Pat McMinn: tap dance to Tanza
In November 2007 Pat McMinn shared memories and images from her photo album. Pat McMinn, mid-1930s. As a young dancer she won 300 medals and 10...
Headless Chickens
Camille Te Nahu
The Topp Twins
On the Ball: New Zealand Rugby Songs part one
1887-1979 Rugby union is entrenched into New Zealand's psyche and is a major part of our collective DNA. A country that can boast three separate v...
C'mon - part 1
C'mon - watch the complete, remaining Series One episode, 1967 After the introduction of television in New Zealand in 1960, homegrown music an...
C'mon - part 2
C'mon Series One Final Episode, 1967 The New Zealand public's infatuation with C'mon continued unabated throughout the middle months of the fi...
Ten Moments in New Zealand Glam
Dr Ian Chapman, music lecturer at the University of Otago and Dr Glam after hours, considers New Zealand's flirtation with glam in the 1970s. Let'...
Edmund Cake
The Ormsby Brothers
Songwriter's Choice: Ariana Tikao
Ariana Tikao composes and performs music in Te Reo Māori and English, in a wide variety of settings. She draws on folk and pop, with a strong empha...
Pat McMinn
Phil Garland, Song Collector
When celebrated New Zealand troubadour and singing historian Phil Garland died on 15 March 2017 he left behind a substantial legacy of Kiwi folklor...
Bressa Creeting Cake
Edmund McWilliams first met Geoff Maddock in art class at Avondale College. Geoff was listening to REM and Tears For Fears at the time, and just be...
Phil Garland
Stu Buchanan
Womad and New Zealand music
Every family has a few annual traditions: for me and my oldest daughter, it's attending Womad. Each March, we haul out the camping equipment, s...
The Kings Arms - Maureen Gordon
There is a stereotype around old-school music pub managers: tough, rotund and contemptuous of the musicians who brought in the crowds. Maureen Gord...
Al Hunter of the Kings Arms
Newton, Auckland, 1993 – The man in the big hat is buying. And, as the Jerry Jeff Walker song of that name says, "Drink up, 'cause the drinkin' is ...
Lil' Chief Records
So So Modern
Dominic "Tourettes" Hoey
The Kings Arms
As the 1960s dawned, the central Auckland suburb of Newton was a small, dense, run-down residential area around a gully to the south of Karangahape...
Dimmer
Wahanui Wynyard
Annie Crummer
Tim Murdoch
Granny’s and Granpa’s
Over his career Tommy Adderley was engaged in several pioneering ventures. In the 1970s he and Dave Henderson leased space in the old Bluestone bui...
Songwriter's Choice: Godfrey De Grut
Godfrey De Grut. After completing his degree in composition from the University of Auckland, Godfrey De Grut received a RIANZ Jazz Album of the...
Grant Fell
Homegrown
When the Haka Became Boogie
A television series that was almost snuck into the TVNZ schedule in 1990 altered the way New Zealand's popular music is understood. When the Ha...
Alastair Dougal
Alan Galbraith
The Hardcore/Punk Scene in Auckland and Hamilton, 1994-2004
Introduction During the mid-1990s, there was an explosion of live punk and hardcore shows across Auckland and Hamilton. All-ages shows were common...
Ngoi Pewhairangi
Ross Cunningham interviews Delaney Davidson
"I remember saying this thing to myself, ';ok, if there's ever going to be a choice between anything, just choose music …' ” Delaney Davidson offe...
We know what we want – a Suburban Reptiles scrapbook
A selection of images, ephemera, clippings and press releases from the first 18 months of Auckland punk. The Suburban Reptiles were formed in earl...
