Posts by Simon Grigg
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Hard News: Introducing: The New Zealand…, in reply to David,
Are we risking a further waste of resources?
Hasn't this already been covered in a previous thread?
The problem is - partially - it shares a potential name but little of the functionality of what the wider industry feels is required of an archive.
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It's sound, and there is even a brief paper in circulation.
The paper has grown. The proposal that is doing the rounds now is some 70 pages and has formal support from all of the above groupings, plus major players in the industry, NZ's musical historians and many more. Many of the large number of letters I've had in support are just astounding (and some quite humbling).
The position in Wellington is that the idea has merit and substance, it's more a matter of working out now where it fits into the funding scheme, and that's now an ongoing conversation that I'm convinced / determined will end positively.
I love, and fully support the idea of a wider media archive which could embrace this and provide synergy.
And I agree fully:
one that allows each to retain its character and purpose, but offers the chance to share resources and a code of practice.
That each retains its purpose is key to the database which should not be seen and subsumed into the idea that it is just an archive.
The archival and documentary activity is just a part of what needs to be a living and ongoing document which, by its nature, will never have an ending. I lean more towards the broader idea that it is a digital space which gives context and depth to the musics we make and have made - and offers a massive resource at an educational level, as well as pushing that context globally.
One letter (from Adam Holt, the Chairman of RIANZ) put it well: it's about documenting, promoting, and projecting our cultural well being.
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I have to say that my distance has made me thrill more at what I see and hear from New Zealand, rather than less.
The place buzzes and I take some pride in what comes from our shores.
And - more - you understand the uniqueness of what we have so much more when you are able to stand back and give it the context in which it was created and the nation's musical lineage, which is so strong.
Put me in room with a random selection of music from around the world and I think I'd be able to pick the NZ tracks without much effort.
It's a wonderful thing.
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I bought I'm New Here and Winter In America in the HMV in Hong Kong a short while back.
They were in the Easy Listening section.....
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This perhaps needs a repost too:
Full screen required
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Oh god, no...
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Hard News: Friday Fever, in reply to Kumara Republic,
And a whole lot more to it than just Mi-Sex too. Still, can't resist...
I remember these guys when they were a god-awful prog band called Father Time and then, later, Fragments of Time. Horrible, horrible noise complete with wind and smoke machines on stage.
Walked out of the Windsor during a show.
Then they found the first Ultravox album.
There used to be a big tag on a Sydney wall: 'Steve Gilpin used to sing Eagles songs on TV variety shows - that's street credibility for you'
He did too, but you have to hand to them, they leapt on the bandwagon with some success.
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I think the way Numan used synthesisers, and the sounds he made, endure
Indeed, but since it's still the tail end of NZMM I'd lean more to these guys when it came to that particular sub-genre.
Unfortunately, like so much of its era, absolutely unavailable anywhere.
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Hard News: Friday Fever, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
loaned him your copy...
Geography may have precluded that.