| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5913 Registered: 05-2005 |
Broadchurch. First episode was intriguing and excellent. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5924 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm looking forward to people watching on Queen St, Auckland on Friday week. Doing so from an open air cafe one January Friday in 1999 was an extraordinary experience. The joint was jumping; it was like watching a live action remake of OMC's How Bizarre video. The last time I was in Auckland (November 2002) I stayed in the burbs, this time I'm staying on Queen St. I don't imagine a cold winter's July Friday will be nearly as exciting as that hot, hot January Friday 14 years ago, but you never know. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5944 Registered: 05-2005 |
Naked Gun. Maybe 20 years since I last saw it. Still brilliant. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5945 Registered: 05-2005 |
Under The Dome. Best episode since the first one. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5947 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hey Paulette - I Really Do Love Penelope. A hreat Irish indie song from 1989. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ3-8GYNJ _w | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 604 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, Do you have the compilation album ( Long Ball Into Nowhere ) which was released by Firestation Records? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5948 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hugh, I wasn't even aware of its existence until I read your post just now. I will try to get it. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 605 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, new copies are hard to find as Firestation Records are 'Sold Out' and prices are rising for used copies. There is a 'Mint' copy for sale of Discogs. The seller is Popkid1983 who I have used a couple of times in the past. I cannot recall for certain but I believe Popkid1983 is the owner / one of the owners of Firestation Records. http://www.discogs.com/sell/list?release _id=2339076&ev=rb | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 873 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Gilmore Girls - final season Ah, my life is a desert. How sad to say farewell to such a witty, brilliant series and its magnificent, career-defining central performance - I guess actors get a part and a programme like this once in a lifetime, and after that, really, it should just be a matter of quiet retirement and reflection. What after all was in store for Gandolfini if the poor guy hadn't died...some routine crap with CSI Kirkaldy or similar, apparently. Anyway, the wife is insisting I finally remove my reversed baseball hat... Will try to move on to the latest series of Spiral, with its own attention-grabbing female lead, but it won't be easy. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5950 Registered: 05-2005 |
A Jack Irish film which I saw on the plane yesterday. I had missed it when it was shown on ABC last year. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 812 Registered: 05-2005 |
West Side Story fulfilled an ambition to see this at the cinema, part of the MGM HD re-releases. The first 20 minutes are absolutely stunning on the big screen - pure cinema!! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5955 Registered: 05-2005 |
Broadchurch, episode 4. Such a well written series. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5964 Registered: 05-2005 |
Still sticking with Broadchurch and Under The Dome. The former is superb, the latter is getting schlocky and b-movieish. As it should. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5974 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Hamster Wheel, episode one of the new series. It was hilarious. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5976 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wallabies v All Blacks. One more year without the Bledisoe Cup for Australia, I fear. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 828 Registered: 04-2005 |
Documentary 'Brisbane Bands' Part 1 here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAr-dxqHa 2s Lots of G-B's stuff scattered through the 6 parts; I had never seen that promo for Toowong Records, with Grant recreating Dylan's 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' (the unreleased song sounds quite promising), a live 'The Wrong Road' shot in a club in Brisbane with some backstage footage, the 4 piece band miming to 'Lee Remick'... | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3256 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks Andrew! | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 274 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nice find. Heather's Goves is out there on youtube somewhere too! Cheers! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3257 Registered: 03-2005 |
I first saw at least most of this a few years back but it's great to see again. Much as before my effort to find a suitable anthology with people such as the Riptides and Leftovers draws a blank. Grrrr. "Spring Rain" must have just about the greatest music video ever. It manages to pull together the exotic and the down home. It's certainly my favorite. fsh, "Heather's Gloves" is a lot of fun to watch. My guess is that it's full of film and/or literary allusion that I'm too ignorant to grasp. Or maybe I'm reading too much into it. Fun in any case. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5986 Registered: 05-2005 |
What Maisie Knew. Brilliant. Six-year-old Onata Aprile deserves an Oscar for her performance. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5997 Registered: 05-2005 |
Counting down the hours to the finale of Broadchurch tonight. No spoilers please. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 824 Registered: 05-2005 |
The butler did it | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6001 Registered: 05-2005 |
Damn you Cosmo! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6002 Registered: 05-2005 |
The killer was who I thought it was, but I only figured it out last week. The final episode was stunning, as was the whole series. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 872 Registered: 05-2005 |
Vikings. I usually abhor any violent shows but this.... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6012 Registered: 05-2005 |
Elysium. It's great. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6029 Registered: 05-2005 |
Under The Dome. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6049 Registered: 05-2005 |
Australia getting trounced by South Africa in rugby. The Springboks are playing magnificently. I'm loving the Irish referee's accent too. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6063 Registered: 05-2005 |
Derek, the new Ricky Gervais show. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6065 Registered: 05-2005 |
Saw Blue Jasmine today. It's great. Cate Blanchett is fantastic in it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6081 Registered: 05-2005 |
The final season of 30 Rock arrived in the post today and I'm just about to press play. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6084 Registered: 05-2005 |
I didn't end up watching 30 Rock the other night, but did watch three episodes last night. Brilliant. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6090 Registered: 05-2005 |
Derek. This may be the comedy with the most humanity I have ever seen. Deeply moving, week after week. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6091 Registered: 05-2005 |
All of us who use this board know each other through the internet. If net neutrality didn't exist, we might never have found this site. Have a look at this video and read this related article http://www.theinternetmustgo.com http://www.theguardian.com/technology/20 10/dec/26/net-neutrality-networker-john- naughton | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 220 Registered: 05-2005 |
Game of Thrones. Lots of people raved about this. All seems a bit wooden to me. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6104 Registered: 05-2005 |
White House Down. A bubblegum action film, and most enjoyable. Also, on DVD, the latest series of Parks & Recreation, which is leaning a touch more to liberal values preaching than it has in the past. Still funny too though. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6116 Registered: 05-2005 |
Big Bang Theory. It's easy on the brain. And funny. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 844 Registered: 05-2005 |
Breaking Bad - Last episode amazing finale to an incredibly brilliant series | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6130 Registered: 05-2005 |
Switching between the rugby on Ten and the baseball on One. Love it when free-to-air TV (the only kind I've got) shows sports I actually like. And from Friday, SBS is going to be showing one A-League football game live every week too. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6135 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wow, the rugby league grand final was excellent. I generally find league a bit boring, but this was great. (Explainer for our American posters: the rugby I mentioned in the previous post is rugby union, which is a different sport to rugby league). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6140 Registered: 05-2005 |
Campus on DVD. Very odd, but very funny in parts. I'm not sure it serves any purpose other than general weirdness though. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6148 Registered: 05-2005 |
Earlier, 2 Guns in the cinema. I liked it a lot. Now, Sydney FC beating Newcastle United Jets on SBS television. The A-League is on free-to-air TV at last. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6165 Registered: 05-2005 |
An Irish drama about a missing child called Amber. It's superb. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 851 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Crash Reel brilliant and very moving documentary about snowboarder Kevin Pearce, his career, a terrible accident and injury, his family and recovery, incredibly sad but life affirming as well | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6168 Registered: 05-2005 |
The House Of Cards - the original British series. It's surprising how stagey British television drama was, even as recently as when this was made in the mid '90s. UK dramas have learned a lot from US shows since then (Spooks being the most obvious). The House Of Cards is still very good though. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6181 Registered: 05-2005 |
Gravity in 3D. It's magnificent. Just see it. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 913 Registered: 10-2006 |
Masterchef Australia The most ebullient, supportive and educational of the international Mchef editions I've seen - great to watch judges that don't make use of unnecessary aggression and genuinely seem interested in seeing their contestants grow; while the participants themselves demonstrate amazing warmth and solidarity.Plus various trips around Oz to let us see how deliciously gorgeous the county is. Sydney looks green and lush; and there was even an excursion to a wee pub in Darlinghurst... | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 844 Registered: 04-2005 |
We Free Kings "Easter Road" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQIwbvCd K-s If you want to know where Mike Scott got the idea of his 'Raggle Taggle Gypsies' sound from, look no further. To be fair, I doubt that Scott would deny that influence. One of the Kings (Colin Blakey) even joined the Waterboys for "Fisherman's Blues". If you lived in Edinburgh in the 80s, they were legendary, in terms of their live performances fusing folk and the Stooges. With cello, fiddle and accordeon thrown in ! One of those bands where sadly none of their handful of recordings do justice to their live sound...and we're just left with fragments and memories... ...a benefit for 'Friends of the Earth' at Carlton Studios, when the Waterboys turned up to play with the Kings. And a version of "Will the Circle be Unbroken"... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6184 Registered: 05-2005 |
They played in Ireland a few times too Andrew. Unfortunately I never saw them though. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6185 Registered: 05-2005 |
They played in Ireland a few times too Andrew. Unfortunately I never saw them though. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 664 Registered: 03-2007 |
Andrew, Is this the same band? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=repdNeWQR eU This is the first I have heard of them and I am very disappointed that none of their back catalogue is available on cd. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6186 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sparky, a lovely short film (7 minutes) about a footballer who played for the team I support in Ireland. His silken skills were a joy to watch in the 1990s. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VwPKTrdR qI | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 845 Registered: 04-2005 |
Hugh, Yes, that's the same band, but towards the end of their existance. The onlyjokingman profile on YouTube is Joe Kingman their singer... | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 228 Registered: 06-2005 |
Drinking Buddies - worth watching for the soundtrack alone, great to hear a Richard Youngs track included: http://www.what-song.com/Movies/Soundtra ck/1232/Drinking-Buddies You need to have a few cold ones ready to watch it though. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6200 Registered: 05-2005 |
I went to see About Time this afternoon. A sweet rom-com. Domhnall Gleeson's upper middle-class English accent was very good. At no point did his Dublin accent creep through. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6205 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just watched a rather superb documentary about Paul Kelly on ABC. I came across it quite by chance. Robert Forster was one of the talking heads on it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6214 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Red Sox winning the World Series, and wishing I was back in Boston. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6227 Registered: 05-2005 |
Captain Phillips. It's very good. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 921 Registered: 10-2006 |
Nothing to do with music, but quite astonishing... http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=47f 7O9V4ELE&feature=youtu.be%3E | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6234 Registered: 05-2005 |
An Irish film called What Richard Did. It is stunning film making, acting and script. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6245 Registered: 05-2005 |
Borgen. It's back on SBS. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6248 Registered: 05-2005 |
JFK documentary about to start on SBS 1, which means I'll have to switch over from the excellent Brisbane v Western Sydney game on SBS HD. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6253 Registered: 05-2005 |
That Mitchell and Webb Look, series 1. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6254 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Fast Show, series 1, episode 1. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 847 Registered: 04-2005 |
RIP Chico Hamilton, jazz drummer and bandleader. He and his group featured in Alexander Mackendrick's wonderfully nasty film "The Sweet Smell of Success" I've always loved this performance from "Jazz on a Summer's Day" (with Eric Dolphy on flute) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH0bG_OYd ec#t=160 Always wondered if Stephen Morris' drumming for Joy Division's "Atrocity Exhibition" was influenced by this ? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3314 Registered: 03-2005 |
VERY canny Andrew. I think you are right. What a great unexpected influence for a post punk band! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6259 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kerry O'Brien's brilliant series of interviews with former Australian PM Paul Keating on ABC 1. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6297 Registered: 05-2005 |
My So Called Life. I haven't seen this since it was first on TV 19 years ago. It's as brilliant as I'd remembered. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3317 Registered: 03-2005 |
Dominique A live: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqskEcG78 4g | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6317 Registered: 05-2005 |
I saw American Hustle in the cinema last night. Great to see such a good film amongst like-minded souls who got its subtleties - although some of the humour was also pretty broad. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 937 Registered: 10-2006 |
Italian X-Factor TV highlight for the last couple of months. Since Italian TV is virtually constitutionally incapable of programming live music without some sort of competitive aspect anyway, this format is meat & drink to them and they have created a wonderfully watchable item, with an intelligent, measured, eloquent presenter, talented, witty judges and often intriguing musical choices for the participants – this season has included Blur, Syd Barret, Hole, Bon Iver, the Cure, Johnny Cash, Tom Waits, Janis Joplin, David Sylvain and Soundgarden, amongst others. New addition to the judging panel was Mika, not my favourite pop star, but charming, generous, smart as a whip, linguistically gifted, and with a substantial relish for popping the word “f***” in at odd intervals, like after the worthy Pussy Riot homage (“About f***ing time somebody did one!”). Last night’s stonkingly brilliant four hour finale was won, out of an exceptionally strong cast, by a doe-eyed, ridiculously articulate 18-year old lad from a wee town in Umbria, with such an unusual timbre of voice it’s impossible to describe, a sort of gentle burr that he can suddenly launch into an effective blues rasp. I look forward to hearing him again. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 855 Registered: 04-2005 |
Talking Heads - Live in Rome 1980 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wp2qhoop 9U Simply Wow ! With Adrien Belew on guitar, making a big contribution. Bizarrely the crowd looks 100% male and as if they strayed in from a football match... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6321 Registered: 05-2005 |
But were they at a Roma or Lazio game Andrew? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6348 Registered: 05-2005 |
Anchorman 2. Mostly rubbish. Don't waste your money folks. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6349 Registered: 05-2005 |
I've just watched season 1 of Peep Show. Very funny. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6352 Registered: 05-2005 |
We went to see Philomena. It's superb. Not a dry eye in the house. |