Jeez bro .. you really want to find this song eh?
You had the lyrics a little wrong, so that may be why it's eluded you so far ...
"I've got a hard road to travel and a rough rough way to go"
The songs called 'Hard Road To Travel' - On the ad it's a cover, but the original was written & performed by Jimmy Cliff and it's on the album Wonderful World, Beautiful People.
The NZ Music Industry Commission has a free legal advice service called Music:Law for musicians and people in the music industry - Chris Hocquard is also the lawyer for that. You just email the NZMIC office and book in a time. The legal clinics happen every second Thursday morning over the phone and they have a freephone number if you need to call in from outside of Auckland. info@nzmusic.org.nz
Interesting you should say that Stu - it's just what I was thinking.
You don't say someone's crap - unless you are comparing them to some one else.
It's a strange thing to say - but don't feel sorry for the bands. For every negative whingey post, there is someone out there - in the case of some of the bands slagged here, many thousand someones - who care about them and the music they make. When I read forums about the bands I like and someone is being tosser, it just makes me think that their little icon is the representation of - well - a tosser.
I don't think it is human nature that we bag others and be nasty, it's just being angry or frustrated gives you that specific kind of energy that makes you want to do something about whatever has got yr proverbial goat ... Being happy, thinking the world is all good - it's one of the weirder parts of our psyche that these are the things make you complacent and inactive.
You know what - you only feel bad about everything / people / posts being negative because you actually give a fuck. And that, Sir Dust, is not a bad place to be.
yup - your'e completely correct there.
under the so-called 'blue skies' closer economic relations agreement, nz music counts towards the compulsory australian quota ... even if they don't live in melbourne.
if a compulsory quota was put in place here, the same would apply for australian music ...
i don't know if it is the same around the world for singles charts - i do know that nz has a particularly weak market as far as singles sales go.
... i forgot to say in the last post, apparently the datsuns are just about gold in the uk!
Actually - all of you are right ... in a way ....
5,000 = Gold Single
10,000 = Plantinum Single
7,500 = Gold album
15,000 = Platinum Album
The different scale is mean't to reflect the fact the singles market is substantially smaller than the album market ....
Hey Marion ... Loves Ugly Children broke up a few years ago now. They didn't have a website - but you can email info@flyingnun.co.nz to get a message to them.
The isn't any LUC stuff on the Flying Nun website at this stage - I think they are still adding the history section, with info on all the bands who have been on the label over the years.
dear hollis,
you might want to delete some of yr mail box ... Requested action not taken: exceeded storage allocation. righto ...
(sorry to post here - but obviously i cant email you directly ...)
phantom billstickers and profile plus both do the whole country - i think phantom have now bought sticky fingers in wgtn too.
so, the way you go about getting a national poster campaign is contracting phantom (or whoever). you negotiate a price for the whole country and deliever all the posters to them.
then the poster company subcontracts all their poster people thru out the country on your behalf. they take care of sending the posters around the country for you and will normally provide you with a 'site report' for each town - a list of all the places that your posters have been pasted up.
most of the bigger poster companies actually own the leases on the walls that they stick posters on - so they can maintain your profile thru until the end of your campaign ... ie. they wont paste over them until after your gig.
on another tip - i reckon we should encourage more people to sell posters at gigs - bands do that at heaps of shows i've been to in australia. pay $5 on the way out and have a shiny poster for your kitchen wall. if the artworks cool, bands will sell posters and make more money... afterall, the only real effort is getting an extra hundred posters printed ...
stuart mogwai & aidan arab strap have a new band together too - cannae remember what it's called though ... i do remember mogwai hate belle & sebastian though.
the 'arab strap' thing is to do with the strange scottish sense of humour ... (i dont think these bands are nearly as miserablist as one would think) ... an 'arab strap' is a sexual device, which you can do yourself - or your favourite male - considerable & painful damage with.
The AB's were taking the piss when they called themselves that, B&S took it a step further by giving it to a boy.
sorry. ran away ... you were all too clever for me.
the other one was graeme downes, currently signed to matador and merge.
i think the thirsty ear deal for knox was like a one off - i'm pretty sure his deals are for individual albums ...
anyway ....
aha, but justin harwood lives in devonport now, doesnt he?
saw him out & about last week in auckland anyway ....
hey blink ... you've got four of the seven so far!
hdu aint one of them though - not yet anyway ...
oops. went awol for a day ... sorry about that ...
quite hard to think of questions, isnt it?
okay - out of all the artists who played on the flying nun 'under the influence' cd, who has record contracts with other companies offshore?
that'd be the hitlist, garageland and ..... drum roll .....
rumblefish!
apparently he's got a new punk band - reminiscent of the dead kennedys ...
it's kinda bruce russell styles, the old pin group. they actually put out a retrospective (funnily enough, it's called 'retrospective') in 1997.
peter stapleton did some stuff with mr russell (i think!) in handful of dust and also with peter jeffreies.
ross humphrey worked with heaps of bands - inc mighty might bosstones & big wheel.
steriogram are definitely not in. they were, prior to the offcial confirmation ... but then they weren't.
there were three changes to the nominees between the first embargoed press release and the final confirmations - the other two were changes in producer / engineer ....
noizy - i knew that was your list before i even scrolled down to the icon.
your fine taste, literally, precedes you.
the listener is not online unfortunately, so there isnt a transcript of that article to paste here. it's two full pages long too - so you'd have to bribe someone with a whole bunch of beer to get them to re-type it for you ...
u2 on the lovetown tour ... november 8 (i think?) 1989. still got my ticket somewhere. maybe that's where i know your icon from dust. it was just you, me and 55,000 other wellingtonians.
they didnt play sunday bloody sunday. i was pissed at that.
those were insane days - can you imagine anyone selling out TWO western springs - the biggest stadium in australasia @ 80,000 capacity. u2 and the 'straits did it.
lets see how creed go this month, huh? (coughsplutter)
The Primitives! But the singer did look an awful lot like Wendy James, from memory ...