Peter McLennan
@dubdotdash.bsky.social
I'm a musician (Dub Asylum, Hallelujah Picassos), DJ, writer, blogger & vinyl fiend. My book on Deepgrooves is out now. Get it here: https://flyingout.co.nz/products/peter-mclennan-deepgrooves
https://planetsauceradio.com
https://dubdotdash.blogspot.com
https://planetsauceradio.com
https://dubdotdash.blogspot.com
Pinned
Peter McLennan
@dubdotdash.bsky.social
· Nov 18
PETER MCLENNAN - Deepgrooves: A Record Label Deep in the Pacific of Bass, and the People Who Gave It a Voice.
Peter McLennan (Dub Asylum, Hallelujah Picassos) has just unveiled his extraordinary book, telling the tale of 90s Auckland label Deepgrooves. Home to a remarkable spread of acts, from early Aotearoa ...
flyingout.co.nz
My book is out today! Available from Flying Out, Real Groovy and FlyingNun in akl, and Flying Nun in Wellington. You can also order it thru Flying Out. Book launch this Friday 4pm at Flying Out. flyingout.co.nz/products/pet...
Reposted by Peter McLennan
Your gentle reminder that my crowdfunding campaign ends tomorrow night… Thanks everyone for all the love. It’s been amazing. www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...
Support Dr Siouxsie After She Supported Us! | PledgeMe
Support Dr Siouxsie to recover some of the money she spent fighting her legal case to protect employees experiencing online abuse
www.pledgeme.co.nz
November 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Your gentle reminder that my crowdfunding campaign ends tomorrow night… Thanks everyone for all the love. It’s been amazing. www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...
Reposted by Peter McLennan
Every once in a while I go back and rewatch this performance, and every time I'm glad I did youtu.be/6SFNW5F8K9Y
Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne, more - "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" | 2004 Induction
YouTube video by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Every once in a while I go back and rewatch this performance, and every time I'm glad I did youtu.be/6SFNW5F8K9Y
Reposted by Peter McLennan
Jennifer’s clear and fact-based interview is a great one to share with family or friends who might not have good understanding this issue.
She easily cuts through the govt’s bullshit.
She easily cuts through the govt’s bullshit.
I spoke to Midday Report at RNZ - you can listen to the interview here: www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
Government blocks puberty blockers for new patients
The coalition government has announced a ban on new patients accessing gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues - also known as puberty blockers - from next month. Professional Association for Transge...
www.rnz.co.nz
November 20, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Jennifer’s clear and fact-based interview is a great one to share with family or friends who might not have good understanding this issue.
She easily cuts through the govt’s bullshit.
She easily cuts through the govt’s bullshit.
Reposted by Peter McLennan
“Trust us! Marginalising these communities more will absolutely bring down the cost of a KG of Mince and get your job back!”
November 20, 2025 at 4:47 AM
“Trust us! Marginalising these communities more will absolutely bring down the cost of a KG of Mince and get your job back!”
Reposted by Peter McLennan
This is upsetting on so many levels. Banning new prescriptions is extremely harmful and doing this during trans awareness week, a few days before the transgender day of remembrance just makes it so much worse.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Govt halts new puberty blockers prescriptions for gender-affirming care
Green Party MP Ricardo Menéndez March says the government is "buying into imported culture wars" .
www.rnz.co.nz
November 19, 2025 at 7:43 AM
This is upsetting on so many levels. Banning new prescriptions is extremely harmful and doing this during trans awareness week, a few days before the transgender day of remembrance just makes it so much worse.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Reposted by Peter McLennan
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
Reposted by Peter McLennan
Did you go to Parachute Music Festival? Here's the story of the event. Plus I'll comment back with the story by @davidfarrier.com about the terrible DC Talk singer for those who want some additional reading.
audioculture.co.nz/articles/par...
audioculture.co.nz/articles/par...
Parachute Festival - Article | AudioCulture
Parachute Festival, Mystery Creek, Waikato. - Parachute Music Collection
Parachute Festival was one of the largest local music festivals in the first decade of the 2000s. It relied heavily on Christia...
audioculture.co.nz
November 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Did you go to Parachute Music Festival? Here's the story of the event. Plus I'll comment back with the story by @davidfarrier.com about the terrible DC Talk singer for those who want some additional reading.
audioculture.co.nz/articles/par...
audioculture.co.nz/articles/par...
Reposted by Peter McLennan
Two sleeps till my rekid launch!
Graham Reid rekns:
“Pain's electronics pushes it into space as Cunningham's low guitar grounds it”
“somewhere between Kerouac, Sam Hunt … and Ginsberg”
“the presence of an authentic voice & sonic settings which wrap around the experience”
Free/koha all welcome
Graham Reid rekns:
“Pain's electronics pushes it into space as Cunningham's low guitar grounds it”
“somewhere between Kerouac, Sam Hunt … and Ginsberg”
“the presence of an authentic voice & sonic settings which wrap around the experience”
Free/koha all welcome
November 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Two sleeps till my rekid launch!
Graham Reid rekns:
“Pain's electronics pushes it into space as Cunningham's low guitar grounds it”
“somewhere between Kerouac, Sam Hunt … and Ginsberg”
“the presence of an authentic voice & sonic settings which wrap around the experience”
Free/koha all welcome
Graham Reid rekns:
“Pain's electronics pushes it into space as Cunningham's low guitar grounds it”
“somewhere between Kerouac, Sam Hunt … and Ginsberg”
“the presence of an authentic voice & sonic settings which wrap around the experience”
Free/koha all welcome
Reposted by Peter McLennan
Was an honour to get to take a hoon at this classic banger 📼🌞 check it out!!
‘Rewind Re-versioned’ is coming out December 5, 2025 on a limited run of CDs and cassettes, and digital.
You can hear 3 of the remixes from @eltruento.bsky.social @amamelia.bsky.social, and Surly right now over at bandcamp hallelujahpicassos.bandcamp.com/.../rewind-r....
You can hear 3 of the remixes from @eltruento.bsky.social @amamelia.bsky.social, and Surly right now over at bandcamp hallelujahpicassos.bandcamp.com/.../rewind-r....
hallelujahpicassos.bandcamp.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Was an honour to get to take a hoon at this classic banger 📼🌞 check it out!!
I've been working on this for most of this year and here it is... 15 remixes of the same song, insane, right? So here's the story...
November 5, 2025 at 7:07 AM
I've been working on this for most of this year and here it is... 15 remixes of the same song, insane, right? So here's the story...
Reposted by Peter McLennan
Rāhina Monday has come around again, bringing with it the AudioCulture Quiz. This is a great one by Simon Grigg, all about women musicians... @opdiner.com
www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/aud...
www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/aud...
AudioCulture Quiz - Article | AudioCulture
Welcome to the weekly AudioCulture Quiz. Clue: answers are on the site or, for those in a hurry, at the link below.
AudioCulture Quiz, 3 November 2025
Name the band. From left: Jacinda Klouwens, Rach...
www.audioculture.co.nz
November 3, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Rāhina Monday has come around again, bringing with it the AudioCulture Quiz. This is a great one by Simon Grigg, all about women musicians... @opdiner.com
www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/aud...
www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/aud...
great chat about records with Don Was (was Not Was), plus the opening tune is his current band in 2025 covering Midnight Marauders by Fat Freddys Drop www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2vy...
Don Was - What's In My Bag?
YouTube video by Amoeba
www.youtube.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:28 AM
great chat about records with Don Was (was Not Was), plus the opening tune is his current band in 2025 covering Midnight Marauders by Fat Freddys Drop www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2vy...
coming soon... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILPu...
Hallelujah Picassos - Rewind (Christoph El Truento’s Digital remix)
YouTube video by Hallelujah Picassos
www.youtube.com
November 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
coming soon... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILPu...
Reposted by Peter McLennan
Couldn’t love this more.
November 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Couldn’t love this more.
Reposted by Peter McLennan
I don't have premium access and don't care enough to pay to read reckons like these, but if DC KC can explain why a CGT is "punishing thrift" while taxing the interest paid on a term deposit isn't then she's probably worth whatever hourly rate she charges.
November 1, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I don't have premium access and don't care enough to pay to read reckons like these, but if DC KC can explain why a CGT is "punishing thrift" while taxing the interest paid on a term deposit isn't then she's probably worth whatever hourly rate she charges.
Reposted by Peter McLennan
#nzpol
For context: Total cost of all reparations paid to Māori for land confiscations to date = $2.7 billion
Total cost of the economic lunacy of this government reinstating mortgage interest deductions to landlords = $2.9 billion (over 4 yrs), plus $760 million every single year thereafter
For context: Total cost of all reparations paid to Māori for land confiscations to date = $2.7 billion
Total cost of the economic lunacy of this government reinstating mortgage interest deductions to landlords = $2.9 billion (over 4 yrs), plus $760 million every single year thereafter
October 27, 2025 at 1:41 AM
#nzpol
For context: Total cost of all reparations paid to Māori for land confiscations to date = $2.7 billion
Total cost of the economic lunacy of this government reinstating mortgage interest deductions to landlords = $2.9 billion (over 4 yrs), plus $760 million every single year thereafter
For context: Total cost of all reparations paid to Māori for land confiscations to date = $2.7 billion
Total cost of the economic lunacy of this government reinstating mortgage interest deductions to landlords = $2.9 billion (over 4 yrs), plus $760 million every single year thereafter
Reposted by Peter McLennan
I hardly ever use Google Drive, but when I checked, Gemini was checked 'on' to use by default. 🤔
friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
October 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I hardly ever use Google Drive, but when I checked, Gemini was checked 'on' to use by default. 🤔
Made a thing. Patrice Rushen's classic tune Forget Me Nots takes a Caribbean trip to the reggae disco. dubasylum.bandcamp.com/album/forget...
Forget Me Nots (reggae disco mix), by Dub Asylum
1 track album
dubasylum.bandcamp.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Made a thing. Patrice Rushen's classic tune Forget Me Nots takes a Caribbean trip to the reggae disco. dubasylum.bandcamp.com/album/forget...
This is awesome, go read it now...
A few weeks back I sat down for a long chat with living legend Eddy Grant. Here's my piece about The Equals for Bandcamp Daily daily.bandcamp.com/lists/before...
Before “Electric Avenue,” Eddy Grant Melded Mod & Soul in The Equals
The UK group anticipated punk, glam, disco, and so much more.
daily.bandcamp.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
This is awesome, go read it now...
There's a biography of Chris Knox out this week - the author Craig Robertson contacted me a few years ago, as back in 1995 when I was at Ak Uni, I made a half hour documentary on Chris and he wanted to see it.
Anyway, I dug out the digital file and it's now online, enjoy! youtu.be/VQjvic02S8M?...
Anyway, I dug out the digital file and it's now online, enjoy! youtu.be/VQjvic02S8M?...
Chris Knox: Songs Of You And Me - a documentary about Chris Knox (1995)
YouTube video by Peter McLennan
youtu.be
October 6, 2025 at 5:38 AM
There's a biography of Chris Knox out this week - the author Craig Robertson contacted me a few years ago, as back in 1995 when I was at Ak Uni, I made a half hour documentary on Chris and he wanted to see it.
Anyway, I dug out the digital file and it's now online, enjoy! youtu.be/VQjvic02S8M?...
Anyway, I dug out the digital file and it's now online, enjoy! youtu.be/VQjvic02S8M?...
Reposted by Peter McLennan
Notes from a city past: David Herkt's new @audioculturenz.bsky.social piece on the era of transgender shows at Mojo's on Queen. The most enjoyable piece of writing I've read all week. www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/moj...
Mojo
From the beginning of the 1970s, at 348 Queen Street in Auckland, there was an unmissable sign. It read “Mojo’s Nitespot”. It would eventually become the frontage of New Zealand’s first, largest, and ...
www.audioculture.co.nz
October 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Notes from a city past: David Herkt's new @audioculturenz.bsky.social piece on the era of transgender shows at Mojo's on Queen. The most enjoyable piece of writing I've read all week. www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/moj...
Reposted by Peter McLennan
@babyzionov.bsky.social's 2025 has been full of sold out shows, festival appearances and charting releases. Today she has made it around the final lap to release her new album Raceways Of My Heart 💕
🔗 linktr.ee/sunreturn
🎨 @simonmward.bsky.social
📷 Frances Carter
🔗 linktr.ee/sunreturn
🎨 @simonmward.bsky.social
📷 Frances Carter
October 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
@babyzionov.bsky.social's 2025 has been full of sold out shows, festival appearances and charting releases. Today she has made it around the final lap to release her new album Raceways Of My Heart 💕
🔗 linktr.ee/sunreturn
🎨 @simonmward.bsky.social
📷 Frances Carter
🔗 linktr.ee/sunreturn
🎨 @simonmward.bsky.social
📷 Frances Carter
Reposted by Peter McLennan
The strongest National supporter I know told me last week how worried he was that his grandson had applied for so many jobs and was still unemployed. I think this comment will infuriate even him cause he believes in work & knows people aren't sitting on the couch.
www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-dail...
www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-dail...
'Stop playing PlayStation': PM tells school leavers to 'get off the couch', 'go find a job'
Improving school attendance was 'job number one' for cutting future unemployment, he said.
www.nzherald.co.nz
October 3, 2025 at 3:41 AM
The strongest National supporter I know told me last week how worried he was that his grandson had applied for so many jobs and was still unemployed. I think this comment will infuriate even him cause he believes in work & knows people aren't sitting on the couch.
www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-dail...
www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-dail...
Reposted by Peter McLennan
How do you get to be a ‘business leader’ and think jobs are created by increased demand for jobs.
The audience applauded as Luxon asserted that the 400,000 people wanting work or more work would actually fit perfectly into the 20,000 available vacancies.
He then urged young people to have some get up and go. Parents looked worried by this comment - how would they afford to get their kids to Aus?
He then urged young people to have some get up and go. Parents looked worried by this comment - how would they afford to get their kids to Aus?
October 3, 2025 at 5:06 AM
How do you get to be a ‘business leader’ and think jobs are created by increased demand for jobs.
Reposted by Peter McLennan
New music video for @amamelia.bsky.social 's smashing new song 'The Floating Opera' out on @sunreturn.bsky.social 🎶
Went to town on this one a bit but very pleased with the results 🎭 Huge thanks to @browntown.bsky.social for the incredible band logo.
Watch the whole vid here -> youtu.be/AgaKhwIKp9I
Went to town on this one a bit but very pleased with the results 🎭 Huge thanks to @browntown.bsky.social for the incredible band logo.
Watch the whole vid here -> youtu.be/AgaKhwIKp9I
September 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
New music video for @amamelia.bsky.social 's smashing new song 'The Floating Opera' out on @sunreturn.bsky.social 🎶
Went to town on this one a bit but very pleased with the results 🎭 Huge thanks to @browntown.bsky.social for the incredible band logo.
Watch the whole vid here -> youtu.be/AgaKhwIKp9I
Went to town on this one a bit but very pleased with the results 🎭 Huge thanks to @browntown.bsky.social for the incredible band logo.
Watch the whole vid here -> youtu.be/AgaKhwIKp9I