Radio With Pictures: history 5
Independent music video productions The previous part of this series on the history of Radio With Pictures covered music videos produced by TV...
The North Shore Invasion part 2 – Class of 81
In 1980 I was managing Taste Records in High Street, had a new record label, Propeller, and a friendship with Rip It Up's Murray Cammick. My first ...
The extraordinary teenage eye and lens of Anthony Phelps
The number of regular live music photographers working around New Zealand in the pre-digital era was small. It was an exclusive club, not only beca...
Noisy Neighbour: Michael Gudinski and New Zealand music
When you look for key patrons of the Aotearoa music community, one loud Australian, Michael Gudinski, is a top contender. The founder of Mushroom R...
Miriam Clancy
Dawn Raid Entertainment in photos
These photographs capture some notable moments in the history of the Dawn Raid label over the decade following their first release in 2000. They ar...
Hollie Smith
Rockin’ the Tron: Hamilton in the 1980s
Music photography not only crystalises a moment in the history of a band's development, it captures a sense of time and place in relation to their ...
Concord Dawn
Radio With Pictures: history 6
The ‘Moneyless Economy’ for Video Production Video clips shot at Avalon might have suffered from budget and time restrictions, and there was v...
‘Stranded in Paradise’ – Australia, 1980
In May 1980, researching for Stranded in Paradise, I made the first of three extended trips across the Tasman, and there were another half dozen sh...
Knightshade – a photo album
Knightshade was arguably Hamilton's biggest band during the 1980s. Local photographer Karen Ford first met Knightshade's frontman Wayne Elliott thr...
Mitchell Froom and the Brothers Finn
Los Angeles, April 1989 – Even on a Monday night, Hollywood's hip come out to play. Dressed in black leather and teased hair, impenetrable shades a...
Graeme Downes
‘Stranded in Paradise’ – Auckland, 1980
1980 was a pivotal year for New Zealand music with the demise of a number of trailblazing bands, the successful forays into the international marke...
The Spelling Mistakes
The Gang of Three – The Verlaines interview, 1985
The last time the Verlaines played in Auckland, it was, as I recall, a rip-roaring affair. The dancefloor was a sweaty jumble, on the stage the thr...
Jim Hall
Christchurch underground, 1964-69
Rumble & Bang, a documentary on 1960s Christchurch band Chants R&B, produced and directed by Simon Ogston and Jeff Smith in 2011. It wa...
Joel Little
Dawn Raid Entertainment
Terence O’Neill-Joyce and Ode Records, 1987
In New Zealand there is only a handful of independent record companies, and even fewer who release more than one or two titles per year. Ode Record...
Ten moments in modern NZ country music
New Zealand country music has certainly come of age in the 2010s, with women leading the charge. South Islanders Mel Parsons, Kaylee Bell, Jack...
Flip Grater
The Hamilton County Bluegrass Band
Buddy Wilson
Drut
Ten standout acoustic songs
It's the sign of a great song that it can be played with just an acoustic guitar and still express a depth of feeling and meaning. Of course, it al...
Margaret Urlich Talks to Donna Yuzwalk, 1992
I'm sitting in a white leather armchair in the sky-lit, eighth floor eyrie that is Sony Music NZ, waiting for Margaret Urlich to come back from lun...
The Māori Showbands: a daughter’s story
Everyone can tell a story about themselves or their family members learning music, performing, listening to the radio, buying that 45, or going to ...
Tali takes it to the world
In the second half of the 2010s, Tali continued her work as a DJ, producer and recording artist. But she increasingly took on the role of advocate ...
P-Money with Gratitude
The years since Peter Wadams – P-Money – released Gratitude in 2013 have seen him continue to collaborate internationally, while mentoring other ar...
EMI NZ in the Seventies
In 1971, the pocket calculator was invented, the first ever email was sent, and Apollo 14 landed on the Moon. Jim Morrison died in Paris at the...
Maisey Rika
Ten silken hits of NZ yacht rock
I moved to New Zealand nearly 20 years ago, an emissary of the US free improv/noise/drone/psych scene, barely aware of local music outside of my no...
Eelman
Marlene Tong
Dragon
Julia Deans
Ten moments in New Zealand metal
The range of metal tracks to emerge from New Zealand over the last four decades makes it hard to capture the breadth of styles in a short list. So ...