"Linton [Kwesi Johnson] was very adamant that [Blair Peach] should be remembered by our community, because he lost his life in the struggle for ... racial equality. And he wasn't even British. He was a schoolteacher that came from New Zealand to teach young kids at school, and then a policeman hit him in the head on this march, and killed him ... It was despicable"
#Dennis Bovell, 2025
Back in Nov, Music101 gave us a rundown of a some of the outdoor festivals happening in Aotearoa this summer, but off the top of my head I can think of half a dozen they missed out;
I've been involved in the festival circuit since the first edition of The Gathering on Takaka Hill, on NYE 1996/97. I co-directed my own 3 day indoor music festival, Psyclone, in Εtautahi in 1998. That was a wild ride : P
#podcasts #RNZ #Music101 #OutdoorFestivals #TheGathering #Psyclone
Just listening to an interview with Warren Ellis of Australian instrumental band the Dirty Three;
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Australian musician and film composer Warren Ellis has lived many lives, as a teacher, busker, a recovered heroin addict, alcoholic and famously a sonic experimenter in successful bands like Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Grinder Man and Dirty Three. 2024 marks thirty two years of the instrumental rock trio, Dirty Three. A band, Warren Ellis and his friends guitarist Mick Turner and drummer Jim White formed in Melbourne in the mid 90's. Here's Maggie Tweedie speaking to Warren Ellis about Dirty Three's expansive new record, Love Changes Everything.
Just after midnight on (northern) new year's eve, as my trip was coming on, the DJ at a bar that was trying to close kindly put on some Mokotron tunes so I could have my first dance of 2025. I think it was their newly released album, Waerea;
https://mokotron.bandcamp.com/album/waerea
Just #listening to an interview from Music101 with the artist behind Mokotron, Tiopira McDowell, discussing his music and his work as uni lecturer;
7 track album
In a recent Music 101 interview #CharlotteRyan talked to #BrianHarrington about streaming farms that are artificially boosting the listening numbers on music streaming sites
"I read in your piece that Rolling Stone estimates that approximately 3-4% of all global streams are illegitimate.".
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