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i've Wikified myself (it albiet briefly) -- isn't it time redinsect/kreig publishin'/molemusic/woweezowee/every single band in town does likewise?

Perhaps we could find ourselves a suitable image for the front page? Ideas? --GianPerrone 13:55, 5 April 2006 (BST)

With so many categories in big letters, it was looking unweildy, so I shrunk them all. Do you know how to change the pic on the left Gian? --Danduran 10:12, 6 April 2006 (BST)

Looks good, Dan. I might try bolding the headings. If it looks arse change it back. Chur. --Lemon 11:13, 6 April 2006 (BST)

Looks good. --Danduran 13:18, 6 April 2006 (BST)

Question: Are The Datsuns regarded as a Hamilton band or a Cambridge band? If so, then they seem out of place on a Hamilton music knowledge db unless perhaps we wanted to call this a Waikato Band Info/etc. wiki. --Matt 05:25, 10 April 2006 (BST)

Good question. Although I did orginal put "Hamilton and surrounding areas" on the band criteria... how far do you take it though? Up to everyone's discretion I guess. Did they play predominantly in Cambridge or Hamilton? --Lemon 05:48, 10 April 2006 (BST)

Also...the "Bands" title, it seems there are a few Htown solo artists out there that don't actually perform with any one but have produced releases. Not bands as such. i.e. J.Harry.Long, & Craig Williamson's Lamp of the Universe. Chur Irie

The Cambridge thing basically made good press, considering how oppressive and dinky the town is. Apart from a couple of talent quests and Rockquest-criteria-fulfilling 20c lunchtime shows in the school hall, Trinket didn't really play in Cambridge. Although they're all 'from' the town, I seem to recall the band played its early 'local' shows at Hamilton venues, and really found its feet while the members were split between Leamington, Hamilton East and Auckland. I think defining where a band is 'from' is very much a matter of feel or identity. (see also: Mi-Sex, Dragon, it could even be easily argued Split Enz were an Auckland band)-- petra (can't be arsed logging in, sorry)

They def fit here. As Petra said, they played almost all thier shows here; played their initial release parties here; entered battle of the bands competitions here; and some at least lived here at the time. They've probably had more influence and impact on Htown's music scene than Cambridge's :p --Danduran 08:52, 12 April 2006 (BST)

cue 'what music scene' jibes --Petrajane

This is heavily rock-centric. should we do something to accomodate Classical, Jazz, operatic stuff, and get out and make these groups aware of this resource? The HCAC is onto it and spreading the word.

Big ups to thedugganaut, much appreciated and keep it up. -moonjuicehealy

I (thedugganaut) made a unilateral decision to make a Outside Compilations Featuring Hamilton Bands section after no response, but would still like feedback on the following:

I think the site could use a new link from the main page that includes "Hamilton related bands" - e.g., for Misex, Steve Gilpin was from Wellington, and although they had Hamilton members I wouldnt consider them a Hamilton Band. Also, the initial Girlinky contained 2 members of Inchworm and one of Tobermorie, but formed in England (and from recollection have never played here). But obviously have strong Hamilton Links. Maybe it should therefore be titled "Bands with strong Hamilton links" to avoid addition of tenious connections? Any comments?

Im also thinking... is anyone else disapointed with the People page having so many pseudonyms rather than real names? added by thedugganaut, 29 July 2006

Well, the start of this wiki was based in htown.co.nz and a lot of people on there are known socially by their user names (I receive mail addressed to Lemon for eff's sake)... so I don't think it's that bad. I like the "hamilton related" section idea. - Lem

I can understand the point you are making re:pseudonums, but shouldn't the wiki be different/seperate from htown.co.nz by being less of a "play-around" area and more of an information source? And therefore real names should be used where possible rather than pseudonyms? To clarify, I guess I am pretty happy with pseudonyms where these are what that person is known as in the band and on releases (i.e., they are better known to the audience by this name than their real name, e.g., SS Stormtrooper, and Lemon too I suspect), but this cant be the case for some of names in the list? I could be wrong though - maybe all these are pseudonyms from bands. I guess where it bothers me is 1) where there are first names in the list but their full names are given in the text beneath it (at least 2 examples), and 2) they seem to be htown.co.nz pseudonyms, not what they call would themselves in their band (if they are even in a band)... this is a resource about Hamilton bands, and not a resource about people who use htwon.co.nz, right? - thedugganaut, 3 Aug 2006

Understand your point completely. When the wiki was first made, there was an initial rush by htown.co.nzians to make their own page here like it was a myspace. Some of them don't even play in bands or have done anything to do with the htown music scene except post on Htown. I'm not sure what to do, perhaps delete them, and if people disagree they'll appear back. It's a wiki... --Danduran 22:26, 3 August 2006 (BST)

I would be happy if you "edited" some of the worst ones, but then i brought it up in the first place... so if anyone else has an opinion... - thedugganaut, 5 August 2006