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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 40m

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 · 57m

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

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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 1h

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 · 1h

Missing sinking fishing boats

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audioculturenz.bsky.social @audioculturenz.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 16h

Will do 🙏

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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 17h

No, but I will!

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They May Be Parted @theymaybeparted.bsky.social · 17h

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 5d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 2d

Absolutely, Andrew. If I mention Chris' name anywhere in the world to someone passionate about music it's instantly recognised, often with some knowledge too.

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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 2d

Cheers Jim. Hope yer well.

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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 2d

Exhausted firefighters, Chinatown, Bangkok, mid-2022.

#streetphotography
#blackandwhitephotography

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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 2d

When The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game. Tokyo Art Museum, mid-2024.

#streetphotography
#blackandwhitephotography

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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 2d

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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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 5d

Apart from all those, he’s the perfect dinner guest.

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

A wonderful new story: David Herkt's history of Auckland club Mojo's, home to NZ's first transsexual show, thanks to Hugh Lynn, Jacqui Grant and Niccole Duval. One performance piece was based on Neil Diamond's Jonathan Livingstone Seagull... 1/2 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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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 8d

Thanks Jim

Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 8d

Workers from Myanmar build everything in Bangkok. A new canalside footpath in this case. Early 2025.

#streetphotography
#blackandwhitephotography
#bnw
#Bangkok

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