Tag: Music
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Dating Godot
I was alerted to a music show on National Radio last week featuring an interview with old friend and bandmate Andrew Spittle, now lost in the mists of the far north somewhere. The half hour interview was great, and some long overdue coverage for the man who puts a new meaning to productivity. However the…
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Skeptics
Purely by chance, later in the evening following the Chavez screening I got to see a rare live video of the last ever performance of New Zealand music group The Skeptics. I have long regarded this group as certainly the most interesting band to come out of New Zealand. Their music is strange, dark, magical…
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Eye of Sauron versus Plan of Alpha
Yes, the rumours are true – the Alpha Plan have finally managed to crack the soundtrack game. New short NZ feature Bogans is a movie about three bogans (overseas readers – this is New Zealand vernacular for petrolheads/boy racers/young men with V8s) who decide to head to the Big Smoke (Wellington) to land work as…
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Ice Land
A musical time lately in the Deep South. We got to see the Verlaines play a few songs and spend what seemed like hours waiting around for the tv people to give them the nod at the ‘National Anthem’ down at Otago University on Saturday night. Still a great time had by all etc. On…
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New mp3 . . . plus some thoughts on the future of rock . . .
I’m considering how to release my record. After doing the sums, it’s going to be too hard to do a run of CD’s. I’ve decided to release it online, on my site, as mp3’s. Just do CD’s for those who ask. Maybe do a few Geraldine singles, if the pressing plant is still going. Is…
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Vespas plus Husker Du = Minnescoota
You find some funny websites . . . but this takes the cake . . . “Minnescoota”