Blog Bog
Just a gentle warning that I really don’t censor or edit myself very hard, I just put things straight from the brain into blobs of thought and leave it at that. You’re welcome to not read it. It’s more for myself than for anyone else, unless I pointed it out to someone as maybe worthy of reading, but that doesn’t happen very often, really.
Cheapo EFTPOS
As tiny businesses in Aotearoa, be it in music or as crafty sorts, we don’t want to miss out on any potential income, right? Here’s what I do as a lightweight, good, cheapo EFTPOS “alternative”! This is something I use, and a note upfront: I don’t like BNZ (don’t get me started!) at all, but…
Radio Punks
A while ago, I had the honour to be featured alongside a number of truly remarkable humans in a doco called Radio Punks about student radio in Aotearoa. It’s still a little magic to me how my team and me ended up alongside some of our true greats, but there we were.
Not Forward-Facing
I applied for my first Kiwi passport. Pretty straight-forward, you fill out the form, provide them with various numbers and details they ask for, and then they ask for the dreaded passport photo.
On Charting In Finland (A Weird Story)
This is a somewhat long-winded and peculiar story on how my voice ended up on a chart topping album in the beautiful country of Finland.
A Radiohead Story
I’ve been obsessed trying to find out when I first met Radiohead, so far without much luck in terms of the actual year, because records are quite patchy on promotional visits to Cologne in August in the 90s.
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Show Some Love ❤️
If you feel what I do is helpful in some sort of way, and do want to show that, I’ve set up this button for you to buy me a cup of coffee, or a bag of flour, or some seedlings for my garden, or a new computer game, or whatever! Take the money and invest it in something else kind of cool for everyone, who knows?