Posts by Russell Brown
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Did you see the New Yorker's story on Uber competitor Juno?
It's very interesting. Basically, Juno is targeting Uber where it's weakest – driver welfare – and luring over high-rated drivers. They're copying the business model and taking the best workers. That's the flipside of the gig economy – workers are very mobile.
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Speaker: Confessions of an Uber Driver…, in reply to BenWilson,
Uber’s advice to these people, according to these people who have spoken directly to me: Keep driving, we’ll sort it out.
I had a driver last week who told me about waiting for his P endorsement to come through and being urged to just start working by Uber staff.
"They said they'd back me up. I asked what 'back me up' meant and they couldn't say."
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For anyone interested, Fela’s recordings are somewhat scarce on the streaming services, but copious on Bandcamp.
Some of them aren’t cheap by modern music standards – $9 for the 23 minutes of I.T.T. – but they are awesome.
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Hard News: Friday Music! Special Records, in reply to Stupid,
I am sorry to hear about Nicole, I only heard of her but never met her.
I literally wouldn't be who I am today had I not met her.
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Hard News: Friday Music! Special Records, in reply to Stupid,
Thanks for the memories and a bit more of an insight into that fab couple!
Yay! I was hoping someone else here would have memories of them. Bruce had reputedly sat in on percussion with Brownie McGhee. He got up from the audience and played congas once at a gig at Wayne Manor – it was totally beatnik.
Last I heard of them they were, to quote the person who told me, "smoking hash on the beach in Goa".
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Please note that this morning – flummoxed by the passing of Helen Kelly, tbh – I forgot what I was going to write about and have just now updated the post with the story of my first girlfriend, her exotic parents and a certain record.
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Hard News: Friday Music! Special Records, in reply to Rob Stowell,
are Son of Cronos and Girl at Night Vacuum-era songs?
I think so, but I’m no expert :)
Hmmm ... same.
I would like to point out that the first time I heard 'Bedrock Bay' it was being played by the Volkswagens. Bill was quite the hit factory.
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Hard News: Friday Music! Special Records, in reply to andin,
Umm The Galaxy nightclub was in downtown Auckland city on Customs St, not as Nick Bollinger says. “At the Galaxy in Mount Eden” . Unless he is quoting Alastair who is mistakenly remembering.
Ah, I can see what's happened here. There was a more recent Galaxy on Mt Eden Road – it's now the Powerstation. I'll let the editors know.
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Hard News: Friday Music! Special Records, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Speaking of which, I will be at the Heritage Week Market Day at the Arts Centre this Sunday
I have alerted the Twitter hordes.
I actually have issue #1 of The Face, although it unfortunately has various bits cut out of it. It was along with I.D. #1 and various others when I broke into squat in Elephant & Castle many years ago.
The prior inhabitants may have been a bunch of junkies who left the toilet set solid to the brim with shit and paper (we had to pour hydrochloric acid in it and shovel the shit out with a trowel), but they did have good taste in magazines.
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New album from freshly-announced hall-of-fame honouree Bic Runga, Close Your Eyes , out November 18.
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