Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Change for the Better, in reply to George Darroch,
That won’t ever change, but hopefully we give them less of a microphone in the future.
My use of the word "whiners" was considered. Hosking is fond of complaining about people complaining, but here he is when something good happens – moaning for the sake of it.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Saving the St James, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
big ups to the banner advertiser above!
Whisky Galore – catcher of the Rye?
- reopened last night I hear.They're a fine bunch at Whisky Galore.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Saving the St James, in reply to Shaun Lott,
Ah, you too?
Very much. Problems connecting with some major CDNs – Facebook, Soundcloud, etc. Feels like a cacheing issue to me, but I'm no expert.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Saving the St James, in reply to Gareth Ward,
Morales back here on Sunday Jan 17th too…
I'm there.
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I didn’t quite know how to approach this topic, but I thought, well, maybe different understandings of place.
So, starting with … places I go that feel familiar and good.
Point Chev beach, where Sir Keith Sinclair played as a child.
Our little pocket of harbour, where a whale stranded this year and it felt very close to home.
And Splore, where everyone is lovely and going back to the city hurts every time.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Back to a…, in reply to llew40,
I was still keen on going and supporting it (after all, without promoters willing to take the risk, how would we get to see the bands)
This is true. Promoters do put their asses on the line.
so disappointed I now have to go through the laborious refund process (which has been complicated by the fact we still have the McLaren Valley tickets which we didnt seek refunds for yet, because the Echo team had told us we’d be able to use them at the relocated festival).
That's a bugger. I didn't buy until after the relocation and going through Ticketmaster means an automatic refund in the net few days.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Back to a…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
(I’m surprised the acts’ management didn’t know this, but I guess NZ is a nice place to maybe go and there aren’t that many other bookings on a Monday/Tuesday).
All of these acts will have been available for a NZ show to or from Australia or Asia and it's a matter of whether a promoter can offer a guarantee that wins the act and implies a reasonable break-even. I'm sure some of the acts will be opening to coming – and that there's a serious flurry in promoter land as to which ones they are.
At a guess, I think Kurt Vile will be one of them.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Back to a…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Joe Wylie also did the colour for Colin Wilson’s modern era NZ super hero Captain Sunshine
That's a nice thing to be reminded of.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Back to a…, in reply to Moz,
Songs like Nine Million Rainy Days are just so melodramatic and self-involved that it's hard not to take it as satire, but it works for me both ways. "all my time in hell is spent with you", yeah, yeah, angsty teen boy, I get it, you're sad.
And in Jim Reid's case, 26 when when the record came out!
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Echo Festival promoter Paxton Talbot talks to The Wireless about what went wrong.
<Resource consent issues forced him to move the event to Auckland’s Vector Arena under a new name, he said. However, once the event was relocated, tickets sales slowed to a drip.
Talbot wouldn’t reveal exactly how many tickets were sold, but said it was “nowhere near” the 12,000 capacity of Vector.
“Nobody came to the table. We had massive web traffic, loads of interest but nothing was turning into sales and it’s an extremely expensive project.
I think there ended up being a trust issue there. On top of all the marketing for the McLaren Valley going down the toilet.
“All the promoters out there are struggling at the moment because of low ticket sales. It’s a massive issue. Every single one of them. People need to get out there and they need to start supporting their local promoters and their local shows,” Talbot said.
Not quite true. I know the Splore people are very happy with how they’re tracking. And even the relatively niche bill at Laneway will still do fine.
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