So, I got an email to say that I could go along to a music awards ceremony. Not the real music awards ceremony, just another one that happens to be on the same week. Weird huh? They're both televised, unlike the book awards, which are lucky to even get a brief mention on the news ( Read more... )

I'm afraid I have formed a fake band have been slumming it across the road at myspace. Come by and see me sometime if you're in the area:
http://www.myspace.com/theinvestigationsNews? Well I joined another band (the Cosbys), talked at the Writer's Festial in Wellington (where one of my friends won $65,000 for his writing, what a bastard) and in the ( Read more... )

After completing a show at SXSW and 7 other shows of their 18 date tour, Ryan McPhun & the Ruby Suns' travels were brought to an abrupt end after their van's engine caught fire whilst they were on route to Seattle. All of the members of the band managed to escape from the burning vehicle without injury, yet all their personal belongings and ( Read more... )

Hey thanks everyone that got back to me after my last post. I have managed to get a contact for Greer Twiss so that'll be my first attempt to follow your advice. Anyway, time to get on with the self-promotion ( Read more... )

They're letting off fireworks from the sky-tower again. I have no idea why. The other night, I heard the screaming in the sky and then they let off one last one that shook the house. I thought that the world was about to end - alien invasion, or those pesky communists after all - but I couldn't get the front door open to check (other people's ( Read more... )

Ah yes, that's what happens when you drift around the South Island for a week and a half, drinking every day and then return to Auckland just in time for Xmas and another solid week of drinks. Well, I did have a good excuse - the head of subpop wanted me to come along and help drive the entire staff of the company from place to place. A free ( Read more... )

Oh livejournal, how I have neglected you! I never posted about the Reduction Agents show on Nov 17th when the band were sold wholesale priced beers at the bar and it all ended in tears, literally. Not the band you would normally expect to stage-dive onto their drumkit and generally throw equipment around as if they could afford it. James was so ( Read more... )

Not much time so I will hit this entry at speed and leave the clean-up until another day. Firstly, the worst album covers of all time, though I actually like the one by Komputer. Much worse is a coffee from McDonalds and I tried a number of different varieties at their headquarters in Freeman's Bay the other day - inside the offices, they have ( Read more... )

Okay, let me start by insisting you watch this ( Read more... )

Which is to say: if you are in Wellington then please come to our gig at Happy this Friday. We're playing with the Chandeliers and Bachelorette so that's three great bands on one night (if I do say so myself) and the Reduction Agents play the same venue the following night. We are surprisingly friendly, come and say hello ( Read more... )