Posts by Shaun Scott
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Someone I know retired from the university last week, and had chosen the date as they wanted to leave as the magnolias bloomed i the quad- measured to perfection, as they blossomed at the start of the final week.
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A personal favourite - especially live- was the 3D's version of Brian Eno's magnificent "Baby's on Fire". It was released as the flip side to "Outta Space"
The Eno version is fab- and this video (from the MIT Experimental Color Studio) wonderfully weird. And VERY loud, so adjust volume before playing
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Hard News: Friday Music: Criminal Life, in reply to Shaun Scott,
Bloody hell- Inattention and autocorrect on the iPad. I mean bandcamp and baboom!!!
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Hard News: Friday Music: Criminal Life, in reply to Shaun Scott,
My Friday music last week was a trip to Chicks to see the excellent Strange Harvest and Astro Children supporting the magnificent Opposite Sex at their album release.
Cant find any streaming tracks as yet, but the really rather good new album "Hamlet" can be bought on CD from Relics in Dunedin and online.
Fantastic gig, and very cool backdrop as well.
The album is now up on the Opposite Sex ban camp page .
Excellent.(Not sure about baboon . . . Not finding that easy to explore on the iPad at least)
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My Friday music last week was a trip to Chicks to see the excellent Strange Harvest and Astro Children supporting the magnificent Opposite Sex at their album release.
Cant find any streaming tracks as yet, but the really rather good new album "Hamlet" can be bought on CD from Relics in Dunedin and online.
Fantastic gig, and very cool backdrop as well.
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Meh. Not sure what the bother is.
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Two photo's of the evening sun in Dunedin, Feb 2009- the colour was created by smoke from the Australian bushfires occurring at the time. Beautiful, but poignant.
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oops- missed part of the quote code!
Also- I am also a bit of a fan of bandcamp, for the reasons mentioned, as well as the way you can see what others have bought, and stumble across some other interesting stuff.
Is theirs a good payment model for artists? It certainly promotes itself that way- does anyone know how much of each dollar spent goes to the artist?
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<q>It bugs the hell out of me when people shy away from paying 10 bucks at the door of a show. That’s one drink, or a quarter of what you’ll spend on taxis, and it’s meant to be the whole purpose of your evening.<q>
I totally agree on this, Russell, although I am not sure that is a completely new thing. I remember Chris Knox berating his Dunedin audience at a gig in the late 80's or early 90's about how hard it was to put a reasonable door charge on in Dunedin then.
I have often wondered why venues don't pay the bands- after all, in theory they are getting the punters through the door, and selling beer (or has "pre-loading" taken that away?)
There seems to be a reluctance on many local (Dunedin) bands to even put a door charge on for gigs. Possibly it is that at live gigs, small crowds (30-60) means that a reasonably proportion will be friends and members of other bands, so charging each other seems a bit naff? Or just that unwillingness to "self-promote"- does asking for money make it seem like we are too above ourselves?
Me and my partner went to the Crown last Saturday to see the excellent
Idiot Prayer
and
Astro Children
but sadly missed
The Violet OhsA great gig, but not a door charge (or even an option of a koha) in sight. (Which meant the bar sold one more Emmersons beer than I needed it to have, but hey). It may be they were being paid by the Crown, (or the shilling), but kinda perpetuates the sense that the artist has to not only play, but pay for our entertainment themselves.
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excellent interview, and another good insight into the gap that has been created by the demise of the programme.
