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Mike O'Connell

Mon, 03 Feb 2014 14:30:35 +1300

Can't track a review as yet but did come across this interesting (and lengthy) piece Great Still Sounds Great by Gavin Bertram in the ODT (Dec 2013) about the continuing interest in Dunedin music, e.g. the mostly cassette releases which came out on the Xpressway label,…

Russell Brown

Mon, 03 Feb 2014 13:15:42 +1300

just stumbled across this from the weekend

Oh, brilliant. I've heard great things about both nights and was going to ask if there was video, reviews, pics etc.

Mike O'Connell

Mon, 03 Feb 2014 12:59:55 +1300

Gosh, from Friday just gone.The second guitarist is of course Peter Gutteridge.

bob daktari

Mon, 03 Feb 2014 09:58:41 +1300

just stumbled across this from the weekend

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uHHVQnd7vM

bob daktari

Mon, 03 Feb 2014 09:30:29 +1300

Ahem

Wasn't a promotional CD – limited edition (500) made for their tour of the time on Archlife the Dunedin label which was associated with Arc Cafe down there.

Can't remember if it was formally released via the labels distributor to retail or just sold on tour – I do…

Russell Brown

Mon, 03 Feb 2014 08:54:04 +1300

I've written up a little more on what seems to have happened at the airport.

Dastardly Bounder

Mon, 03 Feb 2014 08:28:15 +1300

My family was on the recieving end of media attention after an international tragedy. In general the bigger NZ news agencies were respectful and in some cases incredibly helpful. It was the smaller organisations, or those with less command of the media sphere that were in trusive, camping out on…

Craig Ranapia

Sun, 02 Feb 2014 11:08:07 +1300

To be fair, Hosking’s been pretty consistent on the privacy of others’ families too. But his reporter might have benefited from a chill pill.

Exactly – and I should have made that a lot clearer. Whatever else I'd say against Hosking (and I've got a lot) he's not only been…

Russell Brown

Sun, 02 Feb 2014 10:16:37 +1300

One of the new co-hosts of Seven Sharp knows what I’m talking about. Ay, Mike?

To be fair, Hosking’s been pretty consistent on the privacy of others’ families too. But his reporter might have benefited from a chill pill.

Craig Ranapia

Sun, 02 Feb 2014 10:00:22 +1300

I suppose it’s not that bad, but it’s really pretty dumb behaviour. Calm down, everyone.

Quite – but I think it's worth noting some of the media types slagging off Lorde for being a "diva" because she posted – then deleted – a couple of mildly exasperated Tweets are very…

Russell Brown

Sun, 02 Feb 2014 09:47:11 +1300

Only just noticed this Herald video of Lorde's arrival at the airport, which gives some insight into what media behaviour she was upset by.

She spends ages there, being interviewed, posing for pics and and signing autographs, but it's when the family tries to leave there's a problem — especially when…

Russell Brown

Sat, 01 Feb 2014 19:46:14 +1300

Cheers. x 2 ;-)

Still listening to it. It's beautiful.

JacksonP

Sat, 01 Feb 2014 18:25:49 +1300

70 minutes of lovely, warm sunset music – Leftside Wobble’s ‘Leftside Lounge Part 2’.

Cheers. x 2 ;-)

Russell Brown

Sat, 01 Feb 2014 18:10:38 +1300

70 minutes of lovely, warm sunset music – Leftside Wobble’s ‘Leftside Lounge Part 2’.

Craig Ranapia

Sat, 01 Feb 2014 15:20:20 +1300

I’ve been in a couple of similar conversations too, with one person telling me that we’ll find out what she’s really made of when the next album turkeys. I replied that we’ve already found that out – 9 weeks at number one will exist forever even if she never releases…

Russell Brown

Sat, 01 Feb 2014 12:43:14 +1300

Good luck with that! Listed as tour promotional CD on Discogs.

Ahem. Click the little pic under the track listing.

Grant McDougall

Sat, 01 Feb 2014 11:53:30 +1300

From Audioculture’s Bored Games profile, Jeff Harford’s pic of a very young Shayne Carter, next to the late Wayne Elsey, playing his school dance in 1979. What a wonderful pic.

Jeff Harford was Bored Games' drummer, so was probably playing drums when the pick was taken. I think the pic…

Harry Musgrave

Sat, 01 Feb 2014 09:12:19 +1300

Wow – that was amazing...
I loved the drumming on it too with the very simple sounds used so effectively!

JacksonP

Sat, 01 Feb 2014 08:46:33 +1300

Must now obtain!

Good luck with that! Listed as tour promotional CD on Discogs.

Russell Brown

Sat, 01 Feb 2014 08:20:15 +1300

I notice that Andrew mentions a “piano-led take on ‘Point That Thing’ from a rare 1999 release, Slush Fund. I had never heard of it or heard it until now. It’s good!

Me neither. I've seen The Clean play a keyboard-led version once or twice, but I had no idea…

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 01 Feb 2014 06:34:06 +1300

I also thought it a bit rich for NZ papers to claim Keith Urban as another Kiwi artist who has won a grammy – technically yes, but he left whangarei when he was two!
He did all his growing up in Oz...

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 01 Feb 2014 06:28:30 +1300

what goes around...
I guess a roundel can't be copyrighted,
but it irks me that a certain brewery has diluted the NZ Music Month 'target' brand with their one armed cricket catch promotion...

Sacha

Fri, 31 Jan 2014 23:39:52 +1300

those whinging naysayers

simon. sweetman.

kiwicmc

Fri, 31 Jan 2014 22:31:13 +1300

Ohhh, that is good

Jonathan Ganley

Fri, 31 Jan 2014 20:35:14 +1300

Talking of The Clean – part 2 of their story, all scrutinized and fact checked by David Kilgour, the band's unofficial historian, has just gone live today on AudioCulture, in time for tonight's gig.

I notice that Andrew mentions a "piano-led take on ‘Point That Thing’ from a rare 1999…

Simon Grigg

Fri, 31 Jan 2014 19:29:47 +1300

Like, it’s not fair she she hasn’t sweated it out doing a tour of grimy pubs like _proper_ rock bands do.

Yeah – it's so fucking unfair, eh? She spend a few short years honing some killer songwriting chops and had natural talent that – with others – look her…

Robyn Gallagher

Fri, 31 Jan 2014 18:19:12 +1300

And lest we forget Pauly Fuemana topped the US charts while he was based in Grey's Avenue.

OMG, OMC! That'll teach me to write without thinking things through properly.

My original comment stemmed from seeing a couple of discussions on Facebook where rockist friends-of-friends were kind of complaining that Lorde…

Mike O'Connell

Fri, 31 Jan 2014 18:07:12 +1300

Looks like it could have been taken yesterday, it's that clear and doesn't really look dated.

I note Wayne is on bass. I recall one rollicking song in the Stones' live sets where he would swap his guitar for Jeff Batts' bass. Can hear the tune in my head but…

Graham Dunster

Fri, 31 Jan 2014 17:46:13 +1300

Bummer! Delaney & Marlon @ the Wine Cellar or Wire? Rats...

Russell Brown

Fri, 31 Jan 2014 17:42:28 +1300

From Audioculture's Bored Games profile, Jeff Harford's pic of a very young Shayne Carter, next to the late Wayne Elsey, playing his school dance in 1979. What a wonderful pic.

Graham Dunster

Fri, 31 Jan 2014 17:42:06 +1300

Haven't actually had time to play the new disc/s yet (free cd with the lp!) and had forgotten that Vol 2 is already in the house – belatedly comparing track lists both 'Minnie Dean' and 'Whiskey & Kisses' seem to be on both Vol 2 and 3. Will compare aurally when…

Mike O'Connell

Fri, 31 Jan 2014 16:30:50 +1300

Graham, Minnie Dean is on SBT vol. 2. Unless vol. 3 has another version on it? A classic nevertheless. Vol. 1 at least was released on vinyl.

Delaney and Marlon (sans Tami) kicked off the Sad But True III tour last night in ...Mapua. Yep, playing in lots…

Alan Perrott

Fri, 31 Jan 2014 16:11:49 +1300

also, just had my day/ weekend/ week made by hearing Wire will be back in town on Feb 17 – and finally they'll be playing the Powerstation.

Alan Perrott

Fri, 31 Jan 2014 15:33:12 +1300

just to post a couple of diversions from all the serious chat...

found this in a Panmure chazza the other day, the cover didn't look particularly promising, but I couldn't leave a version of I Walk the Line for cheap. It starts off on the kinda latin country, but once…

Grant McDougall

Fri, 31 Jan 2014 15:12:54 +1300

Lorde's going through her Anna Paquin phase: winning a big, important trophy very early on and the NZ media goes all ga-ga over it. But – hopefully – like Paquin she'll now be able to enjoy continued success without the media going ga-ga to the same extent.

Paquin's been all…

Simon Grigg

Fri, 31 Jan 2014 14:58:05 +1300

It got me thinking. In the time before Lorde, the expected path a NZ artist would take was touring NZ, then moving to Australia, then pushing to break the UK or America

I think the mould was broken by the early Flying Nun bands – for example The Clean became…

Graham Dunster

Fri, 31 Jan 2014 14:53:59 +1300

Marlon Williams & Delaney Davidson's new record is out today – Sad But True Volume 3. It has the sublime instant classic 'Minnie Dean' on it, once heard never forgotten. These guys – along with Tami Neilson – have been slogging around the country over the past year doing great performances…

JacksonP

Fri, 31 Jan 2014 14:49:34 +1300

Went to the Adults and the APO last night and they were incredible

Weren’t they? I was reminded of how different songs on that album can come up behind you and kick you in the pants. Part of Me was fantastic, but I was also happy they played __Nothing to…

Craig Ranapia

Fri, 31 Jan 2014 14:35:56 +1300

That doesn’t make it a “tirade” or her a “diva”.

No it doesn't, and the delicate petals of the local press need to 1) harden the fuck up and 2) thank the Gods Old and New Lorde hasn't received social media training from Alec Baldwin.

bob daktari

Fri, 31 Jan 2014 14:14:20 +1300

Lorde as I've already siad in the other thread was well special – for me it was the children and their parents, such a pleasure to witness young fans attending what I expect was their first concert... Thanks to the promoters, the council et al as well as Lorde and…

Robyn Gallagher

Fri, 31 Jan 2014 13:19:39 +1300

Broods has some seriously good PR happening. The first time I heard of them was via a retweet of a BBC Radio 1 DJ enthusing over "Bridges", and with their EP release today, there's Vogue magazine raving about it (and it's very _Vogue_).

It got me thinking. In the time…

George Darroch

Fri, 31 Jan 2014 12:42:43 +1300

What a collection of excellent music here today (or so I must assume for a few hours, if I'm not to blow the work data-cap).

It is incumbent upon the major media outlets (and there aren't that many) to get together and decide that some parts of a child's life…

Mike O'Connell

Fri, 31 Jan 2014 12:32:10 +1300

Oh Lorde, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz? You've just won a Grammy, you must make amends.

At least a concert in the South Island – I'm counting on you Lorde, don't let me down!

Public Address

Fri, 31 Jan 2014 12:32:09 +1300

Discussion from blog post.