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  • Hard News: Heard any good tunes lately?,

    and giving his music away

    his music? the copyright issues would see it as him giving other peoples music away, that he hasn't cleared rights for.

    I completely agree with you, his motivation is to pack stadiums, there's no left field belief in the honesty system going down here, he's using the recorded works as a loss leader to pull people into his live performance, where he makes the money, which he doesn't have to share with copyright holders. $$$ca-ching$$$

    new zealand • Since May 2007 • 1882 posts Report

  • Hard News: Heard any good tunes lately?,

    good list simon. particularly envy the features one.
    I knew greg churchill when he was spinning cocteau twins on rdu.

    new zealand • Since May 2007 • 1882 posts Report

  • Hard News: Heard any good tunes lately?,

    this is catchy - joy formidable

    These guys are obsessed with the gordons, they're still in school I think
    body 125


    dunedin alt country go-betweens kinda
    the alpha state

    "summer sun" is the sound of warmth if it ever gets here.

    new zealand • Since May 2007 • 1882 posts Report

  • Hard News: Heard any good tunes lately?,

    re: Radiohead, albeit at a grassroots level, the model isn't dead yet

    not really the same thing though, he's using that model in an attempt to avoid dealing with the copyright issue he faces if he sold his music up front.
    If he was seen to be making money from selling his collages he'd be ripped apart by the copyright owners in seconds, he still may be, depending on whether they think he'd be worth the effort.

    new zealand • Since May 2007 • 1882 posts Report

  • Hard News: Heard any good tunes lately?,

    simon,
    lets have your
    - 5 best nz band gigs not featuring a turntable, one has to be in the last 10 years. (has to be a specific gig, not just 'the screaming mee mees' etc, one where the band went beyond performing their great songs, where the event left a permanent impression on you, not physically hopefully)

    - your 3 best overseas bands playing in nz gigs

    - the best thing or 3 you've seen out of nz

    and if you must, something involving djs and mass audiences.

    new zealand • Since May 2007 • 1882 posts Report

  • Hard News: Heard any good tunes lately?,

    don't know about haig's timing acrobatics but I was the perfect combination of an intense performance, cool songs, and perfect sound, paul kean on the desk who pulled a sonic masterpiece in a usually shitty sounding room.
    I have a recording of the concert somewhere.

    new zealand • Since May 2007 • 1882 posts Report

  • Hard News: Heard any good tunes lately?,

    best gigs

    almost all of my memorable gigs happened in small venues, most of em were local bands.

    nocturnal projections on a frosty cold night at the punakiki music festival, all cloud breath and intensity.
    HDU intimate and loud at the dux
    Beat Rhythm Fashion at the gladstone
    YFC gladstone, even better when they reformed
    children's hour @ kings arm reform, best view ever.
    snapper @ canty uni
    Enright house @ southern amp
    insurgents @ media club in june

    and the odd overseas act

    cure seventeen seconds tour,
    flaming lips@ BDO
    Underworld @ reading festival 96
    My bloody valentine @ sydney uni

    new zealand • Since May 2007 • 1882 posts Report

  • Hard News: Heard any good tunes lately?,

    err haven't we been over this time and time again?

    I think last time it was visited there seemed to be a brave new world slant to radioheads bold move toward a visionary business model. the linked article kinda dampens that vibe,

    Digital frisbee. Throw it at Robbery.

    you kiwi guys and your physical activity.
    I'm boycotting all sport cos I just sat through the build up to the olympics and that god awful 2 tribes rip off music tv1 saw fit to run through the back of their "nz and the olympics" thing. it may take some time to recover.

    new zealand • Since May 2007 • 1882 posts Report

  • Hard News: Heard any good tunes lately?,

    As if Radiohead care.

    only enough to abandon it as a viable business model and relinquish it to the novelty act that it was, got em good attention, worked once, not so much the next time someone tried it.

    new zealand • Since May 2007 • 1882 posts Report

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