Strange News
Play It Strange CEO Mike Chunn will be blogging on The Big Idea from his world of young singer/songwriters in New Zealand and their evolving, exciting world of original song.Chunn will write about this...
View ArticleThis generation is going to rule
In the latest Strange News blog from Mike Chunn he says we must give the new generation the platforms on which to stand and strut their stuff."After all young NZers are not only seen and heard but they...
View ArticleSong Writing
In the latest Strange News from Mike Chunn, he takes 'a gentle dipping of the toe' into the common sense view a fair number of people have (and many of them are music teachers) that songs should be in...
View ArticleReality in the Grooves
By Mike ChunnThe proof is in the pudding. The reality is in the grooves.Luckily CDs have grooves…..that last rivulet in which digital noughts and ones can sit comfortably watching each other as they...
View ArticleWhat goes around, comes around
By Mike ChunnThe sidelines of sports fields on Saturday mornings are a wonderful portrayal of human nature in action. Apart from the odd parent trying to whack a passing referee or screaming “You’re...
View ArticleWhat we are hearing
By Mike ChunnSome time ago, one Frederick H. Martens wrote – “Music considered as a historical influence, is primarily an emotional agent. Its influence is either directly exercised upon the senses,...
View ArticleWatching the bubble grow
The time is right for a huge, committed drive by the public to stand up for their innate right to quality public broadcasting and a Youth Radio Network, argues Mike Chunn in his latest Strange News...
View ArticleIntentional Outset
By Mike ChunnToo many people think too much. And the words in their teeming brains flood out into their mouths. The ‘commentaries’ about politics is a perfect example. Much ado on talk-back radio,...
View ArticleNew Education
By Mike ChunnThe John Key/Banks announcement of the introduction of charter schools has led to a flurry of divergent opinions much of them negative. Anything to do with a ‘new’ education does. It’s a...
View ArticleSupporting Emerging Artists
By Mike and Barney ChunnThe philanthropic funding support by individuals for young emerging artists in the world of contemporary popular music (the music of the people) is a rare spontaneous event if...
View ArticleMusic Matters
By Mike and Barney ChunnIt’s a rare breed that doesn’t automatically, intrinsically, understand that music matters. It’s an unknown entity in many ways, but what is universally acknowledged is the...
View ArticleThe true measure of success
By Mike and Barney ChunnMost of what we do in life is judged by what it results in. If you ask most people why they go to school, they’ll tell you (apart from being legally and parentally forced into...
View ArticleOlympic Song Competition
By Mike and Barney ChunnA good pairing is generally comprised of two differing, complimentary components. If the two single entities in a pair are too similar, the point of having two becomes in a way...
View ArticleThe kids are right
By Mike and Barney Chunn"An upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers…supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes far totem (Jack of all...
View ArticleStand Tall
By Mike and Barney ChunnSomething is rotten and it needs to be talked about. We’ll do it here. We’ll talk about two countries with two very different journalistic approaches. Australia and New Zealand....
View ArticleTalia's Web
By Mike and Barney ChunnThis blog post weaves itself around the musical life of Talia Caradus; a teenager who stands on the Internet platforms that pepper the sky like soapboxes on park corners did all...
View ArticleYouth Radio Network
A Youth Radio Network was a hot potato when Neil Finn stood up in 2000 and said "This must exist!". Political ideals and vehement commercial radio opposition closed the door on it. Twelve years later...
View ArticleYouth Radio Network - Part II
Maria English was at Samuel Marsden Collegiate when her NZ debating team won the world championships. Did you hear their oratory? Do you know which nation they took first place over?Read More »
View ArticleExtension of Copyright
Mike Chunn talks about the swirly world of ignorance, wayward politics and nonsense all focused on the word copyright. Read More »
View ArticleRecording is today's notation
By Mike and Barney ChunnOne of the most influential technological advancements of modern society is the ability to record something. To ‘fix’ it in a permanent form. Read More »
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