CRAZY! I used to go out with her in high school...
I feel like a slack-arse coz I've only just seen the vid and I remember her telling me about going to do it way back when.... Mad mofo out of it, haha!
I know fo' sho' she's a better dancer than that tho' eh!
Can't wait to hear the new work boyz!
Just rummaged thru yer site too... very meke.
Hope all is well.
Dimja the Ninja
Be selective!? If it's shit then don't bother listening to it. Simple. And that should apply to most things not just NZM.
Che Fu, Minuit, New Way Home, Shapeshifter/Concord Dawn the list for me is a very mighty and a very long one.
And somehow I'm currently not in any situation to question whether they should be learning (again!?) how to write songs and play their instruments. Looks to me like your not getting the good shit. Fire your music buying person before you lose anymore faith!
hmm funny... coz i thought that was kinda average. i mean good but not vintage bep's. no yeah it is a good song, better than humps anyway. i remember liking the video.
her vox are kind of like that smooth style she uses.
i might see her play here this fri night so i'll really get a chance to see if she is the bomb or not.
Well Blink I didn't mean to nail you up there either. It's not the first time in here I've done that for mates... forget about my shit.
To me Fat Freddies is a little like Sal Dub in a way that the majority of audience members are diehard supporters. My guess is that kind of affords a luxury for these guys to release material without much of the marketing xmas lights. Another guess is that that sort of support is won by a lot of playing, a lot of collaborations and a lot of great but hard work. And I wouldn't consider either of the bands music would be on many commercial playlists compared to the generic bands like Tadpole and May30something. Maybe not Sal Dub but even their 'entry into the nz mainstream' has been a recent thing considering all they've done. (And yeah that is, with everybody else, probably a direct result of CreativeNZOA). And so I see here that Freddies had another stint to No1 now that it "makes acceptable listening" all of a sudden.
Which is a shame because Midnight Marauders is still a Fat Freddie favourite.
I don't know. I've only been able to stream Radio Active and BFM anyway so.
Even with this type of momentum I doubt, with taxes, that making music is getting them any richer (in terms of wealth not spirituality!) Thinking I suppose it becomes a business before too long. Ha. The music business!? Now I've heard that one before...
that's cool.
i kinda thought the main single was good. but the rest was absolutly nothing like it at all!? in fact it's almost a jazz fusion of hip hop. most of it reminds of bjorks vespertine amped up a little.
anyway.
Jesus Blink!
You got riled up real fast! I hope you've chilled out some mate. Besides it's your business who you want to call fool for voicing opinions that don't match yours.
I'm sorry your claws came out, but I supported someone who I saw as working hard enough for long enough to say what he wants to say.
//You wanna talk about hard work getting a grant...
You know that creative NZ grants come bigger than NZOnAir?? That's the way it's set out there don't ask me.
And for the record I don't watch TV. Let alone survivor.
Blink you took my comments all the wrong way.
You can file your form for NZOA but the shit fight starts when it's up to the board to decide for the general public who gets some radio pie.
Both yourself and Penman work hard for Music. I want to be clear that you know I realise this.
But you don't be such a cunt about it bro'...
I'm currently not in NZ at the mo', and haven't been for a while.
I was curious to wonder if Esthero has had much commercial radio or TV play over there at the moment?
Are kiwi's buying it? And can anyone help me with a site for NZ charts? (I never ever thought I'd ever have to ask for that!?)
She has kinda just bought out another album after 7years (I think), after numerous collabs (Weekends w/ BEP's probably the most played).
Wikked Lil' Grrrls.
OG Bitch and We R in Need of a Musical Revoution are the kinda singles from it...
So was wondering if it's been recieved down there.
She's a Toronto native and has awesome vocal & a mean tounge.
Just wanna see how she does.
good stuff!
not being one to slam any of these org's for what they do. it's good to see at least something in place and working the large otherwise commercial middle class nz.
i'm seeing penmans point tho'.
so much hard work is wasted shit fighting for a grant that is far from accessable. even if you have a name for yourself already.
and it's not that muso's aren't helping themselves and eachother. but industry environments like having 90% of people fighting for a 5% share in the market.
those aren't real figures but it is a typical strategy.
i'm gonna have to order a copy now...
just in time for chrissie.
go you good things!
i'm quite keen to vote for the maori party.
our hopeless mp's have the gall to give an outside nz (asia i think) company consent to find the fesibility of mining the iron sands of the west coast.
a mere six months after a huuuge hikoi. peaceful hikoi i might add.
mp's must think general maori and a serious amount of general nzer's are a bunch of iliterate wasters.
why?? cant they even think we can find the oppurtunity to give ourselves the business???
this has shades of 80's governments who sell vast amounts of nz assetts to "outside investers" (i.e. one single overseas ceo rich enough)...
the biggest kicker... just before the explosion of cellphones, the internet we use everyday, mike moore ends up selling nz's rights to it's own communications. we pay through the teeth to this day.
how gutting. to be bought out by people who know what technological advances were to be put in place during the next ten years. our government has been ripped off, looks stupid and then tries it on it's own voting public. what a deep shame.
sorry thats my wild rant.
politics enrage me when we are made to feel dumb when we are not.
chocolate is good for lining your throat if you've been drinking beer.
chamomile is probably better for you.
actually Helmet, Slayer, Motorhead, Black Sabbath sound real good...
just go man.
have fun.
chill, kick your feet up, get some time to not take life seriously for a couple of days.
it's your chance to let loose.
not my complete metal fancy, but looks good none the less eh.
it's hard for it to matter really isn't it?
both cities are so far apart. i think the last gig i went to in auckland (apart from the blackseeds about three years ago) was nothing at all, at a symonds street bar that probably doesn't exsist anymore. and that wouldv't been the night after bdo 1996.
this place is one of the one limited ways of findng out what happens up there without having to drive through the monsta, let alone take a bus ; P
nice one.
good use of some wholesome healthy kiwi language flung out there.
what a waste of time.
the same fuckn thing the whole time.
must have been computer generated.
everyone knows vodafone don't give away $50 bucks like that.
Why hello NZM. It's been a very long while since I've been in here!
I haven't fully re-explored yet but I wanted to know what happened to the old faces? I liked my old one.... I don't want to have a girls head :P
Cheers big ears