Frank Eggleton
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Considering Creating a Podcast? Why Not Start With a Demo?
Have you ever felt a strong passion for a particular subject? Do people ask you for advice? Is there a topic you can discuss endlessly? If you’ve been contemplating starting a podcast, now might be the perfect time to consider creating a podcast demo. But first, what is a podcast? It’s a digital audio series that is…
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Don’t Panic at the Disco — Findings From a New Music Discovery Survey
This project explores the many ways in which new music and artists are discovered by the everyday listener. A music engagement survey was created to find out how people discover new music in the digital age. 114 people took part. About one billion people and counting stream music online, ( 616 million people/businesses pay for subscriptions and…
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100,000,000 Reasons You Should Make Your Website Accessible to All
According to the European Council of the European Union, 100,000,000 or 25% of people in Europe consider themselves as having some kind of disability. If your website is not accessible, you could be missing a lot of web traffic, and/or these potential customers are not having a great UX/CX experience when they first encounter your…
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Let The Light In
Writing content that engages and connects with our audience can be a challenging task. We want our writing to be creative, informative, and engaging, but sometimes it can be difficult to find inspiration or come up with new ideas. One way to develop our writing skills and enhance our creativity is by reading poetry.
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A Backwards Explosion
To come up with the idea, I revisited some of my favourite sources. YouTube interviews of creative people. It has been a quandary to me, whether watching interviews is a way of procrastinating. Or if it is a way of replenishing my creative output. Reading to a writer is not a waste of time. So,…
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The Sun is on Fire
Everyone sings with you. At least that’s how it feels. Each time you sing the chorus, it gets brighter and brighter and has exponentially more emotion. You are feeling a oneness with everyone you can see. You realise this chorus is projecting around Newtown. You feel a part of this celebration. Then, in the last…
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Tidal Rave – Albumette
Tidal Rave Share New Album ‘Albumette’ Exploring conversational topics like “police incompetence, problematic capitalism, disconnection and in-between spaces”, Tidal Rave‘s shiny new surf-pop offering Albumette has landed. The Pōneke six-piece released their sweet jangly debut collection Heart Screams in March last year, and they’ve since honed and polished their fuzz-pop sound, with Emmie Ellis, Esther Gedye Taylor and Kristen Paterson‘s guitars, Ann-Marie Keating‘s keys, and the Frank…
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Solo Ono release – Now We Know Who to Blame
Summer’s here (although you couldn’t tell from looking outside), we’re almost done with the literal trash fire that is 2020, and Pōneke garage surf poppers Solo Ono have returned with their timely three track Now We Know Who to Blame EP. Alongside the title track’s finger-pointing, fuzzy guitar action lurks the tipsy nostalgia of toe-tapping recent single ‘I’ll Have…
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STALKER: A BAND CALLED STALKER
It’s been four years since Stalker ’s first demo release ‘Satanic Panic’ and three years since their 2017 debut album ‘Shadow of the Sword’ was released through Austrian record label Napalm Records. Covid-19 didn’t prevent them from managing an appearance in Osaka for Japan’s True Thrash Festival in February, or from releasing their sophomore album ‘Black Majik Terror’…
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Compelling stories by emerging writers awarded 2020 NZSA assessments
The NZ Society of Authors announce who will receive manuscript guidance in this year’s CompleteMS programme. Thirteen writers with manuscripts ranging through Fantasy, Pasifika futurism, Indie Rock fiction, Young Adult, Biography, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literary Vignettes, Creative Non-Fiction, and Dramatisation of a Verse Biography have all been chosen to take part in this year’s…
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