Posts by Paul Rowe
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I have a framed copy of that Avedon print (full glorious colour). Current wife makes me store it in the basement.
Current wife? You still holding a candle for Natassja Kinski, Andrew? Very freudian slip...
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NZ's charts bore no relationship to reality
Yep, when I did my time in the purgatory of music retail I used to look forward to the Thursday visit from the record companies with their free stuff. Muttonbirds The Heater (IIRC) straight to number 1? My arse.
I also remember the Warners CEO bitching about the practice at their industry Christmas Party when they were as bad as the rest.
It's an interesting pick with using Bailter Space as an example Graham, the reason I say that is that they've always seem to be one of those NZ bands who are more interested in what they are doing that the attention that they get.
I've often wondered about those bands under the mainstream radar who play & release records overseas on a regular basis. Graeme Jefferies springs to mind as an example. Is there a reasonable living to be made playing those fringes gloabally?
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Heh, I bought that FM 7" at HMV on Oxford St about three years ago when I was back in the 7" groove. Only 600 pressed you say...
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somebody was smart enough to stick them in the studio with Shel Tamy at the beginning.
The opening riff to I Can't Explain is still fcuking awesome, and it was written 6-7 years before I was born. Ray Davies is quite disparaging of Talmy and they way he recorded the Kinks early on (very quickly) but the proof is in the pudding, as they say.
The way Todd Hunter (allegedly, I'm not an expert) botched the Toy Love record led to the Tall Dwarfs and Doug Hood's 4-track, so Hunter can be thanked for at least one contribution to NZ music.
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My favourite recordings would probably be sneered at by some as being unworthy, but who cares. God Bless DYI and low-fi
Suicide 2 might well have been "recorded ina biscuit tin" but there is little to surpass its energy or the thrill of hearing it for the first time (__It's bigger than both of Us__, 1989, second week at Uni)
And I think it is on the movie The Kids Are All Right where Townshend claims that the Who were shit musicians, but that was OK. You listen to a Beatles record and they are lousy musicians as well! I know he's being self deprecating, he later said that he could do anything on the guitar that Hendrix, Clapton et al could do, he just chose not to...
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the story I heard was that she is entitled to free soda etc, but that the act of sharing her free soda with a non employee constitutes theft.
Sounds to me like a policy of, free stuff for staff only has been taken to the nth degree of absurdity. He had it in for her over something I take it?
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Surely there's a subway outlet in nirvana you can raise a placard next to?
It wouldn't be Nirvana if there was a Subway there though, would it?
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With an ageless Michael Laws as Snake Plissken
He's more likely to be the comic relief sidekick don't you think?.
Exclusive plot spoilers
It is 2100. The100 years President (Michael Laws) is shot down in a passenger craft flying over the prison city of Wanganui on his way to broker a piece deal between warring gang factions (led by Tariana Turia & Helen Clark). A rescue mission is quickly assembled but after thinking about it for ten minutes, decide that finding him isn't worth the effort. Finishes with Snake having aperitifs with the mongrel mob members of Laws' cabinet.
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From NZPA, 9 Oct 2006
Wellington, Oct 9 - A man critically injured when a car was driven into a crowd in the Auckland suburb of Pakuranga yesterday morning has died in Middlemore Hospital.
He was Kane Wright, 19.
Melissa Viall, 23, an early childhood teaching student, was killed when she went to the aid of her friend, one of three men hit by a car after a 21st birthday celebration in Pakuranga.
As she was trying to help her friend, the car turned and drove back, hitting her. She had died from head injuries by the time police arrived.
A man has been charged with her murder.
Two others, aged 31 and 27, were also injured.
Pakuranga, not Papatoetoe. From memory the driver claimed his brother was being beaten up at the time and he was trying to stop it.
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Sorry, Papatoetoe