Posts by Robyn Gallagher
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TV3 is also doing a magnificent job of what it calls "engagement", which is basically getting people to amplify its reach via social media. There's nothing wrong with that -- I fired off my share of X-Factor Twitter funnies when that was on -- but I was staggered last night by quite how many people in my Twitter timeline were using the #TheBlockNZ hashtag.
Yeah, I didn't watch any of The Block, but every night it was on, my timeline was always full of Block lolz (that didn't make much sense to me).
But this is curious - last year I remember the first series of NZ's Got Talent being a big Twitter event, but this time around virtually no one in my timeline is tweeting about it. There's still plenty of action on the #nzgt hashtag though - just not in my Twitter experience.
But then I did read somewhere that big TV attempts to get hashtag action happening (like talent shows where every contestant gets a hashtag) are starting to get a bit passe amongst viewers. Gretchen, stop trying to make #fetch happen.
Meanwhile, it doesn't look like there'll be an NZ X Factor series next year. Or at least it wasn't part of the 2014 line-up announcement. NZ On Air won't fund a show like that two years in a row, so I guess it's just not economical for TV3 at the moment. 'Tis a pity, but we'll always have Homai Te Pakipaki.
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Hard News: Mega Strange, in reply to Russell Brown,
Virtually all music and most other video material is identified by YouTube, which notifies registered owners. Any original master recordings which appear in any context on YouTube effectively remain there with the permission of the rights owners, who collect a small revenue share on them.
Alternatively, if the rights holder doesn't like their recording being used, they can make YouTube take it down or mute the soundtrack.
Case in point: a couple of years ago I uploaded a video of me daggy dancing to Madonna's "Into the Groove" that was playing on the in-store music at a Farmers store I was in. Even though it wasn't the pure audio track, as soon as I uploaded it, it was identified as being Madonna's song. It stayed like that for ages, but recently I discovered the audio has since been muted. Which just makes the video look really weird (and also makes me want to replace the soundtrack with something even weirder).
In conclusion: bloody Warners. I wish they'd get over their issues with YouTube.
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Hard News: Mega Strange, in reply to Dylan Reeve,
jim.bob1974@gmail.com -- Throwaway or real? Who can say.
My very first email address was actually jimbob@<some Hamilton ISP that no longer exists>, and I was born in 1974, so hey, maybe that's my secret throwaway email address...
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Next Kids, in reply to Samuel Scott,
Also you should know you have been 'banned' from The Neo-Kalishnikovs blog. Awesome.
This news has made my day. I will add this achievement to my LinkedIn profile.
Like you said, their music is ok. They just need to keep writing, keep playing live and get better and better. But I have this horrible feeling that they consider they're already at the top of their game and anyone who says otherwise is a hater.
But conversely, there's something really enjoyable about the Neo-K rants. I love this bit from the newest one about (i.e. against) the NZ Music Awards:
Take Rackets for example a band from Auckland City. Not many people may know them but I am good friends with Oscar the lead singer. After all I did help him lift his car off my driveway when he went over the side with my dad for 3 hours.
Three hours! That is the mark of a true friendship. Good on him.
BTW, I've rewritten my banned comment as a post on Tumblr.
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David Dallas' new album "Falling Into Place" is brilliant. It reminds me of the Native Tongue stuff from the late '80s, and also a bit of the Death Row sound from the early '90s, but it mainly sounds like a product of Auckland and New Zealand in 2013.
I'm particularly in love with the two tracks he did with Ruby Frost, proving here's a lot more to her than being an X Factor judge. And all hail "Southside", a song which revels in the delights and achievements of South Auckland, rather than getting all dramatic about "mean streets". Plus "How Long" is the best seduction jam I've heard in years. Babies are going to be conceived to that track.
It's on Spotify or you can buy it on iTunes. In the meantime, here's the first single. "Runnin'".
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Hard News: Friday Music: An Outstanding Evening, in reply to Samuel Scott,
VNZMA technical awards next week…big awards a month after that…I think I need a new suit.
Speaking of awards, Pure Heroine was released in America on 30 September - which was also the eligibility deadline for the 2014 Grammys...
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Hard News: Friday Music: An Outstanding Evening, in reply to Hilary Cameron,
This struck me today when I visited my 72 year old nana, who out of the blue proclaimed how much she likes Lorde's songs.
My mum - who is also 72 - told me the other day that she'd listened to "Royals" and rather liked it. In fact, she listened to it, read the lyrics, then listened again - which makes me certain that my music nerditry is hereditary.
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If you haven't already caught up with it, here's the first public track from a new project Joel has been producing. It's very, very good
That Broods song was played on BBC Radio 1 today, which is, y'know, pretty major.
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Hard News: Friday Music: An Outstanding Evening, in reply to Russell Brown,
It can take a while for that status to be established: note the transition from AIDS to Aids, the ACT party to Act.
Yet ACT itself still use all-caps for their name. The best advice for this situation - pick a style and stick with it.
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Oh yeah, who remembers TV2's Friday night music video show "CV", which screened in 1989? It was about two hours long and had rather eclectic choices in music videos. (I loved it and it help shape my adult tastes in music.)
Anyway, I found that the Film Archive had listed the programme line-ups for the two episodes they have in their archive, so I've turned those line-ups into YouTube playlists.
So, if you feel like a trip back to music television from 1989 check out episode 1 and/or episode 15. Contains the good, the bad, the Milli Vanilli.