More media mentions

I’m on Agenda this morning, about political blogging. Jordan and Colin Espiner were interviewed also.

Also made NBR again yesterday. A very sarcastic article on on “Farrar Aid” for victims of Hurricane Hobbs. The article is below.

Benefit album for hurricane victim

LOS ANGELES, Sept 23 – Some of the biggest names in the music world have agreed to record a benefit album for the victim of Hurricane Hobbs, which lashed the New Zealand capital last Saturday night. The album is to be called Farrar Aid a play on the words Farm Aid, with royalties earmarked to assist David P Farrar, the hapless National party political operator who oversaw one of the most inert political campaigns in the history of Wellington Central. Among the top-line acts expected to contribute their talents to the project are the iconic Finn Brothers, singer-songwriters Dave Dobbyn and Shona Laing, popular Auckland band the Mutton Birds and hiphop legend David P Money. The selections include: He Ain’t Heavy He’s My Blumsky, Take Me To The April Sun In The Cuba Street Apartments, So Farrar Away From Here, I Fought The Hobbs And The Hobbs Won and a special reworking of the old Bob Geldolf hit I Don’t Like Saturdays. “It’s going to be a little beauty of an album!” declared music critic Grant Smithies, one of the few industry insiders to have heard outtakes from the project. “Prepare to weep buckets!” Rolling Stone