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Author: Gary Steel
Dad Takes Child To Movie – Pity About The Movie.
GARY STEEL missed the recent NZ International Film Festival but he did get to take his 4-year-old to her first movie.
Shayne Carter – Dead People I Have Known (Victoria University Press) BOOK REVIEW
Shayne Carter’s incredible memoir gives GARY STEEL a complex.
Record Roundup
GARY STEEL reviews ace albums by Myele Manzanza, Faye Webster and Aldous Harding along with a few real turds. Despite its sometimes-arch over-intellectualism, Holly Herndon’s last album – 2015’s Platform – worked on its own terms as a very clever form of sliced and diced electronic pop. Sure, you […]
Tethered To The Need Machine
The experience of fatherhood has been great for GARY STEEL, apart from the parts that leave him feeling hollow and stuck and in a very dark place.
The Day I Met Elton John
In this 1980 piece, GARY STEEL gets an unexpected interview with Elton ‘Rocketman’ John, and attends the formal press conference.
The Mike & Micky Show REVIEW
GARY STEEL made his pilgrimage to see the Mike & Micky show based on a lifelong fandom, but left with a sour taste in his mouth
The Last Train To Chartsville
The two living members of The Monkees play their last ever dates this week in NZ. Ahead of this three-date tour of the so-called Mike & Micky show, Mike ‘the Nes’ Nesmith talks to GARY STEEL, who also explains just why The Monkees are so great.