Posts by Mike O'Connell
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This is off-topic but nevertheless musically related.
Going back to the recent Nowhere! Festival, some of you may have been and seen the Terminals on the Sat night. I was by good chance there too. To cut to the chase, singer Stephen Cogle's treasured songbook vanished after their set. It was full of lyrics, notes, arrangements etc for Dark Matter and recent Terminals' songs. Stephen referred to it throughout as the night's track list. It was A5-size, fattish.
Did anyone by chance see it or know of its fate? It disappeared somewhere between the Whammy stage and equipment storage at Audio Foundation. He'd dearly love to get it back.Let me know or get in touch directly with Stephen if you know him (I don't think he's on PA.)
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Hard News: #eqnz: Okay?, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
reports of opportunist burglaries coming in from New Brighton, grrrrr...
Scumbags! See: http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/86419856/evacuated-brighton-family-has-house-ransacked-truck-stolen
One report is from a family whose daughter Alisha (who has FSHD - a form of muscular dystrophy) who had her all important iPad stolen. Makes you sick. -
The Simpsons predicted President Trump 16 years ago as ‘a warning to America it was going insane'''. In an episode called Bart to The Future, the Simpsons predicted (16 years ago) 'the tycoon would become leader of the free world'
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Hard News: Friday Music! It's us, as culture, in reply to JacksonP,
Stage set-up was really odd in Staveley with drum kit off to the right - making it harder to exchange cues,and it wasn't actually on the stage! Here's a two guitar shot to add to yours above :-)
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Hard News: Friday Music! It's us, as culture, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
It was a great wee gig wasn't it? My Motorola struggles at night. My best shot of the night attached. Blair BTW is playing a seldom seen Fender Starcaster
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Hard News: Friday Music! It's us, as culture, in reply to Russell Brown,
I’ve heard nothing but good things about this tour.
Saw the Staveley show at (Lynda) Topp Lodge. Which I imagined would be a cosy indoor spot but it was a huge shed with the stage to the side. And with a clearing southerly, it was damn cold - outside and inside (in spite of kerosene heaters) which made watching the last few songs pretty uncomfortable. Acoustically, when the key was E (which was often!), that coincided distractingly with the vibrational frequency of the metal doors closest to the stage. Shayne got visibly bit peeved with the chatterers at the back but held back on the invective.
Otherwise not a bad night night out and away from the city. The on-stage banter was good and we learnt Shayne has a moth phobia! My favourite was, the surprisingly early-in-set, "Don't Fight It Marsha".
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Rodney Dangerfield – Stanley The Manly Transvestite (Early 1960s)
Nice article David. Love the Dangerfield track!
It's probably included in Aston's book but I'd like to reference also the fabulous Joe Meek of Telstar fame who was gay,as was Brian Epstein, in a society in which homophobia was rife. As some will know, Meek rejected the Beatles - "they're rubbish!" ...but that's another story. He also produced the Honeycomb's "Have I The Right"
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Hard News: Friday Music! Special Records, in reply to Russell Brown,
Hey, how’d your stall go yesterday?
And I met the fine Mr Dalziel at last - and met again after many a long time the fine Mr Parkes...whom I look forward to see performing with Cardigan Bay, as Ian has recently re-posted, this Thursday at the Darkroom.
BTW Anita and Mike's combo (along with the fabulous Mr Simon Gregory who-can-play-pretty-well-anything on guitar) is Devilish Mary and the Holy Rollers. There should be a photo attached. 'Twas a wonderful day and the Arts Centre rebuild is taking shape bit by rapidly growing bit with the North Quad also re-opened Saturday.
And another one for the diaries next week is the recently 'in-doctor-nated' Bruce Russell appearing with travelling poet David Merritt - a Poetry Hooha - at the Lyttelton Coffee Company, Thur 27 Oct.
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Speaker: "The Ministry is interfering at…, in reply to Zed Brookes,
Great post Zed. Gosh, this discussion reminds me of that old chestnut from Oscar Wilde from 1892 in Lady Windemere’s Fan about the price v. value
I happened across UK blogger Paul Bernal who from an article a couple of years ago in a nod to Wilde's cynic made this observation, apt when one sees is unfolding in our tertiary education system:
The idea that anyone in the ‘real world’ should even consider ethical, moral, philosophical or cultural values to be on a par with financial or economic ‘value’ appears whimsical, sentimental, even romantic. Hard-nosed, sensible, rational, practical people ‘know’ otherwise. It’s the economy, stupid.
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Hard News: Friday Music! Special Records, in reply to Mike O'Connell,
Nowhere! Festival, Nov 3-6.
BTW the Friday night includes performances from Dark Matter and a Stapleton – Elborado – Kraus collaboration. Peter 'Buck' Stapleton is also of course in Eye.
