Growing up is optional

• A new skateboard
• 4GB iPod
• Beer

Lazy post about what I’ve been doing:

• Been studying heaps. 1st assignment is in, working on 2nd.
• Playing with Pandora – very cool. Let me know if you want an invite and I’ll see what I can do.
• Can’t find a builder to do up my bathroom. Can find every other service though.
• Work’s really busy.
• Thinking about the general election. Still undecided centre vote.

I’ve stolen it from the Aussies and am passing it to Kiwis.

Total volume of Music on my Computer

4.7GB

Song playing right now

Azzido Da Bass – ‘Doom’s Night (Timo Maas Remix)’ (Thanks Mike)

Last CD I bought

Chemical Brothers – Push the Button

Five songs I listen to a lot/mean a lot to me

• Everclear – Santa Monica
• Th’ Dudes – Be Mine Tonight
• Shihad – Pacifier
• Chemical Brothers – The Private Psychadelic Reel
• C & C Music Factory – Do You Wanna Get Funky

Five people to whom I am passing the baton

Keeping it Kiwi

• Mike Hudson
• Richard MacManus
• Brett Taylor
• Darren Wood
• Patrick Quinn-Graham

It’s nearly May already and that means nearly time for New Zealand Music Month. This year it’s going to be launched by Shihad at a free concert in Aotea Square in Auckland. If you’re in Aucland and have the time to get there it’s well worth seeing.

Also, we get a relative feast of New Zealand music on the radio. It will be good to hear some new artists. Hopefully we don’t just get Bliss blasted at us for a whole month.

Despite having more radio stations per head than any other country, we don’t yet have a Kiwi-only station. Note for much longer…

This Waitangi Day will see Channel Z become Kiwi – New Zealand’s first 100% Kiwi music network.

According to Kiwi’s Programme Director, Grant Hislop, the timing couldn’t be better, with New Zealand artists enjoying unparalleled levels of success across a number of genres, and local fans shaking loose the shackles of cultural cringe and developing a greater sense of pride in the achievements of local talent.

Oh yeah: read the whole story, see the new website

The big surprise for me of the BDO was The Freestylers. I only ’sort-of’ wanted to see them, but I’m glad I did. They had the boiler room absolutely pumping. 8.5/10

I thought that Steriogram’s songs were quite catchy before seeing them. Obviously someone at apple did too using “Walkie Talkie Man” for iPod ads

Live, Steriogram absolutely rocked. Go and see them if you get the chance. 8/10

Since being introduced to the music of the Chemical Brothers (no, that isn’t their real surname) back in 1997 I’ve always wanted to see them live. Finally, I got too at the BDO. They were number 1 on my must see list.

The Boiler Room, which lives up to its name, is a massive tent the size of a football field, and it was hot. The Chemical Brothers managed to fill the tent with thousands of fans shoulder to shoulder and it rocked. While their live music was different to their album versions, it was still very similar to other concerts I’ve seen on TV, complete with laser show. They finished it off with what was their best live song, ‘The Private Psychedelic Reel‘.

They didn’t quite live up to my expectations, but then perhaps my expectations were unrealistic. Overall I give them 9/10