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Gareth Shute

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Popular Music Historian (and unpopular music performer). Lil Chief rep.

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Playing an early and FREE gig tonight. Enjoy the final weeks of Wine Cellar!

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If you need a pick-me-up after the debate ... Just listening to the new Anna Coddington LP. Pretty great! Very funky. Interesting mix of English and te reo Māori.

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I was always hoping someone would look at this, so - nice work! Even when she was on Kim Hill, the only discussion was about how people unfairly pigeon-holed her as a Christian artist. I have great respect for her as an artist, but it's still worth thinking about.

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i’ve always found brooke fraser’s career kinda weird, because her pitch-perfect, blemish-free empire was built hand-in-hand with an abusive megachurch. please RT this story, i think it's important... and it gets kinda weird: www.webworm.co/p/brookefraser

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Briefly pausing my clownish behaviour and general buffoonery to share this feature I wrote on punishment, which I first pitched years ago but has become, ah, more relevant as time has gone on www.webworm.co/p/punishment

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Finally got a chance to play with the resolution of the photos I captured of the #aurora from our Taupō accommodation. Amazing how the camera captures stuff that's not necessarily visible to the naked eye

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I made a new vid for my band Thee Golden Geese and it was painstakingly hand-animated and barely used ANY free online artificial intelligence apps...
youtu.be/LG6NhdZcuM0?...

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Great days in the NZ recording industry: TANZA, 1950

"The Wellington firm... has four presses, each of which manufactures about 300 discs a day... But in spite of the New Zealand product... there are not enough records to go round."

paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/O...

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In this week's Listener, I wrote a guide to all the cool NZ On Screen stuff hidden away in your TVNZ+ app. Havoc and Newsboy at the Big Day Out, Bill Ralston in paisley, etc. You might be surprised.

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It was strange when National Library was put under Internal Affairs in 2010. An organization with a goal of sharing information managed by an organization focused on keeping information private? And now we authors have to prove who we are via DIA's RealMe, as if fakers were rorting the system. Hmm..

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In the cafe Tokyo, they're playing Dallas Tamaira - the voice is unmistakable ('Sweet Thing' by Twinset).

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I can confirm this is a true story. Also - that friend is going to Japan in a week and is now very aware of the covid circling around, trying to mess up my plans .... I mean ... their plans

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Very cool to hear Kirsten from Goldenhorse doing new songs on RNZ today. Her old tracks have recently been covered by Lorde, Erny Belle, and Hans Pucket so good timing for her return
www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

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55 miles is 88.5km. Could round up and call it 90k Beach?

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It's that day! The second tranche of the Rip It Up archive, 1986-1998, is now available on PapersPast. There's a link in this AudioCulture piece by Murray Cammick, looking at some of the more notable covers of the era. www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/rip...

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Thanks! I did finally work out what year Throwing Muses played Orientation. It was 95. Here is Kristin being interview in Rudman Gardens (now demolished).

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I've found it interesting to read all the responses to the piece by
Chris Schulz and follow-ups on The Spinoff, RNZ etc. Thought I may as well re-post my far less sympathetic and less liked piece. Lols...
flyingnun.co.nz/blogs/featur...?

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This was a heartbreaking story to work on: New data from reveals the crushing burden of Long Covid in NZ.

Reading testimonies is like reading obituaries. LC patients describe their lives in the past tense, because the lives they used to have are now gone.
newsroom.co.nz/2023/11/17/t...

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明's avatar Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social
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I would say DPF is well aware that Māori are 17% of the working age population as per StatsNZ population projections for 2023, but he also runs a polling company that failed to call 5/7 Māori seats so

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I'm on that fat rice only now. Gotta get the 5-10kg bag from Japan Mart or other Asian supermarket cos those other two wolf it down. Good luck with the practical-to-buy wee rice hunt though!

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Just a reminder: you have to vote for Bird of The Century this time around, because Bird of the Year has already been awarded...

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Most young musicians go through the phase of trying to get on their local student radio station Top 10, so my band wrote a song about it and the current bFM Top 10 hosts feature in (and directed) the vid!
www.undertheradar.co.nz/news/21029/T...

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Kia ora! One of the nicer things about the bad place is the weekly AudioCulture NZ music quiz. Until AudioCulture sets up here and gets a crowd (it's coming) I'll be posting it. Have a go! It can be quite hard, but it's always interesting. www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/aud...

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At least L.A.B. helpfully named their self-titled albums LAB I, LAB II, etc...

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Two more weeks to see the First Peoples exhibit at Auckland Art Gallery(ends Oct 29). This work looks amazingly 3d but is a flat painting.

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Thanks! I went to that JA show too, at the peak of my Fandom for them (before mostly splitting up with their music, lol). Good to know about Taylor, might add that tidbit.

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My band has a new music video, though really just a platform for Matthew Crawley to show his skill in turning a stupid idea into comedy gold...
youtu.be/vZ98fQQj2tY?...

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The abject state of it all—

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