Posts by Mike O'Connell
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Hard News: Friday Music: Magnificent melancholy, in reply to Jason Kemp,
it seems like “These Days” was written by
...Ian Curtis and JD :-) It's been a while so I dug it out!
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Hard News: Friday Music: Magnificent melancholy, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
Anthonie Tonnon has a new video - for an 'old single' - Sugar in the Petrol Tank. Some of the footage looks familiar, from 'Chinatown' area of Dominion Road
One year on since its release, still can't get over how damn good his album Successor is
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Hard News: Friday Music: Making the…, in reply to nzlemming,
Yep, I saw that. Accurate down to Ringo's idiosyncratic ‘fly swat’ left hand style on a right hand kit. As he says himself, he was born left-handed but taught to write right-handed by his grandmother - as well as explaining how to pay Ticket to Ride, Come Together and Back off Boogaloo
…Born in The Wrong Time - the Kilgours and Paul Kean also played it Thursday. And I came across this recent version too - SMF (Chris Heazlewood, Stu Kawowski and a chap called Lance 'Tribal Thunder' Strickland) recorded in Melbourne
I prefer the Gutteridge version put up earlier. -
Something odd with my attempts to upload - hopefully this is the Kilgour brothers, earlier on in the night
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Hard News: Friday Music: Making the…, in reply to Jonathan Ganley,
And some here from the Thur night show in Lyttelton - not super quality but you get the gist...
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oops, closed the night with Lolita
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Hard News: Friday Music: Making the…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Indeed it was Ian, Yes, Paul said you were crook. Big crowd young and old-er. You're right, David M wasn't able to make it. Paul played 'bass' on Fish and Point that Thing - basically the top strings on an acoustic. It all went down a treat. Bruce Russell opened proceedings. John Collie hopped on drums for a couple and Stephen Cogle closed the night with ... as the Clean often did, left us wanting more. Short and sweet.
I wonder if Hamish K has considered an alternative career - in the spirit of Easter, he quipped (knowing the flag referendum result was in) that John Key should be nailed to a cross, upside down, placed on the back of a truck and hauled through the residential red zone, wrapped in a Lockwood flag loincloth!
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Hard News: Friday Music: The hottest rap…, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Oh yes, I can imagine. And plenty more of it as we went into the 80s. I can recall one Roy Montgomery having a good crack at (then NZ Cricket Chair) Walter Hadlee when he spoke at the Lower Common Room trying to defend the 1981 Springbok Tour on the basis of that old 'sports and politics don't mix' chestnut.
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Not sure if it's been mentioned yet but on Friday, RDU began celebrating its 40th anniversary, setting the scene for, a five month party at Canterbury Museum. There’s a link in there to the Squirm doco, Gone with the Weird from 2011
What do we get? Live gigs, music and broadcasts, Four formal showcase events starting April 29 with Feeding the Natives. Described as ‘a night of “folk-noir”’ in which Lawrence Arabia is partaking, watching him the other night at the Wunderbar, he quipped he was more ‘folk-blanc’! Delaney Davidson and Nadia Reid round out that show.
And of course there’s the exhibition itself running until August charting 40 years of RDU. At the outset, they were warned off any political broadcasting and nearly got chucked off air for debating the ’76 All Black tour to South Africa. Other ‘older and wiser’ readers will know more about these nuances than me!
Russell, are you included as part of any events? Like last year’s CPIT talk? Otherwise you'll just have to put on the Travelling Shoes and come on down and catch some of this!
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Getting back to George Martin, acclaimed Beatles biographer Philip Norman has written a piece It could easily have been Lennon McCartney and Martin. Here too, musicians pay tribute to Martin.
Much has been said about Tomorrow Never Knows. For that masterpiece, A Day in the Life, there was no written score: Martin simply gave the musicians (in their red noses and gorilla paws!), a top and bottom note and told them:
’Gentlemen, in between, it’s every man for himself.’ As a result, a producer who never so much as puffed a joint created veritable drug-delirium in sound.
Recalling the 'Thatcher/ that Cher' death mix-up in 2013, somewhat amusingly, Game of Thrones author George RR Martin told his fans this week that rumours buzzing around the web that he’d died ‘have been greatly exaggerated.’
