This flat is situated opposite Logan Park with a view of the sports grounds. The sign incorporates the street address and makes a couple of references to the work of Canadian rapper, Drake whos 4th studio album, Views, was released on April 2016 through Young Money Entertainment. According to The Verge it was streamed over 250 million times in one week.
The album entitled Views is also known as Views from the 6. The 6 refers to Toronto and in his trailer for the album Drake refers to elements of his life in The 6, Best I ever had. Bad behaviour. Old crib, new crib. the album is a reflection on his identity and his relationship to that place. The name he uses has been widely embraced according to The Globe and Mail and as evidenced in regular use of the hashtag #the6 or #6ix on social media platforms.
Many will be familiar with an emoji of praying hands. In celebrity culture and on reality TV we see a lot of praying hands as people give thanks or acknowledgement while intoning, thank you SO much.
Interestingly this image, utilised by Drake in his advertising, is over 500 years old. The hands are a representation of Albrecht Dürers Studie zu den Händen eines Apostels, 1508, the relationship to Drake is unclear.
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You forgot Husband house! (Huband House – donated to St Matthews Anglican Church) The sneaky feelings even wrote a song about it…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVCHn7-qBB8
Hi Sarah, this house is important to us. The Sneaky Feelings wrote about it (held the NZ charts at#2 for quite some time) because, living in the house were a number of lads. It seemed that every time girls went around there, they ended up getting married. Prior to my husband living there, three couples from the house ended up getting married off. We were the fourth, marrying in 2005 – long after the Sneaky Feelings. Since then, St Matts has demolished the house; it was not structurally sound.
Find out more about Sneaky Feelings on Audio Culture, or heck out Matthew Bannisters book, Positively George Street, at your local library.
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…and now I’ve listened to the original version a few dozen times in a row.
Its been a long time since I’ve been back home where I belong
Life ‘round here means you must try to be hard and strong
One day when I want to settle down I’ll go there up to Husband House
I’ll leave my friends behind although it’s fun to stay here now
Seasons fall leaves have turned to gold and the wind blows cold from the south
Not sure what I wanted from you girl but I think it’s time that we found out
One day when I want to settle down I’ll go there up to Husband House
I’ll leave my friends behind although it’s fun to stay here now
Russell Brown at Media 7 talks with Roger Shepherd about his recent Flying Nun records re-acquisition.
“Point that thing somewhere else” / The Clean
This is one of the songs mentioned in Graeme Downes’s article referenced in an earlier blog post about the “It’s time to go flat” on Clyde Street.
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