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3410

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:02:39 +1200

R.I.P., Levon Helm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcdfm0albx4

Matthew Littlewood

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:55:55 +1200

Hey Matthew – Amy recorded that song, and she had also guested with the Specials live on several occasions, as you mention.

Thanks. Peter :). I assumed it was something along those lines. Otherwise, given the song's lyrical content, it would've seemed like a strange choice of a song to…

andin

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:08:22 +1200

From the article. Thanks Graham
Over the past 30 years, government control has diminished the university influence
It happened in the UK and here. Politicians getting their sticky fingers into pies they know nothing about, except how to screw it up.
I'm not saying university education is the answer, but…

Sacha

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:01:46 +1200

Thank you. Had never heard that one.

peter mclennan

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 07:51:14 +1200

Hey Matthew – Amy recorded that song, and she had also guested with the Specials live on several occasions, as you mention.

Matthew Littlewood

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:38:56 +1200

I'd forgotten how LOUD some bands can play (quite possibly a stupid thing to realise AFTER a Shihad concert)- my ears are suffering a bit today.

I've seen Shihad nearly a dozen times (if we include all the times I've seen them at the BDO), and every time, they were…

Dave Patrick

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:58:52 +1200

I went to see Shihad on Friday night. It was in a marquee after the original venue, The Bedford, had noise complaints in its first weekend of activity. It was a really good night, very good show. They started off with a small setup in front of a backdrop to…

Sacha

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 10:18:15 +1200

chicken in a basket

you may need to elaborate.

Shame I can't do that more often.

move :)

Pete

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 08:29:49 +1200

Lucinda did that "slow for the first half/rocky for the second" thing last time I saw her – I gather that it allows her to warm up her voice by doing gentler stuff at first.

Earle was bloody good at Bodega last Thurs.

Matthew Littlewood

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 23:05:05 +1200

Maybe I was just easily pleased- understandable, given my tix were comps, and I wasn't cueing for a drink during the set. If that's the case, then yeah, that shit needs to be sorted out. As a venue, despite some problems with the sound, I felt the overall "feel" of…

Ian MacKay

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:19:17 +1200

Thanks Graham. Interesting though having touched on concerns, Jacqueline then moves on to the next topic, and the next.
I do like her comment that constant interfering in teaching and learning from those who don't really know much, is a concern and may be a reason for confusion.
And her…

3410

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:32:03 +1200

The Specials were great but the sound was not – bit of a hard shell and the stage had to be off-centre due to the posts which meant fewer people could be close to the stage, and what was the debacle regarding the bar all about?! – 40 minute queues…

John Armstrong

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:31:44 +1200

Alive Inside

Brilliant. Thanks for posting that.

Mark Graham

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:21:16 +1200

I interviewed John Banks on my show last year regarding charter schools. His main argument in favour of their introduction was because we have 30,000 truants each day. He was remarkably bereft of a rationale as to how charter schools would solve this problem.

Mark Graham

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:19:13 +1200

Graham Dunster

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:14:17 +1200

Interesting article in today's NBR (paper edition) from Jacqueline Rowarth on education dissing charter schools (amongst other points). Likes the idea of schools actually teaching core competencies.

Tim Michie

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:11:37 +1200

Alive Inside
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKDXuCE7LeQ
C/- boingboing

Russell Brown

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:46:57 +1200

Sadly the Union Avenue link doesn’t work for me.

The site's not responding. I'd try again later.

andin

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:46:13 +1200

But that would be a hard sell to the huge group of people who think all prisoners are scum and should be treated accordingly.

That would be learned behaviour, this they can't or won't unlearn.
Of course if you can learn to stop smoking this would be a stroll in…

Graham Dunster

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:37:03 +1200

Good place to start!

Ian MacKay

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:26:17 +1200

Just watched Media 7. Brilliant. Heartbreaking.
I think that to many people it looks better to have tight structures with predictable outcomes. And to make this popular "they" focus on the extremes of criminals.
(This is also reflected in Educational policy. Ignore the way that most people actually learn and…

TracyMac

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:03:13 +1200

@Graham – would you really consider paying for a concert ticket just to hear one song? Wow.

Graham Dunster

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:47:01 +1200

Sadly the Union Avenue link doesn't work for me.

And no 'Ghost Town'? Wow, happy I didn't make it, now.

Mark Cubey

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:31:53 +1200

Fresh off his Sundae Session, Tom Scott will bring some @Peace and HomeBrew to Kim Hill between 10 and 11am on Saturday Morning, and play some his faves. Guess the Beatles' tune...

Russell Brown

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:26:22 +1200

This just in: Shayne Carter has announced two farewell shows from Dimmer — KA May 24 and Bodega May 26 — he's dissolving the band.

Support for both is Beastwars, which is cool.

Nick Melchior

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:49:55 +1200

The Specials didn't play Ghost Town in Melbourne either...

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Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:49:55 +1200

Discussion from blog post.