Tunes for a Tuesday – 21 February 2012

Posted on 21 February, 2012 by jb

Before You Accuse Me – Bo Diddley – His Best: the Chess 50th Anniversary Collection [Listen]
Guy Steven’s Blues (blues jam) – Free – Tons Of Sobs [Listen]
How You Survived the War – The Weepies – Hideaway [Listen]
I’m A Loser – Marianne Faithfull – Marianne Faithfull [Listen]
Luciana – The Rural Alberta Advantage – Hometowns [Listen]
No Easy Way Out – Bernard Butler – Friends… [Listen]
Right Here in Front of You – Allenko Brotherhood Ensemble (Unsung Heroes & Ty feat. Bries) – The Green Room 003: (Ear) [Listen]
Times Like This – Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians – Ghost of a Dog [Listen]
Try My Ears – Ivor Cutler – Hammersmith Lyric, 10-Mar-02 Part 2 [Listen]
Wounded – Jay Reatard – Watch Me Fall [Listen]

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Local interest

Posted on 20 February, 2012 by jb

Put “Kiwi” or “Nelson” on the cover of a book and it’ll sell like hotcakes around here.

(“Can I have my money back, please? This book’s all about South AFRICA, not NELSON…”)

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Breakfast @ Jellyfish, Mapua Wharf

Posted on 20 February, 2012 by jb

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Poetry in “The Listener”

Posted on 20 February, 2012 by jb

Tony Jackson is my cousin Shirley’s husband.

He wasn’t joking.

This was the 360˚ view from the top of what used to be their garden.

What he doesn’t say is that

a) the hillside stopped at his backdoor, with a massive poplar resting gently against his roof.
b) they’ve been living in motels for 2 months…

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Cricket for the uninitiated

Posted on 18 February, 2012 by jb

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Aaaaah…..! Reloaded

Posted on 15 February, 2012 by jb

California ale @ The Golden Bear, Mapua.
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Yummy….

Posted on 15 February, 2012 by jb

F&C from The Smokehouse in Mapua.
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Aaaaaah…!

Posted on 15 February, 2012 by jb

Now, THAT was good!
Double espresso @ AKL airport.
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Tunes for a Tuesday – 14 February 2012

Posted on 14 February, 2012 by jb

Dreamy Eyes – Azure Blue – BIRP! January 2012 [Listen]
Jig – Bill Boyd & his Cowboy Ramblers – A History of Country Vol. 3 – The Pre-war Years – 1937-41 [Listen]
Sweet Violets – Dinah Shore – Billboard Top 30 – 1951 [Listen]
Palmyra – Jolie Holland [Listen]
Sugar Me – Lynsey de Paul [Listen]
You Can Sleep While I Drive – Melissa Etheridge – Popdose Mix – Blue Period [Listen]
The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack – The Nice – The John Peel Singles Box [Listen]
Songbird – Rosie Thomas – These Friends of Mine [Listen]
In The Hall Of The Mountain King – Sounds Incorporated – The British Invasion – The History Of British Rock Vol. 03 [Listen]
Please Never – Total Warr – BIRP! February 2011 [Listen]

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There’s coffee. And then there’s COFFEE….

Posted on 9 February, 2012 by jb

Take:

An untenanted ex-upmarketprelovedclothes shop in a part of town that’s on the verge of becoming funky
Basic (as in cardboard cartons for stools, doors as tables) furnishings
Top end espresso machine and grinder
Blends of coffee that you’ll still be tasting next day
2 guys -Sebastian and Paul – who love coffee and talk about it with authority and enthusiasm

and you’ve got Kaffeekommune’s pop-up cafe in the Gaustrasse.

Same principle as Intelligentsia, the Mecca for coffee geeks. Just as good.

Opened last Saturday, runs until 11 March.

Go there.

It’s worth it just for the exquisite tiles on the floor.

(What of course pisses me off IMMENSELY is that we’ll miss all but 2 days of it….

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