Posts by Mark Cubey
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Listener responses to Kim Hill's interview with Charlotte Paul on Saturday Morning have now been posted on this page, under the responses to last week's interview with Linda Bryder.
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Thanks for all the comments regarding the interview last Saturday.
Kim Hill will be talking to Charlotte Paul tomorrow after 9:00am, plus there's a load of listener feedback that came in too late to read in air.
I'm going to compile all the feedback and put it on our website page later today, and link to this discussion as well.
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Critics: the Domino and Faber collab, LOOPS, is on the right track, like the annual Da Capo Music Writing books. But they are books. One wants to read almost every page of The Word mag, and the accompanying CD comps regularly turn up gems. Woebot and Reynolds are always rewarding, and The New Yorker can rock. I miss John Russell. And the late lamented Stylus and their equal weighting of singles and the declining album form. Would that the NZ landscape were similar, both in terms of production and assessment. And as for the crits: it's all so... tame.
As for Simon Sweetman, the dude CAN write, and does, prolifically: he must be making a living (almost) from music writing/speaking which is more than most can say. I admire his output, self-deprecatory style, thick skin, coordinated use of Fbook, Twitter, print, blog, TV, and peculiar passions (Mastadon AND Simon & Garfunkel). Disagree with most of his opinions, but who gives a damn? He's not a muso snob and thank god for that. And he's not Smithies, but there's only one Grant. And funny, no one's mentioned Nick Bollinger. Or that teenagers prolly don't give a damn about music writing. And, as Gordon "Werewolf" Campbell and I were discussing when he popped in unexpectedly and I told him about this thread... where are the women writers? Rock crit lit: such a boy thang.
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It would be great if each local body would put a free business wifi connection in a cafe near the council offices and promote it as a place where out of towners can get a connection. It would be a greta point to connect to all of those travelling business people and them interacting with local businesses and services.
Maybe Greta Point is a bit too far out of town;.... but yes, and while they're about it (and until we get that universal mobile charger thingy that the telcos are talking about) have a Charger Pole with many charger cords that folk can use to recharge their phones. And yes, David, steal that one too :)
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Yes, Bruce Sterling is great. The 40-minute interview Kim Hill did with him and Jasmina (who's equally fascinating) earlier this week plays tomorrow after 9am... and we have Andrew Dubber between 10-11am playing some tunes and talking music industry... some of the above will no doubt rear its head... nice Great Blend tie in but purely coincidental. Ruseel, you've WELL earned that bath. OK, fingers crossed for Carnival sunshine tomorrow...
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Meanwhile in the UK, they're drinking up our bands, there...
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article3889768.ece
Well, some of them.
Wonder what that "iMix of Kiwi cool" is like...