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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 11h

Odd. Then, I find Japanese mainstream beer not served from a Japanese double tap system rather unpleasant. If it is, it's delicious.

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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 11h

Of course. I wonder who wins the draw to buy him a 747…

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 14h

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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 1d

I'd forgotten that interview🙏

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Dr Simon Perkins 🇪🇺🌻🌊🌈 ally @simonperkins.bsky.social · 1d

"This is such a remarkable book, albeit one that I approached a little warily. ...Craig wisely uses his work and its evolution to tell the human story of one of our greatest creative eccentrics, a true, determined and driven original..." @craigrobertson.bsky.social

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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 1d

Listening to the just released 1972 Lennon/Ono One on One shows. First thoughts are that Elephant's Memory were such a drab barroom band. Why? But Lennon's voice is searing in places. 'Cold Turkey'... open.spotify.com/album/1tXgPc...

Power To The People (Live At The One To One Concert - Afternoon & Evening Shows)

open.spotify.com

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 9d

Notes from a city past: David Herkt's new @audioculturenz.bsky.social piece on the era of transgender shows at Mojo's on Queen. The most enjoyable piece of writing I've read all week. www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/moj...

Mojo

From the beginning of the 1970s, at 348 Queen Street in Auckland, there was an unmissable sign. It read “Mojo’s Nitespot”. It would eventually become the frontage of New Zealand’s first, largest, and ...

www.audioculture.co.nz

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Peter McLennan @dubdotdash.bsky.social · 6d

There's a biography of Chris Knox out this week - the author Craig Robertson contacted me a few years ago, as back in 1995 when I was at Ak Uni, I made a half hour documentary on Chris and he wanted to see it.
Anyway, I dug out the digital file and it's now online, enjoy! youtu.be/VQjvic02S8M?...

Chris Knox: Songs Of You And Me - a documentary about Chris Knox (1995)

YouTube video by Peter McLennan

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

This is real. This... {deep breaths} I cannot even find the right word... actually said this about this year's richly deserving Nobel Peace Prize winner.

He did everything he could to denigrate her win.

(Screenshot below altered merely to remove an ad.)

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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 2d

live look:

a group of people are sitting around a table with a red and white checkered table cloth .

ALT: a group of people are sitting around a table with a red and white checkered table cloth .

media.tenor.com

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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 2d

One of Dad's shots. The first NAC Viscount arrives at Whenuapai, 1958.

It's two years today since he passed ❤️

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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 2d

Extra points for using "we're stoked". A truly unique enzedism.

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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 2d

So, the Maldives: gorgeous everywhere you look, wonderful people regardless of whether they are service industry or not. But insanely expensive.

A bonus point for not finding the IPAs I smuggled in.

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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 2d

Missing sinking fishing boats

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audioculturenz.bsky.social @audioculturenz.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to The Warratahs, who will be inducted into the NZ Music Hall of Fame at the APRA Silver Scroll awards on October 29. AudioCulture has several pages devoted to the band, and its original members... www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/the-...

The Warratahs - AudioCulture

Here

www.audioculture.co.nz

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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 3d

Will do 🙏

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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 3d

No, but I will!

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They May Be Parted @theymaybeparted.bsky.social · 3d

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 3d

Walking through Berlin in 2017, I looked up and saw a plaque: in this house David Bowie, Brian Eno and Iggy Pop wrote...

The caused me to stand and ponder. One humble private address created such a body of music...

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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 3d

And an excerpt from Not Given Lightly on @audioculturenz.bsky.social www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/chr...

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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 5d

I said I'd write a few words about Craig Robertson's much-anticipated Chris Knox bio, which I love.

These are personal reflections on what will likely be the definitive history of a man who changed indie/alt music globally

opdiner.substack.com/p/cause-when...
#aotearoa
@audioculturenz.bsky.social

'Cause, when it all comes down to dust

Can I say that Craig Robertson's bio of Chris Knox is anticipated? It is, and it's arrived.

opdiner.substack.com

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audioculturenz.bsky.social @audioculturenz.bsky.social · 4d

We're on a roll with prohibited music! Today, @garethshute.bsky.social digs out music videos that went a step too far - including a HLAH video which was banned, but not for the obvious reasons...
www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/ban...

Banned! Ten videos and songs “with issues” - Article | AudioCulture

Ten New Zealand videos or songs from 1970 to 2008 which have been banned from television or radio play, locally or overseas. Who could take offence at Steve Allen’s utopian theme ‘Join Together’? Clue...

www.audioculture.co.nz

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 4d

one of my favorite shows was Chris Knox playing with Jeff Mangum at the 40 Watt in 1997. Chris played with a headset mic and must have gotten hot because during midsong banter he nonchalantly took his pants off and played the rest in what looked like gym shorts.

Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 5d

I said I'd write a few words about Craig Robertson's much-anticipated Chris Knox bio, which I love.

These are personal reflections on what will likely be the definitive history of a man who changed indie/alt music globally

opdiner.substack.com/p/cause-when...
#aotearoa
@audioculturenz.bsky.social

'Cause, when it all comes down to dust

Can I say that Craig Robertson's bio of Chris Knox is anticipated? It is, and it's arrived.

opdiner.substack.com

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audioculturenz.bsky.social @audioculturenz.bsky.social · 7d

David Herkt says, "Here's a deep-dive into the past of Auckland City....Mojo's nightclub on Queen Street was one of NZ's great transvestite shows in the early 1970s. The links below the story are also revealing, especially the youtube one with interviews."
www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/moj...

Mojo

From the beginning of the 1970s, at 348 Queen Street in Auckland, there was an unmissable sign. It read “Mojo’s Nitespot”. It would eventually become the frontage of New Zealand’s first, largest, and ...

www.audioculture.co.nz

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 5d

Oh SHIT. Two birds with one stone and neither were for immigration. It was to hassle black folk and make a sizzle real about it and to help Wells Fargo out.

Fucking crazy shit.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 5d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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