Posts by Geoff Lealand
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Hard News: Friday Music: Go Home DJ,
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Neil Young was magnificent in Wellington last night but the TSB Arena is a horrible, horrible venue.
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Hard News: My Food Bag: is it any good?, in reply to linger,
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Book reviewing for academic journals is largely a social service, to ensure colleagues derive some attention for their efforts. You get bugger-all credit for PBRF and it often involves hours of work. Touting for expensive food parcels--that is another matter, I think that food banks have more social value, rather than another indulgence for the middle class.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Go Home DJ,
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And a lonely soul near the mouth of the Awakino River;
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Hard News: Friday Music: Go Home DJ,
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More WOMAD: Japanese artists Shunsuke Kimura & Etsuro Ono, on Tsugaru Shamisen (sort of a Japanese banjo)
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Hard News: Friday Music: Go Home DJ,
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Vieux Farka Toure at WOMAD on Saturday. Taj Mahal guested on one song–a blues number dedicated to Taranaki.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Go Home DJ, in reply to Tony P,
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Spot you there in Wellington?
I really enjoyed Vieux Farka Toure at WOMAD on Saturday but his torrent of electric blues makes you wonder what 'world music'. might be,
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime,
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Here it is;
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime,
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A High Street, Christchurch photo from last year . This place has significance for me because it was where I discovered the Shirley Temple scrapbook, which set me off on a investigation, which will take me to film archives in the USA next month.
I really like the juxtaposition of signs…
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Hard News: Friday Music: Noise for the neighbours,
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The music thread is most appropriate for this: I am heading off on Saturday morning, for afternoon sessions at WOMAD in New Plymouth, and can offer a ride from Hamilton to New Plymouth to interested parties. Doing something else on Sunday (visiting cinemas) but I could provide a lift back as well. Email me.
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Lovely stuff, Jackson!
