Posts by Hugh Wilson
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Dalvinious is an intriguing character, and his records are pretty damn elusive! The odd one pops up on Ebay, and theres even a strange xmas themed 45 (with groovy cover art) that he cut out there .. I've got the Collision LP, on which he does back up vocals. Thanks for posting that link :)
Recently came across my Willams S Burroughs Spare Ass Annie cassette - suspect I won it off BFM back in the 90s, as I recall them pushing it a bit BITD ... Micheal Franti was involved with that one too .. might have to rig up the cassette deck to revisit
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Hard News: Friday Music: Back on the K, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I saw the Violent Femme's in the early 1990's at Auckland Town Hall, but it might have been the tour after that for which you have the poster Ian (I have vague recollections of them coming out quite often for an OS band at the time) ..
And on the bonus beat, came across a radio show special on the Cool Ruler himself, the mighty Gregory Isaacs:
https://www.mixcloud.com/ReggaeRevolutionRadioShow/reggae-revolution-7-19-16/
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Australia's celebrity psephologist Anthony Green is speaking in Wellington tonight in case anyone was interested:
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Big ups on some of the reggae links above Russell - I've got that Augustus Pablo album, and find all of the historical stuff super interesting. Will digest over the weekend, when I get a minute. The Trojan catalogue is deep, and there are certainly a tonne of comps out there (personal softspot for those put out by Heartbeat, back in the late 80's).
And Gregory, the smooth ruler - this is one of my favs:
Curiously a few reggae bands have sprung up in Melbourne of late and clearly they're all big fans as there have been some fantastic and unexpected covers. Earlier this year I was floored to hear 'Cry Tuff' being done live, and last Saturday night - in addition to John Holt's 'Riding for a fall' - we got Hemsley Morris's 'Strange Things' .. under the golden moon shines a silver light ...Hopefully this works ... 30 seconds of 'Strange things' by the Moonhops
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Unfortunately 'denial and attack' has pretty much become the default setting for the Coalition in Australia whenever someone disagrees with them .... so many examples its depressing, so I won't bother listing any
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Polity: Australian election: Dust and Diesel, in reply to Moz,
The Greens getting one lower house seat (0.66%) from 10% of the vote it looks dodgy as.
Yes, this is the point I made above. Further, I think its reasonable to believe that the Greens would get a higher first preference vote if voters were aware that would have more meaningful translation - i.e. proportional representation.
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Hopefully this GIF embeds (if not click through) … a clever visual of how first preference vote patterns have changed (and remained the same) in Melbourne across the last three elections.
http://www.smh.com.au/cqstatic/gq1atp/Melb_1stPref_HigherRes.gif -
Just on the Gil Scott Heron reference … back in the 90’s the likes of Coldcut and Steinski caught my ears, with Coldcut sampling Jello Biafra’s quote ‘don’t hate the media, become the media!’ and conveying that sentiment through their live shows and many recordings … At the time there weren’t a lot of channels for the sentiment to be realised, but clearly times have changed
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A couple of quick thoughts …
Firstly the Coalition has secured a majority, so they are not hanging on to independents – they’re important yes, but not crucial at this point in time
I also ‘get’ the bias you write of, but have to admit I’m not overly convinced by the analysis. Redistributions occur after every election, and the fact that both parties have been a situation of winning the popular vote but not the election casts doubt on the idea this is systematic or deeply engrained (which is what the term bias implies).Given democratic ideals are evoked, the biggest gap to my eyes seems to be the outcome for the Greens, who got nearly 10% of the lower house vote for one seat. There’s clearly a segue to voting systems here (not my area of specialisation), but blind Freddy could see the current outcome is not overly representative. Further, before the election we had both major parties predicting the sky would fall in were they forced into a minority government situation (the term ‘caravan of chaos’ comes to mind), but the tune quickly changed come election night and the day after.
My sense is that there little to no outrage about the possibility of Labour getting more TPP vote than the Coalition – it’s not the metric which determines the outcome, and people know this. There is some degree of exasperation though about the banal childish nature of many Australian politicians - some of them were seen off at the election (Clive Palmer, Jamie Briggs etc) but others have held on ..
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Turns out I did salvage a half dozen copies from my oldies garage!
