Read the most amazing book over the weekend waiting for the final lines of the Tuesday Poem communal birthday poem to be posted. (It's all up there now, by the way, awaiting a final edit - an astonishing multi-national effort that does my head in, and of which I am incredibly proud. More on that tomorrow...) But back to this amazing book Soundtrack which does my head in too: a passionate, provocative, idiosyncratic, hilarious, moving paean to NZ music. The stellar writing - by Grant Smithies, and guests like Nigel Cox, Damien Wilkins, Sam Neill, Jolisa Gracewood - makes so many other reviews (book reviews included) look dull as ditch water. This is about music that's unashamedly LOVED. The music and the words rush out past you as you read and hang in the air - you just have to go and find the artists and play them. Some of it I know, alot I don't, and there's so much I wished I'd been there for ... The delighted spark of recognition - yes! the moment when Space Waltz blew our socks off on TV's New Faces with 'Out on the Street' ... the phenomenon that is Chris Knox ... that is Crowded House ... that is Straightjacket Fits ... and mention of that little-mentioned Dunedin garage band Sneaky Feelings - hey we billeted David Pine at our flat in Aro Valley when SF was doing its thing. We were so impressed that he was in a band. Sadly, I don't have the vinyl to put on the record player but there's always youtube ... three great tracks here... enjoy (and oh, that Dunedin footage in the Sneaky Feelings video!)
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Monday, April 11, 2011
Soundtrack: Sneaky Feelings, Space Waltz, Straightjacket Fits
Read the most amazing book over the weekend waiting for the final lines of the Tuesday Poem communal birthday poem to be posted. (It's all up there now, by the way, awaiting a final edit - an astonishing multi-national effort that does my head in, and of which I am incredibly proud. More on that tomorrow...) But back to this amazing book Soundtrack which does my head in too: a passionate, provocative, idiosyncratic, hilarious, moving paean to NZ music. The stellar writing - by Grant Smithies, and guests like Nigel Cox, Damien Wilkins, Sam Neill, Jolisa Gracewood - makes so many other reviews (book reviews included) look dull as ditch water. This is about music that's unashamedly LOVED. The music and the words rush out past you as you read and hang in the air - you just have to go and find the artists and play them. Some of it I know, alot I don't, and there's so much I wished I'd been there for ... The delighted spark of recognition - yes! the moment when Space Waltz blew our socks off on TV's New Faces with 'Out on the Street' ... the phenomenon that is Chris Knox ... that is Crowded House ... that is Straightjacket Fits ... and mention of that little-mentioned Dunedin garage band Sneaky Feelings - hey we billeted David Pine at our flat in Aro Valley when SF was doing its thing. We were so impressed that he was in a band. Sadly, I don't have the vinyl to put on the record player but there's always youtube ... three great tracks here... enjoy (and oh, that Dunedin footage in the Sneaky Feelings video!) 
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