Posts by Julian Melville
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Argh, can't make Dec 4. Have a good one!
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So. At the same time that a few thousand confused angry people were steaming up Queen St, roughly the same number of people were packing out the athletics stadium at Mt Smart in order to hang out in the sunshine, play their ukuleles and have a nice day out.
That seems to have garnered only a 30 second spot at the end of the TV1 news and absolutely no coverage at all on NZH or Stuff (not counting the press releases from before the event). Not even a column from Tapu Misa about how minorities were particularly well represented and everybody had a good time.
I know which event I'd rather have been at. Fortunately, I was.
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I thought the Civic was already on acid.
It's not bad, but it's merely the warm-up act for the State:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/State_Theatre_Sydney_Foyer.jpg
http://zabetheli.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/the-state-theatre/
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Sarah McLeod of the Superjesus
She's wonderful. Pretty much my favourite rock moment ever was at the 1997? 8? Falls Festival when someone chucked a bottle out of the crowd, straight at her head. She caught it with her left hand, told the audience to throw underwear instead, and carried on with the show.
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I went straight from doing the Thursday night classical show on Radio Contact (one night back in ninety-something) into a Bailter Space gig at the Bongo. That was too much contrast for me and I had to beat a retreat fairly quickly. Pity as they sounded amazing. I'll always remember my jeans slapping against the front of my legs as I walked in through the door from the sheer volume and standing waves in the room.
I saw Charlie Parr when he opened for Paul Kelly in Sydney earlier this year (a completely wonderful show btw) and one of his anecdotes was great, all about how he'd have worn a suit if he'd known the venue (NSW State Theatre, think the Civic on acid) would be so nice. He'd gone halves on a good suit with his Dad on the grounds that they were about the same size and didn't often attend the same functions. Then his Dad died... and they buried him in the suit. Weird feeling to be laughing when someone's just told you their Dad died!
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Ah, the means testing. My old man owned his own business by then, and the means testing scheme wasn't set up to understand something or other about how that worked, disaster! I spent days wandering sadly around the university from queue to queue, not understanding the first reason why I was doing so.
And the late allowances - I had a flatmate who'd worked overseas for charities for several years and needed to prove it in order to claim whatever allowance you could get when you weren't dependent on your parents. It turns out that Romanian orphanages are a bit light on in the paperwork department, so after several months of back and forth with her on the edge of desperation we all set to one evening and forged a convincing paper trail. Problem solved.
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Oh, melikey. Nice work!
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In my experience the people talking up Melbourne are mostly not in it, once you get there they never stop whining about the place. I didn't mind it that much, but then I liked Sydney too.
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Nice read! Beervana coincides nicely with my 40th so I think it'll be a trip down there for the occasion.
George - surely beer is only mostly bad in Aussie, not all bad. Anything from Matilda Bay is good in my experience, as is Little Creatures and even James Squire.
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Go the Wot Wots!
Oh, hell yes. A kids show I can watch without being overcome with an urge to scratch my eyes out. Great stuff.