Author: Silke
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
Ch-ch-changes
Someone asked me if I could remember my first time visiting the Wine Cellar, and I genuinely couldn’t. There were a few contenders for those first gigs, but it’s all a bit of a blur. I remember so many shows, so many special shows of people who are now no longer there, or who are…
“So, where are you from?”
There’s only one correct answer to the question “So, where are you from?” or the subsequent “No, where are you REALLY from?” Seeing how it comes across, we don’t usually use it, but really that response should be: “That’s none of your business!”
Fees for everything, less with your own shop
I’ve been chipping away on *this*, my new website and its shop over the last few months, usually during our Tuesday nightly Tāmaki Makaurau Open Music Hub meetings, which has been truly a heaven-sent of a space for me to focus on creative work that I otherwise simply don’t get done when left to my…
Gribblehirst Market, July 21
We had the best day at the market at Gribblehirst Community Hub – we love being there anyway, but market days are extra…
Knitting, Of Course
Just a matter of time before I’d try the whole knitting thing, argh! I say “argh” because when I start a thing, I usually go hard, and that’s what I’m doing here. But hear me out!