Posts by JP Hansen
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What I'm loving about Spotify is that I can read an album review - even a mixed one like Graham Reid's re: the new Beach Boys and instantly go and listen to the whole album and make up my own mind.
And I can give a spin to albums from bands I used to quite like that I'd be unlikely to have bought anyway - the new Van Halen for instance, and catch up on things I meant to buy but never got around to (Donald Fagen's Morph the Cat).
The lack of smart playlists and a visualiser are where it is beaten by iTunes, but for sheer convenience I'm rather loving it.
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I want to a James Reyne gig at the Powerstation in the early 90s - it was bloody amazing.
And then I remembered this ridiculous cover from the Andrew Denton radio show (Wuthering Heights).
Better Reyne cover (April Sun with Mark Seymour)...
Oh, and another two from Denton, Barnsey does ABBA;
Kelly does Prince;
And one more...
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Hard News: And we may never meet again ..., in reply to Paul Williams,
Hi Paul,
I assume you're talking Reckless, not Gimme Shelter? :-P
Yeah, Spicks & Specks started again this week, thank goodness. I’m am huge fan – brilliant show. I only found Adam Hills talk / guest show while searching to see when S&S was due to start again.
I have been watching old Never Mind The Buzzcocks to bridge the gap, but Mark Lamar is starting to annoy me – all prick, all the time.
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Oh, one more given Finn & McGlashan covering Throw Your Arms.... This is fun...
And Adam Hills' talk show was great. Finally fills that Rove gap. Or so my Aunty in Australia tells me.
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Aussie Rock, eh?
Ocker Rocker royalty (plus N Finn and apparently D Dobbyn) cover Gimme Shelter at some 80s Live Aid type thing - hilarious.
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Only for the first 1782.
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Sky Siege was developed in NZ - an Augmented Reality iPhone app.
Of course it didn't take long for Lucas to rip it off...
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Ha, good call!
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I'm not Craig, but it's "your mileage may vary".
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Did you get to U2 last night Russell? Once again, some absolutely sublime moments (though only being 4 years since the last show, it didn't surprise as much as the Vertigo tour show - Bono doing The Pav's parts in Miss Sarajevo, for example). We got $40 tickets, and at that price took 2 of our primary school aged kids, who loved it, even if the 7 year old did fall asleep for an hour in the middle - way past his bedtime.
Fans had organised on u2fanz.com to blow up red balloons during One Tree Hill and release them when Bono sang And the moon has turned red over One Tree Hill.
Nobody knew that the song would be dedicated to the miners, and their names would start scrolling on the screen just a few seconds after that moment.
You can watch it here, it was an amazing emotional moment last night, though the footage doesn't quite do it justice. You can see Bono getting choked up and missing a couple of words in the next line.