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Shaun Scott

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 13:07:15 +1200

Bloody hell- Inattention and autocorrect on the iPad. I mean bandcamp and baboom!!!

Shaun Scott

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 13:05:26 +1200

My Friday music last week was a trip to Chicks to see the excellent Strange Harvest and Astro Children supporting the magnificent Opposite Sex at their album release.

Cant find any streaming tracks as yet, but the really rather good new album "Hamlet" can be bought on CD from Relics…

Sacha

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 22:49:59 +1200

'Radio Punks' was great viewing.
#notbiased
#honest

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 09:18:28 +1200

shuffle…
Baboom looks simple enough -the graphics say to me that after this much progress we are still in the ‘crystal set’
– everyone at some point in their life, should hand-wind their own mortal coil…

ps: Russell, nice work on yesterday afternoon’s RNZ cavalcade of delights with Jesse Mulligan…

Russell Brown

Mon, 17 Aug 2015 22:34:23 +1200

Baboom has launched tonight.

It's the music service launched by Kim Dotcom but now with no connection to him.

And it's actually pretty good. FLAC streaming even for free users, a groundbreaking deal with APRA, some nice back-end stuff for artists ...

Russell Brown

Mon, 17 Aug 2015 22:32:00 +1200

The chart display at JB Hi-Fi has Phoenix Foundation at #1 !

At St Lukes they had the Phoenix Foundation album in a bin underneath the main racks. Pretty crap.

Grant McDougall

Mon, 17 Aug 2015 17:47:33 +1200

BTW, for those worried that New Zealand music isn’t selling (or whatever), the No.2 album this week is the brilliantly titled Give Up Your Dreams by the Phoenix Foundation, only kept from No.1 by Dr Dre. And there are seven other albums by New Zealand artists in the top 40,…

Russell Brown

Mon, 17 Aug 2015 17:22:05 +1200

It appears the Spotify rumours are true. There will be music that's only available to paying subscribers:

Hits Magazine: “What’s your sense of the streaming landscape right now?”

Lucian Grainge: “When you cut through all the noise, the potential is enormous, and obviously I remain incredibly optimistic. A lot of…

Rich Lock

Sun, 16 Aug 2015 21:29:31 +1200

But it turns out we're still way further in the future than the United Kingdom, where the High Court has just ruled that copying music from your personal CD collection to iTunes violates British copyright law.

That's actually a (very) slight oversimplification. S28(B) still stands, but the associated regulations have…

Sofie Bribiesca

Sat, 15 Aug 2015 15:56:42 +1200

me and chris, the brains that wouldn't die..well at least not just yet

So glad to hear you are sounding well. Takes a wee while to feel normal but wes be survivors . Take care Doug. xx

Russell Brown

Sat, 15 Aug 2015 14:24:14 +1200

Russell Brown

Sat, 15 Aug 2015 14:23:08 +1200

In other news, another iTunes update popped up, I installed it and Apple Music is kind of working as advertised – as in, I even turned iCloud Music Library back on on my iMac.

Part of it is actually learning to do do it Apple’s way, rather than the way…

Russell Brown

Sat, 15 Aug 2015 14:15:55 +1200

me and chris, the brains that wouldn’t die..well at least not just yet

Excellent :-)

Doug Hood

Sat, 15 Aug 2015 13:29:51 +1200

me and chris, the brains that wouldn't die..well at least not just yet

Robyn Gallagher

Fri, 14 Aug 2015 22:26:07 +1200

BTW, for those worried that New Zealand music isn't selling (or whatever), the No.2 album this week is the brilliantly titled Give Up Your Dreams by the Phoenix Foundation, only kept from No.1 by Dr Dre. And there are seven other albums by New Zealand artists in the top 40,…

Joe Wylie

Fri, 14 Aug 2015 18:59:04 +1200

- and seeing the kitchen brings it all flooding back. With horror (knowing what I know now of asbestos-laden post-quake Chchch) – How Chris and I scraped all the stippled wall plaster off the walls and ceiling by hand, with cheese graters being the most effective tool, and the occasional…

Paul Campbell

Fri, 14 Aug 2015 17:29:35 +1200

I remember sitting with a group in the old Gardens Tavern (no idea why might have been the only time I ever went in) mid to late 70s listening to some terrible hair metal band and Chris pipes up with "hell even I can do better than that" ... turns…

Alistair Guthrie

Fri, 14 Aug 2015 17:27:56 +1200

re the Lost Scroll award, all the top 5 nominated should get it

Russell Brown

Fri, 14 Aug 2015 17:25:04 +1200

And Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols apparently played with a stolen guitar.

He basically stole all their gear. Which meant they had good gear!

Kumara Republic

Fri, 14 Aug 2015 16:10:16 +1200

A small group of us ‘borrowed’ TVNZ film gear back in the day to make the first Enemy clips which played on Radio with Pix. Damn we were proud of those!

Nice! I love our readers.

Werner Herzog got his start by ‘borrowing’ film equipment from the Munich Film School.…

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 14 Aug 2015 15:54:20 +1200

...a lot of empty medicine bottles in the garden
Unfair speculation.
There may be a casual, but not necessarily causal, connection...
It was an old urban midden – what had been assumed to be a flat area was terraced and had been infilled with whiteware, well rustware really, when uncovered...

Shaun Scott

Fri, 14 Aug 2015 15:24:45 +1200

My Friday music last week was a trip to Chicks to see the excellent Strange Harvest and Astro Children supporting the magnificent Opposite Sex at their album release.

Cant find any streaming tracks as yet, but the really rather good new album "Hamlet" can be…

Russell Brown

Fri, 14 Aug 2015 14:58:47 +1200

Corben Simpson lived in the house before Chris and Barbara bought it.

I remember the discovery of a lot of empty medicine bottles in the garden.

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 14 Aug 2015 14:47:18 +1200

Jess McAllen’s gutsy story for the Sunday Star Times?
I so want to put that picture of Chris in the kitchen through that Deep Dream filter ... but that'd be copyright infringement, right?

– and seeing the kitchen brings it all flooding back. With horror (knowing what I know now…

Ben D

Fri, 14 Aug 2015 14:24:04 +1200

That Chris Knox vid...frigging goosebumps and flashbacks to 91 Massey Uni Orientation.

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 14 Aug 2015 14:19:46 +1200

Chris Knox performing post-stroke is hands down the most fuckin punk rock thing I have ever seen in my life.
+1
Frogs for a new century...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl3wBkX_1dU
;-)

the hip (replacement) priests...
Yet still the 'most punk' challengers come – I see the Mancunian curmudgeon is coming back to have…

Alfie

Fri, 14 Aug 2015 14:18:22 +1200

Did you see Jess McAllen's gutsy story for the Sunday Star Times?
I didn't and thanks for the link. That's a good piece!

My abiding memory of Chris is from a fancy dress party in Dunedin in the late 70s. He came dressed as a hunchback and his one-liner for…

Russell Brown

Fri, 14 Aug 2015 14:15:46 +1200

Incoming!

UMO play Late Night With Seth Myers.

davesparks

Fri, 14 Aug 2015 14:08:12 +1200

Further to the Kimbra... noting this here from the twitters:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWb1y2lsOv0

via

http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/jono-brandel

Wouldn't have picked they'd pick that as the new single, but is a personal fave.

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 14 Aug 2015 13:56:06 +1200

Loud and clear!
...this visceral performance from Chris Knox with Rackets
The man is in grand form!
Words are so overrated.
His body language is as clear as ever.
Heartening to see/hear...

B Jones

Fri, 14 Aug 2015 13:32:37 +1200

Westside: I've been reading Maurice Gee's biography (thanks Craig for the inadvertent recommendation), and wondering whether his work based in West Auckland has had any sort of influence on the development of the world around the West family. I can't think of any obvious examples because I haven't read many…

Russell Brown

Fri, 14 Aug 2015 13:21:12 +1200

Hey!!! I had the impression Chris was a bit buggered after his stroke so it's great to see him performing again.

He's constrained by seizures (and the medication that curbs them) but is as creative as ever. Did you see Jess McAllen's gutsy story for the Sunday Star Times?

A…

Alfie

Fri, 14 Aug 2015 13:07:45 +1200

that's the real Knox deal.
Hey!!! I had the impression Chris was a bit buggered after his stroke so it's great to see him performing again. A small group of us 'borrowed' TVNZ film gear back in the day to make the first Enemy clips which played on Radio with…

Russell Brown

Fri, 14 Aug 2015 13:03:08 +1200

It was the fifth most downloaded app on the US iTunes store the week of apple music’s launch – which suggests they benefitted from all the added publicity (good and bad) they received courtesy of Apple

Yeah, that's my guess too.

Digital Music News suggests spotify is set to dramatically…

Russell Brown

Fri, 14 Aug 2015 12:23:57 +1200

Whoops! Forgot this ...

Neil Finn does his first ever remix, for The Phoenix Foundation's 'Give Up Your Dreams'. And it's ace.

Free download too!

Tim Welch

Fri, 14 Aug 2015 12:13:17 +1200

+1 for Spotify's Discover Weekly Playlist...

Joe Wylie

Fri, 14 Aug 2015 11:57:02 +1200

Chris Knox with Rackets at the Basement as part of "The Experiment" this week
Hey thank you. As someone who found The Nothing just a teensy bit comfy, that's the real Knox deal.

Robyn Gallagher

Fri, 14 Aug 2015 11:43:43 +1200

I had a play with Apple Music, but it just seemed too much, too complicated. And all the recommended playlists were really off the mark. "Introduction to Katy Perry". Er, I am well familiar with Katy Perry's oeuvre, thank you.

Meanwhile, Spotify's Discover Weekly playlist has the uncanny ability to…

Jonathan King

Fri, 14 Aug 2015 11:41:19 +1200

I've seen The Clash, The Buzzcocks, the Pistols, Iggy Pop ... and Chris Knox performing post-stroke is hands down the most fuckin punk rock thing I have ever seen in my life.

bob daktari

Fri, 14 Aug 2015 10:58:52 +1200

there is no information on how Spotify has gone since Apple Music’s launch.

It was the fifth most downloaded app on the US iTunes store the week of apple music's launch – which suggests they benefitted from all the added publicity (good and bad) they received courtesy of Apple

Digital…

Public Address

Fri, 14 Aug 2015 10:58:52 +1200

Discussion from blog post.