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audioculturenz.bsky.social @audioculturenz.bsky.social · 11h

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...
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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...

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 16h

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 · 1d

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

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'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.

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audioculturenz.bsky.social @audioculturenz.bsky.social · 3d

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."
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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 ...

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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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.

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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 16h

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 · 16h

Cheers Jim. Hope yer well.

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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 1d

Exhausted firefighters, Chinatown, Bangkok, mid-2022.

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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 1d

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

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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 1d

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.

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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 4d

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

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audioculturenz.bsky.social @audioculturenz.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 6d

Thanks Jim

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

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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 7d

Parental advisory. Bangkok early 2025.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 8d

Erasing history.

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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 8d

The new episode of A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs is now up! This one looks at the formation of Led Zeppelin, and looks in detail at the inspirations behind the songs on their first album.

Song 180: “Dazed and Confused” by Led Zeppelin, Part Two — “Inspiration is What You Are to Me”

For those who haven’t heard the announcement I posted, songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the first part of a two-episode look at the song “Dazed a…

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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 9d

Hometime in Bangkok’s Chinatown, late 2024.

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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 9d

Crazy hot afternoon in late 2024, he seemed puzzled I was there. A railway warden I think.

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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 9d

Aww, thank you Renee xx

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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 9d

A significant age reached. I rarely drink wine these days but B smoothed the way with these three over the past few days. I feel a mix of blessed, pampered and very foggy headed.

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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 9d

Of course www.psypost.org/scientists-s...

Scientists say X (formerly Twitter) has lost its professional edge — and Bluesky is taking its place

After Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter, many scientists report the platform is no longer suitable for professional use. A recent survey indicates that researchers are increasingly turning to Bluesky...

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Mac @maccatee.bsky.social · 15d

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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 11d

Glimpsed while Winston exposed Aotearoa to international shame and condemnation, MFAT officials looking glum, with one sporting a Flying Nun sticker on their laptop.

A photo of seven New Zealand diplomats sitting in the hall of the UN General Assembly, sullenly listening to their Minister metaphorically soil the nation’s pants on the world stage. On the left is a silver laptop with a Flying Nun record label sticker on the back.

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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 11d

“This isn’t just being out of sync with our friends. It is morally reprehensible to be turning our back when we see an unfolding genocide.”

A welcome clear statement from Chris Hipkins.

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Labour party leader Chris Hipkins talks to media on NZ not recognising Palestine as a lone state

Labour party leader Chris Hipkins talks to media about the government’s Palestine decision where NZ chose not to recognise Palestine as a lone state. Video \ Dean Purcell

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 11d

President Trump's aid cuts are disproportionately hitting women and girls: forcing them to drop out of school or leading them to die in childbirth or perish from cervical cancer, or to marry as young teens. That's what I found in the field: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/o...

Opinion | The Tax on Being a Girl

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