Posts by philipmatthews
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Busytown: Tell You What: A Nonfiction Giveaway!, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
I'd like to hear film choices too. I did mine at Werewolf. A top ten and a runner-up ten:
The year’s top 10:
1. Under the Skin
2. Blue is the Warmest Colour
3. Winter Sleep
4. Ida
5. The Grand Budapest Hotel
6. Boyhood
7. Maps to the Stars
8. Her
9. What We Do in the Shadows
10. Interstellar
A second ten:
Dallas Buyers Club, The Dead Lands, Gloria, It Follows, The Lego Movie, Leviathan, Locke, Nymphomaniac, The Selfish Giant, The Trip to Italy.
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I should have added David Cohen's book Greatest Hits, which is a collection of the best of 25 years or so of his journalism, although it doesn't include his infamous Crowded House review. But a hilarious one about Bono is in there.
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Dirty Politics by Nicky Hager.
Madmen by Steve Braunias.
No Place to Hide by Glenn Greenwald.
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan.
Peter McLeavey: The Life and Times of a New Zealand Art Dealer by Jill Trevelyan
Gutter Black by Dave McArtney
Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop by Bob Stanley -
Tipline.
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We'll need Braunias, Paul Shannon, Simon Vita, Dan Slevin, Mark Amery, David Cohen, Bronwyn Trudgeon ...
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Speaker: Peter Jefferies: Time and the…, in reply to Campbell Walker,
Feels like it was only yesterday.
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Really great piece, Campbell.
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I thought that this Mother's Day edition (deliberate or accidental scheduling) of ATTITUDE was very good, on Ros Hill's determination for her son with autism and another family who seem more overwhelmed.
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We kicked this one off on Twitter after I posted that my wife is taking our daughter (who is 10) to see Bieber tonight and someone else in the office thought, isn’t that young to be going to a gig? I dunno. I remember when the Wombles, as a live act, toured Chch in the mid-1970s. How old would those audiences have been? I didn’t go, of course …
First international: INXS at the Logan Campbell Centre, and it would have been about 1984 or 1985. There’s no record of the tour on the INXS official “gigography” though.
First paid local: The Chills at the Gluepot around 1986.
First free local: Maybe the time the Mockers came to Takapuna Grammar one lunchtime. Or one of those dreaded Christian rock bands.
In about 1988 or 1989, the Jesus and Mary Chain played the hall at Victoria University. It’s one of those gigs that everyone went to, sometimes people I didn’t meet until years later, like it was a generational thing (our Woodstock!). I have a feeling they weren’t much good, though.
Somehow, I've seen Dire Straits live twice. Not sure how that happened.
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One more: Paul Morley in the FT.
I think I'd prefer to read the NME story from 1979, written after ...
During a couple of days travelling around Berlin before a concert, he messed with my mind, shouted at me for being stupid, tried to assault me after the show, and gave me half an hour for the interview, timed to the second, before stalking off with a snort of derision. It was Lou Reed, though, and you couldn’t expect nice. I took the blows. It was a rite of passage. In one way it was flattering. He baited rock journalists for sport.