Posts by Geoff Lealand
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If you are really perverse, you could always go to the Parachute Festival at Mystery Creek this weekend. Why do Christians have to colonise everything--music is quite properly the property of the devil ;-)
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My sympathies are with you, Matthew. There is a report on page 3 of tonight's Waikato Times. He was a former Hamilton lad and, I suspect, a friend of my son during their secondary school years.
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They also can't make a decent cup of tea (my tipple of choice). New Zealand had coffee bars way back, long before Herman Melville dreamed them up Starbucks! Even in Hawera, in a time long, long ago, we had the choice of three coffee bars to hang out in after school.
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As this is about music…the Feb 2011 issue of the UK mag The Word arrived this morning and they feature The Phoenix Foundation Pot on their Now Hear This sampler (keeping company with The Go! Team and Joan as Policewoman). I am having trouble linking to my subscriber copy, so I will transcribe what they say about it (on page 48);
Pop quiz: where did this supremely psychedelic New Zealand six piece get their name? Answer at the bottom of this column.
Centred on singers/songwriters Samul Flynn Scott and Luke Buda plus friends, Wellingtonians The Phoenix Foundation have been together in one form or another since 1997. They’ve released a string of albums in NZ, gravitating towards the lauded Flying Nun label, toured with the Finn Brothers, and in 2007 wrote the soundtrack for the well-liked indie movie Eagle vs Shark. Their fourth album won awards back home and now it gets a UK release via Memphis Industries.
Pot is the lead single from the album and showcases a mixture of campfire camaraderie, inner/outer space adventure and melodic loveliness. Elsewhere they evoke The Flaming Lips, The Chills, Boards of Canada and Nirvana. Basically, there’s plenty here worth investigating.
Pop quiz answer: it’s a secret society in terrible old TV show MacGyver -
Great to see you have a new spot, Craig. But where is David H these days?
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@Roger. I really admire how you get to BDO every year. I just couldn't be bothered this year as there wasn't really anything that rang my bell, nor could compare with Arcade Fire. But there is Laneway coming up and Sufjan Stevens and April Grassroots festival has some exciting acts, such as Imogen Heap, Roderigo Y Gabriela and the Felice Brothers.
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@ Jeremy. We should meet up some day soon, for a cuppa and a chat (as fellow Hamiltronians)
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A excellent piece to read, after a good meal at the Shinjuku restaurant (to celebrate my daughter's Excellence in NCEA Japanese), and feeling slightly pissed after a bottle of saki.
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Lovely thoughts, Emma. A pity my mother and your mother never met--she was a little Jewish lady who dyed her hair into her nineties and rang me, with coy allusions to boyfriends staying over, in her eighties.
arohanui
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Now that’s mighty expensive eating if you ask me.
But not if you get someone else to raise 'em, as Jonathon Swift suggested in A Modest Proposal