Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Housing, hope and ideology, in reply to Jack Harrison,
1 bedroom demand is driven by an abundance of poor single citizens. It’s a social change. Apartments are logical.
They’re also not going to cost half a million bucks apiece to construct.
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Hard News: Housing, hope and ideology, in reply to Marc C,
You would reach the 12 million Key quoted within a time less than two years for a single person, and just over 3 years for a small family, that is if they claim the full entitled amount for Auckland.
He says it would cost half a billion to build a thousand homes, which may be true if each single home (does not have to be a house these days) would cost half a million. Key does not consider the lower comparable cost of more economically built, cheaper homes and the use of them over at least one generation, which is common.
The idea that it would take 1000 $500,000 dwellings to house 1000 people is demonstrably absurd. I'm not holding my breath for reporters to do the math though.
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Hard News: Music: The Homecoming Queen, in reply to paddy free,
Putting on my sound engineer hat: bass frequencies “pool” or build up in corners and against walls in an enclosed space, and the bass will sound artificially louder in these areas.
Yep. We were up along one side a third of the way back and I’ve experienced the sound getting pretty nasty in that part of the room before – at the Massive Attack show it was unbearably loud, while people on the floor at the back of the room were calling for it to be turned up.
It was tolerable for Lorde, but certainly could have been better. And I can’t believe there’s no way of remediating the problem.
Check out David Byrne’s great TED talk about the relationship between music and the venue it’s performed in.
That's one of the central theses of How Music Works and it's insightful.
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Hard News: Housing, hope and ideology, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
Please, not Shylock. I know English is Catholic, but references to the ticklish one caused enough embarrassment and distraction in the election without carrying on here.
Yes. What Lucy said.
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Hard News: Music: The Homecoming Queen, in reply to Ana Simkiss,
At the Wine Cellar gig Laurence told the crowd that the band were doing a residency as the house covers band at the Golden Dawn in December.
So much yes to this.
Such yes!
But does that mean they'll still have to play indoors? A cover band outside, replacing the DJ, would surely be the caper.
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I've just added Herald video of the Silver Scrolls Lilburn tributes to the post.
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Hard News: Music: The Homecoming Queen, in reply to Mike O'Connell,
A coupla a days prior to Lorde, Lawrence Arabia was in town – albeit a much smaller venue (!) – highlights (of an excellent show anyway) were storming versions of Bowie’s Let’s Dance and Eno’s Needle in the Camel’s Eye
Damn, he and his band knock out some great covers. Last tour it was the Velvet Underground's 'I Found a Reason' (which actually sort of made me cry a little bit) and ELO's 'Livin' Thing'.
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Hard News: Music: The Homecoming Queen, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
Yep, all that. I think it’s no coincidence that she talks up Kanye so often.
And as well as being on trend, it’s always going to be a lot cheaper touring with a two-piece band than a giant entourage.
Yeah, this too. It’s much more viable these days to be a solo artist who can draw on collaborators as required.
I think it's quite significant that Janine Foster (aka Janine and the Mixtape) has just signed a deal with Atlantic Records in the US. It makes sense for labels too to sign individuals.
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Hard News: Music: The Homecoming Queen, in reply to Sacha,
I always assumed Randa was a woman. Interesting.
Born female, identifying male.
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Hard News: Music: The Homecoming Queen, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
Whoa! I had always assumed that Randa was American- or Canadian-born. His accent sounds so authentic that it didn’t seem possible it was just a performance gimmick. His speaking voice sounds mid-Pacific, kind of like Rachel Hunter.
I did wonder, but nothing in the bios says he was born in North America. I figured it was just a matter of "you're soaking in it", culturally-speaking.
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