40 years ago: Grammar Boys
It’s still NZ Music Month so GARY STEEL continues the excavation of his mouldering story scrapbook. Today's travesty: Grammar Boys.
The Gordons: Free birds with massive tweet
To celebrate NZ Music Month GARY STEEL excavates a 1983 interview - 40 years ago! - with legendary noisemakers The Gordons.
Making meetings a little less hellish: Jabra’s Speak2 55
If your life revolves around video meetings and poor sound quality is bugging you big time PAT PILCHER wants to recommend a solution.
40 years ago – The Kiwi Animal
It’s New Zealand Music Month, so GARY STEEL digs up a 40-year-old story he wrote about NZ musical duo The Kiwi Animal.
40 years ago: Wellington’s Tin Syndrome
It’s New Zealand Music Month and for the occasion, GARY STEEL digs up some musical skeletons from his past. Today it’s Tin Syndrome’s turn.
Forty years ago: the slow-cooked post-punk of Unrestful Movements
For NZ Music Month GARY STEEL dips once again into his archive of interviews. From May 1983, here are Unrestful Movements.
Love will tear us apart: Close is a real tearjerker
GARY STEEL cries like a baby through an award-winning film that explores the crumbling relationship between two 13-year-old besties.
Smart home tech outfit Rithum goes with Connected Media in NZ
UK-based smart home tech company Rithum announces Connected Media as their latest Rithum Switch distributor for New Zealand.
Forty years ago – Philbo keeps a low profile
To celebrate New Zealand Music Month GARY STEEL reaches far back into his archives for two pieces he wrote on musician Phil Bowering.
Local boutique JAVA brand delivers brand spanking new models
Breakthrough technologies and unique circuit designs feature in just-released six-strong JAVA amplifier line-up.
Forty years ago – This act ends with a bang
GARY STEEL loves interviewing obscure and entertaining NZ bands. Back in 1983 Moving Targets had big plans. Where are they now?
Dire Straits 40 years ago
GARY STEEL interviewed two members of Dire Straits both before and after their 1983 gig in a dangerously windy Wellington.
Technics releases surprising new streaming amp
Technics’ new Grand Class SU-GX70 is a universal streaming amp with a wealth of source functions including video connectivity.
Space waltzing back in time
Musings on a week of listening, watching and the rest of it. This week GARY STEEL reads a couple of entertaining Kiwi music books.
The knows no bounds world of Ryuichi Sakamoto
Ryuichi Sakamoto died a few days ago, though the world only learnt about it today. GARY STEEL with a personal appreciation.
Learning to be kind again… even to those we oppose
The media engineered a circus last weekend and the end result is that no one benefited, writes GARY STEEL.
UB40 – Militant and hot as. An interview with Astro
When GARY STEEL spoke to UB40's Astro 40 years ago the hitmaking band still described themselves as anarchists.
Blast from the past: Michael Franti and the Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
Thirty years ago GARY STEEL sat down at an Auckland sidewalk café to chat with Michael Franti ahead of their performance in Auckland.
A streaming dilemma – hi-fi used to be so easy!
Musings on a week of listening, watching and the rest of it. This week GARY STEEL auditions a streaming preamp and loses his self-confidence.
The best (and worst) streaming TV shows & films this month
A regular column in which GARY STEEL sifts through the mountain of available streaming TV and brings your attention to great new and old
