Same...it had that lovely two-tone with black framing around your comments. It felt quite comfortable. This one looks like Antartica, if you close one eye.
Indeed, it is a magnificent beacon in an otherwise grey featureless world. My copy makes for an excellant draft excluder, and I also use it to hold down the Sunday paper on a windy day. I should probably just play it loud though, right? No, hang on, hold it right there -- I am receiving some scuttlebutt gossip on a scale that is hard to believe - and should certainly dispel my smugness for a good while yet....wait for it...
Woah there tiger - you're talking about a couple of new signings to a publishing company (underline for effect) called Mushroom Music Publishing...they've just signed publishing deals with the songwriters for Pluto & Solaa, and as far as NZ signings go...they do it all the time, no biggie...(Mint Chicks, Shapeshifter, SJD, Neil Finn, Tim Finn, Liam Finn, Scribe, Die! Die! Die!, Salmonella Dub, King Kapisi, Anika Moa, James Milne, Elemno P, Nathan Haines)
Which is nice. Doesn't overly affect who or how one release ones records.
FN are deleting their back cat? Reckon I'll get down to Groovy and buy up all the vinyl then..
I'm going to move house - a work associate lives very near to one of the Auckland telephone exchanges and his broadband speed is unbelieveable!
Yes, that will be it - the crackingly good whipping horse for the 2000's...It's all the DOWNLOADING's fault!
Do we need a subject? We're just commenting on what he/she said...in this case, about having to wear sunglasses because the Future is so bright. It's how I imagine Antarctica looks on a winter day...
Man, am I in the right place? Hello - o - o - o? ...I only opened this door to see if anyone in here knew anything about the DawnRaid shutdown, and now it's all this weirdness - yo, which way to the Bar of the Future?
Tracklist??
Umm... Bailterspace - Colours...ACDC - Back In Black...New Order - Everything's Gone Green...The Fall - Curious Orange...??
Chicken curry = sold out! I settled for a steak & cheese today. And the 20/20 cricket was rained out...no wonder you Wellington people all head up to the Auckland beaches for Xmas. Still, great fun watching the Cook Strait ferry going up and down on a 6-8 metre swell. Heavy.
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I was having a few ales on the back deck last evening with a few musicians/opinionated chaps and after the usual discussion about the FN box set/tombstone, I felt it necessary to put an album on that was fresh/interesting and indicative of what the kids are raving to these days. We put the Pig Out album on.
I reckon they're better on record than the live show, reasons being I have a great new stereo amp; I'm an old crank who can't stay out past 1am these days; and the band didn't bring their own sound engineer to the Dogs Bollix that one time - so the bleeps were quiet when they should be overwhelming, and the PA shoulda been humming away at ear-splitting volume...and the kick-drum was floppy & non-existant - not that the dayglow kiddie winkles up the front really cared about all that (they were busy with their own kind of sensory experience all over their candy-coloured overalls...bless.)
Hey Noizy, it must be Xmas for I have arrived in Wellington. I will see you at the pie shop on the corner over the coming days I guess!
Yes - must also have it, although not sure I really need it. Throwing the DVDs in the box would have been a nice touch too, but I guess it's a big enough already to use as a doorstop down at the bach...and if you are reading this, have a listen to the Over The Atlantic album for no reason other than you should.
Brian Jonestown Massacre live:
Ahh, pretty freaking great - which surprised me, after a cancelled show earlier in the day - an hour before the midnight show Anton still did not have a drummer or third guitarist available, the usual members were stuck in another town having missed a plane or some such...but the ring-in friends held things together amazingly well, and the first song was a fifteen minute drone-on that buzzed-out the packed, sweat-soaked crowd. The rest of the show was of a similar wavelength, very melodic and full of spiralling high points, with beer. There was no overt evidence of any erratic behaviour that I've witnessed at a previous BJM gig (and is documented elsewhere) - although I'll admit I was tired & emotional by that stage of the evening, and may be misinterpreting things...but I don't think so.
I'm certainly keen to see them again if the opportunity arises...hmmmm...anyway, that particular evening rolled on down the road with a show by um, Helmet. Which was bone-crushingly powerhouse-core etc, and all that I suppose. BJM were great though!
Heh, I'd like to add my favourite drums and bass tracks for 2006:
Low - Monkey
Superette - Slide
Howling Bells - Low Happening
State Of Mind - Sunking
She Wants Revenge - Red Flags And Long Nights
LISTENING PILE OF 2006?
Albums:
Dukes Of Windsor – The Others
She Wants Revenge – S/T
Dimmer – There My Dear
The Datsuns – Smoke & Mirrors
Over The Atlantic – Junica
The Reduction Agents – The Dance Reduction Agents
Sonic Youth – Rather Ripped
Humphreys & Keen – The Overflow
Mogwai - Mr Beast
The Mint Chicks – Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No!
Cassette – Cut For Summer
The Bronx – S/T
Viva Voce – Get Yr Blood Sucked Out
Gnarls Barkley – St. Elsewhere
TV On The Radio – Return To Cookie Mountain
Bleeders – As Sweet As Sin
Dinosaur Jnr – Where You Been (reissue)
Be Your Own PET – S/T
We Are Scientists – With Love & Squalor
Samuel Flynn Scott – The Hunt Brings Coldplay Life
Luke Buda – Special Surprise
Chris Knox & The Nothing – S/T
Paul Mclaney – Edin
Refused – The Shape Of Punk To Come
EPs:?
Cobra Khan – Sleepless Lions
Evil – S/T
Leather Apron – S/T
The Datsuns – Stuck Here For Days
Shaky Hands – Cut Off Your Hands
HDU - Tunguska
DVDs:
We Jam Econo: The Story Of The Minutemen
Punk: Attitude
MC5 – Kick Out The Jams
Live:
Be Your Own PET / She Wants Revenge / We Are Scientists @ Austin, TX
Brian Jonestown Massacre @ Austin, TX
Superette @ Kings Arms
Sigur Ros @ St James
The D4 @ Kings Arms, final shows
HDU @ The Studio
Yeah Yeah Yeahs @ St James
Trans Am / Body Corporate @ Shadows
Shihad / The Mint Chicks @ AUT
// if -all- they will ever be is a service to help in royalty collection, then that's fine by me.
As far as I can recall Noizy, that silver scroll also comes with a cash prize too...which can come in handy when recording your next DIY opus...
APRA also had another trick up their sleeve: they once compiled a CD (which is what record labels do) called Thirty Top NZ Songs, as voted by their songwriter members, and that compilation was given away to happy guests at the Silver Scrolls that one time. And then the idea was given to an actual record company, who was able to successfully sell the compilation to the public as Nature's Best, which then expanded out to 3 compilations of the Top 100 songs, and a DVD of the Top 60 videos, and then another comp five years later called More Nature and who knows what the next one is going to be called? Anyway, they were fantastically successful and all(?) the money went back to APRA to be distributed to all the songwriters. In my view, that was/is a brilliant way of generating more income for thier represented artists.
Oh, look at that. Jakob's new album is out next week.
Surely you jest, Noizylad.
Does anyone else remember Push Push's live rendition of the Chills' 'Leather Jacket'. Awe inspiring.
Ohhh, is that what the nineties was all about? I thought it was about reaching for the lasers in the middle of Woodhill Forest at about 3am, as the mothership lands just to the left of the DJ booth.
Oh look, a talking baboon with a handful of little orange things!
Well, that photo settles it then. No-one can argue about your rootability now Joanna. Just let them try!
"...would be the least of anyone's problems"
I'll have a crack at solving your issue Joanna - is it the third eye that freaks everyone, or perhaps the hairy tail?
ohohohoho, Friday afternoons, aye?
*drinks a pint of beer, very quietly, looks at the Fix magazine*
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*decides to leave and go to Real Groovy and finally pick up those Stooges reissues that are on special now - psych!*
Um, anyone want to add anything to Joanna's comment there? I can't think of much to say really.
*Glances around the bar, as if looking for a telly with the World Cup on it...*
How remiss of me Jesstherese - I forgot to thank you publically for the homemade chocolate chip cookies, perfect grits for a stormy day with no power.
True - the words look weightless and uh, pretty non-significant without a good solid border to give them meaning and power and umm... Hmm. (nerve spasm)