Mate's Day Monday - Shane Boden

Hendo asked me to do Mates Day Monday today. It’s a huge honor considering today is his 27th birthday.

Hendo and I have known each other all our lives so I thought I would go through and pay tribute with songs that remind me of him.

There are quite a few as you can imagine so this is just a small selection with a bit of back story.

In chronological order(sort of):

Matchbox 20 - 3am

I think it was my 8th birthday and he gave me a cassette of Matchbox 20 album "yourself or someone like you". My very first album. Not a bad start.

Fatboy Slim - Fucking In Heaven

It was Hendo's 11th birthday and he got a copy of Fatboy Slim - "You've come along way baby" from his parents. We had an old school sleep over at his place. We must of played this song 10 times in a row just cause it had the word “fuck” in it. Haha.

Pennywise - Bro Hymm

Roll on to the teenage years when we were 16. A lot of nights of our youth were spent drunk belting out the lyrics to this song.

Supergrass - Sun Hits The Sky

Fast Forward to the end of Highs School and me and Hendo decided to make a summer 2004 music mix. This song was on it and got a hammering driving out to the beach and back.

U2 -  I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

Many U2 songs remind me of Hendo for some reason or another. This juts being one, but it reminds me of the time we went to sounds music store and bought U2 Cd’s. I got Greatest Hits 1980-1990 and he got 1990-2000. I definitely got the better one.We also got free How to dismantle an atomic bomb t-shirts.

Alien Ant Farm – Glow

It was the Big Kumara in wellington on a Wednesday night. The Band had just left for a wee break. Me, Hendo and another mate Paul Watts decided to get up on stage and sing into the microphone as this song came over the speaker. As it turns out the microphone was still on and our horrible voices echoed through the pub as we belted out the lyrics. Bouncers came from all directions in a hurry but we managed not to get kicked out. That’s Kumara for ya. RIP Big Kumara.

Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Those of you who were at Victoria Uni with us in first year may remember the bad taste party at the Big Kumara. The music started out pretty average so Hendo convinced the DJ to play a CD of his. We ran back to the hostel made and burned a CD in record time. The DJ played it and this song went off. We were dancing on the stage yelling the lyrics.

Green Day – Brain Stew

A friend of ours Whitey was trying to teach Hendo to play guitar and in particular the opening chords to this song. While I was trying to play Playstation, I must have heard the intro 50 times that afternoon and now when ever I hear it I think of Hendo’s clumsy finger trying to play guitar.

Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline
It was my Uni graduation on a Tuesday night in December. After pub crawling from Hotel Bristol with Myself, Hendo and Scott Nicol going to every bar along the way and asking for their worst shot we arrived at El Horno. The bar was dead but a mate of ours worked there so he put on this song. The three off us danced on the bar to it, grabbing swigs from the tequila bottles hanging from the ceiling.

AC/DC – Anything

Being friends with this guy for such a long time his love for AC/DC kind of rubs off on you. I now know plenty of useless facts about them as well as almost there entire back catalogue just from hanging out with him. He may not listen to them so much these days but im sure there still well placed on his top bands of all time list which he’ll be happy to tell you even if you don’t ask. So for this reason anything by AC/DC reminds me of my best mate.

Thank you to NMAB for letting me share this with you and if you have any of your own please share it too.

Happy Birthday Mate.

Mate's Day Monday - Grant M Kay

As a tribute to some special people, here are top 10 shout out to that special day in everyones life. It was a great day which we were all stoked to be apart of, congrats to Holly and Josh!!! After the events of 8/11/13, this top 10 'Knees' no further intro!!

Top 10 Wedding songs

Gather to the Chapel - Liam Finn I hated this song to start with but after a while it really grew on me. Smooth and easy to listen too accompanied by a solid video makes this a really good start for this top 10. Also Liam Finn has a fantastic beard! Fun fact about Liam - He was featured on Rolling Stone's 'Artist to Watch' package in November 2007. He is also a KIWI, chur bro!

White Wedding - Billy Idol Billy at his dirty best. Despite not every being married, this is one of the biggest wedding songs ever. Fun fact about Billy - He went to Sussex University. Tom Walker went to Cambridge and he will not stop talking about it!!

Love and Marriage - Frank Sinatra Before there was a Modern Family there was a dysfunctional one...great show and a great song by 'The Chairman of the Board'. Fun fact about Frank - He has a scare from his lip to chin. This was caused when he was born and was pulled out with forceps

Grow Old with You - Adam Sandler The Wedding Singer takes me back to first year of Uni when I met my future wife. Special times. It is a great Fun fact about Adam - There are no good facts on google about Adam Sandler...

Closer - NIN This is Pete's somewhat disturbing wedding song pic...this may ruin an otherwise nice top 10 Fun fact about NIN - Marilyn Mansion was discovered by NIN

Forever and Always - Shania Twain Released in 2003, this international classic has warmed the the hearts and beds of millions world wide. Unfortunately for Shania, her husband and co-writer of this song Mutt Lange was warming someone else's bed...gutter buzz Fun fact about Shania - Her dad brewed moonshine during the great depression

Wedding March - Felix Mendelssohn Classic...I am pretty confident I won't go to a wedding where it is used but some people like it. Fun fact about Felix - His sisters name is Fanny

Marry you - Bruno Marz This 2011 smash hit from Bruno's debut album Doo-Wops & Hooligans was another set to stardom for this curly haired, MJ look-a-like. Fun fact about Bruno - He was arrested for cocaine possession in Vegas in Sept 2010

Can't Help Falling in Love - Elvis Presley Just a great song by one of the most loved artist ever! Fun fact about Elvis - His natural hair colour is brown, the carpet doesn't match the drapes.

You've got the Love - Florence and the Machine Some hot as people like this song! Fun fact about Florence and the Machine - I was the 25,476,911st person to watch the video 'You've Got the Love' on Youtube..

Mate's Day Monday - Carmen Saywell

When We Were Young Punks

 I am going to kick Monday off with days of our youth and music we used to pass the time

I am also going to do it all in rhyme

When we were in high school we had a music scene

It might be still cool now or it’s a bit of a has-been

For me it was the music of hard-core and punk

For others it was rap, reggae of funk

I want to hear what music made your ears bleed

Or if you enjoyed it more when you had weed

Here are the bands and stories that shaped my younger years

When we wore clothes that were covered in patches are tears

All Left Out the first band I saw live

While seeing the bleeders in a circle pit I took my first dive

I spent all my weekends at youth zone wearing band Tees

Dropkick Murphy’s were the first band I saw from overseas

We played the Ramones ‘Blitzkrieg Bop’ on repeat

And all my friends stopped eating meat.

Songs of Summer were Rancid’s Time Bomb and NoFX’s The Brews

The guys all sported Mohawks and chucks were our only shoes

The best albums were Out Come the Wolves and Punk In Drublic

Everyone became straight edge but only in public.

So tell me when you think of high school what scene and bands come to mind?

Were you a metal head, Goth, stoner, popular or one of a kind?