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Russell Brown

Sun, 19 Apr 2020 12:45:42 +1200

And a BIG shout out to Brian Feary from Melted Ice Cream for making this happen.

The highlight for me was Lawrence Arabia finishing his all-covers set with 'You'll Never Walk Alone' for his mum, who is alone in lockdown, the day before her birthday. She's from Liverpool.

Mike O'Connell

Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:49:35 +1200

And a BIG shout out to Brian Feary from Melted Ice Cream for making this happen.

BLE lineup includes Violet French, perhaps better know for her work with bands such as Kool Aid but with a sweet voice which really comes into its own when she's…

Russell Brown

Tue, 14 Apr 2020 12:53:59 +1200

There’s a HUGE online festival featuring Lawrence Arabia, Marlon Williams and many more this Friday and Saturday.

See: Better Living, Everyone: A Melted Ice Cream Streaming Thing

Matthew Littlewood

Sun, 12 Apr 2020 20:25:49 +1200

A question for Russell Brown (or anyone else who knows anything about the NZ music industry):would something like last year's concert for the Mosque victims have been feasible, say, a decade or so ago?

Although not a lot of it would be classed as "my music", I was impressed by…

Grant McDougall

Fri, 10 Apr 2020 12:57:17 +1200

One thing the panelists didn’t have time to get to was an idea that had a lot of support in the comments: a new New Zealand music TV show.

I reckon this could be a go-er, as there's previous history of this actually happening.

About 30 years ago, a dispute…

Russell Brown

Thu, 09 Apr 2020 16:50:03 +1200

Her's the YouTube version:

https://youtu.be/fuHZtRdijBg

Russell Brown

Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:49:09 +1200

The main video in the content is not visible to me using Firefox -74

Ah. I was hoping the YouTube version would be ready in time for the post – that's generally better-behaved embed code.

Worik Stanton

Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:41:47 +1200

FWIIW

https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FMMFNewZealand%2Fvideos%2F528399251424162%2F&show_text=0&width=560

Can see video.

Worik Stanton

Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:36:26 +1200

The main video in the content is not visible to me using Firefox -74

Russell Brown

Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:36:22 +1200

Here’s The Beths’ live stream from yesterday morning (actually just Liz and Jonathan, who share a bubble, playing):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxQOyV7mji0

They announced a forthcoming new album, Jump Rope Gaze, and played this new single, which sounds like a classic Beths tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkzI93Aqztk

ALSO: Nadia Reid is [[https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/nadia-reid-isolation-station-online-concert-tickets-102058411456|selling tickets for an hour-long…

Public Address

Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:36:21 +1200

Discussion from blog post.