Hard News by Russell Brown

that Rhian Sheehan remix is mint!

This week I've bene listening to a lot of the KiwiFM covers and originals from their soundcloud

http://soundcloud.com/kiwifm

Jesse Sheehan's Jesus I Was Evil is brilliant

and being a fall fan and it being budget week I've taken to playing this cover by She's So Rad

http://soundcloud.com/shes_so_rad/no-christmas-for-jon-quee

good times

awkward layout and deafening rock PA.

That's something to note. A venue set up for loud guitars and sloppy drumming isn't going to do well when you want crisp notes across the spectrum and clear sound at lower volumes.

That's something to note. A venue set up for loud guitars and sloppy drumming isn't going to do well when you want crisp notes across the spectrum and clear sound at lower volumes.

That's it in one. The Watercolours showcase at the KA last year was just a debacle.

deafening rock PA

Never appealed. Always admired the skill of soundies who could coax some detail out of such systems.

Jesse Sheehan’s Jesus I Was Evil is brilliant

It is!

Although I initially read that as Rhian Sheehan. That would have been really weird.

I think I'd enjoy a rendition by them as a duo... that could be well weird and potentially very very cool

needs more doubly?

who's in for Bobby W tomorrow? staying seated might just be an issue.

the King’s Arms, with its awkward layout and deafening rock PA. It just doesn’t seem as much fun as it used to.

Them's fighting words -- although secretly I kind of agree. Maybe I need to start a fight with myself?

Those small bars sound interesting and not having to stay up all night - gee, next time I'm there. As to KA - it suits rowdy guitars, young Americans Wavves were very good last year there, and Kurt Vile in December made the place hum too. So there is still a place for the old beast.

I don’t get out much, but…

Those small bars…

Chchch update: The Last Word has opened in the newly opened New Regent St (run by the same good folk who brought you the Darkroom Bar* in St Asaph st – by Galaxy Records ) – even the ‘opposition’ like them (Johnny Moore runs Smash Palace )!

*Zen Mantra, Salad Boys, Villain play the Darkroom tonight (saturday 18 May)

**The Tannery** complex is nigh on open
- early june they say in The Press
The Brewery, their excellent flagship enterprise on is open as always.

I've heard Mark Peterson do some amazing live mixes at KA.

who loves who the most?
Just a reminder that The Dance Exponents documentary is on Prime Rocks tonight (Wednesday May 22) at 9.30pm.