Posts by Russell Brown
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Big tide in the harbour yesterday morning, and a stiff northwesterly = surf at the Chev! A little while before this, waves were breaking over the seawall.
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My favourite of all the Whistle Test sessions is probably the Wailers' in 1973. It was a TV session tacked on to an otherwise failed visit to the UK, and they just owned it.
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Hard News: Holiday Music: Pop TV Lives, in reply to Ross Bell,
Apropos new year’s eve: I recall TVNZ ran a live music show to countdown midnight. T’was about early 1980s. On this particular show (mid-1980s), everyone got really pissed and Andrew Fagan and Karen Hay (host of RWP at the time) pashed. I think they did NYE music video shows in subsequent years.
Ah. I do dimly recall that pash causing a bit of excitement.
The era of New Year's Eve event television appears to be long gone.
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Hard News: Holiday Music: Pop TV Lives, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
Shazam, series one episode one, Philip's TV debut. And the star interview subject is ... Cliff Richard!
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Hard News: Holiday Music: Pop TV Lives, in reply to JacksonP,
And then there’s this hilariously earnest introduction of The Jam and Joy Division on Something Else.
That's the last televised performance byJoy Division and apparently the only one to be nationally broadcast at the time.
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Hard News: Holiday Music: Pop TV Lives, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
It also means that James Franco and Seth Rogen’s parody of Kanye’s “Bound 2” video contributed towards the original’s chart position, as does every video of fat bastard licking a sledgehammer while the original Miley song plays.
Indeed. And every rip from the album that some kid chucks up on YouTube with a still photo. The music business has changed quite a lot ...
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Hard News: Holiday Music: Pop TV Lives, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
BTW, NZ History has a good run down of most of the music television shows over 50 years or so of New Zealand telly.
Brilliant, thank you. And for the What Now tip.
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Capture: Coast to Coast, in reply to JacksonP,
More caustics. I’m seeing them everywhere!
You're on a roll!
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Strictly speaking, the use of any kind of extra processing on sunset pictures is cheating, but I quite like the effect of the "Sunset" setting in Camera+.
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Today at the Chev. Much better.
