Posts by Simon Grigg
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NI ...Bogdan Kominowski of course...don't yer know yer kiwi pop history, bro...
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Bonnington Square, in Vauxhall,
oh, yes....went to a party in Bonnington one night late in 83 and found my then girlfriend sitting in the lap of, and snogging a huge Nigerian guy called Cola, who I later found out was a a percussionist with Osibisa. Drinking a large amount very quickly, I left with my flatmates, Shaun and Hugh and wandered north to the Camden Palace where Steve Strange was doing a regular night. I paid my fiver, put my jacket in the coat check and wandered into the cavern. Ten minutes later I tried drunkenly to find a loo and found myself instead outside a closing fire exit on a snowy Camden High Street. Going back to the door I was told to piss off...there were no passouts and I was too drunk to come back in. No money, no keys, and nursing a damaged ego I decided to walk the four miles to the girlfriend's flat in West Hampstead, just to see, y'know, if the Nigerian percussionist was there. So I did, past Regent's Park Zoo, to St John's Wood, thru Swiss Cottage, up Finchley Rd and across to Mill Lane, by which time the sun was coming up and I was stone cold sober with a huge head. I arrived outside her place and began to toss rocks up at the windows, when a cop arrived and asked what I was doing. I said, broken heart, unfaithful lover and the like and the cop was was quite sympathetic..wishing me the best luck...I must've seemed rather harmlessly pathetic by then and I was very cold. Cola wasn't there and there was a reconciliation of sorts. I don't do things like that anymore.
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The astounding thing of course was the time between With The Beatles and Sgt Pepper, was only 3 1/2 years, less that the gap between U2 (or Scribe) albums, and yet the distance they'd managed to drag the world's musical horizons is, even forty years out, mind boggling.
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I have to be honest Joe.....I don't. I was an Ohakea lad, our world rarely went all the way up Rangatikei Line to the Square, until I made it to PNBHS in 69.
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You must have been helluva young.
12.....I persuaded my mother to get it for my birthday, and saved my car washing pennies (which they were until 10 July that year) for With The Beatles, from The PDC in Palmy about the same time.
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Thirty years...........fark...... The thing is when the whole Pistols thing was going on, we thought Pepper was ridiculously far in the distant past (although I bought it on release, but I was very very young y'know).
The Pistols and our sillyness of 77 doesn't seem that long ago. At least I keep on telling myself that.
in 1977
you're on the never never
you think it can't go on forever
but the papers say it's better
i don't care 'cos i'm not all there
no elvis, beatles or the rolling stones
in 1977The Herald didn't cover in 77..why start now...
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Rugby union is global, and while it stirs up a passion in NZ, it would not get a ripple in Indonesia and probably gets less coverage than the America's cup globally.
Not at all true. Rugby is quite well covered here, although it doesn't have a wide following....it is, unlike the Americas Cup, reported. And my comments related as much to the non-Indonesian media we get...the International Herald Tribune, essentially the New York Times, and The Independent are available here daily as are all the global news channels..CNN / DW / Fox / Al-Jaz / BBC...and I'm a news junkie.
The only references I found to it were in the NZ media. I'd confidently say that most non New Zealanders would need the Americas Cup explained to them.
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Nic
Last August on Ketewell Beach. The one above the flags on the second shot is over fifty metres long, and there were at least thirty that big.
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Actually here in Bali, the annual kite fighting competitions are a thing to see..hundreds of massive colourful kites from every village and workplace battling it out near Sanur and Tanalot in August / September. It's the big sporting event in the annual calendar.
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what sports are the indonesians into?
the same as the rest of the known universe...soccer...all year around...