i was in high school & listening to way too much U2 (was the year of Joshua Tree?). shudder. not a bad album, but i'm pretty sure i played it way too often. i think i can re-listen to Exit off it, but no other track. i'm not prepared to try for a few more decades though.
i had no idea there was NZ music :o at least as far as bands who played decent idiosyncratic original non-overseas-derived music. that discovery didn't come until my later years of high school when i was deciding where to go for uni. by that stage the music scene in Dunedin was the clincher!
mixes!?
you know, i've known you for billions of years Christianity, but i have no idea who you are :D
but you know my band is mixing. :?
well, at least that has narrowed it down to about ... 20 people ... :D
actually, we are past the mix stage now, thanks to Thom Bell getting back from his sound-guy duties in Aussie - he is our 5th member/George Martin, heh, he should be polishing the second mastering as i type. gonna have a listen to them tonight - are only days/weeks away from pressing it into physical form! yay - it has been a delightful saga, as usual. why more people aren't in bands is way beyond my comprehension.
i just get lost on the new style site. with the old version i knew instantly where new stuff was ... there's so much new stuff here i just get overwhelmed ...
i just wish the architecture was a bit more simple or obvious.
i still listen to music ALL THE TIME according to my last.fm page & my need for new turntable needles :D
i've been working real hard last few years, putting in some horrific hours, so this year i'm pulling it all back. not doing so much teaching, managed to finish my thesis, so have cleared a fair bit of time to get back to writing songs/navel gazing. hope more people post wotsup, would be interested in catching up with what people have done/plan for the next while.
band practise is magical. there's not many things better than coming along with the early embryo of a song, and just jamming it out and it magically forms before your eyes/ears thanks to the groovy telepathic people steering the jugganaut with you. fracking awesome. that and recording: completely awesome.
i'm pissed at the result.
i think you should make a new sport out of piling a whole lot of tracksuits, + petrol + flame. cos they gotta be sweatshop made anyway.
ggrrrrrrr. Plank was superior.
is anyone else getting Page Not Found on just about everything? or is it just me and my Safari, or am i looking during a fix-up session?
Inventive genre-bending three-piece from Christchurch, consisting of Joe, Matt and Darian.
Bio from their myspace page:
1987: Semen in the gland
1988: Embryo in the womb
1989: Plays first instrument
1990: Eats solid foods
1991: First trip to beach
1992: Aggressive behaviour at kindy
1993: First song written, "Stegasaurus"
1994: Buys neon sneakers
1995: Excels at mathematics
1996: Refuses to smile
1997: First concert
1998: Second concert
1999: Gives up music forever
2000: Directionless
2001: Coerced back to music
2002: Fails to organise third concert, Operation Mach
2003: Receives 16 out of 25 by voting comittee
2004: Plays at South Christchurch Library
2005: Plays at Woolston Park Christmas in Da Hood
2006: Sleep on Connan Hosford and Ross Walker's motel-room floor
2007: Record ten tracks onto compact disc
2008: Busk in Greenland
2009: Arrested for a string of sound-control complaints
2010: "Stegasaurus" re-hashed and released on 7-inch vinyl
2011: Black Market Art dissipates into three separate solo projects - Blind Blacky Benson; The Market Men; and 'Art Attack
2012: The Market Men reach number two on the Italian Top 40 with the single "Bad to the Bone"
2013: Blind Blacky Benson diagnosed with cataracts disease, surprised to find himself actually blind
2014: 'Art Attack reduces sodium intake, gains 'whole new lease on life'
2015: Planned Black Market Art reunion tour cancelled when both singer and bassist both refuse to stand on the 'unlucky' right-hand side of stage
that's curious, on Recent Comments page, both lena o and i have got Heather's icon.
WE HAS STOLEN UR ICONS
you're not spartacus. you're not using the ¡
now i need a propeller hat.
i'm totally not at all over kiwi music, and almost everyone i know plays it or listens to it incessantly. the muh'space network has really added to the headache of keeping up with it all - so many undiscovered noodling musicians on it, people who never play live, never go out to expose their music, and new musicians and new innovative tunes turn up all the time. my broadband data limit nearly zeroes out each month and i have new stuff to push onto the local bNet NZ music djs each week and my mp3 player is chocka with it.
but otherwise i get what you're saying re getting unheard or heard international musicians/techies over, more the merrier obviously.
it seems to me that only the blokes are talking (though I have seen the Brooke-centric one) and the wimmin are eating and listening like good wimmin. (except for Jane Yee too) in fact there seems to be a lot of shots where people are stuffing their gobs. are they famished, haven't had a good meal in yonks? it looks like a cooking show, very Top Chef.
still, i'm glad they're even on and being broadcasted. i'd be interested in seeing extended versions too.
where's the NZ MM TV special on things like A Camp Low Hum
absofrickenlutely. it was so ... [words fail me] to get back home and see all the BDO footage on the music shows/channels, Camp Low Hum completely absent/unmentionable for reasons way beyond my logic.
w00t!!!!!!!!!! i can't wait till i get to a decent speed computer to watch them there goodies!!!!!
have been heading inland to Central Otago a fair bit lately - thrashing Wammo and Capsul, the only sound track for the Kawarau gorge's dangerous corners at night (at a legal speed ... but one night there were all these moths, it was like moth-rain flakes, mass migration ... ) anyway, super keen for new sounds.
cakes and fine wines. the finest wines known to humanity!!!!!
"Watch This Space" is great. was amused to see new Dinosaur Jr song on it (time has not been kind to everyone on earth but Thurston Moore) and nicely connected Tunic by Sonic Youth, which is a terrifically amateur low-fi video, the likes of which i never thought i'd ever see on tele. and more besides - "Watch This Space" is turning out to be like the golden age of music videos, where you used to watch and used to get surprised or challenged by stuff, instead of stuporfied.
what are the buddy lists for? what do they do? :O
ps i really love the edit function
safari terrific now. love the number of guests online. so floored at the newness i haven't even thought of a wishlist ... as Heather says, cute icons a must, perhaps bringing the top 5s on everyone's profiles a bitmore to the front (even if there are less of them) would be cool - get your bearings on someone, especially with new people coming along ...
gosh i don't know ... guess when everyone visits on Monday ala the morning work ritual we'll hear some awesome suggestions ...
good gard i love the edit function, though i haven't used it yet. awesoma!!!
crikey!
not so good in safari 2.0.4 on OS 10.4.8 - main problem is everything is underlined/linked on the page - have to tab jump to box, can't click on empty box as will lead to homepage. other links go where they ought to, but as everything is linked, stuff without legit links goes to www.nzmusic.com ...
very exciting though! and terrifying - to see how many years i've been here ...
i was thinking you wanted code people, which i am not, but count me in for anything else, especially frenetic and systematic mac os x beta surfing. can't wait for rebirth!!!!
we got our copy at Radiant Records in Timaru. awesome. so awesome. i'd try an indie record store. "weeee're on the radiiiio!" that album with the horse on it. need more albums.
Grotto, yeah, that sounds better. like the Playboy Mansion, with tents, but everyone's in bed by 3 am, heh.
looks great on Mac OS 10.5.2 Safari 3.1. great to see that "at a glance" feature back! thanks!