Shayne Carter’s three-night 20th anniversary stand gives birth to lively double Dimmer vinyl. GARY STEEL cadges a preview.
Tag: Shayne Carter
Mind the gaps – Dimmer classic toured 20 years later!
Prompted by its 20th anniversary and an upcoming tour to mark the occasion, GARY STEEL reassesses Shayne Carter’s greatest album. IMPORTANT NOTE: This tour has been postponed due to the Level 4 lockdown until December. See all dates and venues below. For fans of New Zealand alt-rock group Straitjacket […]
Dimmer reforms for 20th anniversary tour
A reconstituted version of Shayne Carter’s band Dimmer will perform the entire I Believe You Are A Star album for its 20th anniversary in September.
Spell On You, The Civic Club, Auckland, 20 March 2021, REVIEW
FRANCES CHAN reviews a beguiling, bizarre evening of connoisseur songs of love and loss featuring some of our most admired music figures.
Shayne Carter – Dead People I Have Known (Victoria University Press) BOOK REVIEW
Shayne Carter’s incredible memoir gives GARY STEEL a complex.
Getting Carter
GARY STEEL is celebrating 40 years of music journalism by disintering and re-animating interviews and reviews from his fat archive. To honour the publication of Shayne Carter’s memoir, Dead People I Have Known, here’s Gazza’s 2001 profile on one of NZ’s greatest rock gods.
Shayne Carter. Piano. Just Because
Richard Betts riffs on the things that make Shayne Carter great, and witnesses the guitarist’s rebirth… on piano.
FROM THE ARCHIVES – Shayne Carter, 2009
Lippy Shayne Carter tells it like it is in a verbal exchange with Gary Steel on the occasion of the release of the 2009 Dimmer album, Degrees Of Existence.