Category Archives: Music

>Don’t ask me (about Eläkeläiset) – #1

Posted on 26 March, 2007 by jb

>This is what you get from indiscriminately listening to music all day long. I wouldn’t have it any other way…. The band is Eläkeläiset. They’re Finnish. They play Humppa – somewhere between jazz and a very fast foxtrot, 2 beats … Continue reading →

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>Bob, meet Walther. Walther, meet Bob…

Posted on 22 March, 2007 by jb

>This was one of 2006’s more unusual – and better – musical events. Heike Makatsch, reformed Viva (local MTV competitor) VJ, sometime companion of Daniel Craig and actress of mild renown (“Love, actually”) reads Bob Dylan and Walther von der … Continue reading →

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Hone Tuwhare

Posted on 21 September, 2006 by jb

New Zealand has a healthy predilection for achievement and icons. It used to be almost exclusively mastering-the-elements/sport/physical activity-based – All Blacks, Ed Hillary, America’s Cup, Peter Snell, that sort of stuff. There is another side, though. The Arts Foundation of … Continue reading →

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