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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.
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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…
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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.
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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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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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!
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Work Articles
Writing is my day job – well okay, it’s a mix of writing, admin, content management, social media, ad sales, and a whole lot more, but I got myself into the job for the sake of the writing, and on occasion, when I’m not buried in admin stuff, I will!
