Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Friday Music: Grey Fucking Area, in reply to Matthew Littlewood,
while “You Again” is a big, concrete-slab of a number in a live setting.
I imagine that these new songs will be absolutely massive live. Tbh, I haven't bothered too much with new Shihad albums for a while, but this one is a beast.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Grey Fucking Area, in reply to Joe Wylie,
but it’s not so long ago that David Farrar was happily telling one of his Kiwiblog contributors that Waring was never a National MP.
Seriously? Link?
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And now that towering political talent of our times Stuart Nash has chimed in:
@chrishipkins v dangerous when megalomania meets disaffected. Totally irresponsible behaviour & no place for it in NZ politics - or society
There's no place in our society for the disaffected to feel angry. Right. Fuck Stuart Nash.
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Here’s a short video shot by Stu from State of Mind, more than an hour before Dotcom took the stage. Guess what the kids are chanting …
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Hard News: Friday Music: Grey Fucking Area, in reply to richard,
would anyone have summoned the Nazis had Dotcom not been, y’know, German?
And owner of a signed copy of Mein Kampf.
No. Whatever you think of Dotcom owning that book, comparing what's on that video to a Nazi rally is cheap, lazy and culturally tone-deaf.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Grey Fucking Area, in reply to Keir Leslie,
Their actual policy is bizarre though. 15 page long meanderings about how electronic health records will shorten waiting lists and so-on. Even their IP policy is pretty meh, I think. Still, it’s very well packaged.
Yeah, that's fair comment.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Grey Fucking Area, in reply to James Hart,
Now Labour are using it politically on Twitter
Head-desk.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Grey Fucking Area, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
The question is what happens next. Because I’m very far from convinced the Internet Mana party really has anything going on beyond “fuck John Key,” and it’s perfectly legitimate to expect more.
Their policy page is actually quite good -- not least because it's a small miracle of good political copywriting. Other parties could take a lesson there.
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Aaand … some footage from an hour before Dotcom got on stage. Guess what the crowd’s chanting.
People can decide for themselves what they think about it, but there really has been some bullshit spouted about this today. Especially the Nazi comparisons.
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Pat from State of Mind, who played the gig and was standing sidestage at the time, says the chant was going in the audience long before Dotcom got on stage, which makes sense. It's not actually a new thing.