Posts by Gareth Ward
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Your aggressive driver note reminded me that I saw yet another cyclist down on the side of the road on Tamaki Drive today, covered in someone's coat and a crowd attending them.
Certainly hope they were OK, a quick scan of the news hasn't shown anything...
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Morales back here on Sunday Jan 17th too...
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Legal Beagle: Voting in the Flag Referendum, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Ta muchly. Interesting to see how much of the passion/interest continues to then...
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Is the date set for the second referendum next year?
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We have to be careful about mixing up gross revenues of physical sales (with the associated supply chain costs) with income to the artist. As fond as I am of my friends in the various distribution and related industries, IMO it's a good thing if gross revenues decline (cheaper music) but artist income remains/grows/redistributes-more-reasonably. That's clearly not happening however.
This from David Byrne in the NYT today is interesting: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/opinion/sunday/open-the-music-industrys-black-box.html?referrer=&_r=2 -
Thing is, a (presuming here) 3/4 bedroom standalone home on 630sqm ~5km from the CBD and within some-hundred-meters of quite a nice beach should be AT LEAST a $1m property in any reasonably attractive international city. It's the lack of medium density alternatives (and the insane demand-induced pricing that forces onto the outer suburbs) that is the problem here in Auckland.
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With all these events I simply don't get paying $30 for the right to be marketed to. Bunch of awesome stall holders etc I'm sure, but why would I pay for the right for them to then sell me stuff?
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Hard News: Friday Music: Why anyone does…, in reply to bob daktari,
I am guessing you've already found his SC account
Since his set here a couple of years back. So good...
Russell, you may enjoy what's going down in the Boiler Room live at the moment: http://boilerroom.tv/session/london-hercules-love-affair-john-morales-robert-owens-reflex/
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Hard News: Friday Music: Why anyone does…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Fair enough. I actually like it better than the Flume one.
It's pretty basic maths though - Horse Samples: Flume 1 - Diplo 0
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A terrific remix of 'Tennis Court' that has "feelgood anthem" written all over it.
First listen to this yesterday left me a little cold - high expectations perhaps. Or perhaps because Flume's remix was so outstanding? Growing slightly on me though...
And yep, Glitterbox's Soundcloud account has been a great source over the last month, the Greg Wilson mixes in particular.