Articles tagged with "Review"
What happened in 2023? A belated retrospective
18/03/2024
At the end of 2023 I was feeling pensive and had some spare time thanks to the union movements of the 1900s, so I wrote a bunch of notes for an article summarizing the year. Things like which gigs were especially memorable, venues we'd lost, etc. Then I just didn't write it. But now I'm like actually it's kind of interesting to think back on the year. So... More
Lines of Flight 2023 Belated Retrospective
20/02/2024
Note: This was largely written the day after the festival ended while it was fresh in my mind, as such it's a bit rough and full of wild tangents and run on sentences but I'm posting it here since I think it's an interesting retrospective. A lot of the time the really cool stuff is largely ignored. Society only values the winners in the current mode of production... More
Better living online
24/04/2020
After a few weeks of figuring out the new normal, last weekend demonstrated that the local live music scene is anything but dead. It’s just different now, like pretty much everything else. When I arrived at “Better Living, Everyone”, Christchurch’s relatively long running music festival put on by local indie label Melted Icecream, I was sitting in my bedroom in front of my computer screens, RGB room lighting... More
Lines of Flight 2019 Review: Music on the Fringes
30/03/2019
Lines of Flight opened with a rendition of John Cage’s silent 4’ 33”, both an empty space to symbolise what we’ve lost and the epitome of the idea that any sound can constitute music. This would be the first time the audience were reminded of this idea, but not the last. Later that evening we watched Melbourne’s Is there a hotline? somehow turn an array of musical toys... More
