Saturday night I went along to Jess’ Kiwi music party (my suggestion, her action). It was choice, bro. We had a full flat of mostly non-Kiwis listening with good cheer to a whole range of New Zealand music, from Dave Dobbyn to the Verlaines, from the Verlaines to Shihad, from Dam Native to Mikki Dee.
It was good to be accompanied in Hawaiian shirt sartorial elegance by MC Don’t Know, AKA Dancing Gregor. (I of course was MC Don’t Care.) Malc manned the sound system, and he had a DJ name too but I’ve forgotten it. Gregor will probably remember though, he’s good at that sort of thing.
Also in attendance were loads and loads of good folk, but worthy of mention was the stupendous Siobhann of Cankerous Beet and of course the incorrigible Steve Bassett. And a great time was had by all.
It was great to experience the wonderfulness of NZ’s musical output, wallow in nostalgia, jump around to classics, and hear loads of stuff I’d never even heard before. There were so many good tunes! Yay!
‘Saddest Song in the World’ on the new Shihad album makes me feel 16 years old. Which is what it’s designed to do, I think. It’s an awesome track.
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And the NZ musicality continues tomorrow night with an outing to Scribe and P-Money who are playing Edinburgh. Gonna be sweet as, bro. Chur.
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I can’t remember what name we gave him, it wasn’t riffing on his initials (“MC Squared”) was it?
I remember calling Steve: DJ Fuckoff!
Told you the shad album was good. ‘Big Future’ is my new pre sport rev up song. Playing Welly town hall this Saturday, s’gonna rock……