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Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 1654
Hard News: Listen to the Music
Ever since David Haywood wrote Summer of the L.E.D.s, that great little band from Christchurch has been a favourite around here. We're pleased to have been able to help them reach a few more ears. And I'm delighted to say that they're allowing us to give away a free track from their new album, Still, to you, the Public Address readers.
bob daktari
From: auckland
Since: Dec 2006
Posts: 42
cheers for your help with The L.E.D.S CD this morning Russell :)
This week I've been listening/watching Kitty Daisy & Lewis cover of the Canned Heat song 'Going Up The Country' its awesome
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxW3Ed7GrhQ
Russell Brown
From: Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 9057
Moderator
You could do a lot worse than spend some of your free-offer 25 eMusic downloads on this album, because it's brilliant, and you'll be able to say you were totally into Deastro before he was famous.
Oh, and of course, if you were thinking of actually signing up with eMusic, you could let your favourite blog site host put your name in through emusic.com's "tell a friend" feature and earn himself some free downloads (you'd still get yours too).
Just sayin'.
Rich of Observationz
From: Back in Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 2005
Minor admin note: I'm on a temporary computer this morning with IE6, and a page with no comments renders really wierdly with a huge white space. In case the maintainers wanted to know
Anyways, I though Ladyhawke had great energy, which is probably what's driving their success. I still love the advert Suede placed before acquiring Bernard Butler (I think I have this right):
No musos. Some things are more important than talent
Alan Perrott
From: Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 117
for mine it's kraftwerk vs stereolab, and not in a good way.
all a bit twee for my ears. I think I'd done my dash with understated kiwi shoegazers quite some time ago.
it's cos I'm black innit...
Rich of Observationz
From: Back in Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 2005
Can I also pimp a post by Matthew Holloway on the Wellington curry list, since I know a lot of artists and creators are here?
This concerns the ACTA treaty, currently being secretly negotiated by MED - this will, if passed in its current form, allow any content owner to search and monitor systems for copyright material *without a court order*. In other words, bug your Internet to see if you've got a pirated Metallica song on there (and if you haven't, well, move on).
Here's the email:
As most of you are well aware ACTA is a nasty bit of law that's being
negotiated right now by MED. For those unfamiliar there's write-up
here,So the IT community are well represented (by InternetNZ, and Mark
Harris) on ACTA but they're only part of it, and what influenced MED
in the past was artists speaking up. So we're going through the steps
of talking to artists and if you know any you might want to forward
that link to bronwyn.co.nz to them. The more artists speaking up
against this (particularly well known ones) the better -- so please do
your bit to help out :)
Steve Parks
From: Wellington
Since: May 2007
Posts: 723
Russell, your link to the Wiki article on 'I Kissed a Girl' isn't quite functioning.
Steve Parks
From: Wellington
Since: May 2007
Posts: 723
Ha Ha.
From Wikipedia:
Perry's mother, Mary Hudson, who is an evangelical Christian preacher, said she disliked the song, stating: "It clearly promotes homosexuality and its message is shameful and disgusting..."
[SNIP]
Slant and other critics suggest that Perry may be homophobic...
Man, she just can't win...
Thom James
From: Auckland
Since: Apr 2007
Posts: 63
Point Chev Countdown really is one of Auckland's finest supermarkets
Tom Beard
From: Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 686
he hadn't worked out why people start spewing comparisons when they hear his band.
Isn't that what every armchair critic does with every band? In any case, maybe it's just that they remind us of so many things we like.
the weirdest comparison they got was the Pet Shop Boys
Um, I think that may have been me: I think I wrote on the Wellingtonista or Texture once that they reminded me of what the PSB would sound like if they were signed to Flying Nun. The PSB reference was more to the knowing, deadpan, not-afraid-to-sound-brainy vocals ... oh, and they haz synth, of course, but that's about it.
Thom James
From: Auckland
Since: Apr 2007
Posts: 63
This is really floating my boat at the mo; Fleet Foxes' 'White Winter Hymnal'. Just luvverly.
Danielle
From: PAS Women's XV Strategic Headquarters
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 2249
Russell. I entreat you: do not name any further blog posts after Doobie Brothers songs. I shall go mad with this earworm. Mad I say! :)
Kyle Matthews
From: Dunedin
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 4400
I need to (I can't say 'pimp' at present, given the discussion on Emma Hart's blog) promote my girlfriend's band, who will be putting out their debut album sometime soon, but which is mostly online anyway:
Meow ('pop electric acoustic country music recorded on a hazy Sunday afternoon type thing')
She would want me to mention that she used to play in a band with 'Martin', pre-Chills days, and not want me to mention that she told him that The Chills is a 'stupid name for a band, that'll never work'.
Tom Beard
From: Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 686
Slant and other critics suggest that Perry may be homophobic...
Perhaps not so much homophobic as "exploiting the stereotypical image of pretty bi-curious girlies making out for the titillation of heterosexual men".
Does it for me, though.</bloke>
Paul Litterick
From: Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 897
The "I kissed a girl" link is here
samuel walker
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 190
This is really floating my boat at the mo; Fleet Foxes' 'White Winter Hymnal'. Just luvverly.
oh yeah, iz speshiul. and a divine video too. utterly mesmerising.
Daniel Webster
From: Christchurch
Since: May 2007
Posts: 3
The L.E.D.s have always reminded me more of Ladytron than anything else, but with less lady, naturally.
Grant Stone
From: Auckland
Since: Dec 2006
Posts: 28
At the moment I can't stop listening to the new Richard Swift EP, available for free here
Grant McDougall
From: Dunedin
Since: Dec 2006
Posts: 305
Yep, gotta say the new L.E.D.s album is a cracker.
As for Ladyhawke, I reckon she's gonna be a flash in the pan. Her songs are insubstantial and pretty laboured, compared to, say, the far more original and talented Bachelorette.
Simon Grigg
From: Just another klong...
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 2149
oh yeah, iz speshiul. and a divine video too. utterly mesmerising.
After having scorned Fleet Foxes rather brutally in another thread, I'm gonna do a humiliating 180 and say that I agree.
I was turned by hearing this on this podcast, where, enticingly, a beat is mixed underneath a minute or so in..it works.
And talking of Brian Wilson....I think his new album (in his ongoing succession of one shockingly awful album followed by something quite wonderful...genius rarely equals reliability) is rather fine.
samuel walker
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 190
gagging for the new Timmy Schumacher single with the guy from OpShop singing on it, but no, too risky apparently.
Its a stormer of a tune. with the kind of crossover yet credible sound that The Chemical Brothers manage with their colaborations. Plus the OpShop guy does sound gooooood [and i have never gravitated towards their sound, at all]. It has hit written all over it. fools.
Russell. I entreat you: do not name any further blog posts after Doobie Brothers songs. I shall go mad with this earworm. Mad I say! :)
HMMMM, i was thinking Neon Heights myself....
for the quality junkies: 234mb version of White Winter Hymnal here
Luke Williamson
From: Warkworth
Since: Oct 2007
Posts: 132
My 10-year-old daughter was wandering around the house last night signing, "I kissed a girl and I liked it . . ." A little disconcerting.
Tom Beard
From: Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 686
My 10-year-old daughter was wandering around the house last night signing, "I kissed a girl and I liked it . . ." A little disconcerting.
More or less disconcerting than if she's been singing "I kissed a boy and I liked it . . ."?
Paul Williams
From: Sydney
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 1354
Is this a good place to say how freaking amazing it was to go to a Paul Weller (Sydney) gig last night... I'd've kissed him </spurious connection with thread>
Peter Hoar
From: Auckland
Since: Sep 2007
Posts: 4
While it's a friday music thing, here's a little gem that may amuse fans of the Portsmouth Sinfonia.
The New Zealand Friendly Orchestra (NZFO) made its debut at Auckland's St Matthew's last saturday night.
We tried our best to play the notes but some of us hadn't touched the violin (or whatever instrument) for 30 years and many were APO players picking up entirely new instruments. And then doing their best.
We did raise over $1000 for charity. Yay.
And had a lot of fun.
Here is the opening piece of the concert: Also Sprach Zarathustra by R. Strauss (2001: A Space Odyssey theme)
Warning: Musically sensitive auditors may be disturbed.
Stephen Judd
From: Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 2033
FEELINGS ARE BORING
KISSING IS AWESOME
Robyn Gallagher
From: Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 1309
Teenagers and young women of today kiss each other at parties. I don't get it.
A couple of years ago a friend of mine, in her early 30s, was at a work do. After a while much drink had been drunk and the 19-year-old student part-timer declared that everyone should start smooching. My friend was horrified and wandered off to drink more; the guys at the party weren't. Sadly, no one wanted to kiss the one bisexual woman there.
Simon Grigg
From: Just another klong...
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 2149
Is this a good place to say how freaking amazing it was to go to a Paul Weller (Sydney) gig last night... I'd've kissed him
Lucky bastard! His new album is actually quite good (and it's a pleasure for an old Jam / TSC fiend to say that as he's got boringly rockist in recent years).
he bought me a drink once, years back...he said he liked the music I was playing. The irony was I wasn't Djing, it was my mate, I was just in the booth hanging out. I took the drink though..you do when Paul Weller buys it for you (he also bought the DJ one).
Paul Williams
From: Sydney
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 1354
Lucky bastard! His new album is actually quite good (and it's a pleasure for an old Jam / TSC fiend to say that as he's got boringly rockist in recent years).
He did three or four tracks from the new album, but the highlights for me where tracks from Stanley Road (oh, and 'That's Entertainment' of course). Great audience too; hard-core Jam fans seem to have aged well. I'm in my late 30s and would have been amongst the youngest of the audience.
Incidentally, for no particularly reason, I dug out my copy of Dix's Stranded in Paradise recently ... you feature in a fair bit of the '70s and '80s don't you...
Russell Brown
From: Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 9057
Moderator
Incidentally, for no particularly reason, I dug out my copy of Dix's Stranded in Paradise recently ... you feature in a fair bit of the '70s and '80s don't you...
Christ! Does that mean we should look out for the slightly ironic Simon Grigg revival?
Paul Williams
From: Sydney
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 1354
you feature in a fair bit of the '70s and '80s don't you...
... by which I meant photographically
Christ! Does that mean we should look out for the slightly ironic Simon Grigg revival?
Perhaps someone in the PAS universe could do Stranded in Paradise: Redux?
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