Have a great and safe tour Dan and Peter! I'll be at the Bodega and Mussel Inn in spirit. See you when you get to California someday.
Tricia
p.s. Dan, when is Verona going to join hands with the Devil and get a Myspace page?
God, please say that that's the Finnish Phoenix Foundation they feature in the 30 sec. snippets.
Okay, I know the bigtakeover website looks very commercially oriented, but really the magazine isn't. It takes months to get through one issue. Good thing they only come out quarterly.
There are three NZ releases in Jack Rabid's Top 10 list.
I am particularly thrilled about Graeme Humphreys and Peter Keen getting on the list. The Overflow has been my go-to cd of the year. I haven't felt this swoony since high school.
Keen's singin' and Humprhey's piano playin' has made me go back and learn about the Able Tasmans' back catalogue. "Jethro Tull for young people" indeed! (thanks, Bibi!)
It goes without saying that I'm happy for Don McGlashan, too.
The Big Takeover is a fairly noncommercial labor of love and it shows.
Bishop might as well be an island, mate. It's where they shot Tremors, the giant earthworm flick.
That pie maker is brilliant. Actually, it's the demi puff pastry that I've never been able to get right.
If anybody goes to Tassie, there is a pie shop I have been dreaming about for the last 8 years. It's in a bus stop called Hamilton in the Highlands. Ate four at once and could have eaten the whole dozen by myself. Was warned by the locals that they put heroin in them.
Oh yeah, this is a thread about the TPF Cassette tour. Hope it was epic. Had a look at my old Low Hum mag pics of their first tour together. Looks like it would have been good.
My lovely old man just had 16 pies delivered to my ass for my birthday. The closest pie is about 5 hours away.
Fat bastardettes of the world unite.
I agree that perhaps it's not the most representative of Don McG's work, but I can't say I hate the song, either. It was a great way to introduce Hollie Smith to an even bigger audience.
Don McG said the Mint Chicks did an awesome job in his interview on TVNZ (clip on the tvnz site) and said that the ceremony was cool because there was a lot of booze and it wasn't "an industry bottom sniffing" event.
Kudos to the guy who has taken out heaps of mortgages on his house and worked shitty jobs just to keep the music going.
Then maybe you should drive the van. Those molten fillings are deadly dangerous when you are trying to eat a pie behind the wheel.
Hope the gig at the San Fran Bathhouse is a great homecoming. Hey! Sam 60 on Active is playing your Live at Helen's track NOW!!!!!
Tuned into it for the first time the other week online. It was okay for the first few songs, then the ads came on and it felt so weirdly commercial...heard something like an ad for used cars up in Auckland/Manukau.
Heard the Edward Gains interview, it sounded so....polite. I guess I'm used to the randomness of Active and the geeky muso stuff on Sat. on Nat'l Radio....Still, I have to admit that I'm intrigued that Danielle Cormack is the Roots and Reggae DJ.
Enjoyed tuning into Fleet on Noizyboy's recommendation ages ago.
You're lucky you're not playing Queenstown. Arrowtown pies might be my favorite in NZ. My record with them was three in one go....
Heh.
Hola, it's Tomatohead.
I've been chatty chatty with the Melbourne RRR Breakfasters for a few years now. They were awesome when Horseypower came out. I'll be sure to ask nicely for some Pegasus tracks.
Safe journeys up and down the road, gentlemen. Enjoy OZ and CMJ, too.
Mmmmm. Pizza goodness.
Have to piggyback off Noizyboy and say "kudos" to James Milne and of course Don McGlashan. Have loved This is London since I heard it way back in 2002, but Bathe in the River is a departure (thanks in large part to Hollie Smith's vocals).
Looking forward to the live to air. Thanks for the headsup, Tane.
Tricia
We're enjoying Spill Your Heart here in California. Yeah for finding new gems!
Three cheers! Been waiting since something like 2000 for this. Looks like there is a bunch of Arch Hill goodness coming our way.
Saving those dollars as we speak. Can't wait! C-Sides has been on heavy rotation here at home.
Listening to David Long's "Playing Favourites" segment on Kim Hill, and he's just such a talented and, for lack of a better word, gentleman-ly guy. This is refreshing, especially, in light of the fact that he had been part of that whole record industry-in-transition-in-the-UK-in-the-late-90s-with-the-Mutton Birds-and-Virgin thing.
He works with so many bands and projects that I love and plays so well to boot.
Understated music god.
Here were his playing fav. musicians: the latin playboys, eno, pixies, and the blams (marsha).
Yep, that Dan Adams.
Have had City Chorus since it came out and it still sounds fresh. Hurrah!
Dan Adams said something to the effect that there were heaps of bands formed at Wellington College when he was there- thankfully before cds were cheap to make. ;)
The cds you buy from nzmusic.com/smoke will work on your player in N. Americker. DVDs should still work on a computer. NZMusic/smoke have a great selection of Flying Nun/Dunedin bands. I see that they are out of Cloudboy, though.