Archive for 2007
December 20 2007
Gig Guide 20 — 26 December
posted by Steven Shaw at 3:47 pm
The Mint Chicks — Fri-Sat at the Transmission Room, Mayoral Drive, Auckland
Click through for Christmas season gig listings…
December 20 2007
Fox News Makes More Sense with a Laugh Track
posted by Ana Samways at 10:12 amDecember 19 2007
Gourmet Food Store Strikes Out Again
posted by Ana Samways at 1:56 pmIf you thought the rude reply from a local catering business — which has gone global over the last few days — was a one-off, think again. It looks like Margaret McHugh from the Gourmet Food Store could benefit from an intensive Kiwi Host course, or at least a holiday…
December 18 2007
Gourmet Food Store Lets Rip At Client Via Email
posted by Ana Samways at 9:58 am
Just like the marquee company who called their client’s wedding ‘cheap and tacky’ in an email, the owner of the Gourmet Food Store Margaret McHugh shows little restraint in an email with one of her clients…
December 17 2007
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss — Raising Sand
posted by Steven Shaw at 2:59 pm
Reverb-drenched guitar, acoustic bass and ghostly drums ring out against a gentle hiss track, in an old mid-western dance band style that would fit right into that rundown hotel in Jim Jarmusch’s Mystery Train. This is typical of T-Bone Burnett’s production throughout Raising Sand, an outstanding album of duets from Robert Plant and Alison Krauss…