Posts by Russell Brown
Last ←Newer Page 1 2 3 4 5 Older→ First
-
Well this is interesting:
Moves to allow "drug-checking" at nightclubs and music festivals have won support in principle from Peter Dunne.
After a Kapiti man died of a suspected drug overdose on Tuesday, and several fatal overdoses were reported in Australia this summer, the Drug Foundation said drug-checking kits could save lives.
Dunne, the associate health minister responsible for drugs, said he was open to allowing the kits, even though it could be politically contentious.
-
Hello! I knew Roger Shepherd was near finishing his memoir, but I didn’t expect it to emerge so promptly. Published May 23, preorders for the e-book here.
About the Book
The inside story of New Zealand’s iconic independent record label by the man who made it happen.
I wanted to be more than just an observer. I wanted to be a part of what was going on. I had told someone and the word was out, and now I had to actually do this thing. Start a record label.
I must have been drunk.
Roger Shepherd was working in a Christchurch record shop when he realised the local bands he loved needed someone to make their records. Flying Nun was born.
Those records and the bands that created them them – The Chills, The Clean, Chris Knox and the Tall Dwarfs, The Verlaines, Sneaky Feelings, The Bats, Straightjacket Fits and many more – went on to define an era and create what became known as “the Dunedin Sound”.
In truth it was less a unified sound than a spirit of adventure and independence that characterised the Flying Nun ethos. In this long-awaited memoir, label founder Roger Shepherd describes the idealism and passion that drove the project in the first place, the hard realities of the music industry, and the constant tension between art and commerce.
Filled with revealing anecdote and insight, this is the definitive insider history of the one of the most innovative and original record labels of the modern era.
“Surely the label with the highest quality output per capita in pop history.” – Guardian UK.“Something inexplicably special happened in the Southern Hemisphere a quarter of a century or so ago, the ripples still rumbling, and without it, all the music you love today would sound ever so slightly, and indefinably, different.” – British comedian Stewart Lee.
-
Hard News: Friday Music: You are among friends, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I have to reconcile myself to the fact that ya can’t save everything….
Holy heck. I'm glad you got some of it.
-
Hard News: Friday Music: You are among friends, in reply to Ken Double,
You kinda know intellectually that he’s the most gifted artist of the modern era but to be confronted with the fact in a medium- sized auditorium is another matter altogether.
I had a similar reaction many years ago when, not long in London, I got a press ticket to the Parade tour. Mind: blown.
-
Hard News: Friday Music: You are among friends, in reply to Graham Dunster,
According to the guys @ the Southbound shop a licence is required to deal in used cds and audio cassettes because they’re digital. Seriously?
One would think not. Cassettes aren't digital, for a start.
A sounder reason is that the market in secondhand CDs is pants. They're worth bugger-all these days.
-
Hard News: Friday Music: You are among friends, in reply to Ken Double,
(Bloody hell Russell, sounds like it’s past time to make a contribution to PA. Where do I go?)
Absolutely no pressure, but ...
http://publicaddress.net/hardnews/supporting-public-address/
Perils of being a freelancer/contractor/TV person – summer is lovely, but it sure don't pay!
-
Hard News: Friday Music: You are among friends, in reply to JP Hansen,
I assume you didn’t get to Prince on Wednesday, Russell? Missed something quite extraordinary.
Too skint to do it, I'm afraid. And yes, I hear it was incredible.
-
Oh, and if you want to hear that record in a taxi, call Mandeep on 027 216 9287.
-
So …
Sanho’s interview with Kathryn Ryan was halved for a soft interview on the crowdfunded beach. And tonight, Story dumped Kim Vinnell’s story for the second night running so it could could cover cricket, cats and chillies.
And you wonder why we can’t have nice things?
PS: Maori Television still seem to have some idea of what journalism means. Their report is replayed at 10.30pm tonight.
-
Hard News: So what now?, in reply to Leanne Pooley,
The fact is having apartments at the end of streets on main roads makes perfect sense. Plopping them in the middle of tiny cresents (as suggested in the out-of-scope plan) doesn’t.
I agree, and I wonder if the fact that we submitted on HNZ's submission to spot-rezone in our street has meant that hasn't happened to us.
I expect HNZ to develop (or sell up) in our little cul de sac under its existing MHS zoning and that's fine. I could live with something bigger on the corner, 50 metres away. It's just the bid to zone a tiny cul de sac as if it were a main road we objected to.
Last ←Newer Page 1 … 217 218 219 220 221 … 2279 Older→ First