Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: First Thursdays: Light on the Strip https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Shulgin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-first-thursdays-light-on-the-strip/?p=364878#post364878 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-first-thursdays-light-on-the-strip/?p=364878#post364878 ...and the Rob Wasserman review

it has a Brian Wilson track

Fantasy is Reality

apparently Bob has passed as well...

New Horizons...essential radio

]]> Sun, 07 Aug 2016 20:25:06 +1200 Shulgin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-first-thursdays-light-on-the-strip/?p=364876#post364876 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-first-thursdays-light-on-the-strip/?p=364876#post364876 My Goodness...William Dart...wow...

....back in time, it was compulsory listening, those reviews were beautiful. I remember several of them to this day...I carry them around with me, at all times- even now. William Dart, a person who added brilliance to my appreciation of music, a depth a breadth, a person…

]]> Sun, 07 Aug 2016 20:16:30 +1200 Mike O'Connell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-first-thursdays-light-on-the-strip/?p=364807#post364807 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-first-thursdays-light-on-the-strip/?p=364807#post364807 Further to above, I didn't realise the Auricle re-opening was on until late in the piece. The newly opened-Auricle has relocated from New Regent Street to St Asaph St, conveniently placed between the Darkroom and Galaxy Records (it's the old Darkroom Gallery space).

Roy Montgomery didn't so much 'play' but…

]]> Fri, 05 Aug 2016 13:40:42 +1200 Mike O'Connell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-first-thursdays-light-on-the-strip/?p=364805#post364805 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-first-thursdays-light-on-the-strip/?p=364805#post364805 It doesn’t want to be :-)

And nor does Colombo St, well that stretch in Sydenham, which (as Ian flagged last week) co-hosted ‘our’ First Thursdays last evening.

The snow held off and it was an evening of conviviality though nowhere near the edginess of K Road. Didn’t…

]]> Fri, 05 Aug 2016 13:33:48 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-first-thursdays-light-on-the-strip/?p=364798#post364798 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-first-thursdays-light-on-the-strip/?p=364798#post364798 * .* . *
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I'd just like to say that it is snowing in Chchch...

]]> Fri, 05 Aug 2016 12:56:35 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-first-thursdays-light-on-the-strip/?p=364797#post364797 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-first-thursdays-light-on-the-strip/?p=364797#post364797 K Road is great but it will never be Cuba Street….

It doesn't want to be :-)

]]> Fri, 05 Aug 2016 12:49:16 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-first-thursdays-light-on-the-strip/?p=364795#post364795 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-first-thursdays-light-on-the-strip/?p=364795#post364795 A shrine to departed icons in St Kevins Arcade.
The Into the Void fan club?

]]> Fri, 05 Aug 2016 11:52:36 +1200 Ben Curran https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-first-thursdays-light-on-the-strip/?p=364793#post364793 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-first-thursdays-light-on-the-strip/?p=364793#post364793 K Road is great but it will never be Cuba Street....

This is most certainly true. They're spelt entirely differently to begin with ...

]]> Fri, 05 Aug 2016 11:46:14 +1200 Nick Russell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-first-thursdays-light-on-the-strip/?p=364792#post364792 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-first-thursdays-light-on-the-strip/?p=364792#post364792 Fri, 05 Aug 2016 11:41:16 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-first-thursdays-light-on-the-strip/?p=364790#post364790 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-first-thursdays-light-on-the-strip/?p=364790#post364790 Great pics Russell … and since you appear to not be dead they can’t have been Cybermen … unless …

Ha ha. I did enjoy our Twitter conversation on this issue last night :-)

]]> Fri, 05 Aug 2016 11:15:44 +1200 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-first-thursdays-light-on-the-strip/?p=364789#post364789 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-first-thursdays-light-on-the-strip/?p=364789#post364789 Fri, 05 Aug 2016 11:13:12 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-first-thursdays-light-on-the-strip/?p=364788#post364788 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-first-thursdays-light-on-the-strip/?p=364788#post364788 Fri, 05 Aug 2016 11:00:19 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-first-thursdays-light-on-the-strip/?p=364787#post364787 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-first-thursdays-light-on-the-strip/?p=364787#post364787 Discussion from blog post.

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