Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Really good, actually, in reply to Brenda Leeuwenberg,
If you mean NZ On Screen then you can view programmes from the website on your TV by connecting them via a cable. Or as of next week via an AppleTV using Airplay (yes Russell, we’ve fixed it).
Effing awesome!
There's a treat for those people who get their iPad 2s today.
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Hard News: It Began ... in Chicago, in reply to Mike Hollywood,
As it would at 5am after a night out with light rain falling! …
I remember going to an incredible Mutoid Waste Company party at some rail sheds they'd squatted in 1989.
I emerged from one of the very crowded outbuildings to find a fine mist of rain falling. There was a strobe going, and the effect was that the air was full of glitter. It was really quite magical.
I was, of course, well high at the time.
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Hard News: It Began ... in Chicago, in reply to Sacha,
Which of course got turned into this thing of wonder
Oh!
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Some period video with an acid soundtrack. Mostly from Spectrum at Heaven, but some from The Trip, if I rightly recognise that parachute ceiling:
We went to Spectrum a couple of times (Monday nights!). Heaven was a gay club with an awesome lighting rig. Crazy place.
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Hard News: It Began ... in Chicago, in reply to Karen Crisp,
I am _so_ glad I moved to London in the very early 90s. Arrived a Dunedin Sound/indie girl; transformed into a clubber within months. I felt so lucky to be in the right place at the right time, or so it seemed to me.
Yes, I felt very much that way when acid house happened. I’d always envied people I knew who’d been in the UK for punk rock, and it was swiftly evident to me that this was something of the same order.
Mark Moore has a good description of our favoured club night, The Trip:
KABOOM! Nicky Holloway opens The Trip at The Astoria (the same place where the Watson brothers did Delirium playing house music behind wire mesh to protect themselves from bottles thrown by hip-hop kids). It’s huge and it’s on a Saturday night. The atmosphere is like the winning goal at cup final prolonged for the entire night. When it shuts, ravers dance in the fountains outside and wave their arms screaming “Acieed” when the police turn on their sirens. Suddenly there are a lot more black faces in what was previously a very white scene.
There are some pictures from its seven-week run at the (now sadly demolished) Astoria here.
And also this girl. I have no idea who she is, but I just had a massive flashback of dancing next to her at The Trip in 1988. She looked more like Madonna at the time :-)
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Hard News: It Began ... in Chicago, in reply to nothingelseon,
And (last one as I gotta get some work done) Model 500
Get that Detroit stuff outta here! ;-)
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Gettin' geeky with one of my favourite ever, ever tracks:
Jamie Principle's original 1986 version of 'Your Love' on Persona Records:
And the better-known (and let's face it, hipsters, better) version with Frankie Knuckles from 1987:
Which of course got turned into this thing of wonder:
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Marshall Jefferson just seems like such a cool dude.
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The story of 'Love Can't Turn Around':
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Meanwhile ...
Russia's former ambassador to Libya has stoked new tension between President Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin, the prime minister, after calling the Kremlin's acquiescence to air strikes targeting Libya a "betrayal of Russia's interests" ...
... Aides to the two men have moved quickly to downplay the disagreement, but Vladimir Chamov has reignited it after flying home to Russia on Wednesday night. Chamov, who was sacked as ambassador to Tripoli by Medvedev earlier this month, told reporters that Moscow's failure to oppose the bombing raids would lose Russian companies huge sums of money in arms and other contracts.