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The Opinionated Diner: 03/07/2010 - 03/14/2010

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Friday, March 12, 2010. Sometimes it short circuits / sometimes it’s a golden glow. Ohh, I’ve been a bit quiet on the blogging front. No Particular reason.mostly just ennui and observation. Today, though, given as how some 500,000 folks in red shirts are marching on distant parts of Bangkok (and the panic stricken western travel alerts.how many tourists have been robbed, raped and murdered in fair NZ in recent years? Not many, if any…), I thought I’d throw up a couple of images of this city.

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Friday, August 11, 2006. Watch out young love…. I’ve had a fair response to my last post, more than I expected, mostly from people I know fairly well and overwhelmingly in agreement with the concerns I raised therein and the question I asked myself. One point that was, however, thrown back at me, several times, with some justification, was “but look how far we’ve come in such a short period”. And there is that of course. Except its not such a short period is it…. In all its forms are dwarfed by the big N...

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The Opinionated Diner: 06/20/2010 - 06/27/2010

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Wednesday, June 23, 2010. Im looking through you / youre not the same. This blog has now moved to my own dedicated server. The Opdiner.com. Address is the default address for the blog. These pages, which are also hosted on the new site, will remain as archives. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Ian Morris and Kim Willoughby. Kim Sinclair and Kirsten Shouler. Im looking through you / youre not the same. Follow me on Twitter.

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The Opinionated Diner: The bats have left the bell tower

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Friday, May 07, 2010. The bats have left the bell tower. Hugely recommended, this interview with Martin Mills, owner of the most important independent record label in the world (and the bloke who released some of my favourite records ever and still does):. The internet has revived interest in music, thinks Mills, by encouraging people to experiment. Indie music mogul: The net's great for us • The Register. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Ian Morris and Kim Willoughby. Kim Sinclair and Kirsten Shouler.

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'PURE NEW ZEALAND' ALTERNATIVE MUSIC RADIO: More Kiwi Songs you won't be hearing on the National Programme

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Friday, July 25, 2008. More Kiwi Songs you won't be hearing on the National Programme. In case you missed, it back in March I scanned my record collection, in an effort to formulate what I considered to be ‘The Top 10 most Offensive Kiwi Song Titles’ ever. At the end of the process, I came-up with 15 songs, all worthy entries in their own right. Either that or I’m an indecisive prick, unable to make hard choices and curb it back to ten(? If not – tough! The Users: ‘Arseful of Fist’. Pure NZ Alt Radio.

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'PURE NEW ZEALAND' ALTERNATIVE MUSIC RADIO: April 2008

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Saturday, April 19, 2008. Top 10 Kiwi Albums. Ask say 100 Kiwi Music fans to name their Top Ten Albums and you’ll get 100 different lists. As the great bard once said: “Opinions are like arseholes, everyone’s got one”. With such lists they’ll always be a divergence of entries, reflecting the demographics, race, social structures, music of that time etc. Peoples taste also change although for the most part we are ‘slaves’ to the music we listened to in our teens. On seeing someone’s else’s opp...Hey, that...

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'PURE NEW ZEALAND' ALTERNATIVE MUSIC RADIO: January 2008

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Monday, January 21, 2008. This may be stating the bleeding obvious, but it’s important to reiterate the sentiments that bought this station into fruition in the first place. That is to promote Kiwi bands, largely ignored by mainstream media, home and abroad. Internet Radio allows me to promote New Zealand Alternative Music to a worldwide audience. It also offers a platform to establish a ‘live music museum’ - preserving music memories ,whilst at the same time promoting new acts. In no particular order).

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'PURE NEW ZEALAND' ALTERNATIVE MUSIC RADIO: New Zealand’s Scariest Music Videos

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Wednesday, October 22, 2008. New Zealand’s Scariest Music Videos. I came across the topic line ‘Scariest Music Videos’ on another blog, which tickled my fancy – so being a good Kiwi lad, I flogged it! Then I got thinking about scary music videos from New Zealand bands, I’d come across. By the way I’m using the term ‘scary’ in the broadest definition of the word, I guess you could also extend this banner to include ‘dark’ as well. You of course may think differently, this being a very subjective subject.

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'PURE NEW ZEALAND' ALTERNATIVE MUSIC RADIO: New Zealands Worst Music Videos

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Thursday, October 23, 2008. New Zealands Worst Music Videos. At first you are half expecting to hear narration about other tourist destinations in New Zealand to come in over the song - when up pops this gorky guy in a denim top, wearing ghastly gloves who then begins the most God awful exhibition of break-dancing imaginable. This begins a downward spiral of cringe-worthy ‘miss matched’ cultural identifiers placed together in sequence. That’s a great idea and sure winner there Noel! Shoot me your horrors!

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'PURE NEW ZEALAND' ALTERNATIVE MUSIC RADIO: March 2008

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Thursday, March 27, 2008. An interview with Failsafe Records el-supremo Rob Mayes. To coincide with the FAILSAFE RECORDS MUSIC MONTH , the great saviour of local Indy Music, Failsafe label owner, producer, musician, writer, rock historian, mollycuddler to the musically unwashed, the inimitable ROB MAYES has the blow-torch applied to his y-fronts. Q) Starting from square one, how does a band/artist go about getting recorded on Failsafe? Do they come to you? Or do you approach prospects? I'm very proud of ...