Posts by Bevan Shortridge
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On the subject of dubious Aussie 80s songs, perhaps a nice summation:
D Generation - Five In A Row <edit> - itself released as a single
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No red lights in Northland (of any kind) so used to sing this (well, the chorus) loudly when young when the local radio played it - often on Friday nights - having no idea what it was about:
Roxanne - Police
It was a few years after when I found out the "Ready To Roll" theme music was a song in its own right:
Machine Gun - Commodores
What did we ever do before youtube?
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In this morning Herlad:
Luck said reports suggesting that Prime Minister John Key had had a hand in helping to fast-track a passport for their newborn son were incorrect.
"It's not right," he said. "We've got the passport and we did the passport ourselves."
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Michael Lock's partner
Micheal Luck, as opposed to fullback Kevin Locke. Although Luck does play in the number 13 jersey, which is the position of lock. Which might confuse.
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Hard News: Auckland, so much enormity to…, in reply to Sacha,
Until McCully, Key et al..
Ah, that seems to happen occasionally.
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So, it wasn't a parody after all which I first thought. Nor the preview for the new Walking Dead season. Or maybe it was.
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Couldn't the Council make use of the newly repaired Aotea Square? Y'know ,the one next to the Town Hall. That would fit nicely into the Warriors Game Sunday.
Walking past on Saturday night I thought the same thing. I'm surprised it wasn't a RWC fan zone thing. Although I guess that wouldn't help with anything on at the Aotea Centre or Town Hall. Or noise levels for apartment dwellers, which I think were talked about beforehand.
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Not that Mr Key was about to ignore the weekend's other sporting glory, of course
Yeah, I'm not sure Key's actually ever been to a Warriors game before. I don't appreciate the late bandwagon jumping, or the Mad Butcher's sudden championing of his new best friend. Key was on the Warriors home page wearing a home jersey for a while this year or last but might have been the closest he got to a game hitherto.
I felt a bit out of place walking to Skycity to watch the Warriors. Everyone else on Queen St seemed to be heading in the opposite direction on the fan trail. At a bar past the casino floor they had the Warriors on the big screen, although there was some issue with sound.
The bar staff apparently had to ring someone elsewhere each time to get the sound on, and sound was only allowed on during the games themselves, so the first minute or two of each half for the Juniors and Seniors games were in silence until the crowd made enough noise about there not being noise that someone made the call - or whoever had taken the call did whatever they did to bring the sound up.
Can't complain too much as they had a big screen which wasn't showing the All Blacks (instead we saw the Junior Warriors thumping Junior Bulldogs 64-0 - yes! - to get into their Final before the main game). And it might be one of the few screens for the Grand Final if they can't organise more spots.
I have been surprised something more local isn't used for the AB games. The NRL has almost always looked elsewhere though, Bon Jovi doing the promo song honours this year.
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According to the Guardian, Queen's Roger Taylor is going to update his 1994 solo effort "Dear Mr Murdoch" [Edit: already updated it I gather, as below]:
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Hard News: Radio NZ: Sailing on in…, in reply to Russell Brown,
You have Richard Hulse to thank for the quality and smartness of that service. Dude is a hero.
Richard Hulse also blogs about what he does.