Posts by Ian Dalziel
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I forgot to mention Sir John Rowles and those Topp Dames amongst others honoured…
https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/arts/104403861/queens-birthday-honours-topp-twins-flying-nunn-founder-and-dj-sirvere-honouredsee:
https://www.audioculture.co.nz/people/john-rowles
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https://www.audioculture.co.nz/people/the-topp-twins
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https://www.audioculture.co.nz/people/dj-sir-vere
and
https://www.audioculture.co.nz/scenes/roger-shepherd-interview-1997PS – I’m very impressed at how fast these were updated!!
(but noticed a lack of Opera coverage in the Noisy Library)PPS – I note a new spelling for Flying Nunn in that Stuff URL…
…must be echoing the Topps -
God Save the Queen(’s Birthday Honours List)
https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/104407240/antiestablishment-flying-nun-founder-just-wanted-to-get-music-on-the-recordFrom an Aranui childhood listening to Beatles records and a part-time teenage job in a Colombo St record store, Christchurch’s Roger Shepherd went on to pioneer New Zealand’s most famous independent record label.
Shepherd founded Flying Nun Records in 1981 to record the post-punk Christchurch bands he heard at local pubs, and is widely recognised for fostering, recording and promoting New Zealand, especially South Island, music.
He has been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the music industry.<an aside:> At the moment this story asserts that Flying Nun is now based in Australia – hopefully they will correct that soon.
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Hard News: We are, at last, navigating…, in reply to Max Barwell,
That would given them a nice easy way to get people out without the bad PR ala Niki Rauti and not honour that promise.
On that note - go see Dieneke Jansens 90 DAYS + installation at Te Tuhi
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Hard News: We are, at last, navigating…, in reply to Jason Kemp,
I'm surprised that some enterprising persons haven't set up a business to literally launder banknotes.
I've got these dollars from Nigeria that just need ink removed...
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Meanwhile in Chchch, the 'legacy' of Hekia Parata's tinkering has resulted in Shirley Boys' High and Avonside Girls being shifted out of Shirley/Richmond and away from the Avon - co-habiting on the old QEII Stadium site in the North Eastern bog areas.
People living in Avonside and Shirley are now out of the proposed new 'school catchment zones' for these schools!
https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018642095/row-in-eastern-christchurch-over-proposed-school-zone-changes
This may have come about based on a 2009 proposal to build a high school in that area, but that was before teh earthquakes and surely didn't factor in Shirley Boys and Avonside being taken out of the equation.
see:
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Hard News: Budget 2018: The broadcasting…, in reply to Russell Brown,
I do tend to think the way to reach kids these days is online and interactive.
Then how do they ‘grow’ kids into becoming adult radio listeners ?
- surely then the medium’s audience dwindle, if no new ears are added, how much harder will it be to compete for them when they hit ‘Wireless’ age?
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Hard News: A Stand for Quaxing, in reply to Brent Jackson,
A pannier on the ass... or the beats of burden!
A little tricky packing them in, but pretty successful
Just add – https://www.pinterest.nz/ElectraBicycle/front-trays-racks-electra-accessories/?lp=true and I always tie two plastic shopping bags together (weight evenly distributed) and sling them over my shoulder, as temporary ‘saddlebags’ when biking or walking, stops things getting caught in the wheels, keeps the hands free and weight better spread without straining arms. (watch out for bag piercing corners and keep bottles to the front)
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Hard News: Budget 2018: The broadcasting…, in reply to Russell Brown,
As a modern digital-age media platform Heihei seems to be missing a radio component.
Radio NZ really only has the weekend early morning story slot for kids (insofar as I am aware) – and nothing to match Dick Weir’s lost lamented evening show Ears (1988-96) – Kids imaginations need to get a little ‘Weired’ – or the really great school holiday programmes I remember as a kid in the ‘60s, presented by Gavin Yates.
I don’t think RNZ’s Wire caters to young kids.I understand the name Heihei was arrived at by kids and parents, and translates from Maori as ’noise or commotion, or chicken’ – not sure about the subliminal takeaway from that …
Just as the logo above, I’m guessing, is meant to emulate the geometry of weaving or tukutuku panels, but to my jaundiced and otherwise-programmed brain I just see a truncated ‘HEIL’ and an exploded swastika – which would be fine if that ancient symbol signifying the “surya (sun), prosperity and good luck” had not been subverted by darker European forces in the 1930s…
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Just the other day I found Australia in the gutter in Grey Lynn!
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I went to see the excellent ’Manifesto’ exhibition at the Auckland Art Gallery today. Keen-eyed Roger Shepherd noticed that the drummer in the piece on ‘Stridentism’ – with Cate Blanchett as a tattooed punk – was Constantine ‘Dino’ Karlis from HDU (now living in Berlin apparently).
I was also interested (and chuffed) to see ex Chchch Art Galllery curator Justin Paton get an acknowledgement as well.…and while you are out looking at art that addresses society and how we interact with the world, get yourself out to Te Tuhi (13 Reeves Rd, Pakuranga) to see Dieneke Jansen’s video installation
90 Days + – a moving image exhibition about the Tamaki Housing Group and their 2017 occupation in Glen Innes. Exhibition runs 13 May – 22 July.- This is art you can sink your Teeth into! – and will make you want to change the world.
Tell your friends and MPs to go see it!!
Here’s a short clip about an earlier work she did on the same important topic – housing – at the Jakarta Biennale
