Posts by Simon Grigg
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Feed: My Life in Curry, in reply to Greg Wood,
Although having said that, Samy’s Curry House on the Dempsey hill was (still is) my favourite. “Fine South Indian Cuisine”
Damn - now you've got me Greg. I'm in HK next week I hope ....
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Feed: My Life in Curry, in reply to Greg Wood,
a duplicate post it seems.
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Later on in London, we’d trip up to the famous South Indian restaurants in Euston.
The same Euston strip also had the Everest which introduced me to Terai Nepalese curries, a passion I've retained to this day. I'm lucky enough to get to Hong Kong a few times a year and have become habitual in my need to head to the Himalaya in Wan Chai (and the killer Szechuan place just along from it but that's another story).
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My current passion are deep southern Thai curries. Blending together central Thai, Malay, Burmese and Southern Indian influences, they tend to be (although not always are) very dry, fragrant (as in northern Malay curries) and – sorry Raymond but this food needs it as it’s part of the complexity – blisteringly chili-hot.
The Thai food served in New Zealand is usually Isaan derived (North East Thailand) and usually a bizarre Kiwi re-versioning of that to boot. I’ve not seen southern Thai cuisine anywhere.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Changing Times, in reply to Alan Perrott,
mate, where will these be available? and remastered you say? best news I’ve heard all day.
Remastered by Stebbings from the original master tape (which I have happily). Real Groovy will have it, as will other New Zealand and international outlets. I’ve licensed it to Raw Power (Simon Kay) who always does these things well.
It was going to come out for the last RSD but wasn’t ready and Simon rejected the cut in the US.
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I guess I'm asking - do you know what the artist return is for physical vs digital vs streaming (for, say, a thousand people purchasing/listening)..
That's totally dependent on the contract the artist has with the label, or the business model the artist might otherwise use to distribute their music.
That 11% drop in physical is also heavily varied from country to country. In the UK the drop was small and in France physical rose by 1%.
Competing against vinyl, my local, owned digital repository, radio streaming, soundcloud, bandcamp, mixcloud etc... I may have hit the wall.
Spotify has been a massive bonus for us at AudioCulture as it allows us to embed whole albums on pages for visitors to dig into. Added to that is Recorded Music NZ's drive to get all (as in everything ever released, at least by the bigger labels) New Zealand albums online over time, which is rather incredible (the chance of prototype early teen hearthrob Ronnie Sundin's cool 1960 album getting reissue any other way is zero but we will have it in a week or two thanks to Spotify and RMNZ).
RSD: also expect 500 copies of a remastered 7" of The Suburban Reptiles 'Saturday Night Stay At Home', with essays from or interviews with most of the band and Phil Judd. It's a good 'un.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Changing Times, in reply to David Hood,
It should be noted the biggest selling list bears no real resemblance to the biggest earning list from Billboard about 10 days ago
That list. to be fair, is heavily skewed by touring income. I doubt the sales of Fleetwood Mac, for example, added heavily to their 19m.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Both sides of…, in reply to Richard Aston,
in that shop in Lorne st – forgotten the name.
Taste Records, owned by the late Dave Perkins, bless his soul. It had a listening booth with extractor fans so you could get in the right state of mind to *understand* the music.
I managed the shop briefly when it moved to High Street.
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Notes & Queries: Kiwi Queer Screen (Part…, in reply to David Herkt,
It’s cast of extras also deserves mention.
Watching it again last week I spotted myself in the takeaway bar. I have no memory of that scene even being filmed but I was quite thrilled. As I recall we were not only extras but we were also tasked by Richard as unpaid all hands on board. I have a memory of carrying stuff into BackStage and moving furnture around our flat at 27 Birdwood
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.. ‘Hooligan 69’ ...
you lucky bastard ...