Posts by Yamis
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Yeah those Korean music variety shows are generally shockers. All K-Pop shite. There is actually a fair amount of decent music in Korea but it just isn't mainstream over there. It's still able to exist fine because of the size of the market but the stuff that gets pushed on TV and the record stores tends to be diabolical ballads and girl and boy bands.
I'm wondering when we will actually get more non-english speaking music on TV and radio here if ever. We get more and more radio stations and music channels so there could be a little niche opening up for it. Some of my favourite groups are Korean and I can barely understand a word of what they are saying. They have a lot of good hip hop groups and I would say that that scene is at least as good as hip hop in NZ right now.
I'm back there for a few weeks in January and if I don't spend all my spending money on booze catching up with mates I'll spend the rest on cds.
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Conversation amongst ourselves here but who cares. They certainly won't ever be 'as big' as the groups mentioned but with the music market place being many, many times larger than it was back in the day I think they would be able to do the odd world tour playing to decent sized soldout venues well after they have stopped writing decent songs. To an extent it will depend on how they handle themselves in the media and their will to even carry on. I've tried thinking of other groups from the past 15-20 years who could soldier on to large live audiences in the coming decades and I'm not sure there are any. Nirvana is an obvious no, Pearl Jam?, any suggestions?
But I really don't know a hell of a lot about the music industry so I should really stick to sport.
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I dunno. They are energetic, have a huge number of hits which a lot of people know the words to and they are well known around the world and to different generations. Kids today listen to them and they have been going strong for over 20 years. I saw them in concert in Korea a couple of years ago playing one of their newer albums to 15,000 Koreans. They have more than enough hits to live off right now but if they put out a few more big selling albums in the next decade and are in the mood to keep on going I don't see what would stop them from becoming something from my generation to cling to and show off to our kids in the same way that Elvis, the Beatles and Rolling Stones have been shoved down our throats and ears our whole lives when I'm not the least bit interested.
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Chili Peppers will be the Rolling Stones of our generation.
They'll be touring when they are 60 and we will be filling Mt Smart (or the waterfront stadium) with waving lighters (if smoking and fireworks haven't been banned).
Their stuff now is getting fairly repetitive but it's still better singalong stuff than most. IMHO.
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Oh, Lang Park = Suncorp Stadium.
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wikipedia link for Suncorp Stadium
That there be a link to the wikipedia entry for lang Park, destination for Rob Fisher and some journalists on a free lunch to the max.
Never been to Lang Park but I notice from the text: "Suncorp Stadium is within walking distance of the CBD area of Brisbane". I wonder if that will be noted upon their return.
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I'd like more Asians please. They make up about 20% of my high school roll but probably took out about 30% of the awards at our senior prize giving. There's some stats for DC. On top of that most of them are polite and hardworking and do not fill our detention room each lunchtime.
Send everybody else overseas.
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I'm 110% certain that they should build a waterfront stadium. Or is that 120% these days? I'm just waiting for our next sporting champion to say he is going to give 1000% effort. It'll be like the four minute mile only for illiterate people.
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Would it work to have Dobbyn take lyrics from Welcome Home and Loyal and maybe refine them and add a few more appropriate ones to come up with a new national anthem for NZ?
It'd work for me.
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Further to that, people seemed to have forgotten that the vast majority of big ticket events would be kicking off at 7:30pm on friday and saturday nights which is when it is fairly well deserted down round the proposed site.
As you say Russell, plenty of empty parking buildings and a bus depot and railway station basically over the road.
Could it get any easier to get in and out??!!!!!!!!!