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bob daktari

Wed, 27 Jan 2016 15:23:44 +1300

Bleep is dangerous for your wallet (so so good)... there is also beatport, trackitdown and juno (physical and digital) for the lovers of electronic/dance

and baboom with its growing but still limited catalog

like all digital stores you will find geoblocking on parts of catalogue, and the ever present not…

Russell Brown

Tue, 26 Jan 2016 23:56:38 +1300

Some success buying music from 7digital and google play. But both appear to have less-than-stellar back-catalogue.
Bandcamp is great, but didn’t have what I was looking for this time.)

Was about to mention all of those. Another good option for nerdy, mostly electronic music is Bleep.com, which also offers lossless…

Rob Stowell

Tue, 26 Jan 2016 13:41:21 +1300

That looks like the ticket. I thought paypal might work, but amazon won't allow that.

Rich of Observationz

Tue, 26 Jan 2016 13:18:20 +1300

This might help if you want to become a virtual American: https://www.entropay.com/

Rob Stowell

Tue, 26 Jan 2016 11:39:03 +1300

Some success buying music from 7digital and google play. But both appear to have less-than-stellar back-catalogue.
Bandcamp is great, but didn't have what I was looking for this time.)

Ian Dalziel

Mon, 25 Jan 2016 19:57:45 +1300

out of the groove...
Just frustrated I can’t buy a bunch of music even with ready money :)
I know, I don't have a credit card myself or paypal, there are virtually no record stores left – and I just noticed the last video/dvd store in our area closed this…

Rob Stowell

Mon, 25 Jan 2016 17:41:37 +1300

Flying out are good, but limited range of course.
Just frustrated I can't buy a bunch of music even with ready money :)

Ian Dalziel

Mon, 25 Jan 2016 11:04:39 +1300

Any other options out there?
Pretty sure Flying Out has digital sales of their releases and possibly of their imports as well...

Rob Stowell

Mon, 25 Jan 2016 10:00:59 +1300

Off-topic and all that but ...
How do people buy downloadable music in New Zealand, apart from itunes store? I can't find a decent legitimate outlet to spend $.
Amazon US have a great range, but the Australian/NZ music site seems hopeless. (It doesn't even seem to be separately searchable…

Joe Wylie

Sun, 24 Jan 2016 21:02:56 +1300

He accepted an OBE in 1988, so he wasn't entirely unrecognised. I was more surprised that he doesn't seem to have been an arts foundation laureate – not as far as I can tell, but their site doesn't seem to have a search option.

Brickell seemed to have little use…

kw

Sun, 24 Jan 2016 20:52:52 +1300

He spoke at the opening of…

Sacha

Sun, 24 Jan 2016 19:12:05 +1300

Got me wondering why amazing people like him are not in the Order of NZ.

RNZ had this interview in November.

Sacha

Sun, 24 Jan 2016 19:08:49 +1300

Bowie played the annual Bridge School Benefit Concert in 1996

and his bass player can really sing too. very cool.

Mike O'Connell

Sun, 24 Jan 2016 12:30:08 +1300

I knew I'd seen it somewhere else too, well, a version of it, on the reverse of the Three Blind Mice released last year.

RIP a local and revered artist of a non-musical sort, Barry Brickell, famed for his pottery and the Driving Creek Railway has passed away…

Matthew Goody

Sun, 24 Jan 2016 04:52:37 +1300

Do I have a leg to stand on asking them to desist or at least fire a percentage off to Flying Nun?

You most certainly do, or at least FN does. There's a feature on EBay to take down counterfeit goods. E-mail me if you want me to do it.…

Jonathan Ganley

Sat, 23 Jan 2016 11:42:37 +1300

lotsa other footage of chills and others

the modern dance!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN22YbLHSfI

Joe Wylie

Sat, 23 Jan 2016 09:33:47 +1300

That's the one. Great gurning rock stars.

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 23 Jan 2016 09:31:35 +1300

This one?
begat by this one...
(swiped from Audioculture )

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 23 Jan 2016 09:29:26 +1300

There was a great Chris Knox poster featuring The Stones, would love to see that again.
This one?

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 23 Jan 2016 09:23:04 +1300

a tram runs through it...
They played a show at a long gone cinema (name escapes me) with the Bats ca 1993
Probably The Chchch Youth Centre in the old Cinerama (Mayfair) building in Worcester Street (originally Smith's Garage c1908) – Now part of Cathedral Junction

Mike O'Connell

Sat, 23 Jan 2016 08:35:45 +1300

Oh yes, there was many of those 'nights of chill blue' – the Gladstone and Star&Garter were also frequent targets.

Noting in Ian's clips Martyn (with a 'y') Bull on drums, I got nostalgic and dug out Doledrums which features Martin (with an 'i') Kean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW9uN-wOYJA
I recall Martin Kean…

Joe Wylie

Sat, 23 Jan 2016 08:00:17 +1300

On the Chills and old footage, I recall the footage of their show with the Stones at that venue (Rhumba Bar?) in Victoria St W

A small footnote – the one show I saw at the Rhumba Bar was marred, no doubt deliberately, by the slow intimidating walk-through of a…

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 23 Jan 2016 06:44:33 +1300

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od0IYh4_ZIo
the raw footage filmed by Bob Sutton I think….
lotsa other footage of chills and others at that link too – all filmed and recorded for the Last Rumba album…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCDMF4Avl3A
the released clip, I went in and helped Chris Knox put this together late one night in the…

Mike O'Connell

Fri, 22 Jan 2016 13:59:34 +1300

Agree, no matter the artist or whether we really like them or not. Like the spelling Martin Phillipps (correct) vs.Martin Philipps and that printing fiasco for NZ Music Month last year. Fortunately Martin is still with us!

On the Chills and old footage, I recall the footage of their show…

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 22 Jan 2016 13:29:10 +1300

while Johnny Moore (who runs the fab Smash Palace in High St) ponders the Eagles’ enduring popularity
Lucky I get up early – had to get them to amend the spelling of Glenn Frey's name all through that piece (from Glen Frey) – I feel it's always good form to…

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 22 Jan 2016 13:24:59 +1300

I’m just a little wary too that the likes of Toy Love are being done out of their few cents.
Someone just let me know that a record shop in Melbourne is selling digital prints of the card set I did for Flying Nun on eBay – possibly from the…

Mike O'Connell

Fri, 22 Jan 2016 13:19:50 +1300

Out today, further David Bowie references, in the Press and elsewhere on line. Michele A'Court compares Bowie's and Alan Rickman's sexy teeth while Johnny Moore (who runs the fab Smash Palace in High St) ponders the Eagles' enduring popularity .

Simon Grigg

Fri, 22 Jan 2016 12:41:44 +1300

And yes, I know a lot of it is already around, but the quality of the digital captures is impressive.

Agreed, but others – like the Reps – are up there already in fairly good quality already (the direct lift from the TVNZ archive version is on NZoS and YouTube).…

Mike O'Connell

Fri, 22 Jan 2016 10:40:30 +1300

I think this has passed under the radar – check out the latest collaboration between Ruban and Kody Nielson, SB – 03, a 12 min slice of funk and groove and much else. Also listen to it here:
https://soundcloud.com/unknownmortalorchestra/sb-03

bob daktari

Fri, 22 Jan 2016 10:25:26 +1300

awesome concept... grabbing now thank you!

Mike O'Connell

Fri, 22 Jan 2016 09:58:49 +1300

A great pity Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings can't make it south, yet again. However, in their absence, those of here will be served a delicious treat Saturday night at the Wunderbar in the form of the (surprisingly rare) pairing of Delaney Davidson and Aldous Harding.

Delaney as…

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 21 Jan 2016 12:58:06 +1300

(rapping in Yakut and a little Russian)
Love Yurts?

Hugh Wilson

Thu, 21 Jan 2016 11:25:51 +1300

Came across an interesting mix this week based on tracks which sample Lyn Collin’s classic song ‘Think’. I say interesting because of the diversity of artists and genres represented, from Sade to Nightmares on Wax to Jamie XX and Squarepusher. no doubt a bunch of hip hop cuts have been…

Paul Campbell

Thu, 21 Jan 2016 10:29:49 +1300

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPvpDMPzX2o

here’s something a bit more modern from vaguely that same part of the world (rapping in Yakut and a little Russian)

Chris Waugh

Thu, 21 Jan 2016 06:26:18 +1300

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

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

My favourite Mongolians.

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 20 Jan 2016 21:53:38 +1300

Great to see that Kiwi producer Finola Dwyer has a movie nominated for three (3) Oscars – Brooklyn – Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Screenplay – Hawkestone Street to Greek Street – what a trip!
– well done that woman

Russell Brown

Wed, 20 Jan 2016 20:28:11 +1300

there’s a fair whack of interesting/ eh? stuff that came out of former Soviet states. Dos-Mukasan were in Kazakhstan – this clip is 26 minutes or so of sorta downbeat surf/ ska (really).

Intriguing. Kazakhstan also has an adventurous avant-garde arts scene, I gather.

Russell Brown

Wed, 20 Jan 2016 20:15:10 +1300

Edit: just noted a newish embed link on the FB vid page so the above may be superfluous.

I hadn't seen that. Good.

And yes, I know a lot of it is already around, but the quality of the digital captures is impressive.

Simon Grigg

Wed, 20 Jan 2016 19:33:40 +1300

Rock Theatre, Wellington (behind the Trades Hall), a 1980 concert (February maybe) with The Swingers – filmed for Radio With Pictures, I think…

To be fair much of what is on that page is fairly easily found on YouTube, and of course the fact that these are are FB embedded…

Russell Brown

Wed, 20 Jan 2016 15:36:46 +1300

Rock Theatre, Wellington (behind the Trades Hall), a 1980 concert (February maybe) with The Swingers – filmed for Radio With Pictures, I think…

I knew you'd know!

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 20 Jan 2016 15:33:25 +1300

Toy Love doing ‘Sheep’ – which I think comes from a longer concert video shot by NZBC/BCNZ/TVNZ at the...
Rock Theatre, Wellington (behind the Trades Hall), a 1980 concert (February maybe) with The Swingers – filmed for Radio With Pictures, I think...
Simon Grigg has a longer excerpt on his…

Howard Edwards

Wed, 20 Jan 2016 15:25:05 +1300

I was on holiday last week and haven't caught up with the original thread, but has anyone pointed out that not everyone adored Bowie in his heyday? For example Burton Cummings of Guess Who. It would be interesting to know if he had a change of heart since writing that…

Alan Perrott

Wed, 20 Jan 2016 15:07:34 +1300

there's a fair whack of interesting/ eh? stuff that came out of former Soviet states. Dos-Mukasan were in Kazakhstan – this clip is 26 minutes or so of sorta downbeat surf/ ska (really).
the opening few minutes feature some cool, black and white, narrated footage of the life and times…

Public Address

Wed, 20 Jan 2016 15:07:34 +1300

Discussion from blog post.