Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Metro and murder

I bought a copy of the November issue of Metro, out of kindness I suppose. Also to see what Anthony Byrt had to say about art, and what Courtney Sina Meredith had to say about “Urbanesia”.

As a former magazine person, I looked at the masthead, which only magazine persons do, and discovered that Metro has a new editor, Susannah Walker. Nobody told me. She must have answered this ad seeking a “creative, solution orientated brand champion” and fitted the bill. Good for her.

Her bio says:
Walker survived a childhood in Inglewood, the Taranaki town once known as NZ’s Murder Capital
Ahem. Credit where it’s due: Inglewood was dubbed New Zealand’s murder capital by me, when I wrote the intro to Graeme Lay’s article “Murder in Moaville” in Quote Unquote the magazine in May 1995. In that article he referred to Inglewood as “the psychopath centre of New Zealand”, but I suppose Ms Walker preferred the soft option of “murder capital”.

So here is Emmylou Harris with her Hot Band singing Townes van Zandt’s “Pancho and Lefty”:

4 comments:

Phil said...

Emmylou ....

New Zealand Gerald said...

Urbanesia . . . Metro's well overdue for some youth in Asia.

New Zealand Gerald said...

Urbanesia . . . Metro's well overdue for some youth in Asia.

Paul said...

Metro aside, I recall that Emmylou Harris and the Hot Band concert on Old Grey Whistle Test from 1977, when I was 15. I can only repeat what I thought then: phwoar