alex flapragranagran and the george-us gorge play the curly choons of choiceness. although sometimes they play us.. oo-er..
Influences
delusions of granduer, ladies of negotiable virtue, three day filthy techno parties from hell, bill hicks, hats worn at a jaunty angle, mittins, earl grey tea, james brown, weighty tomes with lofty ideals, meat-bix, jack johnson (the good one; y'know, the boxing fella..), chris morris, a mis-spent youth, poly styrene, and oh so many more it would be an exercise in futility to fully list them all.. but, oooh, one more for ya; my dear old ma.. 1, 2, 3, awwww..
nice up da riddim is a cheeky crafty show on the mighty mighty fleet fm (88.3 auckers & 107.3 welly-town - as if you didn't know, tss..), 5 till 7 onna thursday, innit?
what do we play? tss, what don't we play, more like.. we lurve it all (as long as it's fresh, fruity & flirty), almost as much as we lurve you, honey-bunnies..
we also have interviews and competitions and special reports and other interesting bits and pieces and whatevers, like.. and we have a handsome new news fella, benedict, and he does his informed and insightful delivery at 6ish.. it's right grand.. you know how it is.. and if not? well, it's high time to tune in to fleet baby..
Hey!.... hows it been? I just got done taking some Karm Survey, it aint like those same old gay bulletin surveys everyone posts and i scored off the charts!!! CLlCK THlS to see what your score is!
Hey! Music making slash liking person! Blogs are dropping like bombs on the kurb dot co myspace page! We just hoisted up an abridged version for light reading of the article "Sex, drugs and updating your blog" that hit the New York Times on Monday and its another major read for people interested in indie music promotion. I’ve also got another good one from me coming up rounding up a whole lot of reading I’ve done recently on digipromo and vblogging. Kiwis also check our NZMM speshes!
At kurb we're forging ahead with the digital revolution thats turning the music industry upside down. Heres what our services and packages are doing for kiwi artists:
Myspace promo. Crazy stuff. Boy if you knew what I knew you’d never see myspace the same. Serious need-to-know action. Musicians serious about their careers need to get in touch.
CD demos, promos, mixes and unsigned releases under $2 a piece - duplicated and printed. Press kits too. Don’t matter how big or small you are y’all need yo promos.
Posters, flyers, cheap colour posters, distributed or free delivery, we’ll cut you a deal.
So yeah, good luck with your tunes! Come check us out if you've got a gig or release coming up! We've also got some pretty sweet promo articles on our site for indie muso's.
Big up da riddim bruvver. That's me war photo - you mess with the GLSM you mess with five of the meanest motherfuckers who ever lived. We don't play. We slay. Maybe a cheeky crafty and a game of chess tomorrow?
