Clubbing at The Roxy (Auck) and Bowling in Newmarket!

When you leave the first club of the night because it only has one lady in it being encircled on the dance floor by like 20 guys haha thank god for The Roxy ;) on my right is Yuvi Chetty who i meet at first said club lmfao

At the start of our clubbing at The Roxy the music was brilliant, hell even in inspired with a very tasteful selection of oldskool and brand spanking new hip hop pop tracks being spun. I have to mention the bass response of the sound system at Roxy it's great. The music then changed course towards a more glitch hop vibe that Yuvi certainly didn't care much for. I didn't mind at all as I know you can't keep playing the same music for an entire night, but the energy on the dance floor did dip. 

I also bumped into hostess with the mostess Eleanor one of the peeps i meet through my good friend Talor. She was trying to wrangle the VIP tables and get everyone settled in and having fun which was cool. She told me how much they costed and I nearly fainted, thankfully they did come with some great champagne and enviable status in the club. I mean if your chilling in the booths on the top floor at Roxy it means either you have a solid job, come from a wealthy background or a simply a crazy average joe trying to split the costs with your friends. Eleanor also told me recently a guy just wanted a booth because he really need to sit down and have a few deep breaths! 

From a sociological point it's funny to think of the disavowed NZ class system operating so blatantly at a nightclub, you certainly could tell there was a divide between regular punters and individuals sitting in booths. One of the things i personal find funny is how when you have a booth you have to make out like its nothing and that the expense doesn't mean anything! do facade's hold true? :)

I also went bowling  earlier in the night with Jay Telfer in Newmarket. It was quite funny actually as Jay couldn't stay for two games but he couldn't purchase one game only. The guy working at Newmarket Tenpin Bowling said thats just business which i thought was a pretty weak excuse!! 

Despite getting two games Jay shot off early so Fernando and I played his next game between us and he nearly won when he wasn't even there!! ;) And well yes  since you asked I did get a few sneaky strikes and some spares plus way to many gutter balls haha. My first game was the best for me as I won it the second game going to Fernando damn you!! haha

Columbia records classic songs

Columbia Records is the oldest record company in the world, I was reading a fascinating book on the history of the label called 360 (the labels 360 approach to releasing music of all genres) and found some of its original hits online from the past and put them on my blog. These charming old records helped build the greatest music label of all time! Amazing, the first records they cut were on metal cylinders recorded via a gramophone style device :) pure mono

Here are some of the songs that helped establish Columbia records as the longest running Music record label in History bar none!

Fun little ditty by Bert Williams, famous black comic of the late 19th-early 20th century performing a routine recorded in 1913. Enjoy!

NOBODY (Alex Rogers / Bert Williams) Arthur Collins - 1905 Bert Williams - 1906 Bert Williams (feat. in the Broadway Show "Ziegfeld Follies") - 1913 Shelton Brooks - 1941 Bing Crosby - 1947 Jimmy Dean - 1962 Nina Simone - 1964 Avon Long (feat. in the Broadway Show "Bubbling Brown Sugar") - 1976 Billy Daniels (feat. in the London Show "Bubbling Brown Sugar") - 1977 Audrey Morris - 1984 Also recorded by: The Four Lads; Mary Coughlan; Carol Burnett; Ry Cooder; Max Morath: .......... and others. When life seems full of clouds and rain And I am full of nothin' and pain Who soothes my thumping, bumping brain, uummm? Nobody! When winter comes with snow and sleet And me with hunger and cold feet Who says, "Here's twenty-five cents, go ahead and get somethin' to eat, go on why doncha"? Nobody! I ain't never done nothin' to nobody I ain't never done nothin' to nobody, no time So until I get somethin' from somebody sometime I'll never do nothin' for nobody, no time When I was in that railroad wreck And thought I'd cashed in my last check Who took the engine off my neck? Nobody! One time when things was lookin' bright I started to whittle on a stick one night Who cried out, "Stop now, that's dynamite"? Not a soul! I ain't never done nothin' to nobody I ain't never done nothin' to nobody, no time So until I get something from somebody, sometime I'll never do nothin' for nobody, no time (Transcribed from the Bert Williams recording by Mel Priddle - May 2007)



I've been away from you a long time.
I never thought I'd miss you so.
Somehow I feel
Your love is real.
Near you I want to be.
The birds are singing it is song time.
The banjo's strumming soft and low.
I know that you 
Yearn for me too.
Swannee, you're calling me.

Swanee, how I love you, how I love you
My dear old Swanee.
I give the world to be
Among the folks in D-I-X-I-
Even though my mammy's
Waiting for me,
Praying for me
Down by the Swanee.
The folks up north will see me no more
When I get to that Swanee shore.

(whistling)
I miss the old folks at home.

Swanee, how I love you, how I love you
My dear old Swanee.
I give the world to be
Among the folks in D-I-X-I-
Even though my mammy's
Waiting for me,
Praying for me
Down by the Swanee.
The folks up north will see me no more
When I get to that Swanee shore.

SOUSA The Stars and Stripes Forever - "The President's Own" U.S. Marine Band