June 2011
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May 2011
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April 2011
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Bill O'Reilly, the spiritual leader.
Last night I dreamt that Bill O’Reilly, after an on-air epiphany, became a loving, peaceful, agnostic spiritual leader.
Immediately after his epiphany, he had his staff break open the windows of his 31st story studio on the Avenue of the Americas in New York City, had them rig up his lapel mic to a giant PA, and began singing spiritually enlightened songs in Hindi, accompanying himself...
March 2011
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New old blog
In a moment of desperate procrastination, I’m going to use this old tour diary as a new Auckland diary.
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The last month #2: Hundekot in Berlin
This is #2 in a recap of the past month that I’ve been too lazy to write until now.
After saying our goodbyes to Beach House, we came up for air in Berlin. Apparently our arrival coincided with the first time the city had been free of winter’s snowy clutches since December. The rapid thaw somewhat cruelly revealed three months worth of accumulated urban filth, which was once so...
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The last month #1: Beach House
It’s not that often you get to tour with one of your favourite bands. We were lucky enough to support Beach House through the UK, Ireland, France, Belgium and Holland for two weeks from the 9th of February. Their third album, Teen Dream, had just been released in the UK, and it became apparent that a lot of (well deserved) hype had built up around it. All but two of the shows on the tour...
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Stuck in London
Actually, that’s not London, it’s York, but I thought it would be a nice bland picture to open my first proper post in more than a month. It’s actually ridiculous to think how much has happened since I last bothered to write anything, but that’s probably precisely why I haven’t. I’ve been too busy to muster any sort of motivation, and any internet time has...
February 2010
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In the basement of Universal
To be honest, major labels give me the shits. I don’t know why. I guess most musicians are taught to automatically hate them. We’re told they stand for greed. That they rip artists off. That they’re stuck trying to make an old business model work.
Fancy my surprise then, when we found ourselves in the basement of Universal Music UK yesterday. Not getting roughed up by security...
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£10 worth
I dragged my sick, sorry arse out of bed today because I’d completely run out of food and drugs. Good thing £10 goes a long way. Pseudoephedrine is only £3 here! Might stock up before heading back to NZ. Those damn P cooks are ruining my chances of flu relief.
I also managed to get to the Old Spitalfields Market to get a valentines gift for my darling back home. I can’t exactly ruin...
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A Week Off in London
While I’m sick this weekend, here’s a photo-oriented post documenting the last week.
We supported Midlake at the beautiful Wilton’s Music Hall on Sunday.
Dan and I visited the Natural History Museum. I found its collection impressive, but its presentation a bit lacking. A gloriously magnificent building though…
I quickly visited a glacier…
We went to...
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New (and hopefully improved). A boring technical...
I was bored today, so I decided to delve deep into the code of my blog and do some customisation. Let me run you through some of the changes (apart from the obvious visual ones).
You can now comment. Go ahead, rip me to shreds.
My twitter stream is on the left there. I usually update this even if I don’t have time to write a whole blog.
I’ve made better use of tags, so if you only...
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January 2010
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Tour Fat and other observations.
It’s been a while since I’ve written,
which is rather lazy of me considering I’ve been idle in London for the past week. Although I guess that’s why I haven’t written - not much has happened.
As you may have seen below, we purchased a little camera to document our adventures. The first two episodes were easy and fun to produce, but as with any new piece of...
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Please Help Mira
Mira is a dear friend, a beautiful and fun loving girl who I always enjoyed seeing when I visited Wellington. Recently she was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive type of melanoma. It has been a terrible shock to everyone who knows her.
A group of Mira’s friends are raising money to help with her treatment, and to support her family while they care for her. If you’re reading this...
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The Beeb
Yesterday was rather extraordinary.
We woke relatively early and headed into the centre of town to Broadcasting House; a grand old building that houses a great deal of BBC’s radio operations.
After getting a security pass we headed upstairs to soundcheck for our appearance on Loose Ends, which airs each Saturday evening on BBC Radio 4. The scale of BBC’s operation is quite...
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Instant Winter
Well, this is the first entry in my tour diary, as I spend 3 months of my life playing in Lawrence Arabia through the UK, Europe and USA.
It’s only been 60 hours since we arrived in London, but so much has happened that I’m going to struggle to fit it into one post.
Above is what the UK looked like from space yesterday, and is pretty much what we arrived to - the country is going...