Simon Grigg
@opdiner
Wanderer, scribe, street photog & music obsessive. Photos: Founder: Me:
The Thonglor shuttle, late 2025 #blackandwhitephotography #bnw #streetphotography
Bordeaux, late summer 2025 #streetphotography #bnw #blackandwhitephotography
@richardphelps.bsky.social has created a magical radio show around my 21 Songs For Roger Perry Substack post: retrohitradio.co.nz/podcast/guil...
Staggering around Denpasar's gorgeous unmapped gangs snapping and chatting to folks and I finally bumped into a jalan I recognise.
Russell Crowe on Roger Perry a few hours back. Russell taught him to cue a record and gave him permission at The Venue in 1984 to play what his instincts told him to play - to lead the crowd. It worked. @audioculturenz.bsky.social
I still can't quite get used to this on an aircraft. Air France, and free.
This seemed like the appropriate GR IV filter for the Moriyama show at the FHCB
One of a shrinking number of patisseries in Le Marais has gone and yet another chain sunglasses shop has arrived. It was never great and the staff were grumpy but it was still local (and busy)
I reckon there is a strong case to be made that this is Sergio's finest 45. But you rarely see it in the wild. French copy scored at the Paris fleamarkets just now.
In my spare time, I wrote a new Opdiner post about new and old records that I like a lot. It's about to pour down with rain for a month or three in Bangkok, so music matters (it always does, of course). And the world might not be here next week ... open.substack.com/pub/opdiner/...
Here comes the sun. Bangkok BTS, December 2025. #streetphotography #bangkok
Bangkok's Sistine Chapel. #streetphotography #blackandwhitephotography #bnw
The belief that Trump has been following Nixon’s playbk in relation to Iran has been a staple of recent media analysis. It is certainly valid. Yet it raises a further question: Is it possible for someone to act the lunatic while actually being one? The brilliance of Fintan O'Toole archive.ph/CGqqi
I did the AudioCulture quiz today. Starter: Alan Jansson produced OMC’s ‘How Bizarre’ and Sisters Underground’s ‘In The Neighbourhood’ at his Uptown Studio. What was the electro band that gave him his first hit single? www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/aud... @audioculturenz.bsky.social
Looks like the Strait keeps Wall Street hours. Or is that Mar-a-lago hours?
Hi @jingajik.bsky.social I've just turned the last page in this. Fascinating and incredibly educational. I loved the selling chapter at the end - and I've been playing Luke's terrific album over and over.
A photo for the ages. Charlie Tumahai and Bunny Walters in 1993, taken by Chris Traill. Just discovered in his archives and previously unseen. @audioculturenz.bsky.social #NewZealandmusic #Aotearoa
Today’s view. My friend Chris said it had shades of Dr No, but working in this heat I feel like a victim of the doctor. #Maldives
The other astounding thing I read today was that Deliverance Barbie was one of the small, selected, group of geopolitical braintrust appointees who made the decision to start this war. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...