Hell yes, Conan and the mockasins were something else! It was a great show.

Blink, you’re an inspiration. The Low Hum tours opened my ears to a heap of great bands which other wise I wouldn’t have had the chance to hear live, thanks to all the amazing work you did to bring them to Chch.

We’ll all be eagerly awaiting the arrival of your next big idea, what ever it may be.

This man deserves a DB.

I had a listen, and it sounded good.
You got my vote, though it looks like you're doing a pretty good ass whoop'n already.

//haha..all this from the guy who wrote baggy trousers....

Hey hey heeey, don't bag the baggy trousers.
When I was in backpacking in Barcelona, I was sharing a dorm room with some girls from Finland, Chillie, and two random girls from Wellington, and one night, we got talking about songs from our country and the three of us from NZ sang in chorus the Baggy Trousers song and the other girls loved it. Filled us Kiwi girls with pride.

Yeah so it's a bit of a piss take song, and yeah it might not be as culturally sophisticated as Kiri Te Kanawa singing Po Karekare Ana, but Baggy Trousers definitely marks a time and a place.

So go Baggy Trousers!

//apparently the original Trillionaires werent too happy with the name
Old money dissing on new money aye? It's mo money mo problems yo. hehe

Anywho, whether you're the New Trillionaires or just plain Trillionaires, you guys are awesome!
It was a real pity about the roundup comp, but I'll be looking forward to your gig at the Wunderbar.
yay!

Poo, so there's nothing on earlier?

Can anyone give me any information on Chicken Yard, the guys who won the RDU band comp last night (congratulations by the way, you guys rocked!) like how long they've been around, if the members were/are in other bands, when they're having their next gig, other credentials etc, any piece of info would be great.

cheers

I have to say I really enjoyed what I heard as well (on that coke link), awesome riffs!

//trillion's been on the money all this time - it's about time hiphop artists start using a proper kiwi accent

While there's no disputing trillion's accent, I thought jonny sounded more uk geezer than kiwi, though it may be one for the phonologists to debate.

//the thread reminded of two people i've met in my life who have held discriminatory racist attitudes towards their own race, they seemed in denial,

I was going to let go of this thread but it’s going to bug me all day so for the record I’m going to explain myself one last time.
As Heather, Blink, Aka, and Limegreen have astutely pointed out, my original comment was a sarcastic one, by talking about separate toilets and separate road lanes, I was trying to give a verbal moonie and fart in the general direction of those who suggest that “Polynesian”/”pacificabeats type” bands should not be allowed to enter rockquest.
I later realised it was an unhelpful and some what off the mark way to convey my disagreement, which is why I admitted to my comment being “dumb”, not because I’m a discriminatory racist in denial.

In seriousness, New Zealand is a little country with greatly talented people , so I think all artists should be given every opportunity to build on their experience and exposure. I can understand the concerns of some rock musicians who feel that their turf in rockquest is being threatened, but surely, added competition is a good thing for the health of New Zealand rock. I’ve seen so many bands in various competitions where I’ld think, “man, these guys have so much potential... if only they had a tighter set”. There are talented bands out there who work their asses off, but there are other bands who simply take their talent for granted and make no effort in presenting a polished show, even in competitive events. Some one may have already given this spiel, but I think greater competition is all good if it means it’ll shape up some of these bands.

I know I've been pathetically longwinded but that’s it I’m done. I shall look at this forum no more.

Looks like you guys are doing a fine job by yourselves on the promo side, but if you guys get a review in Japanese, e-mail the article or the web link to me, and I'll have it sent back to you in English in my spare time.
The offer's open to any other NZ bands that are slogging it out in Japan as well.

oops, I mean *waves*, geez talk about a freudian slip.

Ah, irony...
The sad thing is, my big speal wasn’t really about grammar (though I was trying to get people to ease up on the use of pronouns), but I was trying to be ironic with the phrase “grammatically correct”, you know, punning GC with PC, you know, Gee kinda sounds like Pee?
I guess I should put my shovel down while I’m still only knee deep.

sigh...

but thank you limegreen, you’re lovely too.

Geez, dragstrip, I’m sorry if I have inadvertently offended you, and I also find it really sweet that blink and Aka have come to my defence, you guys are lovely, but I don’t need any one making excuses for my language skills, I knows how to speek English good... most of the time.
dragstrip, I don’t want to give you a lecture on grammar, but “they” is the plural pronoun for third person subjects, and in the context of the comment in question, it was the only grammatically appropriate pronoun I could use, trust me on this one, I’m a linguistics graduate.
If you look at my initial comment again:

//Yes, let's just have white folks in rockquest because they can't sing, and polynesian people in pacifica beats because they can't do music outside of R&B and rap, and why stop there? Let's have public loos just for whites, and separate ones for browns, and a third lane on the roads for asians because they can't drive. Yes, I would quite like my own lane//

you will see that the subject in the first clause is “white folks”, in the second clause it is “ polynesian people”, and in the third it’s “asians”. The nature of these three clauses were general, and they were addressed to the general readers of the forum, not to one person in particular, so the second person pronoun (you) could not be used because I’m assuming the readers will be from a wide range of ethnicity (even if I had addressed it directly to Mr A Winters, I don’t know his ethnic background, and I don’t know if he can sing, nor do music outside of R&B, nor if he’s a good driver or not so the use of the second person pronoun would still be incorrect); as I am neither white nor polynesian, it would have been semantically suspect for me to use the first person pronoun (I/we). For the third clause, both first person and third person pronouns would have been acceptable in the context, but I opted for the latter for the sake of flow.
I would like to concede right now that post I made yesterday was pretty dumb, it was early in the morning and I’m prone to say dumb things past midnight.

However, I was not trying to be racist, I was being grammatically correct.

If you haven’t already picked it up from my previous comments, I am indeed Asian, but I didn’t mean it about having my own lane. I’m sticking to biking anyway since petrol's so damn expensive... and I’m sticking to posting during the day time, I’ve learnt my lesson.

As would I, and I don't think I could bear the thought of going to see rockquest again if I know it's going to be two hours of four piece cockrock after cockrock after cockrock. A three piece band might bring a little bit of variety, but there's only so much cockrock a girl can take.