Public Address | Cafe | Speaker: Picnic at Hyde Park Corner https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address hamishm https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1789#post1789 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1789#post1789 "Welcome Home" has been known to get me teared up too. I've always like Dobbyns music and actually like the original video of "Loyal".
I bought the album Cool Bananas and still maintain that it is a great live album.
Love the report of the Speakers Corner ceremony, we'll go…

]]> Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:38:58 +1300 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1716#post1716 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1716#post1716 Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:43:11 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1712#post1712 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1712#post1712 I've written about this before, but after the amazing test match against the Lions at Wellington Stadium last year, we stayed in our seats for a little while after the final whistle, feeling the afterglow.

Someone made the brilliant call to play 'Welcome Home' over the PA System as we…

]]> Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:20:52 +1300 Emma Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1710#post1710 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1710#post1710

I wouldn't consider myself a Dave Dobbyn fan, but, like, how awesome was it that he got to sing these lines in front of the Queen and Tony Blair?

Out here on the edge
the empire is fading by the day
and the world is so weary in war
maybe…

]]> Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:13:18 +1300 Simon Grigg https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1696#post1696 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1696#post1696 Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:35:52 +1300 James Green https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1674#post1674 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1674#post1674 Hi Sarah, Danielle. I guess I'm number 3!!
I think Dave's written a fair number of songs that have tapped a little too deeply into people's psyche, and turned into 'albatrosses'. I'd single out Bliss, Slice of Heaven, and Loyal. Curiously, both Bliss and Loyal are also chronically misunderstood. The…

]]> Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:35:32 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1600#post1600 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1600#post1600

Hi, my name's Sarah and I'm the second person who bought "Lament for the Numb"--perhaps the third will show up and we can have some kind of reunion?

I didn't buy it, but I did give a full-page review in The Listener, heralding its bold new direction. I didn't really…

]]> Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:00:27 +1300 Sarah Wedde https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1596#post1596 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1596#post1596 Hi, my name's Sarah and I'm the second person who bought "Lament for the Numb"--perhaps the third will show up and we can have some kind of reunion?

Big love for Dave. He's gorgeous and wonderful. And his music's not bad either...

]]> Wed, 15 Nov 2006 02:19:52 +1300 Danielle https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1591#post1591 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1591#post1591 Perhaps I'm a little bitter: a few years back in the pro-NZ-music community, it was more than your life was worth to mention you were a Dobbyn fan. That broad-appeal populism is never 'cool'. Just ask U2.

(I am also one of the three people in New Zealand who bought…

]]> Tue, 14 Nov 2006 23:04:10 +1300 Muriel Lockheed https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1584#post1584 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1584#post1584 Thanks for that lovely post.

My father was in WWII, I remember vividly as a young child listening to him and friends talking about the war, hilarious and tall stories, and me thinking what a great adventure war must be.

I never recall them ever saying anything about death, dying…

]]> Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:05:04 +1300 Simon Grigg https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1576#post1576 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1576#post1576 Damn, I like Dobbyn, both as a bard and a person...and think he is one of our coolest musicians. He didn't used to be, neither Th'Dudes or DD Smash had any semblance of cool about them, quite the opposite, but he's grown into it rather well.

But if I ever…

]]> Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:01:02 +1300 Yamis https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1567#post1567 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1567#post1567 Would it work to have Dobbyn take lyrics from Welcome Home and Loyal and maybe refine them and add a few more appropriate ones to come up with a new national anthem for NZ?

It'd work for me.

]]> Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:28:03 +1300 dylan https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1430#post1430 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1430#post1430 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:28:54 +1300 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1428#post1428 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1428#post1428 What a lovely post, Stella, thankyou. I watched the news item on it and was very impressed by the beautiful design. Now, when's your next book due out?

One vote pro-Dobbo, btw. Terminally uncool

Not in this house he's not!

]]> Tue, 14 Nov 2006 04:56:39 +1300 Viv Harris https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1426#post1426 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1426#post1426 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 01:46:12 +1300 Danielle https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1423#post1423 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1423#post1423 Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:22:01 +1300 Robyn Gallagher https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1419#post1419 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1419#post1419 I wouldn't consider myself a Dave Dobbyn fan, but, like, how awesome was it that he got to sing these lines in front of the Queen and Tony Blair?

Out here on the edge
the empire is fading by the day
and the world is so weary in war
maybe…

]]> Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:15:12 +1300 Zippy Gonzales https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1413#post1413 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1413#post1413 Mon, 13 Nov 2006 20:57:39 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1412#post1412 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-picnic-at-hyde-park-corner/?p=1412#post1412 Discussion from blog post.

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