Posts by Samuel Scott
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I love the idea that the "system has struggled to deal with my circumstances". Isn't that the opposite of what happened. ie the system grossly overcompensated someone who's 'circumstance' was that he lives in a fancy house and earns lots of money.
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I love Transformer Man, good pick. A song about technology and embracing technology at the same time. Possibly in my top 5 Neil Young songs (and I'm not being sarcastic, people who don't allow themselves to dig Trans are missing out!).
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Air - Electronic Peformers
We are the syncronizers
Send messages through time code
Midi clock rings in my mind
Machines gave me some freedom
Synthesizers gave me some wings
They drop me through twelve bit samplers
We are electronic performers
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From a band perspective, if you want the gig to start ealier then you need all the punters to turn up early, most gigs i've played the bands are happy to play early if they have an audience to play to, gigs just start late cause thats when the crowd turns up.
I concur, the are a lot of shows where we have advertised it as 8pm start...then at 9 when you really want to get the first band on there might be 50 people there out of 500 ticket sales.
Punters don't seem to trust the scheduled start times of local acts.
I played a show that started at 7 the other day. it was great. Had a few drinks after it and was home before midnight.
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I think a great thing for the kings arms to do would be move the bar further back away from the stage and slightly widen the area in front of the stage. And make the entrance from the side through the public bar.
Also I think they made the stage to high, but I guess that helps with visibility.
Man, I hate to gripe. It used to seem very exciting coming up to AK to play the Kings Arms. They had a P/A, they had a garden. SJD might be in the audience along with ten other people. Good times.
I do agree with the idea that earlier gigs wouldn't be a bad thing. But then the bars should stay open for hours for the obligatory after-match function.
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I don't if anyone has mentioned this but isn't really really rude that they have special allowances for the RWC? So Rugby fans (f which I am one) get to stay up getting pissed after the game but music fans can't stay out watching music.
Its an outrage!
I think the Kingsarms has a few issues as a venue but it also has history and will always be a classic place to play. I think they need to re-arrange it or lower the limit though. When its sold out its almost unbearable.
Wellington has had a lot of noise issues with new apartments. It seems there are practically no regulations for developers to install soundproofing. It has been and ongoing drama for the Matterhorn, who can't have any music in there courtyard because the horrendous 'left bank' monster. Matterho' gigs used to great fun (bongmaster in the late 90s). And San Francisco Bathhouse, which has been a venue since the 60s, has had to spend a lot of money because of apartments built in the 90s.
If you don't like noise stay in Karori.
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Gossip is so much simpler when there's only one decent beach. :)
Scorching Bay is our best beach, we have a few other quite nice beaches (Days Bay, umm Lyall Bay). So there!
Also, in any here slightly irked that Trevor Mallard has said he hopes English doesn't loose his job because Steven Joyce would do a better job as finance minister. Now, I have no idea what sort of job anyone would do as finance minister, I don't know the first thing about it. But it just annoys me that an MP would openly celebrate mis-management of our nations economy as it suits his political aspirations.
Excuse me for being naive.
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I wonder if Mr Lhaws listens to Lhawrence Arabia? Or indeed 'feels irie'.
One doubts such a scenario. It might help though.
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I am so excited by Lawrence Arabia winning that award. James is a fantastic songwriter and it is well deserved. It is also interesting to note that the song was recorded in a variety of make shift DIY situations (a laptop in dalston, a cold hall in Wellington, finished in a proper studio in Auckland) and self released in New Zealand.
James has worked really hard, self managing, self releasing, self producing his work and this a great vindication of his spirit.
hmmm, I'm gushing a bit.
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Nice Becklips link. Such a shame their relationship went south. Wayne Coyne seems to revel in illuminating the public on his low opinion of famous people acting like dicks.