#music

Twenty-one years of band names typed by hand leaves a fossil record of human inconsistency. Here's what it took to tidy up the Matinee Idle archive.

A love letter to Matinee Idle, a cult radio show, and the rabbit hole it sent me down. With 21 years of archive data, 15,411 songs, and one very strange most-played track.

Camp A Low Hum (CALH) is (was) a music festival that ran from 2004 to 2014. I was lucky enough to go to the 2013 and 2014 CALH, and then it just stopped. Fast...

Many years ago, myself and a few friends started a band - The Concerned Residents. We played gigs around Wellington bars, including at the Wellington Garden...