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