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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

this is out now -- a man worth knowing & knowing about.

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byron coley @byroncoley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

rec of the day: CRAIG ROBERTSON Chris Knox: Not Given Lightly (Auckland University Press tpb) deeply researched, sprawling & profusely illustrated bio of the key figure of New Zealand's musical underground. a great read for any fan of the modern kiwi beat. bookshop.org/p/books/chri...

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Chris Knox: Not Given Lightly

The story of the man, the music, the art, the attitude. Chris Knox: Not Given Lightly tells the story of one extraordinarily creative man's journey from the obscurity of punk rock to the heart of New ...

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They were great in Boston the other night

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The story of my life, metaphorically.

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

a place where irony fears to tread (I’m stealing that from the NME)

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

& the 1980 Wellington doc has a paragraph in the book

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Life in the Fridge Exists!! I doff my hat to you sir. The book had the support of Chris and family. I don’t know Chris but spent a lot of time at his house researching the book

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

FYI I wrote a Chris Knox biography & of course Toy Love feature prominently. Unfortunately it’s hard to find outside of NZ but there should be some copies in the US at the end of the month a.co/d/09L5MPGc

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Chris Knox: Not Given Lightly [Robertson, Craig] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Chris Knox: Not Given Lightly

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

System was an invaluable source for my filing cabinet book - (in a chapter I discuss desks with brains)

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

It was on a late 90s show called Sunday - he also sung it in te reo!

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

No James Bond. No Dr. Who. No PM. Has England ever played a football game under such uncertainty? Go the Black Stars! (tomorrow).

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

No James Bond. No Dr. Who. No PM. Has England ever played a football game under such uncertainty? Go the Black Stars! (tomorrow).

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

New Zealand have never won a game at the Word Cup but in 2010 they were the only unbeaten team (3 draws in group play; Spain won the final but lost a group game).

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I’m not a fan of oral histories (probably not a surprise to anyone who read my Knox bio!) but this one has convinced me they can be great - outstanding work by Richard

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The planned US publisher pulled out at the last minute and unfortunately the substitute US/UK distribution has been a bust - maybe US availability late August? As far as I know there is nothing in the pipeline for the UK as of now.

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Unpretentious with a local old school feel and good bar food go further up Mass Ave to Joe Sent Me in North Cambridge

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Too many of us - you want to tag craig-robertson.bsky.social

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Marc Masters 🌵 @marcissist.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Love this story from Craig Robertson's Chris Knox bio about how an Auckland punk band learned to play "Anarchy in the UK" by taping the short bits that aired in a news segment off of the TV and just playing those parts. (Try to explain this to a young person today haha)

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Hi Douglas - years after our interview the Chris Knox biography is out and will be available in the US in May. Pre-orders on Amazon a.co/d/0eXbnYBz

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Thanks for taking the time to read it - and for the positive words.

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

2/2 power poles to signify US neglect of PR infrastructure (esp since Hurricane Maria); saying God Bless America and then listing Spanish speaking countries of “the Americas”.

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

1/2: It’s existence made it political but it was political in some very visible (& important ways). Recreating sugar cane plantations on the field brought US colonialism to the fore; handing a Grammy to a boy intended to invoke Liam Ramos

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Sorry to miss you but thanks for the shout out!

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

And this did zero for rugby’s US profile. It was buried on a steaming platform while sports fans were watching college (American) football on all the major networks and ESPN (I watched it at an Irish pub in Boston where at most a 1/3 of the pub cared - the rest were there on a Hallo-weekend stop)

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

and we can let them riot on an empty street

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Thanks Simon (we need to catch up) - those very positive words mean a lot coming from a legend like Simon Grigg

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I’ve always thought of my filing cabinet book as a material history of Taylorism (with a focus on information)

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

To be fair the text is “only” 389 pages. There is another 70 pages of notes, timeline and discography. But it’s still a lot of words! We know Chris was partial to a lot of words.

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Simon Grigg @opdiner.com · 07/10/2025

I said I'd write a few words about Craig Robertson's much-anticipated Chris Knox bio, which I love. These are personal reflections on what will likely be the definitive history of a man who changed indie/alt music globally opdiner.substack.com/p/cause-when... #aotearoa @audioculturenz.bsky.social

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'Cause, when it all comes down to dust

Can I say that Craig Robertson's bio of Chris Knox is anticipated? It is, and it's arrived.

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I also have about a dozen turnpike postcards but that one went nowhere so to speak

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

A few years ago I went on a post office vintage postcard collecting kick. I have about 100 postcards including a post office from all 50 states (which took a bit of hunting).

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I have no memory either. It can be first on the list of things that aren’t in the Knox bio!

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

In hindsight not a great idea to have your hobby be writing a book when your day job is writing books but a decade in the making my bio of Aotearoa NZ musician Chris Knox is coming out in a few months.

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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

What a year for the legends of NZ music. The Don McGlashan doco. The Shayne Carter doco. And now the Chris Knox biography, out in Oct. aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/chris-knox/

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Chris Knox: Not Given Lightly

The story of the man, the music, the art, the attitude.

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

"Not This Way- Knot This Way!" Internal GPO poster advising on the correct knotting method. Unknown artist, September 1964. Ref POST 110/1569, Royal Mail Archive

Not this way (package of letters tied higgledy-piggledy) -knot this way! (package tied neatly and in order of size).

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

You were robbed by an uncaring public

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Some more background on the history of passports & free Black people pre 14th Am. States could issue passports & abolitionists exploited this to use ppts to argue for citizenship. And while numbers are low the State Dept did issue more than 2 passports (1)

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Naturalized citizens could get a US passport, including Chinese. From 1903-5 a disclaimer on US passports issued to citizens of Chinese descent said their ppt did not guarantee them entry to the US.

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

For more see my book The Passport in America: The History of a Document global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Key to remember: in mid-19c passports were a novelty and not clearly linked to citizenship. Debates over the citizenship for free Black people were important to the US passport taking on its role as a certificate of citizenship (4)

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

In 1856 Congress declared only the Secretary of State could issue passports but governors continued to issue them for the next few decades. The same act also clarified that a passport could only be issued to a citizen (3)

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

A free Black woman Sarah Remond was issued a US passport in 1859 initiating a controversy when the US embassy in London refused ti recognize it. Usually free Black people got a special certificate that recognized their birth in the US and the right of protection (2)

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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

This is content you need - an Instagram account devoted to poles www.instagram.com/polesofcambr...

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