Issue 143
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..Fiddling Fool from the Spectrum Part One album, which he’d apparently opened the first Pojama-People show three or so years ago. It’s an extreme example of a very small song idea I’d written being taken by the band and expanded exponentially over time – notwithstanding in a quite disciplined way. The result is a very…
Issue # 8 Coffee I didn’t have my first cup of coffee till I was about twenty years old. It was at the legendary Stagedoor in Christchurch, as bohemian a joint as could be found in that neck of the woods in 1965. As I recall (and I wouldn’t necessarily put great store by my…
Robbo’s blah cont. I would like to take this opportunity to thank some people whom I didn’t thank during my speech. Please forgive me, but I was in another state of being, in a happy wedding trance, intoxicated with marital bliss. Anyway here we go….. On behalf of my wife and I, I’d like to…
..differentiates Melbourne from the rest of the world. Or maybe just Australia. It gives locals the joy of being the best in the world at a game that no one else plays or wants to play; in this it is like gridiron football writ very small. Rugby is at least played by more countries though…
..Airport” as we started our descent in Whenupai, Auckland’s main airport until 1965. This inspired great confidence in the passengers, already frightened by the low altitude, turbulence, cloud and the single toilet. It was an age of muted optimism. Our father was a stock and station agent and would drive up from Eketahuna, redolent of…
..staggering Lear-like around a deserted caravan park. What legacy will he leave? Missed opportunities, doors closed that might have been opened, darkness where there should have been light. The opportunistic gall, the sacrifice of principle to expediency and the denigration of truth and transparency will rankle less than the utter mediocrity of the man and…