Hard News by Russell Brown

The Spinoff has an interview with Ben Howe about how much of the revenue reported by RMNZ accrues to local artists.

Which, as noted above, is bugger-all.

Helmet's promoter has pulled their show out of the King's Arms and moved it to Galatos, understandably unwilling to bear the risk of the council shutting it down on the night.

What a debacle.

Something for Chchch punters on Sunday night (8pm)…
Blair Parkes and Cardigan Bay play support for Aussie duo This Way North

Music 101 yesterday had RMNZ admit the local streaming content share is about 7%, while obfuscating that by throwing around some other vague figures about live music and broadcast returns.

I’ve just finished Nick Bollinger’s excellent memoir Goneville – A must read, must have, book of essential reading for all fans of Kiwi music , The music business and general history – it should be on the shelf next To Roger Shepherd’s In Love with these times. Simon Grigg’s How Bizarre and John Dix’s Stranded in Paradise

It took me right back to those times, I remember Peter Frater’s light shows, and all those Lion pubs and other Wellington haunts – great to see a picture of the Wgton Resistance Bookshop, I have hazy memories of crashing in flats in Patanga Crescent back in the 70s – heck I still have a Widemouthed Frogs badge somewhere…

Go get it now – don’t wait for the movie !
- though Bolli-wood has a ring to it now that Nick is back in Wellington!
:- )

http://www.awapress.com/stories/storyReader$997

Booksellers review:
https://booksellersnz.wordpress.com/2016/12/19/book-review-goneville-a-memoir-by-nick-bollinger/

95bfm review:
http://95bfm.com/bcast/loose-reads-gonneville

Patanga Crescent back in the 70s

From where you could see down into the backyard garden of the Chinese Embassy, where in that Gang of Four era all of the flowers were regulation red. Walking past on Tinakori Road after dark you could hear the steady pok...pok of ping pong from within. When Mao died you could go inside to sign the condolence book, which was flanked by a pair of real professional mourners snuffling into hankies.

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I sense there'll be some reflections on what seemed to be a great Underworld show @ Woodhill in the next music post, but in the interim heres a highly readable review of their show at the Sydney Opera house:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/apr/12/underworld-review-born-again-dance-legends-show-no-sign-of-slipping

I sense there’ll be some reflections on what seemed to be a great Underworld show @ Woodhill

There will be indeed. The event itself had stronger and weaker points, but Underworld really blew all that away. They were amazing and it felt like art.