As you’ll no doubt already know, it’s traditional to give generous gifts to New Zealanders on Waitangi Day*. New Zealander Taika Waititi is trying to get his film BOY screened in the United States. February 6th is Waitangi Day. I’ve just put those two things together and made a connection. BOY is a fantastic film, [...]
Categories: culture,New Zealand
Tagged: films
About ten years ago – maybe a little more – I made some programmes for a Radio New Zealand series called Musical Chairs. Each programme focuses on a person who is very important in the world of New Zealand music. Usually it’s a musician, of course – but for me – one radio DJ had [...]
Categories: Music,New Zealand,Radio
Tagged: documentary
My younger sister Kerryn is a high school teacher in our home town (brains run in the family, you know). As a matter of fact, it’s the high school we went to – Edgewater College in Pakuranga, in the city of Auckland, New Zealand. She’s doing a project with a bunch of her year 10 [...]
Categories: Education,New Zealand,Photography,Travel
Image pinched off the NZ Herald website Young Blood by The Naked And Famous The NZ Music Awards just took place an hour or two back (it’s night time there as I write), and I was so pleased to see that a couple of the artists who did so well also happen to be on [...]
Categories: Music,New Zealand
Tagged: bandcamp
I thought I’d just do a quick blog post, because for the first time in probably two years, I’m using dictation software again. I used to write quite a bit using dictation software and it was all right, but I would always have to go back and correct some of the words afterwards. I thought [...]
Categories: Music,New Zealand,Research,Technology
Tagged: dictation
Back in 1996, I was a self-employed (self-unemployed, more like) radio producer. I’d quit my job at talkback station Radio Pacific after five years making ads for retirement villages, incontinence pants, the Mad Butcher and horse-racing events. Along the way, I’d learned how to make radio programmes and had developed a focus on jazz. My [...]
Categories: Music,New Zealand
I spent the last few weeks in Auckland. There was an international academic conference about radio, and I was the opening keynote speaker, which was a real honour. You can download the text of my speech here as a PDF if you’re interested, complete with the images that I used as slides. It was great [...]
Categories: Music,New Zealand,Radio
I’ve spent the last week or so in New Zealand. I’m doing the opening keynote speech at the International radio conference being held at AUT from the 11th of January, and I’ve come over a bit early so I could spend Christmas and New Year in the summer sun with my parents, sisters and extended [...]
Categories: Music,New Zealand
Tagged: ashley's worlds, claybourne, Radio, TAP Records
I’m a latercomer to the world of comics and graphic novels. It’s odd, really, because I knew some great cartoonists, comic book artists and enthusiasts growing up in New Zealand. Some of them went on to own comic book stores, some produced some great independent comics, and one even ended up doing Judge Dredd and [...]
Categories: Art,New Zealand
Keynote speech at Like Minds, Exeter (photo by Harry Duns) I’ve been doing more and more public speaking over the last year or so, and it’s showing little sign of slowing down. I have a couple of upcoming keynote speeches that I’m really excited about over the next month – one music industry event, and [...]
Categories: Music,New Zealand,Radio,Travel,University
Tagged: Auckland, brazil, Conference, Keynote, Speech
