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Ian Dalziel

Mon, 02 Jun 2014 18:31:41 +1200

Ocker rockers, noisy neighbours...
It turns out Australia was the first to attempt wiping out all life on the planet! Underhand Bastards!

Russell Brown

Mon, 02 Jun 2014 12:54:49 +1200

Well, I completed my music mission and I’m staying indoors and under a blanket today.

I wound up seeing Eddie Johnston play three times in three days, the last in his guise as Lontalius, in a little space on New North Road yesterday afternoon. That’s Daniel McBride, aka Sheep, Dog…

Russell Brown

Sat, 31 May 2014 19:27:42 +1200

Doprah last night

In keeping with my practice of only engaging with the parents of exciting young musicians, I met Indi from Doprah’s parents last night. They were very pleasant folk.

Just discovered that Indi has a Soundcloud of her own. And it's good.

Nora Leggs

Sat, 31 May 2014 18:32:15 +1200

Doprah last night

Nora Leggs

Sat, 31 May 2014 18:31:33 +1200

15 years for Arch Hill. Smart work, that man Ben. Inspirational.

and a nice showcase last night – including great lights

Transistors

Russell Brown

Sat, 31 May 2014 16:58:04 +1200

Ooh.

A recently re-recorded and quite different version of The Chills' 'Pink Frost':

https://soundcloud.com/firerecords/the-chills-pink-frost-13

Steve Barnes

Fri, 30 May 2014 21:18:07 +1200

I love these …
great in the car – soothing, calming…
while you are working, on repeat…
forget Morning Report’s paltry Bird of the DayTalking books in the car, Bill Bryson, brief history of almost everything, rinse repeat until second nature.....
Then put on some music that sounds like....
...my…

peter mclennan

Fri, 30 May 2014 20:15:34 +1200

No played at the NZ showcase at SXSW last year. Brad Carter's previous LA band, Pistol Youth, scored around $70k of NZOA funding.

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 30 May 2014 20:05:54 +1200

Sssshh!
...my new Adobe Meta 4.0 predictive analogy generator
Sssshh!
Everyone will want one.

Give 'em enough trope...

Sacha

Fri, 30 May 2014 20:01:02 +1200

I've just discovered Grado. They make you look like a radio ham

Verily, a mate swears by em. Well old-fashioned.

Sacha

Fri, 30 May 2014 19:56:44 +1200

low-latency wireless DJ headphones

got em. AptX bluetooth codec is the trick. Probably other options on the way. And Apple would be well-placed to use their short-range bluetooth expertise along those lines.

Sacha

Fri, 30 May 2014 19:54:50 +1200

dragging their sorry asses out of bed

not sad to be still snoozing and toasty, I'll wager

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 30 May 2014 19:52:45 +1200

Buying cool…. cheep!
a sorbet for the twitter generation
solace to the senses,

birds
by condensations*
pay as you like:

single microphone environmental recordings, condensed.
Six pieces draw from three single microphone recordings:
* A bellbird at dusk in Gore Bay, 30” recording, 7pm 30-09-13
* Water birds…

peter mclennan

Fri, 30 May 2014 19:41:50 +1200

Hi Russell, thanks for mentioning my doco. That wasnt the first public screening tho – it was broadcast on Max TV and Triangle TV in 1996, and also screened at the Wellington Fringe Film Festival that year. So, lets say first public screening this century

Peter Johnston

Fri, 30 May 2014 19:34:38 +1200

... human-curated music discovery service
Hey they could have saved a couple of billion and bought this blog! I mean seriously, are Jimmy Iovine's ears worth that much?

Thanks though RB for coming out to see the other RB this morning – and we'll get that rider sorted ASAP...

Geoff Lealand

Fri, 30 May 2014 17:41:16 +1200

'fer sure ... and Take Me To the River. Music + film--the very best combination.

Mark Easterbrook

Fri, 30 May 2014 17:11:46 +1200

I was glad to see a few people out for Race Banyon this morning at Alleluya. It's been my near-daily morning port of call for about 3 months (after a job move to K Rd), so I've seen the last 3 or 4 bFM Breakfast Clubs. When you subtract the…

Sacha

Fri, 30 May 2014 17:02:58 +1200

seeing the Ebert doco?

Geoff Lealand

Fri, 30 May 2014 16:45:38 +1200

Instead of music it will be a bunch of documentaries this weekend for me...

Geoff Lealand

Fri, 30 May 2014 16:43:23 +1200

Went to Matthew Bannister's The Changing Same last night at Biddy Mulligan's. Pretty damn good. Less so was the brattish preceding act Pink Batts. Their songs were mercifully short--one voice from the crowd called out "can you play anything longer than 30 seconds?"

Mike O'Connell

Fri, 30 May 2014 15:34:16 +1200

And across town on the same night (I’m telling myself I can do both), The Chills play a rare Auckland gig at Juice Bar in Parnell (the old Windsor Castle).

As Ian pointed out, playing in Chch too. In one of my rare forays to the north in the 80s,…

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 30 May 2014 13:20:14 +1200

I also see that the Jordan Luck Band play the Speights Ale House in Ferrymead on Saturday night
meanwhile through the hole in the hill
there’s Barry Saunders with Lindon Puffin and Matt Langley at The Wunderbar Lyttelton
could be a night in a million…

Robyn Gallagher

Fri, 30 May 2014 13:20:02 +1200

Let's have a moment of silence for The Corner, the rather good New Zealand music blog that's closing after a quality five years. The Corner did a lot of good things, including the annual Awesome Feeling series. It's sad The Corner is closing, but in a way it's better to…

Russell Brown

Fri, 30 May 2014 12:57:06 +1200

15 years for Arch Hill. Smart work, that man Ben. Inspirational.

He's a good man.

Ken Double

Fri, 30 May 2014 12:54:06 +1200

Award that man the
Sibyl Ince Silver Sieve Salver

It's all down to my new Adobe Meta 4.0 predictive analogy generator.

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 30 May 2014 12:38:21 +1200

...and they leak like Edward Snowden

Award that man the
Sibyl Ince Silver Sieve Salver

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 30 May 2014 12:31:46 +1200

Ar Chills...
The Chills play a rare Auckland gig at Juice Bar in Parnell
not to mention Chchch at ch-ch-ch-Churchills
in Sydenham this Sunday, June 1st
and Dunedin Re Fuel Friday 6th

JacksonP

Fri, 30 May 2014 12:30:25 +1200

Doprah playing for the Herald’s Sundae Sessions at Roundhead Studios
Was a great little session. Hugh hopping around on crutches was a lot more comedic than it possibly should have been.

Dedicated to his craft, that man.

Have a number of other photos, which will post when work out where…

James Littlewood*

Fri, 30 May 2014 12:03:31 +1200

15 years for Arch Hill. Smart work, that man Ben. Inspirational.

Ken Double

Fri, 30 May 2014 11:49:52 +1200

Tech stock purchases always send pundits into an entrail reading frenzy where so-and-so's paying moonbeams for such-and-such signals a move into whatever-the-fuck so they can corner the market in people annoying each other with stupid pictures or something. But Beats – crappy headphones or no – is a real business.…

Rich of Observationz

Fri, 30 May 2014 11:33:27 +1200

Maybe they'll create low-latency wireless DJ headphones. I don't think these exist, but I once looked at how you could (basically, use hardware for the whole data path).

Public Address

Fri, 30 May 2014 11:33:27 +1200

Discussion from blog post.