Posts by Mark Cubey
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If you missed it, don''t miss Kim Hill's terrific Playing Favourites interview with Ted Dawe from Saturday Morning. Not only is he unrepentant about the content of Into the River, he suggests that LSD is a potent inspiration for writers. (Music, as always, deleted, because: copyrights.)
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I like this track-by-track take of The Next Day, from The Quietus.
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Excerpt from Billboard cover story on Prince is here. Sample:
The ever-slender Prince - a strikingly ever-youthful advertisement for the maxim "black don't crack" - is garbed in yellow pants and a long, oversized button-front white-and-yellow jersey emblazoned with "MPLS" on the front. His Afro is covered by an incongruous hat in the shape of a lion. His other eye-catching accessory: wedged silver shoes adorned with periodically flashing red lights. A full-fledged rock star, even in rehearsal.
Gotta love him.
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Hard News: Music: Summer Season, in reply to Peter Darlington,
Loving that Kendrick. One of my summer jams, along with this R. Kelly joint:
and this one by Usher, possibly my favourite track of 2012:
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Hard News: Music: In before Christmas, in reply to Ana Simkiss,
That ZE Christmas album is SUCH a killer record. Especially Nona Hendryx and Material doing "It's a Holiday".
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Hard News: Music: In before Christmas, in reply to Dave Patrick,
it's a similar situation for Delaney Davidson, who's last two albums have been in lots of "best of" end of year lists, but who could just as well not exist as far as radio or TV coverage goes.
Ahem. I had Delaney playing favourites with Kim Hill last December. For an hour. To one of the biggest radio audiences in the country. (If you missed it, catch the repeat on Saturday 19 January). And country music in general is no stranger to the Saturday Morning audience.
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Readers may like to follow the illustrated journey of Wellington film reviewer and podcaster Dan Slevin to cinemas across the US, at Funerals and Snakes. It starts here.
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AFP in Civic Square was lotsa fun. So was reeling about on stage with her and others closing Webstock. But the real Kickstarter juice for me this week was Auckland webcomic artist Li Chen, who got nearly double her $US35k in a week where other NZ crowd sourcers (scientist, screenwriter) were aiming far too low...
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Fresh off his Sundae Session, Tom Scott will bring some @Peace and HomeBrew to Kim Hill between 10 and 11am on Saturday Morning, and play some his faves. Guess the Beatles' tune...
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Hard News: Fame Friday, in reply to Paul Williams,
Last time First Aid Kit was mentioned I meant to post that they played in Wellington for the Arts Festival on 8 March, to mixed results.