“Initially I thought he was joking. He has no right to talk like this. No matter his political or ethnic make-up it is no excuse.”

Former Waitangi Tribunal director Buddy Mikaere commenting on email he received from Hone Harawira.

The final tune from ‘Down the hall’ tonight is from Max Collie and hisRhythmn Aces. Recorded a couple of years ago in Germany, Adam first saw this band in the 1970s at The Trafalgar pub in Kings Road, Chelsea.

So to finish Max Collie, a great Aussie jazzman living in London, with Red Wing and a great drum solo

The fourth tune tonight is Chris Barber with Ice Cream, this is a version from a few years ago, but Barber has been playing this since 1954. this rendition is in New Orleans parade band style, enjoy!

From 1954, Lonnie Donergan who was before the novelty songs an influential jazz and folk artist. Here he is with Digging My Potatoes with Chris Barber as well. The title belongs to the kitchen blues genre.

Second offering in tonight’s concert is the late George Melly, accompanied by John Chilton’s Feetwarmers with My Canary’s Got Circles Under His Eyes.

A December vist to London in the 1970s and 1980s was not complete without seeing Melly live at Ronnie Scott’s Club, usually in the lead up to Christmas.

Back to a much more jazz influenced ‘Down the Hall’ tonight.

First up is Humph, the late great Humphrey Lyttleton with a version of his 1955 chart hit of Bad Penny Blues. Check out the opening bars and see if you recognise where they recur in the pop canon.

This week the winners are the people of Auckland, visitors to the city and New Zealand. Why? Well John Banks and Mike Lee, an unlikely combination, Adam grants – decided to see sense over the folly that is/was Party Central and to scrap plans for a ‘cheap as chips’ iconic building – read nasty architectural monstrosity – to be built for the Roman circus legacy of the Clark regime, aka Rugby World Cup.

A few video screens,beer wagons, chipstalls,  a sanitary block and vomit buckets are all that is needed – for Party Central, plus there is the Viaduct Basin.

Then set aside a proper budget and run a proper competition not an ersatz one.

The idea that an icon could be designed, selected and built for RWC on the nonsensical budget allocated was absurd.

By the way memo to Murray McCully, John Key and others concerned with RWC not everyone in NZ wants wall to to wall rugby on TV during the RWC. So let Maori TV have it, they cannot do worse than TVNZ.

There were several candidates, from the Vicar of Bray (aka Peter Dunne), Hone Harawira – but no, he deserves a special award all his own, Trevor Mallard – bovver boy suffers post traumatic stress after being bagged in Wellington street (probably by someone in the pay of mysterious US interests) . Rodney Hide seemed a front runner, but again like Hone Harawira, Rodney has entered a class of his own and Adam needs to find another special award for Mr Hide, simply awarding him Wally status yet again just will not do.

Then from the herd emerged – Michael Laws, the motormouth from WHanganui, whose obnoxious comments on sterilisation have now made it into The Straits Times. Laws who in many ways seems to mirror Hone Harawira .

So Adam’s Wally of the Week is the Mouth from Wanganui – Michael Laws.