Posts by Russell Brown
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The Standing in Silence show was pretty magical last night -- I don't think I've seen anything like it before.
And, oh my, that Mercury Theatre is nice. What's the deal there? It was a base for Equippers church for a long time, and they seem to have looked after it well. Who manages it now?
Were the downstairs seats removed for the recent Fat Freddy's Drop show? And has the seat pitch in the venue always been like that? I don't have long legs, and yet I couldn't sit with my knees together -- there wasn't enough room between my seat and the one in front.
But still ... I'm very glad to see this venue return to public use and be available for gigs. Mikee Tucker literally had to bring in a bar for the show, but that worked fine. Yay.
PS: What is the deal with the public car park off Cross Street behind K Road? It's bizarre. After taking a ticket and driving in, we had to search around for a pay stations. When we found one on the ground floor, it had the usual instructions about pressing the button to select Prepay -- but no Prepay was actually available and the machine kept trying to charge us for the 5 minutes we'd been in the building.
And then there was the issue of how long we could leave the car there. One sign said the car park closed at 10pm. Another puzzled punter said he'd seen a sign saying 9pm. Near the exit, one chalkboard sign said "This car park will be closed and secured at 11pm" -- and 10pm on the other side. One guy said the bloke at the bar round the corner told him to ignore the signs -- the place was actually open all night.
Although we were running a bit late, we decided we shouldn't risk being locked in. So I went back up two floors to get the car and bring it down to the exit. As I got down I realised that I still hadn't paid the dollar owing on the parking ticket. But it didn't matter -- because there were no barriers and the exits were wide open anyway.
WTF?
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Hard News: Mercury Special, in reply to Simon Grigg,
I bought I'm New Here and Winter In America in the HMV in Hong Kong a short while back.
I grabbed the 'Live at the Bottom Line' MP3 that 3410 linked to above, too. It's great.
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Hard News: Three months after, in reply to Sacha,
(note blog theme is identical to Dimpost; may be disorienting at first)
Especially given the way Danyl's verging on losing his shit today.
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Just went in and did some trades at Real Groovy. Picked up a very tidy 2nd-hand 12" of Gil's 'Re-Ron' for 10 bucks. Seemed very right.
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Just to note that the thread may be a bit confusing now.
The shit has hit the fan for one person who's commented and I've removed the comments in question for that person's sake.
I can't help but feel that this says something about the nature of this whole sorry business.
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Hard News: Mercury Special, in reply to 3410,
May I highly recommend this set.
Thank you!
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Aw, damn. Gil Scott Heron has died:
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Hard News: Someone has to be accountable…, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
Compare and contrast with the amount of coverage “Government ministers cost us between $300 and $2000 when they handed back their own drive cars to fix dings and scratches” got on TV a few weeks ago
I know. I know.
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Hard News: Someone has to be accountable…, in reply to [email protected],
The Herald, at least, now has a gift of a series of stories to get its teeth into…
Yeah, don't hold your breath. It didn't lead the paper yesterday and there's no follow-up today.
It's only half a billion dollars, after all.
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Hard News: The Political Lie, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
There have been other great episodes of Media 7, Russell, but last nights was a great one of the “it’s over already, can’t you keep going?” type!
Thank you!
We did drop a Jose video track from the end of the show so the discussion could keep on running, but I know what you mean.