Jonny Potts leaves a message for one of the musicians that mattered to him most: David Berman of the Silver Jews, who died this week. Hi David. I know that’s a bit familiar. Sorry, I guess. So, I’d just got out from seeing the shrink when I checked my phone and saw the Pitchfork tweet. … Read more
Twenty years on, Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s I See a Darkness continues to beguile listeners. Jonny Potts tries to make sense of a timeless classic. It’s strange to consider I See a Darkness in terms of its age. Really, it’s strange to consider it being subject to time at all. It’s one of the very few records which … Read more
Tom Petty died today, aged 66. Jonny Potts remembers his 1993 Greatest Hits album, one of the best single-disc greatest hits compilations ever released. I still have my copy of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers’ Greatest Hits on CD. It was one of the first CDs I bought after acquiring a shitty boombox from an older … Read more
On the heels of yesterday’s announcement of the Fred nominees for best show of the Comedy Festival, comedian Jonny Potts digs deep into the non-Fred Dagg work of Kiwi icon John Clarke, after whom the award is named. It’s totally understandable that the figure of Fred Dagg dominated New Zealand’s response to the sudden death … Read more