Posts by Paul Rowe
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Hard News: Friday Music: Changing Times, in reply to Simon Grigg,
RSD: also expect 500 copies of a remastered 7" of The Suburban Reptiles 'Saturday Night Stay At Home', with essays from or interviews with most of the band and Phil Judd. It's a good 'un.
Ooh, classy release Simon. I'm gonna order one through my local (nearly) record shop now: http://portil.co.nz/
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Where was Neil Young when cassettes were the Trojan horse for CDs destroying vinyl? Tapes had an absolutely shit sound compared to... just about everything.
me I love music.... and I've yet to find a audiophile who can honestly say the same, they are too obsessed with sound quality over what moves them musically
Agreed. Audiophiles listen to the stereo, the music is secondary.
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Hard News: Telecom and TV, in reply to barnaclebarnes,
I'm going to go so far as to say if it isn't available as an icon on my Apple TV then it doesn't exist. After ditching Sky and getting US iTunes and Netflix, AppleTV is the only remote we use.
And how do I do this? Do I need to use the region-free thing that Slingshot offers?
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As for the prices, it is frankly embarrassing to have such small crowds. Surely there's money to be made on drinks and food if you have a big crowd? Charge a gold coin for entry and watch the bar and food concession tills ring up the profits!
I had read somewhere they get around 96k to the boxing day test. I remember reading an interview with Bob Willis who said that when he played his first test there in the early 70s there had previously been some alcohol issues, so punters were limited to 24 cans per person per day! Maybe (even Aussie) cricket crowds are more genteel than rugby ones? :)
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Hard News: Unscripted Drama, in reply to Russell Brown,
That would be a total screw-up in which NZ Cricket is complicit:
Why am I surprised?
IANAL, but I seem to recall that information cannot be subject to copyright - in other words watching a delivery can be restricted to those who pay, but describing what is happening in text is merely information?
Having read that after I wrote it, I suppose live-text is not dissimilar to hearing a radio commentary, and radio stations do get exclusive rights to broadcast.
Frankly, it's still a bit shit and tight-fisted.
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I agree, there is nothing like Test Match Cricket. Only the English could devise a game that can last for nearly a week and still have no result at the end.The subtlety and changes in tempo of Test Cricket are unlike anything else in sport.
There was a lot of talk about McCullum not enforcing the follow-on. I'd been thinking about it the previous evening and think he was dead right to try and bat India out of the game. There was plenty of time for India's batsmen to settle in and give NZ a target (a la the Windies in Dunedin in December) that might prove challenging. Thank Cliff it all came right in the end.
One downer for someone following Sunday's play from the golf course: why is the cricinfo feed of the game delayed by half an hour? What is the court injunction that is mentioned?
On your comment about reality TV; I loathe it as a rule, but what is with all the shitty Australian crap on our screens at the moment? Is it cheap? A result of CER? Terrible, all of it, but if I had to see reality TV on our screens it should feature NZers boring the crap out of people, not Aussies.
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Hot off the presses:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/9611678/Woman-assaults-daughter-with-jandal
Being smacked with a jandal or a belt was fairly common when I was a kid in the 70s (not for me though). Nice to see it is now called what it is: "assault".
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Predates OGWT, Rockpalast etc here is Kraftwerk on German TV in 1970, performing Ruckzuck, off their first album. I believe it is Klaus Dinger (NEU!) on drums, but I could be wrong. He's not the drummer on the album version.
As a follow-on, here's a BBC4 dock on Krautrock: -
First proper concert was Split Enz, Enz With a Bang Tour, Napier Municipal Theatre, November 27, 1984. I think the support act were Coconut Rough, but they didn't play Sierra Leone, so no-one knew who they were. Wow, 29 years ago this week! I was 13 at the time. Me and a mate went and I bought a tour T-Shirt that I wore until it fell apart in about 1987...
I had planned on going to see Dire Straits the previous year in Wellington with my parents, which would have been 28 March 1983, but high winds in the capital led to the show being postponed by a day and we had to drive back to HB as we hadn't arranged to stay the night. Dire Straits were my first international live act in 1986. This time we went to Auckland though...
I also remember a festival at the showgrounds in Hastings in about 1987 - RockMania?? Headlined by Peking Man, Hello Sailor, Soul on Ice, Ardijah maybe. Was my first exposure to Flying Nun as Sneaky Feelings and Verlaines played to mostly ambivalence. The daytime scene didn't really suit either band, though now I wish I'd paid more attention.
I reckon the first proper live show I ever saw was the NZSO (or part of it at least), led by Gary Brain, at the school hall at Havelock North Primary, probably 1981. I remember the Star Wars theme and Teddy Bears' Picnic, but time and tide play tricks on the memory..
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That was Ed Kuepper's first ever show in Auckland. I don't want to wait so long for the next one.
Nah. I saw him at Squid in the mid-90s, supported by Abel Tasmans. He had just released A King in the Kindness Room (I had to look that up) at the time and it was just him and a violinist.
Unfortunately either his plane was delayed or he got held up at customs and didn't arrive until really late. He must have come on after midnight and despite the fact that he must have been knackered, got right stuck in. Unfortunately close to three hours of Abel Tasmans left me desperate for air so I must have only stayed until 1ish (it was a school/work night).