Category: 2010 happenings

Playing Singles and Drinking Doubles

  Back in 2009, I discovered this crazy radio show that was on Fleet FM Tuesday afternoons, called ‘Playing Singles and Drinking Doubles’ —if that name wasn’t brilliant enough, their music selections were out of this world. I didn’t know these guys at that stage, (well I had met Roddy at Frisbee studios on Albert […]

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William Daymond Interview (2010)

Reprinted from: http://www.undertheradar.co.nz/utr/interviewMore/CID/212/N/The-Pickups.utr#ixzz1ag0v91MA George Harrison’s post-Beatles output is overrated and The Monkees are criminally underrated. At least that is the case according to William Daymond from The Pickups. The Christchurch three-piece gave us an email interview with UTR recently and talked a lot about The Beatles, The Beach Boys and the aforementioned Monkees. There are […]

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The Bill Classics (2010): The Above Ground Railroad

October 2010 finds the dysfunctional Axemen family in myriad modes, each in his own sphere, each with their own worldview, each finding new connections, disconnecting others some halfhearted some heartfelt some hearty beef some harkening some heartlessly hardened, haggling and harrying. don’t ask don’t tell. The Sultan’s Bat Tree  some haranguing, some balls dangling sanguine […]

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Chritstchurch 2010 dire straits – Columbo Street is Bending

Save the world christchurch Columbo Street is Bending columbo street is bending not that you would know it theres no depression in it sheep shagging in far off fields cashfields, leithfield, anwhere but darfield whats with the bruises on your calves? i was just feeling sheepish i felt a little sheepish actually watching reruns of […]

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