I Liked Them Before You Did

From a November 2003 email about 8 August of that year:
“On Friday Cal and I were wandering near the Student Union building, Teviot, and were offered free tickets to a show by Irish comedian David O’Doherty. Despite our worrying [earlier] experiences with the alleged Cream of Irish Comedy we signed on, and got an interesting show – mostly consisting of O’Doherty sitting with a keyboard on his lap playing and singing amusing ditties about
how miserable and crap he was. Not bad at all, actually, and at that price how can you go wrong?”
From a Guardian report four days ago:
“David O’Doherty has taken home the main prize at the if.comedy awards – formerly known as the Perriers – in Edinburgh, the most prestigious accolade of its kind.”
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From my blog, March 9, 2004:
“I discovered today that my NZ-rock-gods-to-be Two Lane Blacktop have split up. Sucksville.”
From the Guardian on June 9:
“We’re going to stick our necks out on this one and predict that Ladyhawke are going to be massive. Or rather, “is” going to be massive: Ladyhawke (the title of a 1985 fantasy film starring Sarah Jessica Parker’s hubby; not to be confused with Ladyhawk, a Canadian indie-rock band) is the vehicle for the giant (alter) ego that is the New Zealand-born Pip Brown [formerly of Two Lane Blacktop].”
(The first and only time I saw them play was at Indigo during the Cuba Street Carnival in Feb 2002 – Our Sophie was on the door and I popped up to see her, and stuck around to watch because the band was amazing. Sophie chatted with me about Pip afterwards; we were both well impressed. Hmm, a quick google reveals the Ladyhawke Lady herself announcing that gig on NZMusic – so it was on Feb 22.)
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Anyway, this clearly shows that my taste in everything is chronologically superior to your taste in everything. Sorry about that.