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The Guy Who Wanted To Love Music

Ki — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:57:01 +0000

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I always wanted to love music, but never really fell in love with music. I did love collecting music, but what’s the use of that if you don’t enjoy listening to it.

This is the start of my journey to loving music. Why don’t you join me and we can discover music together.

Chris Knox Suffers a Stroke

Ki — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:40:57 +0000

Chris Knox

One of my all time favourite New Zealand musicians, Chris Knox, suffered a stroke recently. You will be pleased to know that he is recovering in Auckland Hospital this very moment.

For those of you who don’t know Chris Knox, he arrived on the New Zealand music scene back in 1977 in arguably the most influential kiwi punk band The Enemy. Later he went on to form great bands like Toy Love and Tall Dwarfs as well as releasing a plethora of solo self produced albums. At the 2001 New Zealand Music Awards his 1990 track Not Given Lightly was chosen as New Zealand’s 13th best song of all time. 5 years later he started his own record label A Major Records and continues to create music to this day with The Nothing.

In order to send out my good vibes to Chris in this his time of recovery I have dedicated this weeks NZ Beats show to his work. Have a listen to the podcast below, or head over to NZ Beats for the full show notes.

You Tube ABC’s

Ki — Tue, 05 May 2009 10:06:15 +0000

You Tube ABC's

The You Tube ABC’s are a complete list from A to Z of the first two videos that You Tube auto-completes in their search box after entering just a single letter. Basically it’s the most popular searchs on You Tube for each letter of the alphabet. Enjoy…

Aa is for Akon and American Idol
Bb is for Beyonce and Britney Spears
Cc is for Chris Brown and Crack a Bottle
Dd is for Dead and Gone and Day and Night
Ee is for Eminem and Enrique Iglesias
Ff is for Fred and Funny
Gg is for Green Day and Ghost
Hh is for Halo and Hannah Montana
Ii is for I’m on a Boat and I Love College
Jj is for Just Dance and Justin Timberlake
Kk is for Kiss Me Thru the Phone and Kelly Clarkson
Ll is for Lady Gaga and Lil Wayne
Mm is for Michael Jackson and Miley Cyrus
Nn is for Nickelback and Naruto
Oo is for Obama and On a Boat
Pp is for Poker Face and Pink
Qq is for Queen and Quest Crew
Rr is for Right Round and Rihanna
Ss is for Soulja Boy and Single Ladies
Tt is for Taylor Swift and Twilight
Uu is for Usher and U2
Vv is for Vanessa Hugens and Viva La Vida
Ww is for Womanizer and Watchmen
Xx is for X Factor and Xzibit
Yy is for Young Jeezy and YouTube
Zz is for Zac Efron and Zombie

So there you have it, 26 letters and 52 videos. I’m extremely surprised on how many of the videos are music related; either a song or about an musician… if you can call Hannah Montana / Miley Cyrus a musician. Anywho, hope you liked it. Please share with your friends on Facebook, Digg, Delicious, Twitter etc.

NB. This list was made on the 5th of May 2009

Sparks in the Park

Ki — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:36:22 +0000

Classical Sparks in the Park

Just got back from the Classical Sparks in the Park, which is basically a huge free classical music event in Hagley Park which finishes with a fireworks show. The music was reasonable, and the crowd seemed to be in good sorts. Only saw one drunken teeny fight as we were leaving.

Of course the highlight of the night was the firework finally. It started with a flaming apple being shot with a flaming arrow, then moved into a pretty spectacular firework rocket display that match a classical music score that was being played.

Pretty good start to the Waitangi Day weekend.

Fireworks

Life In Technicolor ii Music Video by Cold Play

Ki — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:57:16 +0000

Here is another music video I happened across the other day. Puppets weren’t this cool since The Swedish Chef.

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Sounday Baby!

Ki — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:45:50 +0000

On Stage with Cut Off Your Hands at Sounday 09

I got me some media passes to Sounday last Saturday. It was awesome. Beautiful day, sitting backstage drinking free beer while listening to some great music. Couldn’t really ask for better. Got the chance to get some pretty good photos as well. If you want to read more check out my full post on NZ Beats here.

Buttons by Sia Music Video

Ki — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:12:24 +0000

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Saw this music video for the first time last week. At first I didn’t like the song, but the video was so good I just kept watching. Now the song is growing on me because I can’t get enough of the video.

NZ Beats is Back

Ki — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:36:47 +0000

NZ Beats

After taking a couple of weeks off from my NZ Beats podcast over the Christmas and New Years, NZ Beats has returned. This weeks show focuses on acts that will be playing at Sounday and the Main Divide concerts here in Canterbury. Head over to NZBeats.com and have a listen.

Time Is Not Much – Ladi6

Ki — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:28:49 +0000

Time Is Not Much by Ladi6

Most of you know I run New Zealand’s #1 music podcast over at www.nzbeats.com. So as you can imagine I listen to a lot of kiwi music. Well lately I have been relaxing to Ladi6′s debut album Time is Not Much. I have liked Ladi6 since way back in the day when she was in New Zealand’s first all-girl hip-hop group Sheelahroc. Their hit track If I Gave You The Mic is still a classic today which gets regular airplay on my iPod. In fact, I still remember hitting up The Jetset Lounge to catch her and Scribe in Verse 2 with Simon before they left Christchurch to make it big up north.

Now after a decade Ladi6 has released her debut solo album and it is worth the wait. More often than not albums these days have one or two good songs on them and a bunch of rushed b-side tracks. Time Is Not Much is definitely an exception to that rule with 11 excellent tracks featuring some of New Zealand’s top musicians. But it’s Ladi6′s album and she really pulls it altogether to make this a must get for any music collection. It’s in my top 5 New Zealand albums of 2008.