"Linton [Kwesi Johnson] was very adamant that [Blair Peach] should be remembered by our community, because he lost his life in the struggle for ... racial equality. And he wasn't even British. He was a schoolteacher that came from New Zealand to teach young kids at school, and then a policeman hit him in the head on this march, and killed him ... It was despicable"
#Dennis Bovell, 2025
Back in Nov, Music101 gave us a rundown of a some of the outdoor festivals happening in Aotearoa this summer, but off the top of my head I can think of half a dozen they missed out;
I've been involved in the festival circuit since the first edition of The Gathering on Takaka Hill, on NYE 1996/97. I co-directed my own 3 day indoor music festival, Psyclone, in Ĺtautahi in 1998. That was a wild ride : P
#podcasts #RNZ #Music101 #OutdoorFestivals #TheGathering #Psyclone
Just listening to an interview with Warren Ellis of Australian instrumental band the Dirty Three;
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Just after midnight on (northern) new year's eve, as my trip was coming on, the DJ at a bar that was trying to close kindly put on some Mokotron tunes so I could have my first dance of 2025. I think it was their newly released album, Waerea;
https://mokotron.bandcamp.com/album/waerea
Just #listening to an interview from Music101 with the artist behind Mokotron, Tiopira McDowell, discussing his music and his work as uni lecturer;
In a recent Music 101 interview #CharlotteRyan talked to #BrianHarrington about streaming farms that are artificially boosting the listening numbers on music streaming sites
"I read in your piece that Rolling Stone estimates that approximately 3-4% of all global streams are illegitimate.".
