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Ian Dalziel

Sun, 20 Mar 2016 15:59:08 +1300

Dux Redux!
My end of an era comment about the closing of Dux Live in a recent music post may have been a premature extrapolation!
I see a letter from owner Richard Sinke in Saturday's Press basically saying the Addington iteration was only ever a temporary thing and they would…

Mike O'Connell

Sun, 20 Mar 2016 14:17:23 +1300

Oh yes, I can imagine. And plenty more of it as we went into the 80s. I can recall one Roy Montgomery having a good crack at (then NZ Cricket Chair) Walter Hadlee when he spoke at the Lower Common Room trying to defend the 1981 Springbok Tour on the…

Joe Wylie

Sun, 20 Mar 2016 11:14:37 +1300

At the outset, they were warned off any political broadcasting and nearly got chucked off air for debating the ’76 All Black tour to South Africa.

In 1976, when the Chch Star was a proper newspaper with a cover price, one Colonel Elderton regularly appeared in its letter columns politely…

Mike O'Connell

Sun, 20 Mar 2016 09:41:08 +1300

Not sure if it's been mentioned yet but on Friday, RDU began celebrating its 40th anniversary, setting the scene for, a five month party at Canterbury Museum. There’s a link in there to the Squirm doco, Gone with the Weird from 2011

What do we get? Live gigs,…

Lee B

Sat, 19 Mar 2016 20:58:22 +1300

If anyone here has read the full press release from Flying Nun about the new Street Chant album, there is actually a link at the end that has the full album available for streaming or download on the Flying Out website.

I informed Flying Out via their Facebook page but…

Rob Stowell

Fri, 18 Mar 2016 21:29:54 +1300

Eta: the dating seems to be questionable. Still: so much we don't know about how we got here.

Rob Stowell

Fri, 18 Mar 2016 21:17:50 +1300

Legendary cities of the Indus – fascinating! Thnx Mr D :)

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 18 Mar 2016 19:37:51 +1300

Does anyone know if there is any way to retrieve earlier iterations of Stuff and Herald stories that have been updated over the day?
I'd like to get screen shots of the first appearance of a story that started today.

Either post here or email me via the wee envelope…

Russell Brown

Fri, 18 Mar 2016 17:33:36 +1300

..doesn’t sound a million miles removed from The Fall to me

Not just you. I thought the same thing.

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 18 Mar 2016 13:15:45 +1300

forthcoming new Underworld album…
..doesn’t sound a million miles removed from The Fall to me
I am Kurious Oranj comes to mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A3cHzFQsqI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBl2cLgaq8U

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 18 Mar 2016 13:09:19 +1300

the one that got away...
speaking of 'lost records' – this story in The Guardian was interesting:
Lost HP Lovecraft work commissioned by Houdini escapes shackles of history.
Manuscript for The Cancer of Superstition, requested shortly before escapologist’s death, is discovered in memorabilia collection

dig this...
And I'm holding great…

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 18 Mar 2016 12:54:51 +1300

Plastic Zapper & The Mothers of Inscryption*
the ‘HD Vinyl’ process involves 3D-based topographical mapping combined with laser inscription technology to more quickly generate a far superior product.
Aha, so it cuts out the mother and goes straight to the stamper of biscuits! (those vinyl patties always looked like dog turds…

Mark Graham

Fri, 18 Mar 2016 12:49:49 +1300

That Grace Jones and the Stevie Wonder remixes are rather delicious – thanks Russ. Notice a bit of hubby DJ Dick Johnson's influence in Anna's new track too.

Russell Brown

Fri, 18 Mar 2016 12:23:28 +1300

A fascinating interview – well, two interviews – with Auckland City Limits promoter Campbell Smith on The Spinoff – which reveals that the one more international headliner the show seems to be missing was real. And it was Beck.

They couldn't make it work, but that explains a lot about…

Public Address

Fri, 18 Mar 2016 12:23:27 +1300

Discussion from blog post.