Pearl Jam, AMI Stadium, Christchurch, 29 November 2009

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WERW37SM

01 Given To Fly
02 Got Some
03 Animal
04 Once
05 Unthought Known
06 Tremor Christ
07 Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
08 World Wide Suicide
09 In My Tree
10 Marker In The Sound
11 Even Flow
12 Force Of Nature
13 I Got Id
14 Life Wasted
15 Garden
16 Do The Evolution
17 Go
18 encore break 1
19 The End
20 Happy Birthday Matt Cameron
21 Red Mosquito w/ Ben Harper
22 Indifference w/ Ben Harper
23 State Of Love And Trust
24 The Fixer
25 encore break 2
26 Jeremy
27 Better Man
28 The Real Me
29 Better Be Home Soon w/ Liam Finn and Neil Finn
30 I Got You w/ Liam Finn and Neil Finn
31 Alive
32 Rockin' In The Free World w/ Ben Harper and Relentless 7, and Liam Finn + Eliza Jane
33 Yellow Ledbetter

Ben Harper and Relentless 7, AMI Stadium, Christchurch, 29 November 2009

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=290MR09F

01 I Will Not Be Broken
02 Faded
03 Number With No Name
04 Under Pressure w/ Eddie Vedder
05 Shimmer And Shine
06 Lay There & Hate Me
07 Serve Your Soul
08 Fly One Time
09 Boots Like These
10 Up To You Now

Liam Finn + Eliza Jane, AMI Stadium, Christchurch, 29 november 2009

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GE0ADE6I

01 Plane Crash
02 Long Way To Go
03 I'll Be Lightning w/ Connan Mockasin
04 Cinnamon Girl w/ Elroy Finn and Eddie Vedder
05 Second Chance
06 Lead Balloon w/ Neil Finn

Pearl Jam, Mt Smart Stadium, Aucklnad, 27 November 2009

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IOA9RQFC

01 Daughter
02 Severed Hand
03 Corduroy
04 Hail, Hail
05 Faithfull
06 Got Some
07 Hold On
08 Even Flow
09 Johnny Guitar
10 Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
11 Unemployable
12 Unthought Known
13 Black
14 Given To Fly
15 Grievance
16 Amongst The Waves
17 Wasted Reprise
18 Better Man
19 encore break 1
20 Just Breathe
21 Red Mosquito w/ Ben Harper
22 Love, Reign O'er Me
23 Do The Evolution
24 Why Go
25 Porch
26 encore break 2
27 Not Given Lightly w/ Liam Finn and Neil Finn
28 The Fixer
29 Rockin' In The Free World
30 Yellow Ledbetter

Ben Harper and Relentless 7, Mt Smart Stadium, Auckland, 27 November 2009

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=B1LKCUWN

01 I Will Not Be Broken
02 Faded
03 Number With No Name
04 Under Pressure w/ Eddie Vedder
05 The Woman In You
06 Rock And Roll Is Free If You Want It
07 Shimmer And Shine
08 Lay There & Hate Me
09 Boots Like These
10 Diamonds On The Inside
11 Up To You Now

Liam Finn + Eliza Jane, Mt Smart Stadium, Auckland, 27 November 2009

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PGA8IC5K

01 Plane Crash
02 Long Way To Go
03 I'll Be Lightning w/ Connan Mockasin
04 Cinnamon Girl w/ Elroy Finn
05 Second Chance w/ Eddie Vedder
06 Lead Balloon

Pearl Jam, QSAC Stadium, Brisbane, 25 November 2009

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KW3OFLYN

01 Why Go
02 Animal
03 Got Some
04 Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
05 In Hiding
06 In My Tree
07 Save You
08 Even Flow
09 Amongst The Waves
10 Off He Goes
11 Not For You
12 Daughter
13 Rats
14 Unthought Known
15 Insignifcance
16 If You Want Blood (You Got It)
17 Blood
18 encore break 1
19 The End
20 Just Breathe
21 Red Mosquito
22 Indifference
23 Gonna See My Friend
24 The Fixer
25 Rearviewmirror
26 encore break 2
27 Throw Your Arms Around Me
28 Jeremy
29 Alive
30 Baba O'Riley
31 Yellow Ledbetter

Ben Harper and Relentless 7, QSAC Stadium, Brisbane, 25 November 2009

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=711J7R29

01 I Will Not Be Broken
02 Faded
03 Number With No Name
04 Under Pressure w/ Eddie Vedder
05 Never Tear Us Apart
06 Rock And Roll Is Free If You Want It
07 Shimmer And Shine
08 Lay There & Hate Me
09 Boots Like These
10 Diamonds On The Inside

Liam Finn + Eliza Jane, QSAC Stadium, Brisbane, 25 November 2009

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=C0WKBTLM

01 Plane Crash
02 Long Way To Go
03 I'll Be Lightning
04 Remember When
05 Second Chance
06 Lead Balloon

Pearl Jam, Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney, 22 November 2009

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PSXNEZBL

01 Why Go
02 Hail, Hail
03 Interstellar Overdrive
04 Corduroy
05 Severed Hand
06 Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
07 The Fixer
08 Given To Fly
09 Dissident
10 Even Flow
11 Untitled
12 MFC
13 Unthought Known
14 Down
15 Garden
16 Whipping
17 Mankind
18 Got Some
19 Do The Evolution
20 encore break 1
21 Red Mosquito w/ Ben Harper
22 Indifference w/ Ben Harper
23 State Of Love And Trust
24 Light Years
25 Last Exit
26 Porch
27 encore break 2
28 Throw Your Arms Around Me w/ Liam Finn
29 Crazy Mary
30 Rockin' In The Free World

Ben Harper and Relentless 7, Sydney Football Stadiuam, Sydney, 22 November 2009

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9JSFDOWZ

01 I Will Not Be Broken
02 Faded
03 Number With No Name
04 Under Pressure w/ Eddie Vedder
05 Never Tear Us Apart
06 technical difficulties
07 Rock And Roll Is Free If You Want It
08 Shimmer And Shine
09 Lay There & Hate Me
10 Boots Like These
11 Up To You Now

Liam Finn + Eliza Jane, Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney, 22 November 2009

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1GXD2CJZ

01 Plane Crash
02 Long Way To Go
03 I'll Be Lightning
04 Remember When
05 Second Chance
06 Lead Balloon

Rock and roll is free if you want it. Coming soon.

Flight Of The Conchords, Genesis Recreation Centre, Masterton, 31 March 2009

Fuckwits, munters and other assorted muppets often ask me "what's with the earplugs?". These are the same types who clearly don't go to a lot of shows and think that Kings of Leon were "like, the best thing e-ver" and, so, either don't have to worry too much about long-term hearing loss, or it doesn't matter as their brains aren't able to process what they hear anyway.

The last day of March saw my first earplug-less concert in a while, and what a show it was. Unfortunately, organisers requested no recordings, and I will be honouring that request. To make up for it, here are DetMackey & Friends singing A Kiss Is Not A Contract live on Radio NZ's Checkpoint that day, and on Morning Report the next day.

Best show of 2009.


01 banter 1
02 The Most Beautiful Girl (In The Room)
03 banter 2
04 Mutha'uckas
05 banter 3
06 Hurt Feelings
07 banter 4
08 Albi The Racist Dragon
09 banter 5
10 Robots
11 banter 6
12 Carol Brown
13 banter 7
14 Jenny
15 banter 8
16 You Don't Have To Be A Prostitute
17 Sugalumps
18 banter 9
19 I'm Not Crying
20 banter 10
21 Think About It
22 Bus Driver
23 banter 11
24 A Kiss Is Not A Contract
25 banter 12
26 We're Both In Love With A Sexy Lady
27 banter 13
28 Business Time
29 encore break
30 banter 14
31 Angels
32 banter 15
33 Bowie

DetMackey's secret identity revealed!

Here.

Kings of Leon, TSB Arena, Wellington, 27 March 2009

Would it be fair to call the Kings of Leon concert the worst concert of the year? No, it would not be fair. What would be fair is calling it the worst concert of the decade.

They did well to play a fair amount of songs from their quality first three albums, but everything on the new album is lacking anything resembling artistic talent and there was just too much from it. Kings of Leon also achieve the Tool award for playing a concert almost indistinguishable from the CD versions of their songs.

Excluding the pre-recorded intro and couple minute encore break, the Kings couldn't even muster 90 minutes.

They should have stuck with being U2's warm up act; U2 and the Kings deserve each other.


http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DXJ10TS1

01 intro
02 Closer
03 Crawl
04 Taper Jean Girl
05 My Party
06 King Of The Rodeo
07 California Waiting
08 Fans
09 Revelry
10 Milk
11 Red Morning Light
12 Four Kings
13 Wasted Time
14 Molly's Chambers
15 Sex On Fire
16 The Bucket
17 On Call
18 Use Somebody
19 Slow Night, SO Long
20 encore break
21 Knocked Up
21 Manhattan
22 Charmer

Supergroove, Homegrown 2009

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VMVL8K8H

01 Next Time
02 Don't Look Down
03 Your White Shirt
04 Diggin' (?)
05 Fade Away
06 Five Word Headline
07 You Gotta Know
08 new song 2 (?)
09 Bugs And Critters
10 Sitting Inside My Head
11 Can't Get Enough
12 Here Comes The Supergroove
13 harmonica solo
14 You Freak Me
15 Scorpio Girls

Kora, Homegrown 2009

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4JDMCJMG

01 new song 1 (?)
02 Skankenstein
03 The Delivery Man
04 new song 2 (?)
05 On My Mind (with Bodies, and Down The Road)
06 Pop Your Bubble
07 Skoolyard
08 Flow
09 Thunder, Lightning, Brimstone, Fire

Tiki Taane, Homegrown 2009

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ML7FM2EA

The Black Seeds, Homegrown 2009

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FPJOFIF1

Tahuna Breaks, Homegrown 2009

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=F6K018RK

Katchafire, Homegrown 2009

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7TFX8CUO

01 Who You With
02 Giddy Up
03 Meant To Be
04 Say What You're Thinking
05 This World
06 J Dubb
07 Love Letter
08 instumental
09 I And I
10 Doesn't Anybody
11 Seriously
12 Collie Herb Man
13 Colour My Life
14 Satisfy My Soul
15 percussion solo
16 Done Did It
17 Don't Worry 'Bout A Thing
18 Reggae Revival
19 encore break
20 Get Away

Uploading delay

As an Orcon customer I'm getting horrendously slow speeds.

After a 45 minute wait on the phone, Orcon said they had implemented shaping on Rapidshare and Megaupload and P2P for about a week. The assistant said the more people complain, the more likely it is to be reviewed.

I'll likely be complaining via switching ISPs, so good luck to the rest of you.

According to Orcon, shaping is occuring during peak times, that is the only time you can experience normal speed is during weekdays. Weeknights and weekends are out.

Coming Up

Homegrown, Wellington Waterfront, Wellington, 12 March 2009 (uploading from Monday 23 March):
Katchafire
Tahuna Breaks
The Black Seeds
Tiki Taane
Kora
Supergroove

Kings of Leon, TSB Bank Arena, Wellington, 27 March 2009

Plus, the hottest band in the land.

Nine Inch Nails, Vector Arena, Auckland, 17 February 2009

Best show of 2009.


http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JGVGQUZA

Good Quality

01 Intro
02 1,000,000
03 Letting You
04 Discipline
05 March Of The Pigs
06 Something I Can Never Have
07 Terrible Lie
08 The Line Begins To Blur
09 Head Down
10 Burn
11 Survivalism
12 Gave Up
13 La Mer
14 The Fragile
15 Non-Entity
16 The Downward Spiral
17 Wish
18 Suck
19 Hurt
20 The Hand That Feeds
21 Head Like A Hole

The Naked And Famous, Vector Arena, Auckland, 17 February 2009

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OXPXT88Z

Good Quality (and excellent show)

Arctic Monkeys, Wellington Town Hall, Wellington, 13 January 2009

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=H10TK170

Reasonable Quality

01 Da Frame 2R
02 This House Is A Circus
03 Still Take You Home
04 The View From The Afternoon
05 Dancing Shoes
06 Dangerous Animals
07 From The Ritz To The Rubble
08 I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor
09 Pretty Visitors
10 Brianstorm
11 Leave Before The Lights Come On
12 When The Sun Goes Down
13 Go-Kart
14 Crying Lightning
15 Fluorescent Adolescent
16 Do Me A Favour
17 encore break
18 Red Right Hand
19 If You Were There, Beware

Update: someone's upped just the new songs if that's what you're after http://www.mediafire.com/?tdnmythegy1

Shihad, Rhythm and VInes, 31 December 2008

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KA04ZTQY

Pretty Good Quality

01 Empty Shell
02 Rule The World
03 The General Electric
04 My Mind's Sedate
05 Beautiful Machine
06 Pacifier
07 Run
08 Home Again
09 Wait And See
10 Screwtop
11 Comfort Me
12 One Will Hear The Other

The Datsuns, Rhythm and Vines, 31 December 2008

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LZCIVDCK

Pretty Good Quality

01 Who Are You Stamping Your Foot For?
02 System Overload
03 Girl's Best Friend
04 Hong Kong Fury
05 Hey! Paranoid People! (What's In Your Head?)
06 Human Error
07 Waiting For Your Time To Come
08 Sittin' Pretty
09 Your Bones
10 Highschool Hoodlums
11 Maximum Heartbreak
12 Stuck Here For Days
13 MF From Hell
14 Harmonic Generator
15 What Would I Know

Public Enemy, Rhythm and Vines, 30 December 2008

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TXJ1W9CG

Pretty Good Quality

The Phoenix Foundation, Rhythm and Vines, 30 December 2008

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=72EYT8EG

Good Quality

01 Gandalf
02 Damn The River
03 Let Me Die A Woman
04 Bleaching Sun
05 40 Years
06 Gone Fishing
07 Nest Egg
08 Slightest Shift In The Weather
09 Bright Grey

Little Bushman, Rhythm and Vines, 30 December 2008

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QQW25A3P

Good Quality

Franz Ferdinand, Rhythm and Vines, 29 December 2008

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CRJZRPPY

Pretty Good Quality

01 Bite Hard
02 Do You Want To
03 Matinee
04 Come On Home
05 Fallen
06 Walk Away
07 Take Me Out
08 Ulysses
09 40'
10 What She Came For
11 encore break
12 Jacqueline
13 Turn It On
14 Michael
15 Outsiders
16 This Fire

The Kooks, Rhythm and Vines, 29 December 2008

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OFY9YKC9

Reaonable Quality

01 Always Where I Need To Be
02 Matchbox
03 Eddie's Gun
04 Ooh La
05 Sway, Seaside
06 Time Awaits
07 One Last Time
08 I Want You Back
09 She Moves In Her Own Way
10 See The Sun
11 Do You Wanna
12 Naive
13 Shine On
14 Stormy Weather
15 Sofa Song

Liam Finn, Rhythm and Vines, 29 December 2008

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=55KZHDZW

Good Quality

01 Better To Be
02 Energy Spent
03 Remember When
04 I'll Be Lightning
05 Woo
06 Wise Man
07 Second Chance
08 Lead Balloon