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		<title>Warm-up Gigs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, a few gigs over the last week or two &#8211; warming up to what is about to be a marathon of them. First off &#8211; Bonnie &#8216;Prince&#8217; Billy at the Hackney Empire.  There had been a company meeting, followed by some drinks (including whisky tasting) earlier in the evening &#8211; and when I arrived [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kruse.net.nz/2012/02/04/warm-up-gigs/</link>
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		<title>2012 &#8211; off and running (or skiing)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Right &#8211; been too busy and lazy and sick to write for a while, so now I just have to skim over it all. First gig of the year &#8211; Ani DiFranco at the Union Chapel.  Cool gig, talented lady &#8211; did an improvised song with a crowd member playing guitar for her &#8211; after [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kruse.net.nz/2012/01/28/2012-off-and-runningskiing/</link>
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		<title>2011 &#8211; done.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So &#8211; another year gone.  A year in which I spent a stupid amount of money on rent, visited the southern hemisphere twice, successfully got myself littler, saw a whole heap of live music, and not much else.  40 gigs, according to my records &#8211; not including festivals.  And all but one of those were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kruse.net.nz/2012/01/12/2011-done/</link>
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		<title>2011&#8230; nearly over&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well &#8211; December has pretty much turned into just treading water, waiting for the New Year &#8211; which will hopefully provide enough symbolic &#8216;new beginnings&#8217; to provide an impetus to get moving again.  Not sure if that makes sense to anybody &#8211; but I have talked to a few people who agree&#8230; we&#8217;ve had enough [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kruse.net.nz/2011/12/30/2011-nearly-over/</link>
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		<title>Post-Hungover Babble</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Right &#8211; so after I foolishly did a hungover-still-slightly-drunk edit to last week&#8217;s post, I&#8217;ll try to make up for that with an ultra boring sensible post.  &#8220;Try&#8221; being the key word there. Firstly &#8211; the one gig I made it to in the last week or so.  Das Racist &#8211; some alternative hip-hop.  If [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kruse.net.nz/2011/12/10/post-hungover-babble/</link>
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		<title>Quiet week.. not so</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Right &#8211; so it was to be a couple of quiet gigs, then a quiet week, then casting my vote in a fore-gone conclusion of a General Election.  Well, none of that really happened. Monday night &#8211; the Twilight Sad &#8211; part of the current wave of indie-rock coming out of Scotland.  And similar to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kruse.net.nz/2011/12/03/quiet-week-not-so/</link>
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		<title>A Quartet of Gigs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay &#8211; due to popular request &#8211; the shiner revisited&#8230; coming home from a gig, tired and a wee drunk &#8211; got off the bus (at the wrong stop, it turns out) &#8211; and as I was walking down the street, four guys run past me towards the bus &#8211; and one guy punches me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kruse.net.nz/2011/11/22/a-quartet-of-gigs/</link>
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		<title>So, so many gigs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So &#8211; this is what happens when I&#8217;m feeling sorry for myself and can&#8217;t be bothered writing anything for 11 days &#8211; I&#8217;ve got 6 gigs, 2 weekends, and a shiner, all to write about.  So I&#8217;ll try to be succinct&#8230; not that I&#8217;m usually successful at that&#8230; It all starts on Friday the 4th.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kruse.net.nz/2011/11/16/so-so-many-gigs/</link>
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		<title>Some great venues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And gig season continues.  And I foolishly just bought tickets to about 4 more gigs.  The calendar is starting to look very, very full. But back to the present, or past&#8230; The last week&#8217;s worth started with Wilco at the Roundhouse.  I signed up to become a member, so that I might get access to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kruse.net.nz/2011/11/05/some-great-venues/</link>
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		<title>Champs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A week of no gigs.  That was a good time.  Relaxing, a night of the old binge-drink, a weekend of rugby semi-finals, and just a good ol&#8217; time.  But that was then, now we&#8217;re in the dark days.  Five weeks of no more respite than two days off at any time. It started with Band [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kruse.net.nz/2011/10/29/365/</link>
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