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I have some prints on my wall which I bought at the exhibition – Jonnie’s great at capturing amazing images of people – both in large numbers and individually. He’s happy to do high-quality prints of any of the photos in the collection – just email him at jonnie@sandwiches.co.nz for a quote.

I’ve divided his photos into Daytime and Night – check them out! Thanks heaps, Jonnie, for allowing us to add them to The Gathering archives collection.

We’ve got video from The Gathering 97/98, The Gathering G2000 and The Gathering G2 – and mighty fine it looks too. Thanks a million to Iain for making such high-quality copies for me to put on Google Video.

I suppose my personal favourite is the G2000 Havoc! “shopping trolley” interview, where Mikey and Newsboy took me up to the Domain, put me in a shopping trolley, and wheeled me around for a couple of hours while we chatted about everything Gathering. I could not believe how many people saw that show, and for months (even years) afterwards, if I ever mentioned it, people would go “Oh my God! Was that you??? I remember that episode so well!”

I still don’t quite know how that all happened. I know I wanted to do the interview outdoors, somewhere nice and nature-ish, which is why I suggested the Domain. And I remember Newsboy already had this shopping trolley idea – although I have no clue why – and he was really, really keen on it… so we compromised and did both. As you do. The only tricky thing was that the bumps on the ground as I was wheeled over the grass tended to make my voice go all jigglyjoggly – you can hear it if you listen carefully.

That was such a fun afternoon! Mikey and Jeremy are really really nice guys – I always enjoyed doing Havoc! interviews – and that particular afternoon I reckon we were all really on form.

I seem to remember one or two of the Gathering crew not being particularly happy with that interview – I think they thought it was too silly, or not respectful enough – but I like it. It turned out to be the most memorable interview we ever did – and I think it’s a Very Good Thing to be able to laugh at yourself once in a while…

Enjoy!

I’ve also been working on a whole bunch of new newspaper articles about TheG – spent a few more hours in the National Library today, searching through the microfiches. New articles should be up online in the next day or so I hope.

You can access them from the G2000 photos index, or go straight to Matt’s page. He’s also letting me have a bunch of images from G1, which I will add to the site over the next few days.

I’ve also been adding a whole lot more media coverage from various years. I have the text already – now I just need to go to the National Library and search through the microfiches to find the articles themselves. I’ll put those up sometime later in the week once I have thumbnails of the articles.

I’m also meeting up with Steve from the Sure to Rise parties, who’s going to let me have some posters and stickers from The Gathering 96/97. Yaay! Thanks heaps, Steve.

Keep those emails and comments coming, folks – there are lots of gaps to fill!