Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: A right old Barney, in reply to Robert Fox,
Ditto. I haven’t got clear memories of for obvious reasons, but it sounds like we may have had a very similar experience of beating out grimy Pagan rythyms at Car Henge that night.
Ah yes – I think we’ve discussed this before. For a while I had a piece of metal in each hand, bashing out a rhythm on the welded steel exoskeleton of a mutated car with a bass bin mounted in it. Was awesome.
Did you ever go to any of the Mutoid warehouse events in London in the late 80’s?
Again, parties in that alt-warehouse scene were some of the best nights of my life. Did you go to the huge Mutoid one at King’s Cross? That was one big, wild party.
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Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
OK, thanks. Just try and find a slightly less distasteful term than “emotionally retarded” for people whose affect display makes you feel all icky in your water, m’kay? At least make the effort on threads discussing disability issues.
Please do not lecture Ben about disability issues.
Some of the arguments here, including those I’ve been involved in, are becoming really counterproductive. Ease up, everyone. It’s like we’re trying to find things to disagree on because we’re all in agreement about the core issues.
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Hard News: A right old Barney, in reply to Clint Fern,
I knew quite a few people who regularly got in for free
1987 was my first -- and the last before the police were allowed onsite.
We pitched up in a van right outside the the perimeter and spent the rest of the weekend going under, over and through the fence.
After New Order, my mate Greg and I went up to the top field, where the Mutoid Waste Company were running a crazy techno-pagan party amid cars hacked to look like dinosaurs. One of the better nights of my life.
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Hard News: A right old Barney, in reply to JacksonP,
Right, so you caught up with that even faster than I could post it.
Your Soundcloud auto-tweet was way ahead of you.
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Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
And, yes, you’re also right. I’ve had a fair bit of contact with Russell’s eldest, Jimmy who is a great guy. Took a bit of getting used to initially, but it was my responsibility not his to educate myself on how he responds to social cues.
Cuts both ways, really. Jim's work on socialising himself is quite inspiring.
Taking his younger brother to Kiwi Foo was a bit of a reality check: he didn't cope with the clamor on day one and I took him back to the hotel. (MASSIVE thanks to Hadyn Green for the loan of the pre-release PSP Vita for the night.) But it got better as it went on and was a real positive in the end.
Having people who "got it" -- Ben Wilson, Helen Baxter and Bridget McKendry, take a bow -- was a big part of that. Props again to Hadyn for getting up the video games discussion session on the Saturday.
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Hard News: A right old Barney, in reply to Clint Fern,
I was at the Reading Festival that year, it was my first festival and so at the time didn’t realise how crap the location was.
Having been to Glastonbury in the glorious days when it was a self-policing state in a beautiful, mystic country setting, Reading was a fucking big shock to me.
The food was horrible, the cops were dicks and the setting was ... unlovely.
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Go Jackson!
His recording of 'Ceremony' at the same BDO show as 'Atmosphere'
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Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to Islander,
Pacific Island student?
Good point.
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Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to nzlemming,
I’d like to think people/teachers are better than that, but I do know that’s not the case. I’ve just withdrawn from the geekzone thread because I can’t cope with their bullshit any more.
That's really, really disappointing.
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Hard News: A right old Barney, in reply to Grant McDougall,
John Cooper Clarke is performing at the Dunedin Fringe festival in March too, btw.
I could tell you a great story about hooking up with a female journalist after we'd both interviewed JCC the day after his first headline show in NZ. But it would be ungentlemanly to do so.