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Ian Dalziel

Thu, 30 Mar 2017 17:40:03 +1300

The Clean's first EP Boodle Boodle Boodle has won the 2017 Taite Classic NZ Record award!

It's nice that the story links to the Tally Ho Clip – even though it's not on the EP.

Mike O'Connell

Wed, 29 Mar 2017 09:56:25 +1300

Just out, a bit of midweek listening, from 'the Jimi Hendrix of no technique' – THIS IS MEMORIAL DEVICE NZ: A SPECIAL PODCAST BY BRUCE RUSSELL (XPRESSWAY/THE DEAD C ET AL) – PART 1.

It's a special podcast put together drawing parallels between the fictitious Lanarkshire (Scotland) music…

Joe Wylie

Tue, 28 Mar 2017 14:15:02 +1300

I'm sick of visiting Stuff and the Herald — two of NZ's major news sites — and finding their lead story is bloody Adele. Again.

Maybe Fairfax would have been better to have sat on their fatwa against Facebook until the Adele thing had blown over. That and the five…

Alfie

Mon, 27 Mar 2017 20:57:31 +1300

Im not going to be a bloody Herald every day on the slim chance that there is something is announced in there.

I'm the opposite. I'm sick of visiting Stuff and the Herald — two of NZ's major news sites — and finding their lead story is bloody Adele. Again.…

Alan Perrott

Mon, 27 Mar 2017 16:15:00 +1300

yeah, it's been boom times for Kiwi (vinyl) reissues of late – with more on the way – but I'd really like to add that Sue Barker to the pile too. cheers for the heads up.

Kaipara Possum

Mon, 27 Mar 2017 16:04:49 +1300

Would be great if someone could announce these concerts before they happen. I love Nick Cave and this is the first I hear about him having been here in January. I get mail fro NZTX or what they are called but they didn't bother to announce that concert. Does anyone…

Rickai

Mon, 27 Mar 2017 12:00:44 +1300

Neil Diamond in the mid 1990s was in the round at Mt Smart. From memory the stage revolved slowly. Great concert too, notwithstanding an overload of boomer dancing.

Hugh Wilson

Mon, 27 Mar 2017 11:11:37 +1300

Mantis’s album got a reissue here in 2015.

Ah, thanks! I had completely missed that

Russell Brown

Sun, 26 Mar 2017 08:12:03 +1300

Continues bit of a trend here, and makes me wonder about certain NZ albums like Dr Tree & the 1860 band, or Fiji’s Mantis for that matter

Mantis’s album got a reissue here in 2015.

There’s a good Audioculutre article too.

Ian Dalziel

Sun, 26 Mar 2017 07:57:00 +1300

I suspect it was this John Campbell – http://www.johnnycampbell.co.nz/main.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgngnjBhuws
– all good ten-year-olds should've been in bed before this concert started...
:- )

Sacha

Sat, 25 Mar 2017 22:23:31 +1300

Is that compere our current John Campbell or an earlier incarnation?

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 25 Mar 2017 15:20:08 +1300

I just found out* that looo-o-o-ng-time Chchch & NZ folk Music (amongst others) stalwart Phil Garland died on March 15.
R.I.P.
Rosa Shiels has a fine piece at audioculture.

I’m sure I have memories of him at The Victorian Coffee Lounge some foggy Winter’s night, the toasted cheese and onion sandwiches…

Mike O'Connell

Sat, 25 Mar 2017 09:43:07 +1300

Corker track that Funny Girl. Looking forward to Morningside album, apparently being issued too on vinyl :-)

JacksonP

Sat, 25 Mar 2017 07:56:50 +1300

The only other stadium sized concert in the round I’ve seen was Prince at Allphones Arena in May 2012. But now I’m just showing off. :-) RIP.

JacksonP

Sat, 25 Mar 2017 07:52:15 +1300

Later on the lights really took over, and the tribute to the recent tragedy at Pike River, during which they played ISHFWILF and One Tree Hill, was suitably poignant, with the names projected on the screen.

JacksonP

Sat, 25 Mar 2017 07:48:26 +1300

The last U2 gig at Mt Smart was also in the round

Yep, turns out I was there.

Quite an impressive stage, with bridges into the audience and such like. Jay Z was a highlight for me. Although U2 baging out I Will Follow and some other tunes from my…

Hugh Wilson

Fri, 24 Mar 2017 18:34:07 +1300

I don’t think I’ve ever heard an Adele song (and the same goes for lots of contemporary artists as I have practically no mainstream radio/tv exposure – i.e. I’d never heard of Florence and machine before colleagues started talking about them, and I’ve never heard them either) but its been…

Russell Brown

Fri, 24 Mar 2017 17:54:25 +1300

As for Bono, pay yer feckin taxes, then I’ll listen.

Fair enough. But that show did actually earn my respect. It wasn't just big and flashy, it was creatively cohesive.

Rich of Observationz

Fri, 24 Mar 2017 16:27:53 +1300

LED shows were a very expensive thing in the mid 2000s – I remember an awesome art piece at Burning Man with a cube of thousands of ping-pong balls with LEDs inside them forming 3D patterns.

Nowadays, with Neopixels, it's easier and cheaper to do.

As for Bono, pay yer…

JonathanM

Fri, 24 Mar 2017 15:58:26 +1300

The last U2 gig at Mt Smart was also in the round – the No Line on the Horizon tour I guess that would be. They had a big claw thing holding everything up, and had the same cylindrical screen – not sure if Adele's could spread apart or not.…

Public Address

Fri, 24 Mar 2017 15:58:26 +1300

Discussion from blog post.