Here’s the podcast from this mornings interview with Kathryn Ryan about the flat names project.
I’ll be having a chat with Kathryn Ryan about the flat names project.
I’m really excited to see lots of photos being tagged on the Flat names photo collection on the Facebook group, Dunedin (NZ) named student flats. These flats have been tagged so far this week:
Reading up about Sneaky Feeling’s song Husband House, inspired by a flat named Huband House on Hope Street in Dunedin, back in the 1980s.
Sneaky Feelings, Husband House, 1985. (17 on NZ singles chart)
“Sneaky Feelings, ‘Husband House’ single also on Positively George St best of. Sneaky Feelings were one of the earliest Dunedin / FN bands. The song is from the point of view of a woman from a flat where the six women were going out with the six guys at a flat called “Huband House”, which, of course was named “Husband House”. Ref.
Posters and reprints of flat photos are here! The poster shows all the flats that featured in the recent exhibition, My Flat Your Flat Our Place. Check ‘em out.
Great to see more photos being tagged!
Went to pick this up from the library today but I’d misread my email and went too late to collect it.
“Students. In the 60s they burnt US flags; in the 70s they burnt bras; and in the 90s, in Dunedin, they started burning couches. Idealism was replaced by nihilism.” Read more from the Listener.
According to Carl Shuker’s website he’s writing the screenplay for the feature film of The Lazy Boys.
Dunedin Flat Names Project 