Darren Watson

My thoughts on the government's "move on" policy.

We don’t like your kind ‘round here
move on, move on
you’re stinkin’ up this town so bad
worst kind o’ smell we’ve ever had
when you’re gone we’ll all be glad
move on, move on...

#nzpol

A screenshot of a four star review in Downbeat Magazine of Darren Watson's latest album.

Boom! My latest album 'Darren Watson sings John Hiatt' just got a 4 star review in the March edition of US Jazz/Blues magazine, Downbeat.

Thanks to everyone around the world who supports what I do, buying and playing my music, and coming to shows.

I'm not done just yet!

#darrenwatson
#nzmusic

Notice how the Epstein Files have disappeared from the headlines? Why, it's almost as if all this Trump-led violence, war, abduction, and threatening of allies is some kind of distraction... #trump #epsteinfiles

Corporation for Public Broadcasting formally dissolves after federal funding cuts Board of directors vote to dissolve organization after nearly 60 years in operation after funding cuts under Trump

They're gonna come for public broadcasting here too if people like David Seymour get their way for a few more years...

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Will we wait long for NZ's government to condemn the illegal attack on Venezuela and rendition of it's elected leader? #nzpol

Tomorrow I'm playing an intimate live show at The Barn (Honest Lawyer) in Nelson. If you're a blues fan, you dig Americana, or country-soul, you'll have a blast.

#Nelson #livemusic #blues

Tickets from Eventfinda:
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Temu Xtians
very much like Christopher (not Chris!) Luxon
wrapping food parcels at Xmas
rapping Lunch Money in the Beehive
rapping Bish over the knuckles
repping for corporate assholes
Temu Xtians
very much like Christopher (not Chris!) Luxon

And then they can fuck off a couple more times.

Great chat as always, Hugh. Thanks for having me on.

Ministers were warned against teen welfare crackdown, documents reveal Officials said the changes could actually increase long-term benefit dependency.

Well, well.. since when did these utter c-words ever listen to expert, professional advice?
No, they reckon these kids are all just lazy bottom feeders, and they just don't do bottom feeding.
They talk out of theirs on a regular basis though.
#nzpol
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Review: Darren Watson – Darren Watson Sings John Hiatt Bluestown Music

Nice review of my new album from Bluestown Music in The Netherlands...

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‘I’m a little uncomfortable’: Local board members walk out of meeting due to karakia Two members of the Whangamatā Community Board walked out of a meeting ahead of a karakia being recited.

Old boomer races
they're off at a trot
too much Tay Rayo
and happy they're not
soon they'll be dead
and we'll be better off
old boomer racists
are losing the plot

#nzpol

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Worlds of Music 16 November 2025 Music from the world, for the world, hosted by Trevor Reekie.

Thanks to Trevor Reekie on RNZ's Worlds of Music for the kind words about 'Darren Watson sings John Hiatt'.

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Key never won the public over on asset sales. Can Luxon? OPINION: John Key started an asset sales debate with 50% support in the polls. Luxon will have trouble replicating it.

Hahaha Luxon is the worst, most desperate-looking, sweating salesperson since Shelley Levene in Glengarry Glen Ross.

#nzpol

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Joe Rogan told Elon Musk that ‘AI music is my favourite’, and it speaks volumes about his taste In the recent Joe Rogan Experience podcast, in which he interviewed Elon Musk (again), the pair covered a lot of predictable ground. They talked about free speech, government waste, immigration and th...

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AI country artist hits #1 on Billboard digital songs chart : It sounds a lot like everything else

Folks, the human race is done.

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Thanks to everyone who bought or streamed my new album 'Darren Watson sings John Hiatt' this week. It just debuted at #3 on the Official Top 20 Aotearoa Albums Chart!

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Government quietly loosens climate rules An announcement at 8pm on Tuesday saw the Government delinking the ETS from the Paris Agreement and extending another emissions deadline by 25 years.

Folks say the Temu John Key is actually really smart and knows full-well how desperate the climate emergency really is.... and yet.... this!?!

So is he also just a selfish c*nt who will sell out his grandkids' future for a minister's salary?

#nzpol

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Growing unemployment shows ‘ongoing fragility’ in the economy, business group says New data on employment figures from Stats NZ’s quarterly Household Labour Force Survey is due out

All this government has done is trade lower inflation (and it's not really that low ffs!) for high unemployment. The worst since Ruth Richardson was finance minister. Think about that. #OneTermGovernment #nzpol

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Riiiight... 🤓

Darren Watson, Sings John Hiatt (Lamington Records, digital outlets) When Elsewhere interviewed singer-songwriter John Hiatt in 1991 he was seven years sober and spoke about going to the office every day to write songs. He was into the discipline of his life and gettin...

"...covers albums often struggle to find an audience but the unfamiliarity of most of these songs and the coherence of Watson's blues-based interpretations make for an album that stands assuredly on its own merits."

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Haha I'll get my new housing portfolio ready. LOL, just nice to know when something you make isn't released into the void. 👍

Screenshot of Darren Watson sings John Hiatt album sitting on top of Bandcamp sales chart.

Thanks to everyone who's picked up a digital or CD copy of 'Darren Watson sings John Hiatt' on @bandcamp.com.

It's currently the best selling Americana album on
@bandcamp.com

Have you got yourself a copy yet?

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#darrenwatson

Darren Watson gets high on Hiatt - Witchdoctor Darren Watson – Darren Watson Sings John Hiatt (Lamington Records)GARY STEEL auditions an album that interprets the wonderful songs of John Hiatt in a completely fresh and compelling fashion. And it s...

"When Darren Watson Sings John Hiatt was first announced, I must admit to wondering about the point of the exercise. Does the world really need a John Hiatt covers album? I now feel a little ashamed of that assumption. The album is a doozy."

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‘Glitch in the matrix’: Mystery behind trumpet found washed up on Wellington beach Sean Duggan and his partner were walking on Makara Beach when they found a box and opened it.

Bwahahaha!

For now, the instrument has been dubbed “Donald Trumpet. Because it's a cheap trumpet, and it's that gold colour that sort of makes my skin crawl, so I’m not a fan,” he said.

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Artists tell AI to 'solve the problem' as copyright carve-out ruled out Labor has ruled out changing copyright laws to give tech giants free rein to train artificial intelligence models on creative works after the proposition was met with widespread backlash from artists.

AI scraping copyright data without payment or agreement is THEFT. Pure and simple.

With Brooke van Robot in charge of this issue in Aotearoa, I expect the opposite here. #nzpol

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That must suck pretty hard. I guess some (most?) people are just curious? But it must be wearying alight. I had enough of it a few weeks a year in the ol' US and A. They dress it up differently though... "Oh, I LOVE your accent! Where are you from?" I cannot imagine how that feels for 25 years...

Labour to campaign on capital gains tax, but there are several exemptions Hipkins said money from a CGT would be funnelled back to give Kiwis free doctors visits.

If you want fewer folks crowding out emergency rooms at hospitals, make primary health care more affordable. It's a no brainer. #nzpol

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Exactly.

A grubby, grotty attempt to shirk responsibility for decades of horror OPINION: The Government’s move to make it harder for some victims of abuse in state care to access compensation is disgusting.

While I'm not really surprised this increasingly Christofascist government is applying their 'worthiness test' to acknowledged victims of state abuse, I am really disgusted. #nzpol

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