Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Friday Music: Dancing Fool, in reply to Barnaby Nicholls,
because the Pet Shop Boys have started pumping out honest-to-god bangers
Yay! I'd totally dance to that!
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Hard News: Friday Music: History, motherfuckers, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Surely we’re talking about stars being on the receiving end of death threats and bullets? Still, he does claim to have shot Sheriff John Brown in a kind of pre-emptive self-defence.
In Marley's case, no one's quite sure who shot up his place, but it seems to have been related to the murkier end of Jamaican politics. Marley cleared out to Florida with his family for a while, and made Exodus, the second side of which is some of the sunniest most at-peace music you could hope for.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Dancing Fool, in reply to davesparks,
If we’re talking classics, and CJ Mackintosh:
Massive flashback on that remix. Haven't heard it in years!
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Hard News: Moving on, in reply to Jason Kemp,
Definitely part of the answer. As I reply to this I am watching some clips off Youtube on my TV. I downloaded them but with Apple TV or an internet connected tv that will happen more often.
One of the problems is the way the TV companies compete. They all offer apps based on a common middleware platform, but they all want exclusives for as long as possible, as a showroom selling-point. It’s a terrible way to grow an ecosystem. At the same time, Apple's apparent reluctance to provide a store for Apple TV apps is ... weird.
What you can expect to see in the next six months is on-demand IPTV presented as a channel on Freeview -- although it won't actually be delivered via the DTT broadcast. I think there's real potential there, but it's a bit bizarre if all the innovation on Freeview isn't actually in any Freeview broadcast.
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Hard News: Moving on, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Any thoughts re my question about regular contributions to PAS? You were planning some way of doing this.
I gave a speech this week at the Australia New Zealand Internet Awards which culminated in a pitch for my idea for a shared voluntary subscriptions platform for NZ blogs and independent websites. And I think it made an impression. I'm going to be talking to some people.
But that will take a while to flow through. Meantime, I'm going to have another whip-round next week. This time, the idea is that I'll use some of my newfound free time to report some stories and events via the blog.
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Other guaranteed party-starters.
Stereo MCs, ‘Connected’. Just has the best bass drop in the intro:
Gwen Guthrie’s ‘Ain’t Nothing Goin’ On But the Rent’:
The 1989 Dancin’ Danny D remix of Chaka Khan’s ‘’I’m Every Woman’:
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Just for interest’s sake, here’s a slightly crappy photo of what we had been using in place of a full-scale control room for the Media3 recordings, and a close-up of the tiny board that contains all the logic.
And some notes I sent to Dan Slevin at OnFilm:
We record in the ballroom of the Villa Dalmacija in New North Road, which is owned by the Dalmatian Cultural Society, about 100 metres from TV3 itself.
It’s a big space. We have a room to store the set, which is built up and taken down every Tuesday – it’s quite a lot of work. Our backdrops are plain white sheets.
It was a bit of a shift for me to go from comms to visual time-cues from our floor manager, but Im used to it now.
We get 30-50 people watching the recordings each week, many of them regulars who’ve been following us since the Media7 days. Part of the idea of having an audience is that it allows people to mingle before and after – quite a few journalists come along just to meet other journalists. We subsidise the bar and pay for the Dalmatian ladies to put on some lovely food before the recordings.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Dancing Fool, in reply to Greg Wood,
Their mummy usually takes this as a signal to go out for a run.
Or, more concisely, to run.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Dancing Fool, in reply to Danielle,
A few months ago my husband and I received an invitation to dinner based on our move-busting at a party.
I am not at all surprised. You guys got the moves.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Dancing Fool, in reply to Martin Lindberg,
Yep. It's a Mazzer :-)
