Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Friday Music: Festival of Non-Dudeyness, in reply to John Armstrong,
What an honest piece of film, too.
It is. There is inevitably artifice in getting the shots for a video like that, but it feels authentic, and committed to the making of the music.
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John Peel introducing The Fall, over and over, for an hour. Magnificent.
Via Dangerous Minds.
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A late-breaking Soundcloud gem.
It's The Reflex's birthday, and also that of some guy called Bo Saris. So this edit got posted.
Delightful funk.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Festival of Non-Dudeyness, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
And if I ever end up ruling a fascist dystopia, they’re definitely writing my national anthem…
In a country where they salute with glitter-guns.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Festival of Non-Dudeyness, in reply to Simon Chamberlain,
So from acts I've seen: I'd rather have Caribou than Belle & Sebastian, he's fantastic live.
Oh, stop it.
I saw St Vincent with David Bryne and collectively they were excellent, she should be good on her own. Alan, I've seen Hawley a couple of times and he didn't really move me.
I saw St Vincent play Glastonbury this year on the live stream and thought it would be great to be there hearing it. Lots going on.
Plenty of good stuff there that I haven't seen; shame it's only in Auckland.
They did try Wellington side-shows a couple of times, but it didn't work. The logistics of an Auckland stopover are a lot better than trying to take the show elsewhere within NZ.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Festival of Non-Dudeyness, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
How do you “curate” a soundtrack, as opposed to putting together an album of as much music from the film as you can afford to get sub-rights for?
Dude, she was commissioned to choose the songs for the soundtrack.
Not bad for a 17 year-old, especially given that just being on that soundtrack gets every artist halfway to a hit.
But good point: how many of the songs actually appear in the film? That's well outside my area of understanding.
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Good lord there are a few videos out this week. Emily Littler of Street Chant has a new EP coming in her Emily Edrosa guise. First song:
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A similar, but shorter, piece from The Conversation: Australia's Love Affair With Drugs
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Speaker: An Open Letter To David Cunliffe, in reply to Lilith __,
If the US doesn’t withdraw troops from Iraq, I will paint my nails purple.
Ultimatum.
Authoritarian brute.
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Speaker: An Open Letter To David Cunliffe, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Why do all these Labour Party people keep saying that David Cunliffe is bad idea?
Except for the majority that voted for him, you mean?
Excellent question.
I think quite a few of them won’t be doing so this time. And I suppose it’s okay for me to note that James isn’t the only new candidate who encountered the same public sentiment about Cunliffe while canvassing, and who now feels it is untenable for Cunliffe to lead the party into another election. I have heard this directly.
Constantly reducing this to a hate-fest on the so-called ABCs seems to be missing the point. Although it’s interesting that that’s the angle Patrick Gower has latched on to – probably because it’s the path of most conflict.
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