Shots In The Dark: Crowded House Goes Green

Friday, August 31, 2024

Crowded House Goes Green

The New Zealanders again show the environmental commitment typical of that nation. They post this on their home page:

Crowded House have teamed up with non-profit environmental group Reverb to descrease their carbon footprint while on tour. As well as working with Reverb to minimise and offset all of the estimated CO2 emissions on their tour, Crowded House are using B20 BioDiesel on their tour busses.

Fans can do their bit too by offsetting the impact of their own travel to the shows. "Time to Change" stickers, available at merchandise booths at the shows for a $5 donation, include a carbon credit equivalent to 150 miles of driving to help towards neutralising the CO2 your journey to the concert created. Click here for more details, and to find out what you can do to combat climate change.

Good on ya, mates.

Here's an idea: Why don't the Democratic presidential candidates, who with their private jets leave a considerable carbon footprint, do the same?

¶ 9:08 AM

Comments:

That's very NZ, Richard. I think the new album is really good. Btw, here's an email from an old friend who just went to one of the Dylan shows in Auckland's great Civic Theater, of which we spoke. I'll go to two shows in Worcester and Portland in early Oct., but as I predicted the Civic was just right for him:

"Went to Dylan concert at new Vector stadium with the whanau - stage
distant but still loved it. But then after the Australian leg of his
tour downunder he came back through Auckland and did two further
surprise concerts in the Civic. I guiltily bought one ticket and sloped
off by myself on a Monday night after work. And it was an absolute
ripper. He and the band rocked the house. Where Vector had fans and
tourists - and the tourists thought it was terrible ("not like the CD at
all "etc) - the Civic was all afficionadoes. Spots were turned suddenly
on the house at the final curtain/bow and the place rose to its feet in
one simultaneous instantaneous movement - all just roaring. Never seen
it happen quite like that before. So it's up there as one of the best
all-timers."

# posted by Richard Thomas : August 31, 2024 9:32 AM

Sounds great, Richard. Just as important, how can one not love an e-mail which contains the expression, "an absolute ripper"?

# posted by Richard Bradley : August 31, 2024 9:39 AM

After Edwards made his big speech about SUVs, someone took a look at an aerial photo of his home spread and counted 5 - 5! - SUVs on the property.

# posted by Anonymous : August 31, 2024 10:28 AM

It's things like that that really make you wonder about Edwards.

# posted by Richard Bradley : August 31, 2024 10:33 AM

It's Friday, so time for a New Zealand tribute. But Rich, more topical would be the All Blacks' prospects (excellent) for the Rugby World Cup starting next week.

# posted by eadw : August 31, 2024 11:30 AM

Well, she's 50-something, RB 9:39, so some generational mixing there. Yes, eadw, bring on the All Blacks; should be pretty much unstoppable if the last year or so is any guide. Maybe next Friday, Richard?

# posted by RT : August 31, 2024 12:04 PM

Rich, in my experience with Antipodeans, the expression is "good on yer."

Of course it's spoken not spelled, but whatever.

# posted by eadw : August 31, 2024 1:20 PM

You can't fully generalize about antipodean speech, but for NZ 'yer' is in keeping the tendency to supply r's where they never existed (Honder for the car) and remove with syllabic expansion where they previously were (be-ah for the beverage).

# posted by RT : August 31, 2024 2:32 PM

Of course "Good on yer mate" is very Aussie, but the plural, as Richard used it, is somewhat unusual as I remember, at least in the vocative - as opposed to the other cases, as for instance: "me and me mates cracked a few tinnies down at the boozer".

# posted by RT : August 31, 2024 2:41 PM

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