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Students dressed as ghosts in the Otago University capping procession in Dunedin, 1939. Photo: Auckland Weekly News; api.digitalnz.org/records/385231…

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Patron deity of Capital Gateway Shopping Centre, Wellington

A favourite by late NZ novelist Maurice Gee, with its themes of memory and the institutionalization of memory. The protagonist is the former Chief Archivist, who well understands how those who control restricted information control the narrative... and there a many secrets...

Here's a question from Marc Petty: "During #NZMusicMonth it occurred to me that there is quite a collection of song titles by Flying Nun bands dedicated to famous people. Can you add any others to the list Michael Brown AudioCulture?"

Written history of the classical guitar in NZ underway rnz.co.nz/concert/progra…

For Whom The Bell Tolls Timothy Hurd has been National Carillonist since 1984 but Culture and Heritage's proposes to disestablish the position of National Carillonist. What's the point of a National War Memorial Carillon without a National Carillonist. #DingDongs #StandWithTim🔔

If (like me) you missed this doco on Stephin Merritt of Magnetic Fields fame when it was released in 2011, it's currently streaming free on Kanopy. A good watch. kanopy.com/en/product/115…

What could possibly go wrong? Yesterday I did a Google search to identify the most successful movie of the last 5 years. Instead I got an AI response—which I didn’t ask for. AI identified a film from 2019 as the most popular movie in the last 5 years. And it even specified that

The World of the Unknown: Monsters. Usborne Books, 1977.

Final iteration of my hometown bookshop-newsagent... now closed for good. Where I used to get NME and Melody Maker back in the day.

Original soundtrack score for sci-fi feature "The Quiet Earth" (1985) composed by the late John Charles. One of many major film scores in Charles' new Turnbull Library collection, others incl "Utu", "Goodbye Pork Pie", & "Bread and Roses": natlib.govt.nz/records/592795…

A current book display shelf at Te Āmiki gift shop, National Library of New Zealand

"[The] lucid critique and explanations are a revelation for anyone keen to see inside a parallel universe of music creation." Thanks to Gary Steel for this sterling review of Eyeliner's BUY NOW (33 1/3 Oceania) disasteradio, eyeliner and a secret third thing Bloomsbury Academic

Teamwork in action! Below is an excellent review by 🅶🅰🆁🆈 🆂🆃🅴🅴🅻 of an excellent book by Michael Brown :) And here's the story of the man the book is about (by Martyn Pepperell) audioculture.co.nz/profile/disast…