Graham Wardrop - luthiery
Luthiery has been a growing interest for Graham Wardrop since the late 1970s, early 80s when he lived on the Barrenjoey Peninsula, north of Sydney,...
Wayne Baird
Red Hot Peppers
Look Blue Go Purple
The Verlaines
The Tumbleweeds
Graham Wardrop
Songwriter's Choice: Robert Scott
Known for his musical talent and songwriting skills within classic New Zealand groups The Clean and The Bats, as well as solo work and side project...
The Captain Cook Hotel
The Captain Cook Hotel did not impress the great New Zealand writer Maurice Duggan in 1960. Duggan, spending the year in Dunedin as Burns Fell...
Begg's: the Musical and Electrical Centre
In 1943 the Begg's chain of stores ran a series of advertisements in the New Zealand Listener titled "The story of music in New Zealand is the ...
Cassandra's Ears
Julian Lee
Six60
The Original Dunedin Sound - 1966-1970
At the end of 1966 … When the Cellar Club opened at 8A Manse Street on Christmas Eve 1966, there were queues back along the street and around the ...
Evermore
New Zealand musical comedy
In the austere 1950s, comedy and novelty records – featuring original songs or spoofs set to well-known classical or pop tunes – were Saturday nigh...
Jim Pilcher’s sixties scrapbook
Jim Pilcher has never played an instrument. "I'm probably tone deaf,” he says. "I just love music and I love what goes on behind the scenes.” In th...
King Loser
Sneaky Feelings
Flight of the Conchords
Buster Stiggs
Ten tracks where hip hop meets jazz
Historically, hip hop has been more closely related to funk than any other genre of music. However, the 1990s brought a wave of jazz hip hop that h...
Rino Tirikatene
Charlotte Yates
Songwriter's Choice: Rikki Morris
When I was asked to name my 10 favourite New Zealand songs I immediately thought "that is impossible!” Futile even. How many brilliant Kiwi songs h...
Colin King
Gentle Annie
Des and Juliet Rainey
Lyn Barnett
Low Fidelity
Flashbacks of Dunedin's Record Stores When I hear that record, I can remember exactly where I was. That's the cliché, and for my generation, radio...
Roy Colbert
Roy Colbert in Rip It Up
Gentle, generous and gracious, Roy Colbert also had a puckish wit and could be a wicked raconteur. His letters and emails should be collected and p...
The Bilders Tour Europe
Bilders do the autobahn - Arno Loeffler Bill Direen: A Memory of Others is a feature-length road documentary chosen to screen at the New Zealand...
Kim Hart
New Zealand classics that aren't - part one
New Zealand's rich musical past includes many songs that belong to us and are, in their recorded form, simply standards. New Zealanders young and o...
New Zealand classics that aren't - part two
The Hi-Revving Tongues ‘Rain & Tears’ (Zodiac, 1969) The 1968 international hit by Aphrodite’s Child was not a hit in New Zealand and then-Phi...
Terry King: the Progressive Years
Terry King in the early 1980s Run an eye over the production and recording credits for some of the most enduring independent music recorded in t...
Ross Cunningham interviews Karl Steven
I first met Karl Steven in early 1994 while working with a close friend of his on the New Zealand music programme Frenzy. We would regularly find o...
Songwriter's Choice: LA Mitchell
Suddenly Strange – Bic Runga "Fire inside my shoes,” she said. I'm starting here with Bic Runga. Her album, Drive, was a lightbulb moment for me. ...
