//Childrens Hour

there was a cool little interview with Chris Matthews(?) on active this evening. . .i've been a big Headless Chickens fan for a long time now, so i'm seriously considering heading along to see Childrens Hour next week, i think its at Bodega??

Universal is no longer the label that pays K'Lee. She was dumped in a so-called post-9/11 slashing. As far as I know, she's currently labeless. I last saw her on the cover of a fitness magazine a couple of years ago talking about how life on the road made her gain weight, but, like, now she's all healthy.

A new Anika Moa album huh? I missed that completely - this is what comes of not watching TV. So, is it any good, or is she still trying to be Dido?

The first single is lovely. The album is produced by Ed Cake (of Bressa Creeting Cake, he of great solo record and the soundtrack to Rain) and i think he was a good choice for her as he understands pretty songs but he aint to poppy or cheesey.

she did the rounds on punkas for a bit. she got paid out HARD

Yeah it's pretty easy to be harsh when you're sitting behind a computer screen somewhere rather than actually talking to somebody's face. It's kinda unsurprising that the computer game community (well, those old enough to be using forums) would be particularly vocal - the same sort of people who (traditionally, stereotypically...) get bullied and left out at school.....I guess they've got a lot of anger in them.

//Yeah it's pretty easy to be harsh when you're sitting behind a computer screen somewhere rather than actually talking to somebody's face.

Yeah I do know what you mean.... actually much like NZmusic there is a pretty cool crowd of people at NZgames (alot of whom I know personally) and they have a tendencay to 'tell it like it is' and not put up with shit... Liz had already made a nuicance of herself previously so some of the flames which went her way were well and truley justified:-)

Still was pretty damn funny - I have no sympathy for Liz, she tends to bring it upon herself - having said that I actually have no doubts that she'll do well in some field eventually.

actually, they are currently working on a new album to my knowledge...be out early next year i reckon...

Yeah! My first NZ rock and roll gig was a Future Stupid gig. Musta been about 95, 96.

I was in a little band in Palmerston North around 1996ish that lucked out on a support for HLAH, Future Stupid and the almighty Motorsheep... I still find "I *heart* motorsheep" bumper stickers in the strangest places...a bit like ex vietnam vets who still hear the choppers...

Master Cheese Maker! Whatever happened to Mike Beattie?

Hell, I hadn't thought about Meatmarket for years - Elise and Sarah were a feature of the music scene when I turned up in Palmy and started hanging out in the still very much missed Wild Horse Saloon. If you can't find Mike any other way, Murray is still around Palmie, he's in Turbostill, I think they're still going, and they're easy enough to find.

Heh - I was at that No Means No gig and all. The Wild Horse was wrong on so many levels, and yet it was a great place to be. I felt quite lost after it closed down, until I felt growed up enough to become a regular at the Celtic.

Sam's a fulltime Autozamm music vid director...

Also Lucifer Sam's been mighty quiet.....too quiet.

Dr G - "make me a mix and i'll send you one back"............ yeah right

There was a stabbing outside last time I played there, gang-related- some guy was wearing the wrong colours and was attacked by a guy with a screwdriver... this is going back a few years, maybe they've turned it all around since then?

This is my official apology.

Joanna, my love, my mix cd for you has gathered much dust but is still ace so please (yes, again, sorry) email me your postal address and it will be on its way with a newly-mixed sibling.

benjamin, my excuse for you is that the cd artwork and the spray adhesive needed to complete the aartwork are many kilometres apart. I will remedy this, and you too will get a bonus disc with the original. The card with your address on it is currently being used as a bookmark (for a Robert Hughs collection, if I remember correctly.)

To the other person whose login I'm not certain of, but who I also owe a cd to - yours too has been made and is waiting to be posted. I'm sorry, it won't happen overnight, but it will happen (probably next week when I'm next at home.)

Other people have recieved my cds! I'm not a scam, promise! (tell em, Jimi, Jon, others...) I take this opportunity to point out that somebody has my Flying Nun DVDs, and has not sent them back as promised...I'm not the only slack one around here. Ahem.

I think I asked for a cd? But I never got a reply. Nobody loves me.

You could pretend that it was me. That could work, right?