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		<title>Cross The Tracks / We Better Go Back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The summer of 1987-1988 was like an economic “phoney war” similar to that we just experienced, 20 years on, with the 2007-2008 financial crisis. In the months following the 1987 share-market crash, we were waiting for the impact to hit. One of the casualties was surely the Neon Picnic rock festival, which went belly up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe you&#8217;ll be able to get into The Siren that way&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before Scribe, before Dawn Raid (although its roots are here), before Chains, before the Otara Millionaires Club there was, contrary to common wisdom, a huge hip-hop scene in South and West Auckland going back to the early 1980s. There was even an album (cassette only) AK89: In Love With These Rhymes (which seems to have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://opdiner.com/2010/maybe-youll-be-able-to-get-into-the-siren-that-way/</link>
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		<title>Well, I stand up for liberty, but I can&#8217;t liberate / And pent up agony I see you take first place</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just read Johann Hari&#8217;s blog-post about the death of god. Or at least the recently 1 surveyed fact (if that&#8217;s the right word, although research being as fine tuned as it is now, we can have some confidence most results from reputable MR companies, surely, in 2010) almost nobody in the UK believes in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://opdiner.com/2010/well-i-stand-up-for-liberty-but-i-cant-liberate-and-pent-up-agony-i-see-you-take-first-place/</link>
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		<title>He seems to be completely unreceptive / the tests I gave show no sense at</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is The Sky Falling on The Content Industries? A must read from Stanford Law School&#8217;s Mark A. Lemley found at The Social Sciences Research Network:1 Henslowe: Mr. Fennyman, let me explain about the theatre business. The natural condition of the theatre business is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. Believe me, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://opdiner.com/2010/he-seems-to-be-completely-unreceptive-the-tests-i-gave-show-no-sense-at/</link>
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		<title>Lookin&#8217; at the devil / Grinnin&#8217; at his gun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve talked about this at work, where you might spend the time to do a cool package, it just doesn&#8217;t have a disc in it. And instead of a disc, you&#8217;ve got a little piece of paper that says &#8220;go here for your download.&#8221; So says Jeff Kleinsmith, Sub Pop&#8217;s Art Director, who muses the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s just some stuff you gotta be born into..</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“There&#8217;s a great underground soul scene bubbling with artists you may not have heard like … Paul Randolph, among many others in [Detroit] …Stevie Wonder Is it too fan-boi to say that I&#8217;m absolutely besotted with the recently released collection of remixes of tracks from Paul Randolph&#8216;s 2007 album, Lonely Eden? The original album was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://opdiner.com/2010/theres-just-some-stuff-you-gotta-be-born-into/</link>
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		<title>I see the people walking / never hear them talking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was an odd feeling, but June marked the 30th Anniversary of my Propeller label. In mid June 1980 I released two singles on the same day, City Scenes by The Features, and Feel So Good by The Spelling Mistakes. To my surprise (and even more to the bands&#8217;) both singles jumped into the NZ [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://opdiner.com/2010/i-see-the-people-walking-never-hear-them-talking/</link>
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		<title>let my blood pressure go on its way / &#8216;cos my autumns done come</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s fine to be home&#8230;..]]></description>
		<link>http://opdiner.com/2010/let-my-blood-pressure-go-on-its-way-cos-my-autumns-done-come/</link>
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		<title>Sex and drugs and rock and roll / Were huddled together in a bottomless hole</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lovely bunch of quotes from Chris Knox over the years, courtesy of Gary Steel. I like this one: “When I was a kid of 15, I would put ‘Revolution Number 9’ (The Beatles) or John Cage (experimental composer) on the turntable, and put as many radios as I could find in different stations round the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://opdiner.com/2010/sex-and-drugs-and-rock-and-roll-were-huddled-together-in-a-bottomless-hole/</link>
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		<title>They said I was to little too light weight to play line-backer / So I say I&#8217;m playing right-end</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Coming back from Kanchanaburi on the bus the other night, the sky opened up. The four of us, Brigid, her parents and myself, had wandered around the mostly deserted tourist trap with an even darker past under the shadow of huge black clouds which dribbled a little but didn’t really belch out the hot rain [...]]]></description>
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