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Kiran Dass

@steelydass.bsky.social
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The Gradual Shipwreck Writer. Books & Music #MDANT 🏅 Programme Director: WORD Christchurch Views my own

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Kiran Dass @steelydass.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
I declare today ‘The Clean Sunday’ with the mighty group on the music box all day. This stunning book about them ‘The Clean: In the Dreamlife You Need A Rubber Soul’ by Richard Langston is a beaut, out next month. It’s an oral history, too, which is one of my favourite formats for music books.
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Kiran Dass @steelydass.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Delighted to be participating in 2 events at the Aotearoa Festival of the Arts in Wellington this weekend: Sat I’ll be reading a new essay I wrote for ‘Letter to My Art Mother’ with 6 other amazing writers. On Sun I’ll be interviewing Charlotte Grimshaw about her new novel ‘The Black Monk’.
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Kiran Dass @steelydass.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
OOO is on! Now for reading for pleasure! Here’s my summer TBR pile. What’s on yours? (Have since added the new Anne Enright, Arundhati Roy and Laura Vincent books to this). @marigoldatkey.bsky.social @dauntbookspub.bsky.social @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
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Kiran Dass @steelydass.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Two of my worlds/interest areas come together in ‘The Silver Book’: Pier Paolo Pasolini & Olivia Laing!
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Kiran Dass @steelydass.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Black Sabbath on my grandfather’s farm at the 1973 Great Ngāruawāhia Music Festival in New Zealand. I remember my dad telling me a crack up story about how they burned a massive cross at midnight which shocked the locals but when you saw it up close it was really homemade and dungy. 📸 David Stone
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Kiran Dass @steelydass.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Popping by to play some records at Civil & Naval in Lyttelton on Sunday for a nice cosy 3-6pm moment. Will be spinning a dolly mix allsorts jumble of interesting records, do pull up for a quiet arvo pint and natter to round off the long Puanga weekend!
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Kiran Dass @steelydass.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Never forget the dream I had where my friend bought a Mr Whippy van but instead of selling ice creams he was cruising around peddling mixtapes and bootleg cassette recordings of gigs by New Zealand underground artists 🍦
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Kiran Dass @steelydass.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Bob Bert just posted this amazing pic of him with The Muffs!
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Kiran Dass @steelydass.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I’m constantly saying “I just need to return some books to the library,” and am very aware how much that makes me sound like Patrick Bateman.
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Kiran Dass @steelydass.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Had fun playing records at Civil & Naval in Lyttelton. A witches brew of Pakistani surf rock, Afghani tea house music, krautrock, freak jazz, Nigerien-Ghanaian synth, Ethiopian keyboard music, Trinidad panharmonic orchestra steel band music, deviant pop from Europe & other gems. Pull up next time!
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Kiran Dass @steelydass.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
‘The Conversation’ is the only essential Coppola film. The perfect film, a masterpiece of 1970s paranoid cinema (my favourite genre). Each shot framed to perfection and one of the best uses of extraordinary sound design in a film ever. And Hackman. Pitch perfect in that existential, melancholy role.
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Kiran Dass @steelydass.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Air clearing purity of image and sound 💛
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Kiran Dass @steelydass.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Apologies if already posted but this is a classic too 💛
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Kiran Dass @steelydass.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
h/t to
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Kiran Dass @steelydass.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Bit late chiming in but here’s one from New Zealand,
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Kiran Dass @steelydass.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
New year, new TBR pile. In praise of non required summer holiday reading! Currently loving ‘The Bee Sting’ by Paul Murray. It’s got everything you could ask for: Irish, big hearted, funny, moving, ambitious.
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Kiran Dass @steelydass.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Annual reshare of the greatest post ever.
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