Instead of the usual suitably alternative music programming, it's a farewell. After five-ish years and approximately 200,000 words on the music of, in, and happening around Dunedin, this is the final instalment of Suitable Alternative. It has been a wild ride for sure, and something I'll dearly miss, but it's time to move on. The music journalist rites of passage, the invented words and the outlandish comparisons in an attempt to describe sound. Then there was the time I wrote a column using only an agonisingly slow iPod touch while in a moving car ...

Source: Otago Daily Times July 25, 2017 06:00 UTC