JUNE 1 2019 LISTENER 67
RIP IT UPLOADED: Until its
demise in 2015, after many
owners and attempted rein-
ventions, Rip It Up was New
Zealand’s pre-eminent music
magazine. It was founded in
1977 by Murray Cammick and
Alastair Dougal, and the first
issue had visiting funk-soul
band the Commodores on the cover. Although
it featured plenty of overseas acts up front in
the following years, inside, the freebie newsprint
magazine found its true purpose. Its pages of
crammed columns captured the snowballing
energy of local rock in the wake of the rise of
Split Enz, Hello Sailor and Toy Love while offer-
ing comprehensive live and LP reviews to a loyal
readership, which by the mid-80s had grown
to 30,000. Anyone wanting to relive RIU’s early
and influential heyday can trawl through the
first hundred issues on the National Library’s
Papers Past website, which now has digitised
copies stretching from 1977 to 1985. The issues
are text-searchable, so it’s easy to find that gig
you can’t quite remember, or, indeed, relive the
trauma of that withering review your band got –
as well as the whiney letter of complaint to the
editor you wrote about it. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz- Russell Baillie
WINTER WONDERLAND: The game they call
Thrones is finally done; [spoiler] is on the throne
and peace has broken out. There are too many
reviews and recaps to mention, but an HBO
short in which cast members look back is sweet:
tinyurl.com/NZLThroneCast. Over the years, we
have also enjoyed podcast Nerdette Recaps
Game of Thrones with Peter Sagal: tinyurl.com/
NZLNerdetteRecaps.up during Henley and Ascot.
In the first episode, Meghan
Markle and her mother visit
on the eve of Meghan’s wed-
ding. Other episodes feature a
sumptuous Anglo-Indian wed-
ding, a Chinese wedding with
a 13-person camera crew and a
lavish wedding for a Japanese
supermodel.
Classic Albums: Elton John –
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
(Prime, 8.35pm). Musos like
talking about music, and this
Classic Albums from 2001
features interviews with Elton,
co-writer Bernie Taupin,
producer Gus Dudgeon and
guitarist Davey Johnstone as
well as footage of the album
being recorded in France.
Coincidentally, the Elton John
biopic Rocketman has just been
released.WEDNESDAY JUNE 5
Love Island UK (Three, 4.30pm;
Thursday and Friday, 5.00pm).
Welcome to the future that
Charlie Brooker promised
us: self-absorbed young Brits
boosting their Instagram fol-
lowings by hooking up in a
villa in Mallorca. In the UK, it’s
as big as Big Brother used to be,
with the likes of singer Liam
Gallagher, former England
cricketer Michael Vaughan
and former rugby player
James Haskell confessing
they’re fans. Even columnist
and TV critic Caitlin Moran
has admitted that it has beenOnline
Catch of the Week
second part is all about how
Egypt is building for the future
while preserving its past.
Nolan: The Man and the Myth(Sky Arts, Sky 020, Monday,
8.30pm) is an exploration of
one of the greatest Australian
artists, Sidney Nolan, who is
most famous for his Ned Kelly
paintings. However, like a lot
of painters, he was a mysteri-
ous figure. He once said, “The
Kelly pictures weren’t really
only history pictures, they
were about a psychological
state I was in.”
The documentary travels
from the suburbs of Mel-
bourne to the London art
scene of the 1950s and 60s
and the Welsh hills. Expert
commentators include
Australian art historians Barry
Pearce and Edmund Capon,
British experts Adrian Searle
and Waldemar Januszczak
and writers Howard Jacobson
and Germaine Greer.SVOD HIGHLIGHT: What’s good in subscription
video on demand. Blessed day, June returns
on June 6. It appears that the handmaids
are revolting in the third season of The
Handmaid’s Tale (Lightbox), or at the very
least, June (Elisabeth Moss) is assembling a
crew of resisters, including Serena Joy (Yvonne
Strahovski), Nick (Max Minghella) and, possibly,
unconventional commander Joseph (Bradley
Whitford).A Very British Country
House,Tuesday.