Life at Club Med in the Whitsundays has been a hectic combination of dodging torrential rain (November had five times the average rainfall and well over double the record for this part of Queensland), playing tennis, killing cockroaches, kayaking to tiny islands, dealing with tropical mold, doing the sound for the nightly shows, shooing wild…
Tag: Music
The Arcade Fire & My Favourite New Song Of 2010
I’m not going to lie, it’s not a short flight from Vancouver to Auckland, particularly when you’re enroute to Brisbane enroute to Hamilton Island enroute to Lindeman Island. Needless to say, I had a bit of time on my hands and discovered this song by Canadian band (and fellow Springsteen fans) The Arcade Fire called…
Mickey Rourke’s ‘The Wrestler’ & How It Parallels The Life Of Pop Star Andy Gibb
At home yesterday I cracked out some of my old Andy Gibb LPs. I wanted to hear Shadow Dancing again which despite being the biggest hit of 1978 in the US, you hardly hear on the radio anymore. What a great song, what perfect pop albums and as is always the case with Andy, listening…
Whatever Happened To 5 Time Grammy Winner Christopher Cross? (written late 2007)
Holmsey is back, all is forgiven at TVNZ and now that we’ve found out the Bay City Rollers never made any money and that the David Cassidy of 2007 owns an unusually tight forehead, it’s time to turn our attention to another potential Whatever Happened To… guest star. He is a man who won five…
Is Lionel Richie The Nicest Man In Showbiz? Hanging Out With A Couple Of Commodores
The exuberant tale of 26-year old Lionel Richie and Commodores fanboy that gets to meet to his hero – three times… One-time-a-Lionel I knew was going to happen. Universal Records appreciated my daily on-air ravings about the magnificence of all things Lionel Richie and had put my name on the pre-concert meet ‘n’ greet list….
The Colbie Caillat Interview, On The Brink Of Stardom – August 2007
You’d think she’d be sick of being asked about them. After all, her dad produced Rumours, Tusk and Mirage – three albums that sold more than 40 million copies between them. He was there when Stevie and Lindsey were interchanging vicious argument for sublime harmony. He was the one who mortified the band by tipping…
