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Already have the story Sacha - from Gary Steel who is a longtime big fan. Not sure when it will go live but soon-ish
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Hard News: Friday Music: Enter Audioculture, in reply to "chris",
Hi Chris,
Thanks for the comments. A few things:
- all of the above artists are on a priority list and most have actually been allocated to writers. Some we already have (there is a great John Rowles story for example due to go live next week, written by Adam Gifford who knows both his stuff and John). For my sins, I wrote TrueBliss 'cos I have insider knowledge that few have.
- as we've always said the site is a work in progress and it was never the intention to go: bang - here it is, the complete history of New Zealand music. We are building it slowly and, hopefully, respectfully and we want ensure each of the above is presented properly. It's not that the above don't matter, it's more that they do.
- contributions are welcomed - see http://www.audioculture.co.nz/about
- each page may not win a Pulitzer but some, especially the major acts, take a great deal of informed work. I point you towards Andrew Schmidt's Chills page which was the result of 2 decades of his research into NZ popular music, then interviews and more solid recent research. Or Russell's Exponents story (linked above) or Gary Steel's Shayne Carter, both of which indicate intimate knowledge of their subject. That doesn't mean that other stories are not valid and we've built the site so we can painlessly add as many as possible - as an example if you look at the OMC page, a story I wrote is added as a second feature.
- being highly graphic, each page needs images, and we have some amazing ones. I have personally scanned some 2000 images, many of which were in a pretty poor state so they needed lots of post scan TLC, and I have another 2000 on a harddrive supplied digitally. That takes time.And quite importantly, I'm as intrigued by the small stuff as much as the big stuff. We all know who Supergroove are - important as they may be - but I get a buzz from things like this, a tale of an guy, born from a WW2 relationship in Wellington, brought up in Florida, who arrived back in NZ in the mid 60s, wrote one of my favourite New Zealand singles of all time, then disappeared as quickly never to return.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Enter Audioculture, in reply to George Darroch,
[ETA: I hope there's some thought to pulling in some of the history of music in South Auckland, which is under-storied and under-documented. It's large, important, and it's who we are.]
Don't worry George, we have a large Dawn Raid story coming from Phil Bell, Peter McLennan's Phil Fuemana story is on hand and will go up in a few days and there is a lot more, including the deep south (as in South AKL) country scene, on the way.
I'm also intrigued by Alan's post-punk South Auckland mention above. We are talking.
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Thanks Russell - and from those Cammick archives came a great image of the author of The Exponents story with Jordan, which I'm guessing is late 1980s?
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Hard News: Friday Music: That Hammer Time, in reply to p_money,
That honour belongs to my friend Savage and his 2008 release 'Savage Island' which reached number 25 on the RIAA Rap Album Chart.
Whoops, sorry Peter, that was the word that was buzzing around social media a couple of days back.
Either way, wonderful album and extraordinary feat.
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In a New Zealand music month week, it's gratifying to mention that P-Money's Gratitude album entered the US iTunes Hip-hop album charts at 59 on Wednesday, thus becoming the first ever NZ hip-hop album to chart in the US. It's now bumped up to #43.
It's also an amazing record that I've been playing non-stop all week.
Oh, and AudioCulture goes live a week today at 10am.
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I know nothing about heavy metal, which I lost track of just after Paranoid was released but I do like have one Sabbath tune on the i-thingy
which is a fabulous bit of late-psychedelia.
And while I'm here I'm going to plug Murray Cammick's guest post on my blog because he does know about James Brown.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Record Store Day, in reply to Simon Grigg,
and I want that Lloyd Price
Whoops, I meant Lloyd Parks
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Hey Alan,
yes it was great to talk vinyl and more - and I want that Lloyd Price (was it?) that you showed me. -
Hard News: Thatcher, in reply to Danielle,
Also, we haven't had this one yet, have we?
Nor this I think. Elvis kinda lays it on the line his way