
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Thanks Russell. Just buzzing over Lorde. Wow!!!