I reckon it's a winner. The only problem is the one you mentioned, could piss bands off.
Brooklyn Vegan has been doing it for some time now though, and getting away with it. I scored an entire Wilco gig off there recently (and the sound quality was great too!)...
More Spinal Tap-isms:
"Who wants to sing along with Nickelback?!" - No one cheers.
"Who here owns the brand new Nickelback album All the Right Reasons?" - No one cheers.
I almost felt sorry for Rock's ugliest mug...
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Personally, I was stuck in the general admission section, not exactly the closest or most spacious seats in the house so I have no idea how things went for those closer to the action, but the sound was a bit on the wishy-washy side at times, perhaps due to wind?
Overall, I thought they played well. Mick was freakishly fit, and seemed fitter than I am (despite being less than half his age), not that I'm overly fit.
I was a little dissappointed with Tumbling Dice though, it looked as though it was just another routine song for them to play and lost all it's charm. Apparently it didn't sell out, but I was packed in there like a sardine.
It's kinda popular, the DVD sold pretty well. Considering the first series was popular in Australia more people will probably watch the second series here when it comes on soon now that it's been getting good reviews overseas.
There's also a band called The The, but they aren't kiwi.
And is Chris Knox's band, The Nothings, a stab at 'The' bands?
'Pacifier' did a double live album, but that's not really an 'album' album as such.
I think you're relying on some eceonomic theories you've heard some a lecturer rattle on about in an economics lecture, I suggest perhaps you take a sociology/social policy paper. If you go in with an open mind you'll likely find it will broaden your mind a great deal.
There's far more to life than ecomonics buddy. If maximizing the economy was what life was about it would make sense to send all pre-school kids into labour too, because they just sit around doing nothing most of the day, why not make them work? Those little bludgers...
The thing is, when tax cuts became one of the hot topics of the election a whole bunch of people didn't suddenly think "ooh, I'm going to vote for National or ACT this election because it means I can donate more of my money to charity!"
Example: The party I was at on election night, one girl there voted National because she worked out that the extra money she got from their proposed tax cuts would buy her one more cocktail on saturday night. I'm not saying this is typical, but not everyone has the same views on charity as you claim you do.
And believe it or not, not everyone who is rich likes to donate large sums of money to charity.
And by "things i believe will help people more [than welfare]" do you mean religion?
Oh, you mean Douglas and Prebble when they were IN the Labour Party. And what exactly does this have to do with selfishness? Or are you just chucking in a bit of irrelevant ACT propaganda?
And while you may get more out of a Labour government now, being a law student you can probably expect more than the average bear in the future, can't you? When you're 50 years old and getting paid an average salary (and not a small business owner) and expect that this will not change for the rest of your life THEN you can say you're not being selfish by supporting ACT.
"i would legislate to allow people to choose to be homosexuals if they like".
I was under the impression that this was legal in NZ already?
Why would you legislate to promote crap? (clue: you won't find the answer to this on Rodney Hide's blog)
This is the same sort of 'crap' that you research too Mr Crux (see link below). If they want to research it, and Waikato wants to give them funding for it then what's wrong with that? I thought being an ACT supporter and all that you wouldn't have problems with a private institution allocating funding to people researching a topic they have a genuine passion for?
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I really didn't word that as well as I could have, sorry Blink. What I meant was that I'm really keen for the full Buda album and the track on the latest CD only made me want it more. But seriously, keep up the good work, that was my first Low Hum and I was damn impressed!
I've really been looking forward to this one for a while too, the latest Low Hum CD didn't help. Anyone know if a tracklist is floating around somewhere? Or, more specifically, is that 40 Years song on it? Cos it's ace. Rudy?
Added. You're not doing so bad though, and it's still early days...