I just realised that the colder it gets, the happier I am.
This is due to lovely bands passing through more frequently.
And my love for NZmusic.com grows anew, much like the fire in the hearths of NZ, or like those $2 shop dinosaurs that expand to outrageous proportions when soaked in water.

Good times indeed

I'll give you a perkynana if it includes wacky dirigibles

NA!
I'm happy to be a fucking moron and keep "bic-hin"

All I really hope is that the loading time gets sped up a tad.

See what I did there was a clever twist of a cliche, meaning its always quality.

I sure didn't screw up or anything.

No Sir

HA!

If you're not a lefty before 30, you have no heart; if you're not right by the time you're 30, you have no brain.

Peter Dunne= Heartless and brainless?

Though scorn shall rain down upon me, I really think this thread is a pile o' wank

I still think it's kinda funny that the anti-christian, left leaning majority on here is counter-balanced by one ACT-supporting manic depressive

FWIW, Rise the New World is amazing!!

It does make me smile how damn determined RebelHeart is to get himself into debt.

But anyway, talking to a couple of mates of mine who are in a reasonably successful band, they remarked how much they had to compromise and "blandenise" their music to get their singles out there. NZOA basically tries to select commercially viable tracks, which they have to sell to our only real radio station, the edge. The edge only takes a few songs per category and those catergories are very non specific; any alternative (basically anything not RnB, Hiphop or pop) gets classed as pop rock. They also don't categorise NZ music either. This means bands like Goodnight Nurse are up against The White Stripes, Radiohead, All American Rejects, Arctic Monkey for example. But of course, the edge doesn't play much of that stuff so theres a pool of about 5 songs. So NZOA has to provide the most "radio-friendly" song they can so it might get played. Most of the songs you hear sound like a bland rip-off of another band's song ( a la 48May Vs Bowling for soup), stuffed full of hooks but polished so much its a big slippery piece of shite that slides by inoffensively.

I see a bit of a cycle here, big radio stations not playing the New Zealand song -> Only accept the stuff that sounds like the overseas stuff thats already playing on big radio station -> band compromises song to be inoffensive polished turd -> song sounds like a crap version of everything else -> no demand for nz song -> radio station not playing nz song...
A good example of a band who found the secret code to get funding and then a record deal is Goodnight Nurse, who have released exactly the song about 5 times in a row, who stole their ideas off 48 May anyway.

I guess I just wish that both NZOA and especially the big NZ stations would take bigger chances; why do they think they're allowed to play safe most of the time, when radio stations overseas fight each other to be the first to break "the next big thing", often getting it wrong? You don't make much $ by backing the favourite horse everytime

Tony's Theme by The Pixies

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This is a song about a superhero named Tony
It's called Tony's Theme

He's got the oil in the chains for a ride in the rain
No baloney
Ride around on my bicycle like a pony
I'm waving hi, hi, hi, hi, hi
G-g-g-gimme the speed
Gimme, gimme me the beat
Of Tony

To-ny, To-ny, To-ny, To-ny, To-ny

I can't talk, super bicycle time, I'm racing
Spitfire turn and pop a wheelie, burn and evil chasing
I'm waving bye, bye, bye, bye, bye
I got a card in my spokes
I'm practicing my joke, I'm learning

To-ny, To-ny, To-ny, To-ny, To-ny

This is a song about a superhero named Tony
It's called Tony's Theme

I can look at the sun, if you give me some bad
Sun glasses
Back on the road, I cut my grass like I'm told
After classes

To-ny, To-ny, To-ny, To-ny, To-ny
To-ny, To-ny, To-ny, To-ny, To-ny
To-ny

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Everyone else might as well give up
For my name is Tony and I AM a superhero

Ha!!!
Thats awesome!
However, your other video of someone getting 5million points on Tony Hawk 3 appealed more to the playstation addict teenager that still lurks within me

Its probably been mentioned before but I thought it was a hell of a good idea. Although there seems to be the opinion of these here boards that Christchurch sucks for music, its great to see that the fact there is so much talent in christchurch is getting recognised.
Chart seems to be aimed at helping bands and musicians stick around in chch rather than them moving away.

The music scene is awesome in that most musicians know each other quite well and support each other. The problem is that only select pockets of people go to select gigs, its uber cliquey. Attending a few of the low hum gigs always gets me wondering "where the hell did all these people come from?"

The music scene is good. Theres just no gig-goers. And you see the same people at every show BUT most are involved in the scene to some degree anyway. Thats where I hope Chart really starts putting the grunt-work in - getting punters along, because there are fantastic bands in CHCH. The ones that survive the chch "horse shoe of power" and lack of punters usually are far far better then the average run of the mill band in other centres due it being so damn hard to keep working. Thats why most bands move away, its just not worth wasting time playing to 3 stony faced people in chch when you could be playing to 50 enthuiastic people in Wellington or Auckland

The quality is higher in some cases in chch but no one cares. I really hope Chart promotes the hell out of the scene to the christchurch music lovers.

Thoughts?

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1) Listening to Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream whilst on a school picnic and have it completely blow my mind; it was like opening the front door when you've been inside the house all your life and theres his huge world out there
2) Me and one of my best mates getting turned away from a christian conference due to it being full then nipping round the corner to a bar to drink beer using a fake ID
3) Massive south island roadtrip with my dad where the most useful thing I did was count road kill and buy a rubiks cube
4) The first time I got up on stage and played to an awesome crowd
5) When you hear a song or create a piece of music that resonates with every part of you, thats ALWAYS a good time